The new Seattle City Council is shaping up to be pretty evenly balanced between @theurbanist.org -endorsed YIMBYs and NIMBYs. Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7) Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5) Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL) Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL) Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?

This is like the conclusion to an Encyclopedia Brown mystery, where he's caught Bugs Meany in a contradiction, unravelling his whole alibi.

Incredible new frontiers in free speech on the other site. Kat from the Free Press calls a post on the Argument "repulsive." Jerusalem responds. Kat: "Whoa whoa whoa it's unfortunate that you would police public response in this way." Hasn't @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social written about this?

This was an entirely unexpected, encouraging, and fascinating read. I don't know, I don't have a hot take except, wow. Good.

Every Mariners batter: "well he's 2 for 20 in the postseason but one of those was the crucial go-ahead run in that 2-1 win last week." Every Blue Jay: "he's 9 for 20 this series with OPS of 1.400, and has homered off this Seattle pitcher 5 times this year." How is this series even tied?? 😭

I can't believe number 61 was in fact "dumped here" to this pretty lonely mariners fan in Comerica Park. And then he whipped out the 62 version 😭

This is really good. All of these efforts of course run into challenges with the fractal divisions of the country, and depend on their creators' judgment calls about where to draw more distinctions. Here, WA and OR painted with a much broader brush than CA and AZ, for instance.

Oof. Cal and Julio team up for 6 hits, while the entire rest of the team can't muster a single hit in 28 at-bats? Brutal.

JCHS has a webinar in 30 minutes on how overly restrictive fire safety regulations are ... Overly restrictive and strangling apartment supply. Seems informed by the work of @holz-bau.bsky.social and @stephenjacobsmith.com . harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

5 years ago today: Seattle still had rivets locked into swings to prevent kids from playing outdoors. Many months after it was clear that it was mostly transmitted via aerosols, which was 100x worse indoors, rather than on UV-drenched surfaces outdoors. Still mad about this public health failure.

The vibes on the water taxi to the penultimate mariners regular season game: immaculate.

Incredible icon-like Nayib Bukele clocks in the Salvadorean bakery. How have I never noticed these before? More numerous than the tributes to San Óscar Arnulfo Romero.

Oh wow.

This suggests a very obvious potential confounder that also makes the new advice so dangerous: if maternal fever itself poses a risk to fetal health, we'd see the positive correlation between Tylenol and ASD; *and* that means "toughing it out" is much worse than reducing the fever with Tylenol.

Noticed this on my ride in today. Routes toward South Lake Union (Amazonia) were weirdly deserted even at 8:40. It seems a lot of people in Seattle are still doing the TWTh schedule in office, and either M, F, or both from home. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Ok I'm all for scrappy small businesses but it should absolutely be illegal to run an ice cream truck up and down a neighborhood street after 8pm on a random weeknight blaring the ice cream song. WTF man we are doing bedtime here. And it's 67°, no one is overheating.

Since knocked down, but this was really raging about 10 minutes ago.

Wow gnarly fire belching thick black smoke in Westlake, Seattle. A boat, I assume, but almost looks onshore from here in Eastlake.

Lmao books and SimCity 3000? Classic New York Lonely Boy wishlist 😭 youtu.be/n6naKHbmwgE?...

Bold prediction! It would be cool to pre-register a method for evaluating this. Maybe a synthetic control method comparing rents to some basket of other southern Euro tourist hotspots. Finding decent, comparable rent data could be difficult though.

Nice summary of the Khalil case.

Whoa, the NIMBY wing on Seattle city council is pulling some dirty tricks to seize control of the comprehensive plan update process, presumably to steer it in the direction of more scarcity, less housing abundance. Hopefully moot because state law is forcing changes, but I fear they'll find a way.

Just pathetic levels of municipal function here in Seattle, where as @ericacbarnett.bsky.social has written before, we close many (most?) park bathrooms all winter and well into spring. Now with a QR code that promises but no longer delivers a map of open restrooms. Thanks!

Oh wow. First-time home buyers are about to get another gut punch. Yikes.

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

My "prop 2 does NOT close schools" mailer is, paradoxically, raising questions that seemingly have already been answered by the flyer. Uhh @thebethocracy.bsky.social , what say you? If I'm a single issue anti school closures voter, how should I vote on Prop 2? @loganb.bsky.social , any thoughts?

(not so) fun train fact I've learned tonight! After spending $181 million on the Point Defiance Bypass to shave some minutes off the SEA-PDX Amtrak Cascades route, we then waste a couple minutes to stop so our conductor can hop out and manually operate the crossing arms in South Tacoma. 😕

Wow this was great. Bookmarking this for movies to catch up on soon. www.patreon.com/posts/120871...

Nah, getting the skinny pill isn't depriving diabetics of it. Just the opposite: the massive horde of people demanding it was numerous enough for the FDA to declare a shortage letting compounding pharmacies flagrantly violate the patent

That burst in home sales activity in Sep-Nov seems to have petered out.

We are so cooked.

Yikes. Delta planning a partnership with DraftKings it will "integrate into the IFE platform." Not sure what that is but I'm not looking forward to being bombarded with Ryanair-style "special offers" for gambling.

To unnecessarily play devil's advocate, there are definitely certain foods, cooked by certain purveyors, that sell for less than it would cost me to replicate at home, probably b/c restaurants can get wholesale prices on some ingredients.

It’s never a good sign when I have an opportunity to post this exceptional public health graphic.

Oh no. My name-doppelganger is at it again 😭. On the bright side, I actually agree with the headline that there's no easy fix to our housing crisis. Build more, expand mortgage credit access, zoning reform, maybe insurance reform? But none of that is easy... www.zerohedge.com/personal-fin...

Big, if true. And it bodes well for state housing policy progress.

His top interests seem to have been Tim Urban (by far), Andrew Huberman, and other general self-improvement type guys like Tim Ferris, James Clear etc.

Lmao Trump thinks a trade deficit is a subsidy? We are ngmi after all.

The dissolution of the Pac-12 was a total own goal by greedy dumbasses including my own UW, but the one good thing about it is now great PNW teams like this year's Ducks can get some national recognition.

Murder is bad. I also think it's a little messed up that the NYPD is devoting "hundreds" of detectives to this case. How many detectives normally work a case? I'm guessing not even one hundred.

Guy who's only heard about France via @mikeduncan.bsky.social 's Revolutions podcast, aka me: I'm getting real "Brienne's failed reform package" vibes from this whole no-confidence vote today.

Wow, very sad news for Seattle, but totally understandable. The centrist council majority has hounded Morales to an unconscionable degree, and Erica's writeup does a nice job tallying the long score of bizarrely personal attacks that Morales has bad to endure. I wonder if they'll appoint Woo again?

I remember being a little bummed that I happened to attend my bucolic New England liberal arts college amid a bunch of disruptive construction. Now I realize that is just the constant state of the campus: it's been one billion-dollar new building after another for 20 years since I first visited.

Oof. Hate when I get the first one wrong and learn it wasn't even close. Juxtastat 457 4/5 🟥🟩🟩🟩🟩 juxtastat.org

Oh no.

If you've ever wondered whether "just one more study of a cash transfer program will finally move policymakers to action", the answer appears to be a "robust" no.

This is really interesting from @rachelmcohen.bsky.social . Like many pronatal policies such as bigger child tax credits, I think eliminating marriage penalties is a great thing to do even if it has ~0 impact on marriages and births. www.vox.com/policy/38781...

Incredible. I was calling for Biden and Harris to promise Ozempic for all throughout the campaign. It might have swung them the election, especially if Trump opposed it to please RFK Jr. But for some reason they waited till... Now. Ugh.