"Remember when this was about drugs?" Yep, I'm old enough to remember that.

This one is resonating today. #Andor

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geezus some night I will learn not to check the news right before bed, but tonight is not that night. People cannot be angry about Russia and ok with what we are doing in Venezuela. The US government, our government, without following our own rules, is bombing the capital of another country.

The USA/Venezuela/Russia/Ukraine set of relationships... seems hard to square

AND I could be wrong but it still doesn't look like there's a unit cap per lot in the amended code. So you could get to 20-unit stacked flats on the 10,000 sf parcels out there that aren't encumbered with steep slopes etc.

Also the minimum lot size drops to 1250 sf. I always forget about that!

Looking back I love the soft pixelation of photos from my last digital camera. In a lot of ways it was inferior to subsequent smartphone cameras, but some of the pictures, especially in low light, look like paintings.

Saw this while looking back at old photos from the year. 1) What's the point of having five sports columnists if they all make the same prediction? 2) OTOH they were all pretty close to the actual outcome 3) but also Mariners BEAT ALL THEIR PREDICTIONS at 90-72 Good year to be an M's fan

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December marked a decade of sustained advocacy, research, design innovation, and community leadership behind Lid I-5. Ten years ago the Lid I-5 campaign kicked off with a presentation at Seattle City Hall. The core reasons and motivations for our work are the same today as a decade ago.

One of these days I'm going to dig into Peter Jackson's pre-LOTR films... but it is not this day

Riding from Seattle to Boise and being amazed at how good my body, mind, and spirit felt after months of fretting about the trip. Specifically coming upon the Salmon River canyon with no expectations and being utterly blown away.

I wanna be on a city council some day... but might run into similar issues

This is the second worst ingrained practice in the planning profession (first being the acceptance and reinforcement of income segregation via zoning maps)

Goddammit I'm a hot bath addict. How did it come to this?

If the worst single-family house in your n’hood costs over $1 million, then your n’hood should be zoned for apartment buildings. (It’s pretty much that simple)

Minimum parking requirements still apply to schools in Seattle despite every single policy incentive pointing the other way. westseattleblog.com/2025/12/2026...

Holy shit there's finally Vashon water taxi service on Saturdays!!!

If you want to charge people for "trip generation" there's a very straightforward tool for that: congestion pricing.

A planted median down first Ave??? What???

Delightful little Vashon wait-for-a-ride-or-the-bus shelter

Okay this is my favorite Christmas album (mostly but not entirely bc family nostalgia) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

Yeeesh what is up with Japan??? They don't even have oil!

I-732 strikes back! (I-732 was the first WA carbon tax initiative, it would have used revenue to fully fund the WFTC for the first time as well as lowering sales tax).

bzzzaaaaallllllssss

One thing to help TOD projects pencil - allow them off major arterials. Rents are 7% higher 100m away from loud roads per Moretti & Wheeler (2025) www.nber.org/system/files...

This is such a glorious song. And I wouldn't even know about it if I hadn't heard a remix of it while I was on TikTok for four months in 2020. Internet!

Could Stevens Pass even afford to give refunds? Knowing nothing about their business... giving up 50%? 70%? 90%? of a year's revenue on zero notice seems like it would break almost any business. Do they have insurance against highway washouts?

take down your dang wind chimes!

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

For real, but also he's right and it's very hard to meaningfully improve housing affordability when we've build our economic system around the opposite.

Commander Mark has possibly the most badass Wikipedia photo

Seattle Triumphant!

Watching Muppet Christmas Carol yesterday it occurred to me for the first time the purpose of the four poster bed with curtains is to keep the heat in. Of course! It's so hard for us to conceptualize a world without relatively cheap convenient indoor heat.

That feeling when your entire rapid transit system converges on one easily disrupted segment — like, say, a 123-year old bridge that lifts for tall boats. Portland needs an rail tunnel under downtown. It’s the only megaproject in our region that excites me at this point.

so say we all

Anybody got a good steelman for public sector unions? I've been skeptical for a long time and current events don't tend to make me less so.

Gonna be a nostalgic nerdy January - LOTR extended editions screening 1/16-19 (various locations) - Star Wars trilogy (original cut?) at Cinemagic 1/23-29

Did Waymo create this problem? No. Do they solve it? Also no. Do we care enough about our own lives, or the lives of our families, or really, anyone, to solve it? Still, no.

turns out you can just put nutmeg in milk

then: g2g omw gg afk ffa brb now: w/r/t fwiw imho fyi smh #sad

IDEA: Take a half block and remove cars.

live footage from Portland

uhmm... four inches is a lot

Lettuce is grown in the desert because 50 years ago, lighting was expensive and water was cheap. Now lighting is cheap and water is expensive, so here on the East Coast greenhouse lettuce is pretty much price-competitive (esp. since it lasts longer!) www.freeingenergy.com/facts/led-bu...

Southwest Washington, please pay close attention to local officials and sign up for emergency alerts with your county. Find a list here: mil.wa.gov/alerts

The Weiser River Trail in west-central Idaho has great Stand By Me vibes if you find yourself in needing an adventure