this is good! a loooong time coming - so many people behind this slow boring of hard boards

I'd like to be able look at Bluesky and not see any reskeets. I follow the people I follow mostly because I want to see what they have to say.

The word "Birrieria" was designed in a lab to be impossible for anglos to say

My congratulations to the consultant who won the contract. This will be a fun project. But I'm skeptical it's going to result in much.

The fact that we just went through a mammoth city-wide comprehensive planning process without defining WHICH neighborhoods will be "low-pollution neighborhoods", eight years after vaguely committing to the concept, really underlines what a farce this is. www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/17/s...

Is there any good sci-fi in which extraterrestrial aliens replay the European colonial strategy of using local rivalries to pit indigenous nations against one another and increasingly insert themselves in positions of power on earth? Seems like there should be

It's remarkable how limited our thinking is about how we use cell phones... How about setting up a family-wide number that rings on parents' personal phones as well as wall-mounted phones in the house that anyone can use? www.seattletimes.com/life/culture...

I asked a SCAG transportation modeler why he was projecting 2045 mode share to be the same as 2018 mode share. He said that he was not allowed to extrapolate any mode change. All future residents are assumed to get around by private car over 90% of the time.

Wait, BOISE has bollard protected pedestrian spaces?!?

I want you to know how much I love the new Milwaukee Road orange and red color scheme on the bathrooms and signs on the Cascade to Palouse/Iron Hose/John Wayne trail. Not everything needs to be gray and green and blue you guys!

Paredes pronounced "Pa-ray-das" are you kidding me? Learn how to pronounce Spanish names, they're like half of the league!

Wait BOISE has a lively downtown pedestrian street?!?

Long lost Shakespeare sonnet discovered

Ooof

Google Maps interpretation of "mostly flat" continues to baffle

I like this font on the Idaho highway Historic Site signs

What do you think about changing Saturday to just Satday?

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Haters can hate but I love painted brick (Pomeroy, WA)

Walla walla doing outdoor dining right

A few more to add from the last week: 99 Kittitas (deducting one previous double count) 100 Unincorporated Grant County 101 Othello 102 Unincorporated Franklin County 103 Pasco 104 Kennewick 105 Unincorporated Walla Walla County 106 College Place 107 Walla Walla

Just me over here in Walla Walla admiring old buildings via the street that's been temporarily pedestrianized for the car show

How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

Ouch

Tri-Cities proves it's possible to have too much waterfront

I want a version of the movie Flow but depicting Washington's geological history

"Can you imagine living in America in the last couple years and thinking that increasing the cost of living is a solution to today’s policy problems? It is genuinely hard to imagine how a person and his staff could have their heads this far….um, in the ground." rondezvouswa.com/p/harrell-s-...

Insane that our "affordable housing" strategy is dependent on housing being unaffordable. The goal should be to solve problems, not performative actions.

It seems that the term "jumbo" originated as the name for a very large elephant in P.T. Barnum's circus in the late 1800's.

You want to really know how someone thinks, check out their screenshots folder

Building orientation is such an important concept and so difficult to regulate in objective terms

I guess the idea for the fossil fuel magnates is that it's better to be really rich in a 3.5 C world than... somewhat less rich in a 2.5 C world? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

No context aerials

Surely I'm not the only one who constantly mixes up the names for Redmond and Renton? Danger ahead!

I'm pretty sure the entire crowd for tonight's Mariners game is on the ferry over from Bainbridge right now

When a senior citizen in Bellingham emailed about not being able to afford utilities, a city official fed his email into ChatGPT and said “write a sympathetic response.” “Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns so clearly and thoughtfully,” their reply read. “I hear your frustration.”

I do think that in a government context, its important to know whether or not you are actually talking to an elected official rather than to a product owned by a private company. The foundation of government is citizen involvement and if people in power just dismissively generate crap, all is lost

Two things I know: The galley is always on the east end of the boat. The men's room is always on the south side of the boat.

Bummer - the first-come/first-served spots at Fay Bainbridge are no longer reserved for hiker/bikers

What's your dominant phone-talking hand? Is it opposite from your writing hand?

Have you ever wondered if government leaders are writing things with ChatGPT? Through records requests, I obtained thousands of pages of chat histories from city officials in Washington. The logs show widespread use of AI — with little transparency: www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/08...

We have thousands of years of norms, institutions, safeguards, laws built up to manage human agency and responsibility. If we're going to just flood our society with pretend-human androids that are bound by none of that it. will. get. bad.

So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.

I love my new Ion Retro Glow radio. It has a functional FM/AM radio that gets good reception AND bluetooth AAND an 8 hour rechargable battery AAAAND it lights up cool colors. It's even got a (theoretically) functional tape player! Perfect kitchen radio.

I keep thinking about it because the old informational signs about it are one of my main associations with Staircase, so I had to look it up and sharing in case anyone else was wondering. The Beaver Fire burned 1,170 acres in 1985 around Staircase. So 1/8th the current size of the Bear Gulch Fire.

Not to be a dick, but how do these two paragraphs, one after the other, make it past an editor?

Nothing else like a house show

We've come a long way from "ducking" autocorrect