Have had more interaction with neighbors in a morning of being back in Seattle than a whole week in the Florida suburbs.

Being back in real America. Always such a reminder of how awesome Seattle is.

Seattle / Tacoma / Bellevue

“We’re also sending a message to parents who are trying to make it here: This is your city,” Wilson said. “We want you raising your families here. And we’re doing everything we can to make it easier for you to afford to build a life here.” - www.seattletimes.com/education-la... 🏫 🥗 🔥 🥇 💪

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

My neighborhood center has one of these old school bike racks. All the cargo bikes can’t fit. What are best options to replace it with something that could fit a neighborhood worth of cargo bikes and all types?

“Oh boo hoo where is the Royal Navy? Where is the Grande Armée? Where is the Wehrmacht? Why don’t Warsaw and Istanbul have independent nuclear deterrents?” Because we spent the American Century very carefully putting all that toothpaste back its respective tubes on purpose, dummy.

Saw someone say the world is a boring place because there are no elves or dragons, so I'm legally obliged to share this:

Everyday feels like we’re one Archduke away from things really getting out of hand

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

The funny thing about AI doomers is that it’s so clear in life that there is way more to being successful at *name anything* than intelligence.

quitting my job and abandoning my family to devote myself full time to my passion: unsubscribing from political texts and emails

That's right. We've built these little artificial-reality machines around ourselves, and they produce the narratives we want to hear. For a lot of us, that turns out to be "[Prominent Democrat] is a feckless right-wing corpocrat no different from Trump." The machines are the problem, not the pols.

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

"A city that values the pursuits that create beauty and community, whether or not they ever turn into careers. A city that thinks you should have time to read a book and lay on the grass looking up at the clouds." -Katie Wilson

I am shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that housing prices fell the most in metros where inventory of homes increased by a lot. via @harvard-jchs.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...

US survey of construction data: Multifamily housing construction takes longer than it used to—up to 10 months longer on average, compared to several decades ago. Single-family homes take about the same time to be completed.

Liberals need a theory of how we build law enforcement agencies that are broadly reflective of society and not a home to right wing reactionaries.

Immigrants are leaving the US workforce in very large numbers. Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago. Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.

“The glacial speed of our local permitting”.

The fact that California- the 4th largest economy on Earth whose geography is truly heavenly- is building less housing than the South- an area with half the per capita wealth and enough humidity to make you mad- is a fucking travesty. And it's entirely a policy choice. And we can choose differently.

What was Merrick Garland doing?

Went to a park in Bellevue today with the kids and the grass was amazing. Green. Level. 10/10 would read a deep dive on why Seattle parks have bumpy brown fields and Bellevue has turf you could play an MLS game on.

The Cold War was a political fight over how the world should industrialize. The current political fight is what to do with the economic surplus provided by industrialization.

Everything about this story illustrates how city planning is broken in much of the United States of America.

The Cold War was described as a political battle over how the world should industrialize (state directed v capitalism). Now we have a political battle over the information age. Not a new Cold War. But end of history has given way to a fight over modernity.

Give me your best family friendly stops on the Burke Gilman. Planning a ride to Matthews Beach Park tomorrow.

it's so refreshing having someone running for mayor who talks about the connection between high housing costs, and high costs for other goods - and most importantly brings and supports solutions to address it

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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@nerd4cities.bsky.social You did it. You got the cars out of Pike place www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

In Seattle, Habitat for Humanity replaced a single-family home with the 17 condos. The Olympic Ridge project was made possible by a trifecta of regulatory that doesn't exist in most of the U.S. - Seattle's unique single-stair building code, no parking requirement, and mid-rise zoning