happily thinking about all the cool people I've met from going out and doing stuff // extrapolating to every time I stayed in and having an existential crisis

"an indeterminate amount of Soon"

Watching poker commentary says “he’s kind of like one of those blind boxes u never know what u gonna get” And omg so true poker hand is like a blind box !!!!

Hybrid/"rurban" electoral districts are transparently manipulative and trying to create one should be politically disqualifying

*of course* I'm going to click the "do psychic damage to me" button. what do you think I am? someone with self-control?

remember: any flight can be a redeye if your sleep schedule is bad enough

i too have a mahjong playing cat

Haunted by the idea that the worst day of my life could one day reach most people I know's ears first as a report about a traffic jam www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I'm unironically curious how many opponents to market-rate housing would actually be willing to accept ABOVE-rate housing to avoid getting undesirables* in their neighborhood (*transit riders 🙄)

The Museum of Anthropology is an absolute must-visit if you are ever in Vancouver. I have never seen so much indigenous art in one place, and especially not presented in a way that tries to center indigenous voices & history like this museum does. Also: the architecture is stunning.

not sure how people work with hardware and don't go completely cuckoo bananas

I almost exclusively talk to my parents over video chat so getting a phone call is legitimately terrifying every time

Jay Inslee should run for Bainbridge Island council in 2027 as the most YIMBY candidate the island has ever seen

I love this city

@bobco85.bsky.social have a great ride!

A "permanent reduction in property values" if you get a light rail connection in your neighborhood? These people deserve everything they don't get lmao

"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?

The typical immigration skeptic wants the process to be twice as hard as they think it is, which would result in it being 10x simpler than what actually exists

Crackpot theory: Trump is fine with using Tylenol as a scapegoat because a double digit percentage of his peers are functioning alcoholics who can't use it anyway

The two definitions of technology as "the application of knowledge to solve problems" and "a thing that gives someone the means to increase their power" are non-intuitively only different in their phrasing. They're functionally the same thing!

From an evolutionary standpoint, humans are endurance predators, we stalk our prey until it can’t run any longer. This makes apartment hunting one of the easiest kinds of hunting we do in our lives; very few apartments can run very far

This Ruling Endangers The Constitution And Will Lead To Abuses In The Future vs No It Won't

The thru-line of Nimbyism, no matter how much they wax poetically about construction driven displacement or misguided theories of rental price discovery or bad ideas of development economics, is that buildings are bad and you personally should screw off to Edmonton if you might need to live in one

l m a o

this is my actual belief. i believe in virtue ethics for consequentialist reasons.

we have to study this new/old and malicious meme that the crimes of someone related to you also accrue to you, by virtue of... what? blood quantum? it's a deeply fascist idea, if you think about it for half a second

My ideal lifestyle given unlimited resources and no selfless regard for the wellbeing of other people involves exactly zero personal servants or human "assistants". The thought of someone's sole job being to cater to me is actively repulsive. Any human-provided services *should* be at scale.

I-5 delenda est

An aesthetic review rule that just says you're required to use a paint color (define broad families) that is used in less than 30% of existing buildings would immediately improve the look of new development substantially at ~0 extra cost to the developer

This is also what Danielle Smith is trying to do to public healthcare in Alberta, making it as bad as possible to push privatization

YESSS PUT US IN EUROVISION 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦

My whole life has been, “democrats are better at equity/environmental/climate stuff, and republicans are better at the economy” but there’s honestly never been anything republicans are good at, certainly not the economy

I like this idea in theory but I think it's impractical to disenfranchise homeowners at scale

The ultimate root of trade deficit obsession is that conservatives have convinced themselves that everything in existence is zero sum and that somebody else has to suffer for them to prosper. "Trade deficit" is their buzzword to rationalize this perspective against """globalism"""

My crank plan to save the Dems: primary so many of them at once that the party is effectively resurrected anew, a clean break from the past. They can call it the New Democratic Party and change the logo to orange,

i have a single-strike rule on news accounts. you mislead your audience on here once, you're blocked. simple rule and i don't understand why other people don't follow it

The biggest difference between pro and anti housing comments is where people go after. Do you say that you love your neighborhood so more people should be able to share in that love, or do you say that you love it so much it shouldn't change?

Putting all the Maple Leaf homeowners in a jar and shaking it, yelling "UPZONING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T FORCE YOU TO SELL YOUR HOUSE"

Literally no conception in these people's minds that you can exist without a car.

Incredible amount of people saying "I'm not a NIMBY, I just don't want any more housing built in my neighborhood"

NIMBYs apparently think if their neighborhood gets upzoned it means a Chinook comes and drops an apartment building on their house

Someone (standing) just testified against the Seattle comp plan, saying that it's not wheelchair accessible, RIGHT AFTER SOMEONE WHEELCHAIR-BOUND SAID THE EXACT OPPOSITE I AM GOING TO BECOME THE JOKER

Literally the most important thing you can do for your own mental resilience is to instantly mute or block anyone you see doing this, from either side of the lib/leftist aisle. You are ragebaiting yourself for zero actual benefit

Calling a political leader 'weak' is a red flag. Couch your language or go back to 10000 BCE

imo the default reaction to 'thing that helps people has flaws' should be "ok, how do we improve it" not "this is a slippery slope to it getting even worse"