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In this thread, I'll be sharing California YIMBY's 2025 legislative package. We are supporting an excellent group in legislators in running one of the most ambitious pro-housing agendas in California history—and this is only the beginning.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

I think I'm usually pretty good at intuitively grasping the rough meaning/significance of large numbers in this kind of context but if I were guessing I would have been way way way off, on the low end.

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Murc's law is, as ever, a harsh mistress

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Infuriating and outrageous. Seattle voters, even if your iffy on social housing, should vote yes/1A, because the city council shouldn't be rewarded for their illegal, anti-democratic voter suppression. ~3 hours to get your yes/1A ballot to a dropbox! publicola.com/2025/02/11/e...

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View of my lap. Two weeks with these girls and this is their snuggliest day so far. They've been doing 5-10 minute lap sits, but this is their first time settling in for a nice long nap.

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Not only am do I not know anyone who uses it (to my knowledge), if it weren't for people on social media confidently asserting Musk is a heavy user, I wouldn't have known it was still a thing; I was vaguely aware of it as a party/club drug 15-20 years ago.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Quite a loss today, RIP. One great way for those of us in Washington to honor his passing would be to call your state legislators and encourage them to support the passage of SB 5184. www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/06/p...

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What is this math from KIRO Radio?! How does this get past an editor? mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-...

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

When I speak negatively about zoning at LGM, commenters jump in with the "but zoning is how we keep homes away from dangerous pollution" defense, who never seem to consider that zoning is how we make sure new housing is as close as possible to the primary source of dangerous pollution in cities.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Action shot from the epic kitten battle unfolding in my lap.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I just want to underscore this, one more time. The Harrell Admin's growth plan would destroy more trees than the density-forward option that the city studied and set aside. Density is good for trees. That's from the city's own study.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

JFC, Moore is a piece of work. We'll have to see some more amendments and votes to answer this more definitively, but I wonder how to finish this sentence: Cathy Moore is the most extreme, reactionary NIMBY to serve on Seattle City Council since.....?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The EB critique is fundamentally about when a jurisdiction sets out to do X. This example is about a jurisdiction using its leverage over another jurisdiction to incentivize them to do X. Obviously, these are going to look pretty different; they're exercises of different kinds of power.

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Reading the QTs and replies, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that one function of Murc's law is that it provides a way of avoiding confronting the horror of Republican control. People must find it more comforting to believe the problem is Democratic fecklessness, for some reason.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”

submitted 24 days ago • 144 comments

Seattle friends: please sign these petitions to push back against the NIMBYs trying to keep new neighbors and adequate housing out of our communities. It takes only a few minutes to do your part! Please sign all the relevant petitions. oneseattleforall.org/petition-cou...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 24 days ago • 996 comments

While we should generally be careful not to make significant inferences from a single event, it certainly seems noteworthy that such an important and extremely time-sensitive story was broken by an independent journalist.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Pizza fad I'm ready to see fade away: "drizzle of hot honey."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Evidently, a good way to get yourself a seat on the Seattle City Council is to lose to @tammymorales.bsky.social in an election for Seattle City Council.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Beau (2008-2025). He was an incredibly demanding cat, which makes his absence more acutely felt. Who's going to stomp all over my keyboard and head-butt me while I'm trying to write now?

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

The 1(b) gambit is such a cynical, dishonest, manipulative move by the Seattle City Council. I'd respect them so much more if they just said "we think this social housing scheme is a bad idea and we encourage you to vote no."

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Four possibilities: 1) They think Gorsuch's vote is in the bag, regardless of whatever dumb argument they make 2) They think they have no shot at winning Gorsuch's vote 3) They think they're losing anyway, who cares if it's 7-2 or 6-3 4) They haven't really thought this through

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

This is a great line. Seattle is lucky to have a number of surrounding communities (Bothell, Shoreline, and Lynnwood, among others) that are taking the housing crisis seriously, since the current mayor/council seem pretty indifferent.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Agreed. One thing I wish I knew (about WAleg, but not just WAleg): among those who demand unfunded IZ in upzoning, what's the ratio of those who cynically want to appear to care about the housing crisis w/o actual change, vs those who are engaging in wishful thinking about the practical effects?

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