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jzimbabwe.bsky.social
Architect, planner, and Executive Director of Environmental Works Community Design Center in Seattle. Also: cheese, parrots, travel, music, housing, transit, maps, books, dogs, politics.
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Maybe we shouldn't have deleted those Navajo Code Talkers from the Defense Department after all.

It adds insult to injury that the people dragging this country down are just so…dumb. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I sent you the war plans that were in the group chat and which you were probably saving for select eyes Forgive me they were juicy and and I was shitfaced

This is unspeakably horrific.

🇲🇭 It’s Marshall Islands night, muchachos! 🇲🇭 We made: 🐟 tuna sashimi 🥬 braised bok choy 🍠 bananas and sweet potatoes 🍚 pumpkin coconut milk rice 🍍 grilled pineapple It was all delicious. #eatTheWorldAtoZ

12 years ago today, near the Lincoln Memorial.

Two Way Street. A reworked version I made from a police produced victim and youth blaming PSA.

If you had to choose between pizza and being skinny, which toppings would you get on your pizza?

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

The Hilo office of the scientists who measure volcanic activity is on the list of leases that DOGE will cancel. I bet the people near the volcano that shot 700’ streams of lava this week will be glad to know that we’re saving a few bucks in rent as a country. www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...

This. Also, this council berated OPCD staff for not doing “enough” outreach (they did a ton) when vocal constituents said they didn’t feel heard, and then they essentially spot re-zone this land in weeks? I’m pretty much in the “housing everywhere” camp, but this is terrible planning procedure.

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

Every architect lives that fresh “programming workshop” smell.

Tiny pink riots.

We are governed by bigots.

I love this so much.

This energy.

Every family who lives in Seattle, has teenagers, and discusses transit options with them makes “ridin’ that D” jokes…right?

If you find yourself parsing which victims of state speech repression are worth defending, you've already taken a wrong turn.

24 years ago today, Sam and I had our first date. (I’d asked him out while drunk on Jell-O shots at a house party, but I meant every word.) I’ve had the good fortune to see a lot of amazing things with my eyes in my years, but for 24 years, some version of this view has always been my favorite.

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Al Green and Jasmine Crockett are my leaders.