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Crazy too look at old photos of Edgar and realize his eyes aren't really going in the same direction jokermag.com/edgar-martin...

photo of Edgar Martinez from 1997 holding a bat in an at-bat pose (but it's just a pose) with big badass black stripes on his cheeks and one eye going way to the side

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 2h

Angelita going all in in cycling has been the best Portland plot twist of the summer

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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 03/10/2026

Seattle uses the 160-acre Jackson Park as a golf course. What does this mean for salmon? 2 creeks flow thru into Lake Washington & would be exceptional salmon habitat BUT >66% of the water in the North Fork is drained to irrigate the course, at a rate of >30k gallons/hr. jp4all.org/learn-more/e...

Golf course with two swiggly blue lines pictured. The longer one, Thornton Creek North Fork, starts at 145th and I-5 and crosses the lower 1/3 left corner of the golf course, then travels east and goes a little bit north and exits the map. The other, Little's Creek, clips the right top 1/4 corner of the course.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gun violence is a scourge and my condolences to the victim... but I'm having trouble visualizing how this is even possible??

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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 30/09/2026

that building is allowed in Illinois but not in Chicago! the city caps single stair apartment buildings at 2 stories :/

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given the discourse, you'd never know that 99% of single-stair apartments are built in the suburbs.

Photo of a three-story chained single-stair apartment building in a typical suburban-style "garden apartment" complex.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If ~75% of people prefer anything else besides modern architecture, why do architecture schools dogmatically insist upon it? worksinprogress.co/issue/do-peo...

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Do people prefer traditional architecture? - Works in Progress Magazine

Taste is subjective. But when it comes to architecture, there is a surprising level of agreement.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

THIS is why we must save our photos forever

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the moon report 🌗 @seachanger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i'm voting loud and proud for tina kotek and i am talking about it we are past the time for a better candidate to enter that race. we have got to focus and cut Drazan's momentum. anytime that name comes up it should come up with trump and his gas prices, shock troops, and wars. that's who she is

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is the bathymetry on Google maps new? I love that you can see what appears to be the canyon the Columbia River carved into the continental shelf 80 miles out.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"This was surprising to me to learn, that currently applicants need 30 plus permits from eight different departments to build housing in the city." -Seattle Budget Director Aly Pennucci just now

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 29/09/2026

The City of Westport is breaking ground on a new tsunami vertical evacuation tower. Join us for a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 3 in Westport. This will be the third tsunami vertical evacuation structure on the Washington coast. Full details: mil.wa.gov/news/westpor...

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Westport breaks ground on tsunami vertical evacuation tower

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gotta recreate Strange Brew for the zoomers

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's two other people who get on the bus at my stop who also work in the same building as me that refuse to make friendly chit chat and wtf?

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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I love Portland and have spent almost a decade accomplishing some really hard things to help build belonging for all Portlanders. Learn more about who I am, what I’ve done, and my vision for this amazing city at evenstarforportland.com

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like zooming into the Milky Way and finding home almost immediately

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Teren Kowatsch @teren-kowatsch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

J.P. Crawford, the longest tenured player on the team (2019-present), is subbed out in the top of the sixth and receives a standing ovation from the crowd at T-Mobile Park. Possibly his last game as a Mariner. #Mariners #TridentsUp

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great thread and post for understanding tech disruption in creative fields in historical context.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love love love when I get to hear the players speaking Spanish in post game interviews

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seems like a problem is Florida DOT is (one of?) the only state DOT that studies and publishes roadway capacity data - which is referenced and used all over the country apparently. Given that they have one of the deadliest arterial/highway networks in the country.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So to zoom all the way back in, if we want buildings like these to (a) exist in walkable neighborhoods & smaller cities and (b) have elevators inside, we need to exert influence on the private (national, but not governmental!) standards-writing bodies that have failed to get with the elevator times.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More than anything, this is why I'm a planner. I want more 'lil apartment buildings.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But, mostly banned by zoning, no one stood up for lil apartment buildings. So over the years, our multifamily codes have made more and more choices that make sense for big 100-unit complexes but not for neighborhood-scale buildings. A bunch of those have to do with elevators.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We need a top 100 Trump scandals ranking

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm never going to forget the time on Jeju when we found a six-inch red centipede in my girlfiend's scooter helmet - just after she got a large painful bug bite on her shoulder

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thank goodness we have AI to feed the unreadable reports into to produce content for more unreadable reports

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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(Most people use their car 50% as mobile storage unit, 40% as place to sing and or cry alone, 10% necessary means of transportation)

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

... and Guzman walks. Say friends, when considering a Volvo...

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Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Israel's GovMaps has now removed this imagery from its map platform. soaratlas.com/maps/asia-is... Here it is, in the full original resolution. The fidelity of aerial imagery really highlights the complete destruction. Thanks to @soaratlas.bsky.social for hosting the imagery.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Come on fellas you can beat the 'Stros one more time

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unfortunate that they don't appear to be talking about pairing increased on-street enforcement with a sanctioned RVs-on-residential lots program like Portland's housing continuum. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seattletimes.com

Seattle City Council considers major rules change for people living in RVs

A new proposal represents the biggest change to date of how people live in RVs in Seattle, and where they can park in the city.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The revealed preference for of cottage cluster development in Oregon is fascinating... tons of small detached houses being built with minimal private open space. Not really like anything we've seen in the US in close to 100 years.

photo of cottages in Shortstack Development's 15-unit completed affordable homeownership cottage project

screenshot of an August 2025 notice of approval for a 44-unit cottage project

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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did not expect to come to São Paulo and see a giant piece of piece of art about the recovery of the Elwha River in Washington State

Elwha's Healing
[A cura de Elwha], 2024
Colagem de imagens de satélite, impressão de látex sobre papel de parede livre de PVC [Satellite photo collage, latex print on
PVC-free wallpaper
CORTESIA DA ARTISTA
[COURTESY OF THE ARTIST], LOS ANGELES

Part of the body of work Be Dammed, Elwha's Healing is a large-scale photocollage made from satellite imagery.
This work addresses the recovery of the Elwha River, located in the northwestern United States, which returned to its natural course in 2014, when its dams-built in the early twentieth century-were removed after decades of activism. As a consequence, native salmon and trout were able to resume their migration, bringing with them marine nutrients that supported the river ecosystem's recovery. The fauna and flora along the riverbanks were also reestablished. This work dialogues with The Collpsing of a Model (Brumadinho) and marks a turning point in Caycedo's practice, which moves beyond denunciation alone to incorporate processes of repair and healing.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The worst thing about waiting for the bus is the cars.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Really cool to stumble upon this analysis of ground-floor commercial requirements across cities and counties subject to SB 6026 that builds off the data we collected for the Washington State Zoning Atlas! www.psrc.org/sites/defaul...

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've only had a car for two weeks and I've already picked up two hitchhikers, which is pretty good I think

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got this cool poster and booklet of Oregon-specific housing examples from TGM folks at the OAPA conference this week

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Looking at historical timber harvests for a work project and, having grown up in the 90's in WA and hearing vaguely about it all the time, it is striking to see the drop-off. This is for western Oregon. Blue line is volume of lumber produced.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There's no bad time to talk to your councilors about filtering!

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is Oregon the Maine to Seattle's Boston?

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think is a good idea actually... Election night you only get results on County Commissioner X, incumbent Senator Y, ballot measure Z, and then over the next few days the closer races trickle in, until finally you get results on the knife-edge race. Seems like it would be great for ratings, also.

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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Perhaps counties should just not release results until all the ballots are in? Or only release results once the results are very unlikely to flip?

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Dan Rutherford @rutherdan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What's amazing about the chemtrails conspiracy is that it's both completely true (aviation emissions change the climate and impact your health) but completely misdiagnoses the cause (fossil fuels, not "spraying"), therefore leading absolutely nowhere.

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