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Frank Chiachiere

@fchi.bsky.social
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Seattle-based designer of digital products, fan of buses bikes and trains.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Usually a vehicle’s sales numbers dip as the body style gets stale, but the Sienna is 5 years into this generation and posting huge numbers. No other vehicle is a hybrid and has AWD and also once fit my entire long tail cargo bike inside it.
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social: "Smart Growth Plan" ft. D5 candidate Julie Kang southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/...
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a spicy opening from Lindblom. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
North Seattle's new Pinehurst Station will welcome passengers at 5 a.m.
Wednesday with less hype and lower expectations. It will be near-empty for a long time.
The aerial stop is surrounded by Interstate 5, a park, a golf course and single-family homes spread out among evergreen trees. Seattle had a full decade to plan for nearby blocks of apartments or condos to make the $240 million station more useful, but none of that construction is underway.
Sound Transit once hesitated to build here. Early data models said if housing and jobs didn't pour in, as few as 1,100 people a day would board a train at Pinehurst, far below industry standards.
But agency leaders acquiesced to the doggedness of one Seattle City
Council member, Debora Juarez, who insisted her district deserved a second rail stop besides Northgate.
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Julie Eclipse @julieeclipse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me after adding an egg to my ramen 🤌🏻
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cities with long permitting times for new housing tend to have higher housing costs, per new paper: "permitting duration is positively associated with housing prices and negatively associated with production." evansoltas.com/papers/Durat...
chart showing project duration for single- and multi-family housing in select US cities.  Seattle is among the slowest.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
She is clearly in her happy place.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Temp job calling doctors’ offices all over NY State with a fake name and address to see how long it took to get an appointment with Medicaid.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month
Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good dad phrase is “making a dent.” You can make a dent in a house project, a to-do list, a jumbo sized order of potato skins… anything really
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Colorado River water is so underpriced that the incredibly wealthy Saudis grow alfalfa for their dairy cows in Arizona rather than build desalination plants at home. revealnews.org/blog/debate-...
revealnews.org
Debate spreads about Saudi dairy drilling wells in arid Arizona - Reveal
Arizonans are debating what actions to take after a Reveal investigation showed the state’s limited aquifers are being drained to grow and ship crops overseas.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Great story, this =>
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/07/2026
Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid: - You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs. - If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones. - Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you. - Don’t litter.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nice! www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news...
bizjournals.com
UW Tacoma plans $115M housing project as it prepares to double enrollment to 10,000 - Puget Sound Business Journal
The urban university that revitalized downtown Tacoma is tackling decades-old growing pains as it builds itself into a residential campus with hopes of reaching a 10,000-student enrollment number.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/07/2026
quick sunday Threads check (sorry. i'm trying to stop)
"Hello, I'm willing to partener with
you on one condition: you will not fire me.
Thank you""I proved the Big Bang theory scientifically impossible many years ago...lt isn't a big deal for me to talk about it either...""Stop being so immature you keep calling me. Elon Musk keeps calling me and I don't even fucking know it. Sandra Bullock is calling me. I don't know her. I know they're all imposters. I'm
just gonna get rid of this phone.""I am looking for gamer woman's to play
nintendo switch 2 with the camera oi SW
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thanks CM Lin, this is good stuff.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So grateful to have a Mayor who prioritizes getting PEOPLE around the city efficiently! This will increase the overall people moved through Denny lane, faster, and save countless people a lot of time. It's also an example of treating transit riders as equal citizens. A huge win.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What might have been…
Michael Bloomberg’s proposed West Side Stadium
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hey @mayorofseattle.bsky.social this is quite disappointing. I was hoping you'd be a consistent voice for more housing.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I’m all for incrementalism, but the Rube Goldberg contraptions US policy makers will create vis a vis health care are astonishing to behold. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Established in 1992, the 340B program requires drugmakers to give certain safety-net providers, like those in rural areas or that disproportionately serve low-income patients, hefty discounts on outpatient drugs. Those providers, many of which operate on very thin margins, can then bill insurers for the prescriptions at higher market rates.
Pharmaceutical companies have to participate in the program to have their medications covered by Medicaid and Medicare.
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Lilly Sabella @lillysabs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"East New York — the first time the city had used a new tool called mandatory inclusionary housing that forced developers of market-rate apartments to include a percentage of affordable units — turned out to be a model for how to use rezoning to create more housing..without spurring gentrification."
thecityreporter.nyc
One Way to Save a Neighborhood: How East New York Beat Gentrification
The Brooklyn neighborhood has seen a boom in new construction — minus the gentrification and displacement that have plagued other parts of New York.
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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Yay for more buses! And, one of the reasons I’m running is to give cities like Seattle more taxing tools, so they don’t have to rely on sales taxes so much. Mayor Wilson is making the absolute best of a tough situation, a situation that would be much better if Olympia hadn’t dropped the ball.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Today reminded me how much ST1 & 2 benefitted from building on existing infrastructure like the downtown tunnel and I-90 ROW. Chilling to think how delayed/expensive they would have been if ST had to do it on its own. seattletransitblog.com/2026/05/28/s...
seattletransitblog.com
ST Board Meets to Postpone ST3 Projects
Update: The resolution passed with some of the amendments. Analysis at end of article. The Sound Transit board meets today at 1:30-5:00 to revise the ST3 system plan to reduce costs. The meeting pa…
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“If I disguise myself as three more piano keys, will I get some pets?”
Pepper’s black and white dog face looks like three piano keys
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tfw when you discover the “opacity” slider in Photoshop.
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Urbmonger @crowshair.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
why are we so bad at cities
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Thank you @kromandavid.bsky.social for the wonderful kicker here (and important context).
Staff turnover in mayor’s offices is common, particularly in the first year as the office works out its processes and differing ideological views compete for the mayor’s ear.

Former Mayor Ed Murray saw half of his staff walk out the door in his first 18 months.

Former Mayor Bruce Harrell hired his niece, Monisha Harrell, to be his senior deputy mayor before she left a year and a half into his term. She later criticized the office and her uncle in an interview with KUOW.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
MHA in Seattle doesn’t seem to be working right now. This does seem like a good reform @mayorofseattle.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/forseatt...
open.substack.com
MHA 2.0: A better way to fund affordable homes in Seattle
Seattle can fund affordable homes without slowing housing down.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I did not think Vegas transportation could get any dumber. I was wrong! www.casino.org/news/vegas-l...
casino.org
Vegas Loop to Use Existing Monorail Pylons to Elevate Tunnel Teslas - Casino.org
When the already outdated Las Vegas Monorail is discontinued, its tracks will be replaced with elevated roadways for Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop, allowing the
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
SUCK IT, HATERS. The Pike Place pedestrian pilot is a success. pikeplacemarket.community.highbond.com/document/65a...
Sorry for the light profanity. The Pike Place Street Management Update is good news.Commercial tenant sales rose +6.5% in
2025 vs 2024
Same store sales rose +6.1%
Retail store sales rose the most,
+9.2%
Grocery category sales rose +4.5%,
with produce/highstall +8.1%
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
Alt: Matt Damon gets old
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Real missed opportunity for a headline here
Ticketmaster reminder email for Les Mis says “one day to go” instead of, well, you know…
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We're so back
DJC.com article: artist lofts planned for 3rd and Pike in downtown Seattle. The dream of the 90s is alive in Belltown.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is fine! America’s a big country. The problem is that less than 5% of new housing is built for the 44% who want walkability.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We’ve gotten ourselves into a very perverse situation here. Going back to the drawing board in search of a cheaper alignment would severely delay a train to Ballard. But plowing ahead with the current proposal (truncation)… also doesn’t get us a train to Ballard.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@wsdot.wa.gov lotta single drivers using the Montlake HOV exit tonight and blocking buses. What are we doing here?
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This @seattletimes.com article is a shameless attempt to disguise pictures of puppies as “journalism” and… I’m here for it. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
seattletimes.com
Boston ends up in the doghouse in this Super Bowl bet
The Animal Rescue League of Boston will name four puppies after Seahawks players after losing a bet with Seattle Humane.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is gorgeous. Amazing work: transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
transitcosts.com
A Better Billion
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
In case you missed it: One of the ICE observers was pulled out of her car by CBP, who used facial recognition on her. Three days later, she learned her TSA-Pre clearance had been revoked.
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"The design of the network becomes the choreography of daily life." om.co/2026/01/21/v...
om.co
Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or b…
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Lol @seattletimes.com
Content farm chumbox on seattletimes.com entitled: "Your health agent: A look at the repulsive home of Usha Vance."
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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
How many tiny homes would fit here, I wonder?
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