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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.

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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 20/03/2026

Cameron Crowe would have you believe this! And yet… they voted for trains in Soviet-like numbers.

Precinct results for Sound Transit 3 vote. Seattle wants trains.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Still the best 5-second satire of office park built environments

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Also, you can fit an entire paddle board and beach gear and drive right up onto the beach with it.

Cargo bike carrying inflatable paddle board and beach bag, child on second bike behind it.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Special shout out to our Canadian brothers and sisters. You answered the call, you deserve better than our current US leadership.

Map of the Allied countries landing at Normandy, showing US, UK and Canadian landing spots.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I am sure this is a huge time saver for the parents, but boy, just policy failure on top of policy failure here (via LinkedIn).

LinkedIn post: SF on Saturday morning: a large % of Waymos are ferrying solo kids (8-14 yo), presumably to sports or other activities.
A friend told me that 85% of parents at their kids'
SF school use Waymo for kids pickup / drop off:
earlier it was ~10% using Uber and Lyft.
Shows how Waymo has grown by expanding the market, serving segments who otherwise were non-consumers of ride sharing.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Parker Posey has been a celebrity for 30+ years and this is the extent of her “personal life” Wikipedia. What an absolute legend.

It just says she lives in Greenwich Village and the East Village.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Amtrak (Zephyr?) cruising through Winter Park, CO. Highest Amtrak station in the US.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This used to be my daughter’s chair. She’s a pre-teen now but we keep it just for Pepper.

A black an white mutt curled up in a ratty purple kids chair.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Before reading @dieworkwear.bsky.social I’m not sure I would have clocked that the costume designers at SNL accurately put Baldwin in an Oxford button down for his RFK Jr impression

Saturday Night Live actors playing Trump, Biden and RFK jr.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

0.5 mile walk from T-Mobile Park to Link. That’s twice as long as the walk from SeaTac to Link, yet the latter seems to draw way more complaints.

A table comparing the distance from stadium to train for all US ballparks.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

(and yes, I realize it doesn't actually feel that way on the ground).

aerial view of Mountlake Terrace station and surroundings.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

The unique blend of Puget Sound land use, transit funding and regional politics that results in "transit-oriented development, but in the woods."

New apartments at the Mountlake Terrace Link light rail station, surrounded by trees and mountains.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Do we think it’s fully charged yet?

A plugged in Prius half overtaken by weeds.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Absolutely cursed paragraph:

Synagro, which is owned by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said it was “vigorously contesting” the allegations. It said its preliminary study of PFAS levels where the sludge was applied showed numbers “drastically lower” than what the plaintiffs claimed, less than 4 parts per trillion in surface water, for example.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

One of these covers is about a red wave, the other is about a blue wave.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Mitch Hedberg rule violation at PHX.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Got to see LIRR Grand Central last week and had the canonical experience of almost missing the train because of the hilariously long the walk to the platform.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Nice to see MacOS X aqua made it to the alternate future in For All Mankind

Screenshot from For All Mankind, video chat interface with epic brushed aluminum finishes and juicy aqua buttons.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Bring back mail-order fourplexes.

Sears catalog image of a mail-order fourplex from the early 1900s. Cost $2,414.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Leeloo looks a lot like my dog Pepper!

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

This meal just cost me $78 at Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

Walker Frey from Game of thrones being served his sons as a meal.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Was in Vancouver last weekend and just continually amazed by the frequency on Skytrain. This is Sunday morning!

Sky train sign showing trains coming every 3 minutes.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Not every day we lose a founder of one of the worlds great religions

Google search results for “how do I convert to…” with PDF as the fourth option behind 3 major religions

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

Reskeet with a banger pic of your dog

Pepper, a black and white shepherd mix who knows she’s the 🫅

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Going onto the weekend with the chilled out energy of these Stellers Jays basking in the sun.

Two Stellers Jays lounging in my back yard.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Here’s mine in her happy place

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Obviously the market itself should be next, but lately I've been wondering if a section of 6th Ave would make sense. Lots of adjacent retail, relatively few bus routes to disrupt.

Google street view, 6th and Pine looking south.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

One block of Pike Street in Downtown Seattle is now closed to vehicles. Looks great! (Photo via SDOT director Spotts who is not on bsky, I don't think)

Pedestrian block of Pike St in downtown Seattle, near Pike Place Market.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

Added twist, the only source material they can use for the de-aging is his scene in Airplane.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 02/06/2023

Strawberries looking good. Now to harvest at the exact moment of ripeness before the squirrels get them.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

God-tier use of the passive voice here by this publicist

"It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr. Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage," Costner’s publicist Arnold Robinson said in a statement.

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Frank Chiachiere @fchi.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

Time for the NAFTA Superhighway!

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