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Northwest Urbanist @thenorthwesturbanist.com · 3h

The good news is the mayor could order this up any time!

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 6h

I would love to see one of the state-wide public lands organizations take up the fight to regain public access to all of Washington’s beaches. #RightToRoam

No tresspassing sign next to fauntleroy ferry beach

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 8h

Current Status: Attempting to design "very MUTCD" shared street signs.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 11h

I love that Lake Forest Park councilmembers are calling neighborhood commercial legalization an expansion of "cozy retail."

Cozy Retail in LFP
Councilmembers Josh Rosenau, Semra Riddle, Paula Goode
Committee of the Whole, 10/18/2026

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14h

“Nearly two-thirds of builders said immigration enforcement is affecting their labor force, up from 23% in March and 13% a year ago, according to a September John Burns Research & Consulting survey…[NAHB] found the cost of labor had increased a median of 4.2% from the previous year.”

wsj.com

The Immigration Crackdown Is Making It Much Harder to Build Houses

Home building, which relies on foreign-born workers, is suffering a labor shortage that is freezing projects and raising costs.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

Run over cyclist: Free to go Block a remote controlled toaster: Straight to jail

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 15/10/2026

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

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Lefty Cheat Sheet @electioncheatsheet.org · 16/10/2026

We also show PDC campaign finance data as side-by-side bars for easy comparison. Unique to our leftycheatsheet.org tool is our disaggregation of donors by In-Seattle vs Rest of Washington vs Out-of-state. This helps you spot if someone who's supposed to rep Seattle is oddly funded by outside money.

Kelabe Tewolde
$121,942
Kelabe Tewolde — In-Seattle: $79,110
Kelabe Tewolde — Rest of Washington: $13,266
Kelabe Tewolde — Out-of-state: $8,000
Kelabe Tewolde — Untracked (small donations): $21,566

Sharon Tomiko Santos
$199,255
Sharon Tomiko Santos — In-Seattle: $67,035
Sharon Tomiko Santos — Rest of Washington: $87,770
Sharon Tomiko Santos — Out-of-state: $44,450

Will Dreher — In-Seattle: $46,360
Will Dreher — Rest of Washington: $11,130
Will Dreher — Out-of-state: $232,095

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

New data: Good news! Sales at Pike Place Market are up $7.5 million so far this year compared to the same time period in 2025 (Jan-Sep). Keep visiting and supporting market businesses, and tell them you support restricting unnecessary car traffic on Pike Place.

pike place in the fall, seating, people walking in the street

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 16/10/2026

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Criticized for Having No Plan to Combat Spider Season: tinyurl.com/5fn3ay2u

Image on left of spider in web and image on right of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson listening concerned to someone outside on gray overcast day

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 16/10/2026

The 2027 IBC has been officially published, and it allows single-stair apartment buildings up to four stories! See the new section 1006.3.3.2 codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2...

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 16/10/2026

It'll be a few years till most places are on the 2027 code. If you you want to build one of these now, this is a decent justification for making an Alternative Means and Methods Request to do it early. Reach out to your code official and ask how it would be received! Let me know how it goes.

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Northwest Urbanist @thenorthwesturbanist.com · 16/10/2026

SEPA counting for NEPA...whoa...is this just for energy projects or everything else like interstate highways?

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 16/10/2026

The federal permitting reform bill is *EXTREMELY good,* folks. If we want abundant housing, transit, and green energy, we need to pass it. ✅ Fewer projects would be subject to NEPA ✅ SEPA/CEQA count for NEPA ✅ Statutory deadlines for review ✅ Vastly reduces frivolous appeals/lawsuits

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It has been brought to our attention that it is entirely possible Doug Ford does not understand that a podcast called "The War on Cars" might be in favor of things like protected bike lanes.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

MAJOR NEWS: The Seattle Social Housing Developer is announcing its first new construction project, in the Central District at 2402 E Yesler Way. The SSHD board is set to vote on property acquisition momentarily. Construction is set to start next year and wrap in 2028.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As a reminder, the entire reason this specific bike lane is somehow under the purview of the Provincial Government is because our moron Premier has to pass it on his way to his job (on the rare days he goes to work) and the sight of a cyclist passing his SUV in traffic makes his blood BOIL

a rough map of Doug Ford's house in north Etobicoke, the Bloor bike lanes, and Doug Ford's alleged job at Queen's Park

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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

No surprise here

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/10/2026

And yet gas-only cars constituted 77% of the new vehicle market in the US over that period. Has the US ever been this far behind the world average in new tech adoption for a major product type?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026

Since 2020, electricity bills have risen 34% for customers of investor-owned utilities, but only 19% for customers of publicly owned utilities. Nuking the IOU model & making all distribution utilities publicly owned: people are saying.

bloomberg.com

One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower

The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

NYC is a funny city because on the one hand it's clearly at the forefront of American culture and business, and on the other you hear announcements like "we just discovered the idea of curb-side trash cans 🗑️🎉" and "we are not allowing horses to poop on our streets anymore 🐴🍾"

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 13/10/2026

You want to know about things that cause loss of trees? Here is how you lose a whole lot of trees.

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K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Please sign. Also, if you’re not in the habit of fully reading action letters – I know I don’t always read the full text! – please read it because it’s a really good letter that makes some really important points about transit access, and the over emphasis on efficiency at the expense of access.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pinehurst Station cost less than the three new parking garages that Sound Transit is currently building in Sumner, Kent, and Auburn but we don't talk about that

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻 @lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@lhjseattle.bsky.social 🎹 The Ave is open for business!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026

“No one should be surprised that all the scrutiny from the mainstream press is focused squarely on the spotted hyena with its jaws dug into the right buttock of the president and not on our historically prosperous economy.” — Beni Rae Harmony, assistant press secretary

theonion.com

White House Downplays Hyena Biting Down On Trump’s Ass

WASHINGTON—Calling the attention the incident was receiving yet another example of liberal media bias, the White House downplayed on Friday the fact that a hyena was currently biting down on the ass o...

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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If we stopped widening highways, look hire much money we could save.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 08/10/2026

Trump: Nuke L.A., San Diego, I don't care. Media: Well, what he *probably* meant was... Trump: No, seriously, nuke them. Small potatoes.

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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Huge thank you to the @transportation.seattle.gov team, to the community orgs and volunteers, and the consultant folks who put on this event. South Park has so much potential and it’s very cool to meet many of the folks working together on projects to make our region better!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Uber Driver Seemingly Watching ‘Titanic’ For First Time theonion.com/uber-driver-seemingly-…

Uber Driver Seemingly Watching ‘Titanic’ For First Time
Turnpike Traffic Competing With Blockbuster Romance For Attention Of Man Behind Wheel

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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Analog Coffee will open a new location in Westlake, taking over the former Starbucks drive-thru at the AGC Building, according to recent documents filed with the City of Seattle.

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Sam TheCravenOne @seemsgood.lol · 05/10/2026

I would be curious to know how many people are actually gonna lug their clubs half a mile over a gravel trail to a golf course that has free parking.

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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is what real leverage looks like

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs.

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King County Elections @elections.kingcounty.gov · 05/10/2026

Happy New Drop Box Day, Belltown! 🎉🗳️🎉

Photo of a coffee mug with a King County Elections drop in the foreground with a newly installed official ballot drop box in the background

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.

fortune.com

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 04/10/2026

Strongly inspired by Dutch best practice, Beijing has built over 3,200 km of bike infrastructure, introduced the Dutch "fietsstraat" (cycling street), developed a Dutch-designed cycling highway in Tongzhou, and rolled out one million shared bike!

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you're on Queen Anne next Thursday, stop by the farmers market and chat about pedestrian plazas and school streets with my SDOT friends. They will be happy to see you.

Yasir and Ian smiling and standing with poster boards with maps and ideas.

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“We’re trying to make sure we build no house? I don’t get it. People live in houses.” Marblehead’s David Modica is endorsing YES ON 7, a ballot question to legalize starter homes and make it easier to build more houses for people across Massachusetts.

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King County Elections @elections.kingcounty.gov · 02/10/2026

Coming soon...

Official King County Elections drop boxes, ready to be wrapped.

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026

Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets

The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".

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Nick @seanickhart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interbay has golf too. 😭

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Cascade PBS @cascadepbs.org · 01/10/2026

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Washington and Page Ahead's Children’s Literacy Program announced a new partnership that restores the distribution of books to over 16,000 children in King County.

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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excited to see this idea get an IRL deployment; *not* excited to see how many drivers were totally unmoved even when the city went out of its way to explain that road design changes needed to happen because a teenager died; still curious long term, to see how this strategy changes the conversation.

usa.streetsblog.org

Steal This Idea: 'Emergency Streets' Strategy Gets First Real-World Pilot — Streetsblog USA

A talked-about road safety strategy just had its debut in Spoken, Washington – and it inspired some strong community reactions.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hard to say what is scarier, this kinda shit or maybe having to park 1/2 a block further from your house than you want to.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Portland real estate is “such a mess” because…. the supply has made it all affordable Comical reporting

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