YIMBY Birder (Sarah)
@sarahchadd.bsky.social
TL; DR: Birds, cats, plants, politics. Seattleite sick of Seattle process. I flit between topics like a hummingbird, but hyper-focus like a corvid. Photography, gardening, podcasts. Mom of a tween, eng partner, keeper of two cats, a dog, fish. Obv ADHD.
Thoughts and prayers 🙏🏼
Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Thoughts and prayers 🙏🏼
Can WSB commenters blame Katie Wilson for this?
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Can WSB commenters blame Katie Wilson for this?
New scandal: Katie has Glassybaby votives on her mantel! That's definitely as privileged as upgrading to $1000/night hotel rooms and first-class flights. REAL middle-class people only burn candles to save money on electricity.
Holy shit what!?
Katie Wilson just updated on her Instagram that she has passed Bruce for mayor of Seattle by 91 votes!! 🤯🤯
I gave up hope but like, she might actually do it??
Katie Wilson just updated on her Instagram that she has passed Bruce for mayor of Seattle by 91 votes!! 🤯🤯
I gave up hope but like, she might actually do it??
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
New scandal: Katie has Glassybaby votives on her mantel! That's definitely as privileged as upgrading to $1000/night hotel rooms and first-class flights. REAL middle-class people only burn candles to save money on electricity.
Vanishing Seattle does it again. Somehow they didn't squeeze in any jabs at "developers" this time, but they still convey skepticism at the reason for this location closing and imply it's some kind of treasured Seattle institution. JitB started in San Diego & their e. coli outbreak killed 4 PNW kids
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Vanishing Seattle does it again. Somehow they didn't squeeze in any jabs at "developers" this time, but they still convey skepticism at the reason for this location closing and imply it's some kind of treasured Seattle institution. JitB started in San Diego & their e. coli outbreak killed 4 PNW kids
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
This truncated title is... Kind of accurate 🙃😭
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This truncated title is... Kind of accurate 🙃😭
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Has he been… getting lost?
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Has he been… getting lost?
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Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.
Y'all, I lightly poked at Tree Action Seattle on Instagram... And they apparently blocked me.
Again, these guys get boosted by @seattleparksfoundation.org because they supposedly do work for the community and public spaces. Yet they block someone for this? LOL WTAF?
Again, these guys get boosted by @seattleparksfoundation.org because they supposedly do work for the community and public spaces. Yet they block someone for this? LOL WTAF?
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Y'all, I lightly poked at Tree Action Seattle on Instagram... And they apparently blocked me.
Again, these guys get boosted by @seattleparksfoundation.org because they supposedly do work for the community and public spaces. Yet they block someone for this? LOL WTAF?
Again, these guys get boosted by @seattleparksfoundation.org because they supposedly do work for the community and public spaces. Yet they block someone for this? LOL WTAF?
New thread, also on the Seattle Parks Foundation beat: Why was West Seattle Skylink a partner? And probably still would be if I hadn't followed up again after donating? While looking into TAS I found this. WS Skylink hasn't posted anywhere in well over a year, yet they still had an active SPF page
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
New thread, also on the Seattle Parks Foundation beat: Why was West Seattle Skylink a partner? And probably still would be if I hadn't followed up again after donating? While looking into TAS I found this. WS Skylink hasn't posted anywhere in well over a year, yet they still had an active SPF page
Who can help me understand how Tree Action Seattle meets the requirements to be a @seattleparksfoundation.org partner? This designation allows TAS to receive tax-free donations and significant bolstering/legitimizing from the SPF association, yet requires no donor accountability from TAS. (1/?)
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Who can help me understand how Tree Action Seattle meets the requirements to be a @seattleparksfoundation.org partner? This designation allows TAS to receive tax-free donations and significant bolstering/legitimizing from the SPF association, yet requires no donor accountability from TAS. (1/?)
I'm @importantmeagan.bsky.social right now, watching this game. Like, this is actually within reach and it's fucking terrifying. I DON'T LIKE IT.
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I'm @importantmeagan.bsky.social right now, watching this game. Like, this is actually within reach and it's fucking terrifying. I DON'T LIKE IT.
TIL @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social is a Mariners fan. My, oh my!
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
TIL @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social is a Mariners fan. My, oh my!
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The dissent does an excellent job making the majority look like fools. cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The dissent does an excellent job making the majority look like fools. cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...
Of-fucking-course they did. This decision was clearly telegraphed two weeks ago.
My spouse, child, brother-in-law, and a friend were in Portland over the weekend for a gaming expo. My only concerns for their safety specific to PDX was from all the right-wing nuts descending on the "war zone."
My spouse, child, brother-in-law, and a friend were in Portland over the weekend for a gaming expo. My only concerns for their safety specific to PDX was from all the right-wing nuts descending on the "war zone."
JUST IN: The appeals court overturned the ruling of a lower court judge in Oregon, and clears the way for President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.
9th Circuit rules that National Guard can deploy to Portland
The appeals court overturned the ruling of a lower court judge in Oregon, and clears the way for President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Of-fucking-course they did. This decision was clearly telegraphed two weeks ago.
My spouse, child, brother-in-law, and a friend were in Portland over the weekend for a gaming expo. My only concerns for their safety specific to PDX was from all the right-wing nuts descending on the "war zone."
My spouse, child, brother-in-law, and a friend were in Portland over the weekend for a gaming expo. My only concerns for their safety specific to PDX was from all the right-wing nuts descending on the "war zone."
Seriously. I hate to get all "corporate," but in project management and process improvement discipline we're taught "the five whys" to solve problems. It's literally just asking "why?" until you reach the root cause.
The bar is so low, and yet.
The bar is so low, and yet.
just to break down the profoundly degraded discursive state we're in
PROTESTORS: the president is not a king! no kings in this country!
PRESIDENT: [posts video of self in crown, shitting on citizens]
PRESIDENT'S FRIEND: there is a king. King Jesus
NOBODY IN PRESS ROOM: you've missed the point
PROTESTORS: the president is not a king! no kings in this country!
PRESIDENT: [posts video of self in crown, shitting on citizens]
PRESIDENT'S FRIEND: there is a king. King Jesus
NOBODY IN PRESS ROOM: you've missed the point
October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Seriously. I hate to get all "corporate," but in project management and process improvement discipline we're taught "the five whys" to solve problems. It's literally just asking "why?" until you reach the root cause.
The bar is so low, and yet.
The bar is so low, and yet.
Oh! Is this the next Tree Action Seattle target? Sandy Shettler herself made an appearance. Egads, a *duplex* in Alki? This aggression will not stand! westseattleblog.com/2025/10/deve...
DEVELOPMENT: New plan, recurring concerns surface at online community meeting for 2345 Hobart SW
By Tracy Record
West Seattle Blog editor
The online public meeting for a development proposal at 2345 Hobart Avenue SW (backstory here) was meant for comments on the latest proposal for the site.
Bu...
westseattleblog.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Oh! Is this the next Tree Action Seattle target? Sandy Shettler herself made an appearance. Egads, a *duplex* in Alki? This aggression will not stand! westseattleblog.com/2025/10/deve...
The way this game is going, we're unwittingly handing over pretense for the administration to send the troops to Seattle. Definitely shaping up to be a war zone full of disgruntled Mariners fans 😭😭
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The way this game is going, we're unwittingly handing over pretense for the administration to send the troops to Seattle. Definitely shaping up to be a war zone full of disgruntled Mariners fans 😭😭
In the Fauntleroy Community Association meeting for the past hour, trying to advocate remotely (via Zoom) for a very basic pedestrian safety improvement in the form of a signalized crosswalk at Fauntleroy and Rose.
NIMBY contingent on the board seems to have won for now... Concern-trolling for cars
NIMBY contingent on the board seems to have won for now... Concern-trolling for cars
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In the Fauntleroy Community Association meeting for the past hour, trying to advocate remotely (via Zoom) for a very basic pedestrian safety improvement in the form of a signalized crosswalk at Fauntleroy and Rose.
NIMBY contingent on the board seems to have won for now... Concern-trolling for cars
NIMBY contingent on the board seems to have won for now... Concern-trolling for cars
As seen on Reddit: the life cycle of the Portland Protest Frog.
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
As seen on Reddit: the life cycle of the Portland Protest Frog.
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George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
Oops, he glitched.
Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.
“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."
Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.
“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."
Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.
October 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Oops, he glitched.
Seattle Parks Foundation appears to be funding Skylink (gondola) "research." Why are they funding the people trying to stop light rail? I've reached out to SPF for more info on the nature of this partnership and how much $ has gone to these hucksters
www.seattleparksfoundation.org/project/west...
www.seattleparksfoundation.org/project/west...
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Seattle Parks Foundation appears to be funding Skylink (gondola) "research." Why are they funding the people trying to stop light rail? I've reached out to SPF for more info on the nature of this partnership and how much $ has gone to these hucksters
www.seattleparksfoundation.org/project/west...
www.seattleparksfoundation.org/project/west...