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Jeff
@jefft.bsky.social
Seattle-based. Interested in housing. Really more of a reply guy than a poster, but the good kind of reply guy.
Do I count 4 lights in a row that are all out?
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Aaand the reality: she got just under 56%, of today's 38,277 ballots that marked one of the two, putting her into the lead by just 91!
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Here's my made-up spreadsheet; gonna pre-register my prediction that Wilson gets somewhere between 56 and 60%, but this is why, by my math, 56% of today's drop is insufficient to take the lead. But maybe we are talking about slightly different things!
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The nonsensical treatment of northern WS's big 3 elementaries continues to baffle me.

Lafayette: big and growing. Close it!

Alki: small and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!

Genesee Hill: medium and shrinking. Replace with a bigger building!
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Go here, fill in 3 of the fields. If your signature has been verified and you're counted, the next screen should look nice and green like the second screenshot.

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Wait so she tanked Chin's campaign by leaking his emails, and then went on to torpedo the mayoralty of the winner by leaking his racist texts?

Incredible true chaotic neutral character.
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yeah my point was just that anecdotes can cut both ways.

Anyways, Jesus, yeah that price is up 30% since January.

P.s. it's called the Fed, not the FED.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ahh wait is it 45,000 or 50,000? The latter makes Wilson a slight favorite. Former would make it a tossup, IMHO.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It blows my mind that they just don't install crossing arms to lower across the sidewalk paths like they do on the roadway. WTF?
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Where's the surge? The intraday partial rebound?
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I hope they're planning for some good noise-proofing for the 30,000 new homes directly in the flight landing approach of London City Airport.
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ok now I'm dying to know how Seattle is supposed to lose this one 34-31 like the Google AI promised me this highlight reel would show.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Do you have your gifs stored somewhere?

I'm watching the highlights now and sitting here wondering how Seattle found a way to lose this from here:
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Ehh this lady seems like the archetype of that person and still doesn't seem to view the sweeps as a success.

Of course she keeps doing it, ostensibly to help the city collect better data (?) but seemingly also just for kicks/vengeance.
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I didn't even realize we had direct flights to Munich. The Condor route to Frankfurt is like a black hole for Seattle-Germany itineraries because it's so absurdly much cheaper.

We flew to Frankfurt for vaccines in 2022 and got all 4 of us there, even paying extra to pick seats, for like $1800.
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My sophisticated probabilistic analysis suggests it's about a coin toss whether all 7 come off as planned.
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The new Seattle City Council is shaping up to be pretty evenly balanced between @theurbanist.org -endorsed YIMBYs and NIMBYs.

Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)

Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Yeah I'm curious which ones Nick is objecting to.

The one example I encounter and never use on my bike commute is: they just added hard barriers to the lanes in both directions around this corner. The turn radius is so insanely tight on the inside corner I worry about sliding out.
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"This is nothing compared to the time Rs eked out a 2-point win in 2021, because that win foreshadowed how Dems would struggle in 2024 and beyond."

What struggles have they faced in elections "beyond" 2024, Nate? You're writing NOW about several decisive wins that rolled back Trump's gains!!
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
And... Don't forget sunscreen!
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Wow. Congrats!

I will also tally this as a win for @economeager.bsky.social even if they seem to have moved roughly to Australia's antipodes.
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Lol he's so much closer to the bag than the runner on 2nd. Oof.
November 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I get that it's a rule, fine, but I don't even get the principle. "Oh some surface interfered making it behave in a less predictable way". Same goes for taking a bad bounce off the pitcher's mound or a base. It would have taken all of 1 extra second to pluck it out. Doesn't mean we pause the game!
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We started before it got dark.

Can you tell we like video games?
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM