Marcia Peterson
@marciapeterson.bsky.social
Retired health care policy nerd. Now actively working at U District Food Bank, also doing art, trad music fiddler, sourdough bread baker, proud grandma, and avidly pro-housing!
Sorry to be obtuse. Just frustrated at the way the tree people use the cooling issue to stop development because existing trees provide shade. Would be nice to be able to talk about cooling design.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Sorry to be obtuse. Just frustrated at the way the tree people use the cooling issue to stop development because existing trees provide shade. Would be nice to be able to talk about cooling design.
Tree Action in Seattle is using this argument to oppose removing trees at the UW Blakely Village redevelopment for student family housing. I don’t know if the design includes cooling or even if they’re really cutting down loads of trees. But opposing affordable housing just seems daft
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tree Action in Seattle is using this argument to oppose removing trees at the UW Blakely Village redevelopment for student family housing. I don’t know if the design includes cooling or even if they’re really cutting down loads of trees. But opposing affordable housing just seems daft
Try not to overthink it. If you want people to vote, you have to offer them something more than “we’re not the other guy”. Advocating for policies that people want, like “affordability”, matters.
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Try not to overthink it. If you want people to vote, you have to offer them something more than “we’re not the other guy”. Advocating for policies that people want, like “affordability”, matters.
Actually, some of us would be happy to live in any kind of Swedish home as long as it has free healthcare, free childcare, great transportation and free education. Not to mention rent control.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Actually, some of us would be happy to live in any kind of Swedish home as long as it has free healthcare, free childcare, great transportation and free education. Not to mention rent control.
I remember it was inside the Pacific Place Mall.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I remember it was inside the Pacific Place Mall.
Scarf feels French. French people know how to protest
October 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scarf feels French. French people know how to protest
Watch out federal thugs. Dangerous antifa white lady grandma here. Pearls or scarf for the march? Going with the scarf this time.
October 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Watch out federal thugs. Dangerous antifa white lady grandma here. Pearls or scarf for the march? Going with the scarf this time.
Had my 6 year old grandson for the day and we went to the DT library. It was a huge hit. The views, the ramp, the red room. So cool! And books!
October 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Had my 6 year old grandson for the day and we went to the DT library. It was a huge hit. The views, the ramp, the red room. So cool! And books!
Right. Stopping in Lacey which is like 20 minutes from Olympia by car. So you need a car anyway. Weirdly, train tracks go right through DT. But no passenger train.
October 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Right. Stopping in Lacey which is like 20 minutes from Olympia by car. So you need a car anyway. Weirdly, train tracks go right through DT. But no passenger train.
I don’t get how dressing like a victim is useful. It’s exactly what they want. Now if you want to dress up as Wonderwoman….
October 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I don’t get how dressing like a victim is useful. It’s exactly what they want. Now if you want to dress up as Wonderwoman….
The fact that Amtrak doesn’t stop in Olympia, nor does it have bus service from Seattle, is absurd. Can we spend the money on that?
October 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The fact that Amtrak doesn’t stop in Olympia, nor does it have bus service from Seattle, is absurd. Can we spend the money on that?
Correct, and becoming Northern Ireland during the Troubles isn’t a great look either. If those assholes want to shoot me while I’m peaceful protesting in my heels and pearls , I’m okay with that as long as someone records it and it goes viral. That’s all I ask.
October 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Correct, and becoming Northern Ireland during the Troubles isn’t a great look either. If those assholes want to shoot me while I’m peaceful protesting in my heels and pearls , I’m okay with that as long as someone records it and it goes viral. That’s all I ask.
This is not the Nazis in Germany and the only real hope is to get the disinterested to wake up. Documenting their atrocities to non violent protesters changes minds.
October 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is not the Nazis in Germany and the only real hope is to get the disinterested to wake up. Documenting their atrocities to non violent protesters changes minds.
Use of the conditional would help: “even if Tylenol had been found to affect… which it has not…”
September 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Use of the conditional would help: “even if Tylenol had been found to affect… which it has not…”
I just want someone to run against Rivera. She is such a tool.
September 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I just want someone to run against Rivera. She is such a tool.
I usually preface my city council comments by saying I’ve lived here for 60 years through loads of changes including the Boeing recession and we can’t keep living in the past, etc. I like to try to shame them into having a vision for the future. Never works but whatever.
September 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I usually preface my city council comments by saying I’ve lived here for 60 years through loads of changes including the Boeing recession and we can’t keep living in the past, etc. I like to try to shame them into having a vision for the future. Never works but whatever.
Just for comparison. Paris Metro trains. Every 2 minutes.
September 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just for comparison. Paris Metro trains. Every 2 minutes.
Still, it’s cheap comedy to try them on in the dressing room.
September 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Still, it’s cheap comedy to try them on in the dressing room.
Love this place. And their Mojitos.
August 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Love this place. And their Mojitos.
Oh yeah and the guy who owned the paintings stolen by the Nazis “ died after falling in the hold of the vessel carrying him to safety and breaking his neck.” I hope his heirs are successful in getting them back.
August 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Oh yeah and the guy who owned the paintings stolen by the Nazis “ died after falling in the hold of the vessel carrying him to safety and breaking his neck.” I hope his heirs are successful in getting them back.
I stand and sing the national anthem because I refuse to cede it to the fascists. And because I love the way it ends in a question. But when they play God bless America I sit down and mutter a few obscenities.
August 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I stand and sing the national anthem because I refuse to cede it to the fascists. And because I love the way it ends in a question. But when they play God bless America I sit down and mutter a few obscenities.
It’s almost as though an increase in housing supply can result in lower or stabilized rents.
August 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It’s almost as though an increase in housing supply can result in lower or stabilized rents.