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November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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This is to say: this golf course could be housing 13000-25000 people, AND generating $20-30 million / year in taxes, the entire size of the Dept of Neighborhoods, or >25% of the Seattle Public Schools deficit.
Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
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Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
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Assessments consider land and "improvements" (the structures) separately.
The land only (no improvements) of a parcel near me is assessed at $11,000,000\acre.
At that value, this golf course would pay over 12 mil in taxes.
The land only (no improvements) of a parcel near me is assessed at $11,000,000\acre.
At that value, this golf course would pay over 12 mil in taxes.
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is to say: this golf course could be housing 13000-25000 people, AND generating $20-30 million / year in taxes, the entire size of the Dept of Neighborhoods, or >25% of the Seattle Public Schools deficit.
Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
bsky.app/profile/just...
Instead it’s paying $85,770 in taxes and housing no one.
bsky.app/profile/just...
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Seattle's proposition 1, funding education, won in all but 2 of Seattle's 2038 precincts.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Seattle's proposition 1, funding education, won in all but 2 of Seattle's 2038 precincts.
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Detail of a tapestry by Priscilla Dobler Dzul at the Frye
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Detail of a tapestry by Priscilla Dobler Dzul at the Frye
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Te va'a tere; FC8J+3CJ, Papeete 98714, French Polynesia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-17.5347908%2C-149.5689738&query_place_id=ChIJFx0XYhw6mnYRR_TmqawCTDo
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Te va'a tere; FC8J+3CJ, Papeete 98714, French Polynesia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-17.5347908%2C-149.5689738&query_place_id=ChIJFx0XYhw6mnYRR_TmqawCTDo
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LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL
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It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
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FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
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WE ARE IN
THE BASEBALL DIMENSION
THE BASEBALL DIMENSION
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
WE ARE IN
THE BASEBALL DIMENSION
THE BASEBALL DIMENSION
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NIMBYs are -- in an extremely direct, measurable way -- fucking the Dem Party, and by extension, the country. They just don't come in for abuse like college kids because the leaders of the party are wealthy suburbanite NIMBYs themselves. Easier to yell at the kids.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
NIMBYs are -- in an extremely direct, measurable way -- fucking the Dem Party, and by extension, the country. They just don't come in for abuse like college kids because the leaders of the party are wealthy suburbanite NIMBYs themselves. Easier to yell at the kids.
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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close the law schools
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
close the law schools
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as this goes on while i grow older, i am very much feeling like a creature of another time. obviously things have always been more or less this way my entire life but as the last vestiges of truth, shared obligations, a loose moral framework get sheared away, i feel increasingly out of place
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
as this goes on while i grow older, i am very much feeling like a creature of another time. obviously things have always been more or less this way my entire life but as the last vestiges of truth, shared obligations, a loose moral framework get sheared away, i feel increasingly out of place
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The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy.
UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:
Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.
UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:
Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.
October 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy.
UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:
Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.
UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:
Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.
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the slop presidency has me tilted
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
the slop presidency has me tilted
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oh if a man’s worth were counted by the number of cool jackets he hoards
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
oh if a man’s worth were counted by the number of cool jackets he hoards
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what you guys make in a year i make in 16-18 months
October 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
what you guys make in a year i make in 16-18 months
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Relatedly, almost every home along Lake Washington Boulevard has encroached into public land. The Parks Department and SDOT have been unwilling to look at whether any of this land can be reclaimed to create a better park boulevard, because well, you know.
October 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Relatedly, almost every home along Lake Washington Boulevard has encroached into public land. The Parks Department and SDOT have been unwilling to look at whether any of this land can be reclaimed to create a better park boulevard, because well, you know.
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I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk
Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
www.pew.org/en/research-...
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk
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Gaza is a spectacle of violence and lawlessness performed on a global stage to establish as fact, through action and/or neglect, the notion some humans simply do not matter; which defiles the universality of the claim that humans matter; whence annihilation becomes not just possible, but inevitable.
October 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Gaza is a spectacle of violence and lawlessness performed on a global stage to establish as fact, through action and/or neglect, the notion some humans simply do not matter; which defiles the universality of the claim that humans matter; whence annihilation becomes not just possible, but inevitable.