Episode 43 of the Kilauea eruption is a BEAST. They just zoomed out and uhhh this may be on its way to setting a record for tallest lava fountains. What on Earth. 😍🌋
Cam 2 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
F*^*ing idiots.
The second picture looks like Upper Fremont. It’s more architecturally interesting than the first picture. I think the extra floors create visual interest that breaks up the otherwise monotonous skyline. (Urbanists can do design review, too.)
the Dem party number is easily explained by the fact that bluesky is full of people who will crawl over broken glass to vote for Democrats in November and also hate Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries with every bone in their body
Just want to acknowledge how weird it feels to talk about housing when innocent people are dying www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Industrial food production broke a 10,000-year cycle of backbreaking toil that was far outside of our natural tolerances for stress and effort because it was the only way for large numbers of us to eat consistently, and you people still have the temerity to bitch about this.
"There will not be a funding opportunity for [Safe Routes to School] construction projects this year."
Still cannot believe this happened. But what do we expect when so many legislators are unserious, underpaid part-timers?
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Someone share this with Dow Constantine I think we solved ST’s budget deficit with this one cool trick
Map showing traffic in Delridge backing up to Louisa Boren K-8, about 1.3 miles
I've been noticing the bridge traffic backing up on Delridge for over a mile once again. When this happens, cars use the 21st and 26th Ave greenways as shortcuts, making them almost unusable for bikers.
Without traffic diverters the greenways fail during rush hour, when they should the solution.
Rumor has it Circle Seafood of Aberdeen, WA has a deal to start distribution of their Alaska pink salmon fillets through Whole Foods this year. Apparently they are already available at Publix? Anyone try these yet?
@kevinberryecon.bsky.social
Excited to share a new @nber.org paper w/Blonz/Hossain/Mulder/Weill where we show credit scores impact homeowners insurance premiums as much as disaster risk.
Here’s what happened in WA when they banned credit scoring:
Map of micro Neighborhoods around the future Delridge Way station
"Using the map below, please tell us the tallest building height you would feel comfortable seeing in each area."
Infinity?
Yep. I'm at the point now where I firmly believe every single state legislator should get a strong challenge. There will be cases where I'd still back the incumbent. But no more uncontested re-election races. Olympia needs a wakeup call.
Surprised about the empty gallery!
None of our wins to tax the rich & make housing affordable are possible without the grassroots organizing that builds those movements. Super proud to be endorsed by & work shoulder to shoulder with @tech4housing.org to fight for the fair economy we all deserve!
I dunno man, there is a light rail station and multiple high frequency bus connections. As a Columbia City resident, what I want to see is fewer people blasting through the neighborhood in their cars. Nothing would make me happier than if they turned one of the driving lanes on MLK to a bike lane.
I agree with everything Robert says here and support all of these challenges!
I also think Katie Wilson's win has encouraged strong challengers to run against moderate incumbents. If she could take out an establishment favorite then so can they!
Speaker Laurie Jinkins said here that incrementalism is all they can do, voters would reject anything else.
But what if voters reject *that*? They did in Seattle last year. They've now consistently voted to tax the rich. Voters might now see #waleg incrementalism as the problem, not the solution.
What's notable to me about these challenges to #waleg incumbents (Sabio-Howell taking on Pedersen, Ron Davis taking on Gerry Pollet, Rep. Cindy Ryu taking on her seatmate Sen. Jesse Salomon, etc) is these are well-connected political insiders mounting the challenges. Not radical outsiders.
Agreed! To me it means CC seen underinvestment in paid street parking relative to those other neighborhoods. SDOT failed to make this point and that’s what went wrong imo. To their credit, it’s a hard point to make.
If anything, SDOT not expanding paid parking in CC is the city ignoring Rainier Valley. If they’d expanded the meter zone earlier prices wouldn’t have risen so much. Now they’re stuck.
The reason it’s more expensive is because there’s not enough paid parking spaces! It’s unintuitive but that’s how the system SDOT has used for years works. It’s why they want to add more paid spots. More paid spots that are open leads to lower prices. Other nhoods just have enough slack paid spots.
Farmer Identity and risk preferences in Farmers' Choices Between Public and Private Agri-Environmental Contracts Abstract:European farmers' preferences for voluntary agri-environmental contracts are often heterogene-ous and can be influenced by behavioural factors. In our study, we investigate how farmer identity and risk preferences are related to preferences for agri-environment contracts in the UK, France, and the Netherlands. Using data from a discrete choice experiment and a sample of 767 farmers, we identify a statistically significant, but non-robust, effect showing that a stronger relative productivist farmer identity is associated with a higher preference for contracts organised by retail companies over those organised by governments. Furthermore, results show that a stronger relative productivist identity reduces the likelihood to participate in the proposed agri-environment contracts.
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Not even clear who it’s a subsidy for because at these prices there’ll be a shortage and parkers pay through queuing.
But this lawlessness and the subsequent years of war definitely contributed to the collapse in popular support for the Jedi to the point where their slaughter was politically acceptable. They came off way hawkish compared to Palpatine the Dove!
The idea was that the GAR had a unique opportunity to decapitate the CIS before a war broke out. Because the Jedi are quasi-independent from the Republic and the GAR reports to them, they took a (poorly) calculated risk.
What an honor to sit down with @thestranger.com & share our vision for an affordable future. Thank you for this thoughtful coverage of our fight for a flourishing WA!
TL;DR - we're the future. And we're ready to stand up to corporations for the people's agenda. www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03...
This is a cartoon from 2021 that prominently features Jamie and his do-nothing brigade (also features Pollet, who is being challenged by @ronpdavis.bsky.social!) Been on this for awhile and it's finally happening. Now's the time
Cheeky ending!
