@joshfeit
Author of 2 indie-press poetry books (Shops Close Too Early & The Night of Electric Bikes) https://www.joshfeitpoetry.com/. City planning columnist & cofounder (w/ @ericacbarnett.bsky.social) at https://publicola.com.
In addition to this week's obsessions, there's also the week in X > Y. This week's list: Gummies > Booze; New Coffee Shops Off the Drag > New Coffees Shops On the Drag; and Playing a Tiebreaker > Hitting Around.
Like rearranging how you pack your suitcase rather than buying a bigger suitcase, affordable housing advocates should change the construction equation inside apartment buildings themselves.
I've got a new column up @publicola.bsky.social.
I've got a followup to what's going down in the legislature with the elevator bill.
I've lost the thread on the Lawrence Summers story. Hasn't he been fired/resigned from Harvard like 5x in the past decade?
Great piece! Wemade the case for this bill earlier this month @publicola.bsky.social
As Easter Eggs, I've added Schumann's Forest Scenes, Op. 82 to my neoclassical playlist.
ICYMI it yesterday, I wrote about the head of the Seattle civil rights department, whose staff have accused him of a litany of civil rights violations. Their union, PROTEC17, sent a detailed memo asking Mayor Katie Wilson to remove him in December.
Outstanding local journalism from @ericacbarnett.bsky.social at @publicola.bsky.social. Stunning stories and quotes here from angry Seattle's Office of Civil Rights employees about the Harrell-appointed SOCR director who remains in the Wilson administration.
I invented a new poetic form: A Tanku, a combination of a Tanka and Haiku. There's already a Hainka form, but that consists of 1 stanza combining the 2 forms in one 8-line stanza/poem. My Tanku is done w/ each Tanka and Haiku (as many as you want) as its own stanza in any combo you want! #poetry
Noise Complaints > No Noise Complaints. A rambunctious neighborhood is gentrifying. The new professional class that’s moving in is complaining about noise. I’m not taking sides. But I’d rather live where a standoff between social vibrancy and economic vibrancy exists, than where it doesn’t.
First presidential candidate I ever voted for, 1984 Democratic primary, Spring of my senior year of hs. I was 17; you could vote in the primary if you were going to be 18 by that November.
Yup. Insidiously: they link disabling the AI summaries to some useful functions, including spellcheck and the ones you mention.
You can get rid of those Gemini gmail summaries by going into your settings and unchecking “Smart Features.” I committed this minor act of resistance on Tuesday. When you disconnect from these dumb dispatches it feels like that moment when the crying baby on your flight finally falls asleep.
For someone who’s so obsessed w/ crowd size and ratings numbers you’d think Trump would get that it’s a good thing to have lots of immigrants. To be the most popular country.
This.
And so, I’ve come to think of short blocks as enjambed lines of poetry where one block leads you to the next and the rush of surprises you’ll find there. www.joshfeitpoetry.com/blog/im-all-...
You always throw staff under the bus? Have you ever taken responsibility for mistakes that happen on your watch? If it’s true you aren't to blame, are you concerned that people working for you could see that & still post? That shoot people exercising their 1st Amendment rights dead in the street?
I have a column up on @publicola.bsky.social about an important piece of city infrastructure. Elevators.
Lee dropped his video on behalf of local pro-housing group @sightline.org . They teamed up to make the case that the clunky elevators dictated by current code are incompatible with producing the relatively smaller mode of multi-family housing needed to increase housing stock.
I used to be fond of telling my news team "There are no metaphors, only results." But I was wrong: There are metaphors, there are. (And results too it would seem.) @ericacbarnett.bsky.social, @Jonah Spangenthal-Lee
