Kate Langsdorf

Mercer Island’s Growth Plan Ruled Out of Compliance with State Law » The Urbanist # After the state's Growth Management Hearings Board struck down its plan, Mercer Island now has a year to update its Comprehensive Plan to meet affordable housing requirements. The initial version pr...

Late last week, the state growth management hearings board found Mercer Island's growth plan out of compliance with state law. The decision is likely to have a seismic impact on how cities across the state are required to plan for affordable housing.
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Washington! Vote your faces off. Get your ballots into a drop box by tomorrow 8/5 at 8pm, lest your community descend into madness or tyranny or the like. Local elections are super important!

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

Abandoned K-Mart exterior with gritty marks of removed old K-Mart sign

McMenamins to Challenge Itself by Restoring Historic Tacoma K-Mart: tinyurl.com/2cfcx565

Vote, Washington!. If want help with city or county people in King, Pierce, or Snohomish counties, I can point you in the right direction for values alignment or, in some cases, whether they’ve personally wronged me! (But I DO have 2 endorsements who’ve personally wronged me, so 🤷‍♀️)

Happy July 4! 🇺🇸

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The time draws nigh! Our fiscal year ends at midnight, & you can help us reach our $20k matching grant.

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Hi from karaoke night where me & @oldschoolhero.bsky.social now feel STRONGLY that @nordicmuseum.org ought to put up an A-ha exhibition, preferably wherein you kinda get pulled into the “Take On Me” music video please & thank you

At the evening service tonight, the rector led a moment of silence acknowledging the US strikes in Iran & the impending uncertainty, & the church bell tolled ~12 times. I'm fairly new to mainline Protestantism & have never heard that many tolls before.

Are those the "everything is okay" tolls?

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Welp

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism.

I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

it is funny how tech overlords, whose sole work experience is pretending to have something to sell while getting and burning through tons of outside capital with an end game that is solely enriching themselves, just assumed government jobs were as inefficient, corrupt, and pointless as their own

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Lovely community & glorious turnout in Covington, WA today for Charlie's first protest. No pics for social, but trust that he was a patriotic cutie-pie 🇺🇸

Okay let the record show they started using excessive force real quick after I posted that so lesson learned 🤷‍♀️

Spokane, Washington tonight became the center of national attention after a peaceful protest outside an ICE facility was escalated by police.

Kinda looks like LAPD is out here doing the Lord’s work today 👀

Co-signed from the PNW. I've known Sarah through their skillful & nationally respected gov comms work. This is a Sarah Russell stan account now.

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I’m getting confirmed tomorrow. By a bishop and everything. Not sure what this timeline is, but we’re doing sacraments now.

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My body is a money pit.

In which I’m becoming our collective dads: Got my kid to the 5am Easter Vigil because I don’t want to fuss with the parking at the 10am service.

Vibe check: three councilmembers are openly LGBTQIA+, including me. I deeply and wholeheartedly appreciate the mayor and deputy mayor’s comments tonight. This is allyship in action.

@masonthompson.bsky.social and @ramiok.bsky.social never disappoint when there is an opportunity to show up. 💜

Spread the word to your actor pals! No need to bring Viola’s ring monologue to that audition unless you’re *really* feeling it.

Store all the costumes at my house. Lemme wear them to meetings.

We are so excited! Come talk shop with us and our buddies at HowlRound on 3/27. Let’s figure some big things out together.

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a dark day for ska

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

I did not expect to cry 400 times during the fun new Bridget Jones movie, but here we are! Also, is this perimenopause? Does it make you sob during romcoms? Somebody who knows science please help.

What, medically, is the equivalent to shaking your brain like an Etch-a-sketch until it's clear of rumination, and is it covered by my HMO? Asking for a friend.

Can I cancel my subscription again?