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Jess Zimbabwe

@jzimbabwe.bsky.social

Architect, planner, and Executive Director of Environmental Works Community Design Center in Seattle. Adjunct faculty at UW. Also: cheese, parrots, travel, music, housing, transit, maps, books, dogs, politics.

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We actually have two on our property. Theyโ€™re amazing. (The squirrels agree.)

26.10.2025 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Booooooo! We did not, but the mister just suggested we all charge all the power bricks we have. Hope yours is back on soon!

26.10.2025 04:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same on the West Side. It is banging a huge walnut tree into our house in ways Iโ€™ve never heard before.

26.10.2025 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, this was bad. But a question that inane might be the best way to demonstrate the limitations of AI. What information does the internet have about his breakfast habits? I hope AI Dr. King would answer something absurd like โ€œI made overnight oats and chia seeds from a recipe I found on TikTok!โ€

25.10.2025 12:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But in this case, sheโ€™s lobbyingโ€ฆthe City of Chandler? I donโ€™t think cities are going to each individually ban former members of congress.

25.10.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

25.10.2025 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1644    ๐Ÿ” 212    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

East Wing is for the laaaadiiiieeees!

(Well, and it should have been for Dougie, too, if this were a just world.)

25.10.2025 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Turns out: lots of people in a very expensive city identify with a person struggling financially to live in the same very expensive city. WHO KNEW?

25.10.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tennessee manโ€™s heart still active nearly two minutes after execution, lawyer says Allegation raises further questions about death of Byron Black in execution lawyer says was โ€˜100% botchedโ€™

On principle, I donโ€™t think we should kill people to say that killing people is wrong.

But if we canโ€™t secure medical expertise (b/c doctors canโ€™t ethically promote death) to insure that executions arenโ€™t grotesque,
then we definitely shouldnโ€™t do it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

25.10.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

23.10.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12315    ๐Ÿ” 2390    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 875    ๐Ÿ“Œ 445

Wow.

23.10.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photograph from the No ๐Ÿ‘‘ march of Lowly Worm from Busytown driving his apple car labled "My Other Car os RFK Jrs' brain"

A photograph from the No ๐Ÿ‘‘ march of Lowly Worm from Busytown driving his apple car labled "My Other Car os RFK Jrs' brain"

19.10.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 314    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

You know it!

19.10.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Me holding a sign that says โ€œthe only king I answer to is Chinook salmon.โ€

Me holding a sign that says โ€œthe only king I answer to is Chinook salmon.โ€

I made a Pacific Northwest themed sign for #noKings today.

19.10.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 149    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail

18.10.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11830    ๐Ÿ” 3000    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 221    ๐Ÿ“Œ 299

This is how I feel about 75% of complaints about air travel.

16.10.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve long thought we should close that end of Erskine, make that and the current Uptown Espresso lot into a plaza. The 5 way intersection is just stupid to cross on foot.

15.10.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I disagree with you here.

I mean, Iโ€™m fine with saving it, but we gotta move it to, like, Golden Gate Park or something. It was built to back up against the elevated freeway and to block it visually and aurally. Now that the freeway is gone, itโ€™s out of place, and blocks movement and views.

14.10.2025 03:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing. Lovely story about your cousin, gone too soon.

12.10.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great game to cap a great season, Tigers.
Canโ€™t wait for next year!

11.10.2025 05:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is a booooolshit hit by pitch call.

11.10.2025 04:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Never should have let him visit Paris

10.10.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From the Nobel Committee today:

โ€œDemocracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended โ€“ with words, with courage and with determination.โ€

10.10.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 791    ๐Ÿ” 221    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

I swear, in about twenty years, wealthy countries are going to be competing for immigrants, and wondering why they didn't bring in a whole lot of people twenty years earlier so their grew-up-here kids would be ready to join the workforce.

09.10.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 140    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I think they still doโ€ฆfor some of their shows. Which makes it sound like the decision lies with the artist, right?

10.10.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It sounds like that is the case at _some_ of their shows, but not this one. And that makes it sound like itโ€™s the choice of the artist, right?

10.10.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can Seattle folks help me out?

My 13yoโ€™s favorite band is coming to town next monthโ€ฆto play only a 21+ show. I tagged the band in an instagram post to complain, and they responded that it was pi of their hands and up to the venue.

Have you seen an all ages show at The Crocodile before?

10.10.2025 05:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
You know what it is

You know what it is

That's my MAN(sard)

08.10.2025 22:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 156    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Sorry, friend.

08.10.2025 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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