Katherine Mitchell

Edward Teller (Benny Safdie) in 'Oppenheimer'

until someone builds a 14-minute city

anyway, i don't really want to go to the mat for a random very flawed democratic candidate, but i always find it upsetting when people talk about this race and treat the other two major candidates supporting a genocide as something that doesn't carry deeply important moral weight too 🤷‍♀️

i object to the assertion that john fetterman is well meaning

Finishing up Day 3 in the Paralympic Village, great to see my mixed doubles teammates starting off with a big W against a very good Latvian team! 🇺🇸🥌

The Do-nothing Governor. What crisis?

thanks jon

it ought to be interesting to see how the midterms shake out. lots of candidates out there. make sure you read up on them between now and november or else you’ll be looking pretty silly in the voting booth

Neighborhood Cafe and Corner Store Bill Fails for Third Straight Year » The Urbanist # The failure of HB 1175 to make it to the state Senate floor mirrors a similar fate two years ago. Bill sponsor Mark Klicker placed the decision to let the neighborhood cafe bill die squarely on Loca...

NEW STORY // Neighborhood Cafe and Corner Store Bill Fails for Third Straight Year

By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org.

www.theurbanist.org/2026/03/02/n...

@ricoque-opcd.bsky.social Q2: at the comp plan info session on Apr 3 2024, Michael Hubner stated that “transitions” between “different types of zones” should be “gradual”.

Which residents does this serve? The aesthetic preferences of wealthy homeowners, or people desperately looking for housing?

YouTube video by Seattle Channel City Inside/Out: Can Seattle's growth roadmap tackle affordable housing challenge?

@ricoque-opcd.bsky.social Q1: In Mar 2024 you said "one of the goals... is to provide density... and to do that surgically". youtu.be/f1G3Yr5A0FM?...

Your plan has crammed renters & dense housing solely onto polluted streets. Is this the outcome you intended when you said "surgically"? If so, why?

Oh fun! Rico Quirindongo, the director of @seattleopcd.bsky.social followed me!

Director @ricoque-opcd.bsky.social: I don't know if you'll reply, but I will ask you ONE QUESTION A DAY until YOUR planning dept stops putting affordable & social housing ONLY on hazardous, polluted, and noisy roads.

truly inconceivable that we are supposed to host the world cup and olympics in the next two years

Seattle Budget Tweaks Would Add Transit Security Czar, Rescue Waterfront Streetcars » The Urbanist # Focused on transit and street upgrades, budget amendments this week will be the subject of behind-the-scenes wrangling as Budget Committee Chair Dan Strauss assembles an initial balancing package fo...

Really excited for the pilot shuttle direct to the beach this summer www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/31/s...

Sand Point: 🚏, 61ft; 🚗🅿️, 43ft; 🛝 42ft
Discovery: 🚏, 180ft; 🚗🅿️, 219ft; 🛝 215ft

In every case, the car park is at roughly the same elevation as the nearest playfield while the bus is many tens of feet of elevation change different.

That's not "access" that's "technically available." 2/

I am allegedly able-bodied and I have done this... once. Here are some elevation comparisons from parking lot and bus stop to playfield:

Seward: 🚏, 66 feet; 🚗🅿️, 28 ft; 🛝 33 ft
Carkeek: 🚏, 250ft; 🚗🅿️, 41ft; 🛝 60ft
Golden Gardens: 🚏, 268ft; 🚗🅿️, 18ft; 🛝 12ft

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Here's one for the housing nerds! @houseourneighbors.bsky.social and @mayorofseattle.bsky.social hard work to pass HB 1687 paid off -- the Senate approved the bill and including Social Housing Developers in the Housing Cooperation law is off to the Governor's desk!!! #waleg

We're trying to be one of the great world cities here. No more country-club enclaves.

I just don't understand why there's single-family zoning in Seattle at all.

So is someone suing Kansas or what

Notably, Americans tend to *overperform* at curling when putting on the national team uniform.

People that don't golf dramatically overestimate the cost of being a golfer who plays public courses. It's among the most affordable sports and also one of the most accessible to different abilities and levels of athleticism.

Attack private courses all you want, but public golf is for the people!

i think everyone is allowed to have slightly crank urbanism opinions and mine is that there should be some sort of subsidy or tax break for operating a nice looking storefront. like, if you're a florist or something. i don't buy flowers much but i love to look at a florist shop on my street.

I thought they were going to close a part of Ballard Ave, too. Is that not happening? Or is it not an "official" Fan Zone?

17 years of expanded free lunch for schools

The reason I’ll be proposing an amendment to remove the $550M corporate giveaway in the income tax bill is simple:

To avoid these cuts to K12 and other crucial services.

Washington’s working families can’t afford to hand half a billion dollars to businesses that already got a tax break via HR 1.

I wasn’t expecting her to seriously challenge the police and she was clearly noncommittal on sweeps. But to lean so hard into VALIDATING right-wing narratives on crime and surveillance while AMR and Lin are bravely standing up for what’s right is just awful

I’m actually impressed with how disappointed I’ve been with Mayor Wilson’s first few months, as I really wasn’t expecting much besides “not fucking up all the exact same things Harrell was”

Toronto shopping street

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

This is an extremely high-quality paper which again proves that building more housing—yes, even expensive market-rate housing!—improves housing choice for *all* working families.