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Josh Feit

@joshfeit.bsky.social

Author of 2 indie-press poetry books (Shops Close Too Early & The Night of Electric Bikes) https://www.joshfeitpoetry.com/ . City planning columnist, co-founder, PubliCola https://publicola.com

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I’m All Lost In, #95: America stays home; Alex Dimitrov goes out; Seattle’s primary election results. β€” Josh Feit's Poetry Med Mix kept the kitchen open late to meet the line-out-the-door demand.

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

09.08.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | America is becoming a nation of homebodies And there are costs to our isolation.

Interesting quirk in this this essay about people staying at home more. Vibrant, walkable neighborhoods (where, presumably, people can & do go out more) are prohibitively expensive to most Americans, but simultaneously it's the wealthiest who stay in more. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

08.08.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pioneer Square First Thursday was 100% lit last night. I have never seen it so crowded. Yay Seattle.

08.08.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Gone" is the operative word here.

06.08.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

La-di-da-di, we like to party
We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody

06.08.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Internal Socialist Alternative documents show it runs Sawant's office and controls her vote Seattle City Council Insight - Seattle City Council news and analysis

Harrell my want to tie Wilson to Sawant (conservatives' only tiresome play these days), but back in 2019, Sawant's camp itself ID'd Wilson as a dreaded "liberal" who was undermining Sawant's Socialist agenda. sccinsight.com/2019/01/07/s.... @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

06.08.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Katie Wilson! Dionne Foster! Great news her in Seattle.

06.08.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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From the Seattle is Living backlash: Foster! Wilson! Balducci! Alexis Mercedes Rinck!

04.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m All Lost In, #94: Tap-and-go; ta-da!; portable magnetic wireless power bank. β€” Josh Feit's Poetry This smart aleck slide deck.

This demonstrates the kind of nimble and simple construction-free changes you can make to fixed-right-of-way subway infrastructure (as opposed to highway infrastructure for cars) that improve commutes for more people proportionally speaking.

03.08.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m All Lost In, #94: Tap-and-go; ta-da!; portable magnetic wireless power bank. β€” Josh Feit's Poetry This smart aleck slide deck.

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

03.08.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a drag that despite Morrissey's right-wing credentials these days, he and the Smiths still get lots and lots of play in shops and bars and coffee houses. I hear his voice at least once a day. It's a bummer.

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Like the proverbial "I thought this was a headline in the Onion," I thought this one was a headline from @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. AYFKM?!?

02.08.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mark my words. Tennis is on the cusp becoming crazy popular. (Have you noticed all the women wearing tennis skirts as daily fits this summer.) And cities that rushed to meet the pickle ball trend are about to face a tennis court shortage.

01.08.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m All Lost In, #93: IAD at 6 am; heroic water misters; Reagan fashion revival. β€” Josh Feit's Poetry The magnitude of airplane wheels retracting.

IBM-immaculate, mid-’60s-mod and 22nd century cybernetic aesthetics all at once.

28.07.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m All Lost In, #93: IAD at 6 am; heroic water misters; Reagan fashion revival. β€” Josh Feit's Poetry The magnitude of airplane wheels retracting.

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

28.07.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when the only conversation in Seattle for three years running was "The Tunnel"?

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Robert Christgau: Album: Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath

Hilarious. From Robert Christgau's C- pan of Sabbath's first LP back in 1970. "I've been worried something like this was going to happen since the first time I saw a numerology column in an underground newspaper." www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.ph...

22.07.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Black Sabbath Boots Listen to Black Sabbath Boots by Josh Feit #np on #SoundCloud

RIP.

22.07.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m All Lost In, #92: New Woody Guthrie songs; buildings > trees!; and beta blockers. β€” Josh Feit's Poetry File it under the most contrarian essay ever written.

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

22.07.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Arc De Soleil or Khruangbin?" is the new "Pike or Pine?"

15.07.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More Woody Guthrie Songs? Yes, From a Trove of Homemade Recordings.

Wait for it: One standout is β€œBackdoor Bum & the Big Landlord,” about two characters trekking toward heaven. The landlord expect[s] to buy his way in.That doesn’t happen. Guthrie’s landlord was Fred Trump, Donald's father. Guthrie wrote a song, β€œOld Man Trump,” denouncing him for segregation.

14.07.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One poem, β€œLife” (β€œWhat you don’t know is that my name has been hidden by/ an employee ID/my hands become part of the assembly line, my body/signed over/to a contract, my black hair is turning white, …”) melded with my epiphany for a self-imposed 3-day wknd. www.joshfeitpoetry.com/blog/im-all-...

13.07.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m All Lost In, #91: Zheng Xiaoqiong, β€œMigrant Worker Poet;” April Wheeler, nebulous force; Aryna Sabalenka,β€œShe now finds herself in a curious position.” β€” Josh Feit's Poetry I want more fanciful lines

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

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Opinion | This β€˜Trial of the Century’ Is 100. Its Lessons Could Save the Democrats.

This piece spins Bryan's populism as a potential antidote for today's Ds. The flip is: Bryan, as evidenced by the Scopes trial, was also reactionary and parochial. Like today, there is a lot of that provincial machismo on the Bernie bro left. Be careful out there. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

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Anisimova's moment: Beats Sabalenka to make first Slam final at Wimbledon Six years after making her first major semifinal as a 17-year-old, Amanda Anisimova defeated World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in three sets to reach her first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon.

Ah rats. My parasocial bestie is out at Wimbledon. Nice run, Saby. www.wtatennis.com/news/4307894...

10.07.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only thing that happened during Jenny Durkan's administration is that she inaugurated Carmen Best as police chief seven times.

09.07.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A speakeasy on Olive Way; repurposing obstruction into construction; a secret ice cream shop. β€” Josh Feit's Poetry They had me at warm hand towels.

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about this week.

06.07.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can someone in the legacy media explain what the purpose of "viewed as" is in this headline. The character Shylock was anti-Semitic and the term has always been anti-Semitic.

Is WaPo suggesting there is a different way to "view" it? Are they blind to anti-Semitism? Or sucking up to Trump?

04.07.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5367    πŸ” 1406    πŸ’¬ 409    πŸ“Œ 97

As they're recounting Emma Raducanu's story in front of gazillions of Wimbledon TV viewers, why do they leave out the that startling fact that she was the victim of a dangerous stalker? @wimbledonltc.bsky.social

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Shylock? Seriously?

04.07.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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