Jeff
@jefft.bsky.social
Seattle-based. Interested in housing. Really more of a reply guy than a poster, but the good kind of reply guy.
Fascinating map of this razor-thin mayoral election in Seattle.
Per-precinct final data are now available for King County, Washington's general election. In the race for Seattle mayor, Katie Wilson defeated incumbent Bruce Harrell by just under 2,000 votes.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Fascinating map of this razor-thin mayoral election in Seattle.
It's kind of wild that General Douglas MacArthur's dad fought in the Civil War 85+ years before the Korean War.
His dad was 18 at the battle of missionary ridge in 1863.
It'd be like if the invasion of Iraq was led by the son of a distinguished WWI vet.
His dad was 18 at the battle of missionary ridge in 1863.
It'd be like if the invasion of Iraq was led by the son of a distinguished WWI vet.
The battle being a “miracle” might have been an exaggeration, but there was no shortage of courage. 7 soldiers won Medals of Honor that day, including Arthur MacArthur, the father of future WWII general Douglas MacArthur. It was and still is the most won in a single day in American history (20
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It's kind of wild that General Douglas MacArthur's dad fought in the Civil War 85+ years before the Korean War.
His dad was 18 at the battle of missionary ridge in 1863.
It'd be like if the invasion of Iraq was led by the son of a distinguished WWI vet.
His dad was 18 at the battle of missionary ridge in 1863.
It'd be like if the invasion of Iraq was led by the son of a distinguished WWI vet.
Counterpoint: These look nice as hell. I'd take one of these in a heartbeat over a Seattle townhouse w/50% more square footage.
Windows on all sides. Patio space. A little outdoor space that get sunlight. Not having to go up/downstairs to get from front door to kitchen and living room.
Windows on all sides. Patio space. A little outdoor space that get sunlight. Not having to go up/downstairs to get from front door to kitchen and living room.
Placing 5 to 6 800 square foot “cottages” on 10,000 square foot lots is not a housing solution any city should take seriously. The planners are wrong to push these on single family areas in major cities
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Counterpoint: These look nice as hell. I'd take one of these in a heartbeat over a Seattle townhouse w/50% more square footage.
Windows on all sides. Patio space. A little outdoor space that get sunlight. Not having to go up/downstairs to get from front door to kitchen and living room.
Windows on all sides. Patio space. A little outdoor space that get sunlight. Not having to go up/downstairs to get from front door to kitchen and living room.
This is the main lesson of MTG's retirement. Trump sicced his army of raving maga goons on her and she understandably buckled.
People are reading a lot into this, but I think all the death threats and harassment from the chuds probably just wasn't worth it to her anymore. The terrorists loyal to Trump are real.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is the main lesson of MTG's retirement. Trump sicced his army of raving maga goons on her and she understandably buckled.
I remember reading the Bell Curve in high school and it seemed self evident that to whatever extent its theories held true (IQ is largely heritable and causes/predicts income variation in the modern world), that massively strengthens the case for a strongly redistributive welfare state.
like "how do we give Moron Islanders safe and meaningful lives within the limits of our abilities" is a definite concern but in the event that any of them turn out to be professors, the first thing i'm reevaluating is the Moron Island survey team's competence, not the standards for Ph.Ds
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I remember reading the Bell Curve in high school and it seemed self evident that to whatever extent its theories held true (IQ is largely heritable and causes/predicts income variation in the modern world), that massively strengthens the case for a strongly redistributive welfare state.
I have never believed or understood this, and now that my Bloomberg subscription has expired, I never will.
If you're making the Thanksgiving turkey this year, DO NOT WASH THE RAW BIRD before cooking. @jasongale.bsky.social explains why in Prognosis >
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why You Should Never Wash Your Turkey Before Cooking
The risk of cross contamination is high.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I have never believed or understood this, and now that my Bloomberg subscription has expired, I never will.
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
Yeah this is sickening. Above and beyond exploiting his role as faculty mentor, he clearly approaches women with an abusive, controlling attitude.
"To get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy" omg I am going to vomit. "I want women to fawn over me naturally without having to be openly abusive because that's distasteful but I'm not actually attractive/interesting/a good person/at all age appropriate."
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yeah this is sickening. Above and beyond exploiting his role as faculty mentor, he clearly approaches women with an abusive, controlling attitude.
The most on-brand and accessible "aggressive" or quick fix Mayor Wilson could do, is to unblock key bus route bottlenecks. Much of our bus lane network is effectively wasted because careless/selfish car drivers routinely queue up blocking bus lane turns every rush hour.
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Like here at Valley/Westlake
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The most on-brand and accessible "aggressive" or quick fix Mayor Wilson could do, is to unblock key bus route bottlenecks. Much of our bus lane network is effectively wasted because careless/selfish car drivers routinely queue up blocking bus lane turns every rush hour.
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Whoa just realized this means we will have a pro-transit mayor for the World Cup, instead of (I'm sure) self-defeating plans to unlock road capacity for SOVs and Ubers and taxis.
Mayoral candidate @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social made a second appearance on @lobbingscorchers.com and talked about the World Cup and her vision for Seattle (For the record: Mayor Harrell has declined an invite).
www.sounderatheart.com/2025/10/lobb...
www.sounderatheart.com/2025/10/lobb...
Lobbing Scorchers: Meet The Seattle Mayoral Candidate Everyone's Talking About!
https://www.sounderatheart.com/content/media/2024/10/
www.sounderatheart.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Whoa just realized this means we will have a pro-transit mayor for the World Cup, instead of (I'm sure) self-defeating plans to unlock road capacity for SOVs and Ubers and taxis.
Our next mayor. Wow.
Waiting for the L8 at 5th and Denny… Can’t wait to break out the red paint!
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Our next mayor. Wow.
This is the biggest counter to Stancilism: the cost of becoming a homeowner literally doubled from 2020 to 2022.
If your picture of stable financial success in adulthood includes homeownership, it makes sense to feel incredibly discouraged and frustrated about your prospects.
If your picture of stable financial success in adulthood includes homeownership, it makes sense to feel incredibly discouraged and frustrated about your prospects.
Americans are still experiencing sticker-shock when it comes to housing, with mortgage payments about double pre-covid levels.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is the biggest counter to Stancilism: the cost of becoming a homeowner literally doubled from 2020 to 2022.
If your picture of stable financial success in adulthood includes homeownership, it makes sense to feel incredibly discouraged and frustrated about your prospects.
If your picture of stable financial success in adulthood includes homeownership, it makes sense to feel incredibly discouraged and frustrated about your prospects.
This is the most blackpilling theory of the current trajectory. Rightwing "populist" morons inflict widespread economic pain -> voters become more zero-sum and reactionary -> elect more right-wing populist morons -> more economic pain.
Indeed! Let me add that Brexit has led to levelling up by levelling down and this has -- if anything -- benefitted right-wing populists.
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is the most blackpilling theory of the current trajectory. Rightwing "populist" morons inflict widespread economic pain -> voters become more zero-sum and reactionary -> elect more right-wing populist morons -> more economic pain.
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Monday drop.
WILSON LEADS FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL ELECTION!
It's neck and neck heading into the final count! She leads by 91 votes!
Only about 10,000 ballots remain, per reporting from @kromandavid.bsky.social. Cured ballots from the weekend will be counted tomorrow.
WILSON LEADS FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL ELECTION!
It's neck and neck heading into the final count! She leads by 91 votes!
Only about 10,000 ballots remain, per reporting from @kromandavid.bsky.social. Cured ballots from the weekend will be counted tomorrow.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Monday drop.
WILSON LEADS FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL ELECTION!
It's neck and neck heading into the final count! She leads by 91 votes!
Only about 10,000 ballots remain, per reporting from @kromandavid.bsky.social. Cured ballots from the weekend will be counted tomorrow.
WILSON LEADS FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL ELECTION!
It's neck and neck heading into the final count! She leads by 91 votes!
Only about 10,000 ballots remain, per reporting from @kromandavid.bsky.social. Cured ballots from the weekend will be counted tomorrow.
This is sort of interesting. Who's the last Dem VP nominee who did NOT end up letting us down big time?
Al Gore fumbled the bag in 2000, probably by alienating voters. John Edwards: creep. Joe Biden? This whole mess, especially picking Harris as VP. Walz? Meh. Kaine and Lieberman: see below.
Al Gore fumbled the bag in 2000, probably by alienating voters. John Edwards: creep. Joe Biden? This whole mess, especially picking Harris as VP. Walz? Meh. Kaine and Lieberman: see below.
Whether it's Joe Lieberman going MAGA or Tim Kaine caving in on ACA, both vice-presidential nominees turned out to be assholes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is sort of interesting. Who's the last Dem VP nominee who did NOT end up letting us down big time?
Al Gore fumbled the bag in 2000, probably by alienating voters. John Edwards: creep. Joe Biden? This whole mess, especially picking Harris as VP. Walz? Meh. Kaine and Lieberman: see below.
Al Gore fumbled the bag in 2000, probably by alienating voters. John Edwards: creep. Joe Biden? This whole mess, especially picking Harris as VP. Walz? Meh. Kaine and Lieberman: see below.
More evidence for my thesis on millennial superiority at media literacy: boomers and Gen X got pwned by cable news, especially Fox news, in the 2000s. Millennials watched it happen and learned to be skeptical media consumers.
Zoomers are now pickling their brains on short form video slop.
Zoomers are now pickling their brains on short form video slop.
A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
More evidence for my thesis on millennial superiority at media literacy: boomers and Gen X got pwned by cable news, especially Fox news, in the 2000s. Millennials watched it happen and learned to be skeptical media consumers.
Zoomers are now pickling their brains on short form video slop.
Zoomers are now pickling their brains on short form video slop.
Why is this so true??? JFC
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Why is this so true??? JFC
Wow Trump coming out in favor of "just give people money".
Big, if true.
Big, if true.
Marxist/Leninist Mamdani: buses should be cheaper
Capitalist icon Trump: YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS
Capitalist icon Trump: YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Wow Trump coming out in favor of "just give people money".
Big, if true.
Big, if true.
If the remaining ballots break just like today's batch, then that would put Wilson over the top... By less than 1,000 votes, or less than half a percent.
Wilson-mentum is real.
The gap in the Seattle Mayor's race has narrowed to just 4,300 votes, or 1.88%.
The gap in the Seattle Mayor's race has narrowed to just 4,300 votes, or 1.88%.
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If the remaining ballots break just like today's batch, then that would put Wilson over the top... By less than 1,000 votes, or less than half a percent.
The new Seattle City Council is shaping up to be pretty evenly balanced between @theurbanist.org -endorsed YIMBYs and NIMBYs.
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The new Seattle City Council is shaping up to be pretty evenly balanced between @theurbanist.org -endorsed YIMBYs and NIMBYs.
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
Red= solid NIMBY (D1, D4, D7)
Yellow= NIMBY...ish (D3, D5)
Green= solid YIMBY (D6, AL)
Blue= flipped YIMBY (D2, AL)
Is this roughly accurate? An unstable 5-4 NIMBY edge?
This is like the conclusion to an Encyclopedia Brown mystery, where he's caught Bugs Meany in a contradiction, unravelling his whole alibi.
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is like the conclusion to an Encyclopedia Brown mystery, where he's caught Bugs Meany in a contradiction, unravelling his whole alibi.
Incredible new frontiers in free speech on the other site.
Kat from the Free Press calls a post on the Argument "repulsive."
Jerusalem responds.
Kat: "Whoa whoa whoa it's unfortunate that you would police public response in this way."
Hasn't @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social written about this?
Kat from the Free Press calls a post on the Argument "repulsive."
Jerusalem responds.
Kat: "Whoa whoa whoa it's unfortunate that you would police public response in this way."
Hasn't @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social written about this?
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Incredible new frontiers in free speech on the other site.
Kat from the Free Press calls a post on the Argument "repulsive."
Jerusalem responds.
Kat: "Whoa whoa whoa it's unfortunate that you would police public response in this way."
Hasn't @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social written about this?
Kat from the Free Press calls a post on the Argument "repulsive."
Jerusalem responds.
Kat: "Whoa whoa whoa it's unfortunate that you would police public response in this way."
Hasn't @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social written about this?
This was an entirely unexpected, encouraging, and fascinating read.
I don't know, I don't have a hot take except, wow. Good.
I don't know, I don't have a hot take except, wow. Good.
1/ We need to have a chat about Seattle Police and how they're handling the No Kings protests. They've been really… good. It's a marked departure in both tone and tactics from SPD's approach to protests in the past, and I think it could be a model for police forces nationwide.
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Nearly 90,000 join Seattle’s ‘No Kings’ march
Rep. Pramila Jayapal called the moment a test of whether America can keep its republic.
www.king5.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This was an entirely unexpected, encouraging, and fascinating read.
I don't know, I don't have a hot take except, wow. Good.
I don't know, I don't have a hot take except, wow. Good.
Every Mariners batter: "well he's 2 for 20 in the postseason but one of those was the crucial go-ahead run in that 2-1 win last week."
Every Blue Jay: "he's 9 for 20 this series with OPS of 1.400, and has homered off this Seattle pitcher 5 times this year."
How is this series even tied?? 😭
Every Blue Jay: "he's 9 for 20 this series with OPS of 1.400, and has homered off this Seattle pitcher 5 times this year."
How is this series even tied?? 😭
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Every Mariners batter: "well he's 2 for 20 in the postseason but one of those was the crucial go-ahead run in that 2-1 win last week."
Every Blue Jay: "he's 9 for 20 this series with OPS of 1.400, and has homered off this Seattle pitcher 5 times this year."
How is this series even tied?? 😭
Every Blue Jay: "he's 9 for 20 this series with OPS of 1.400, and has homered off this Seattle pitcher 5 times this year."
How is this series even tied?? 😭
I can't believe number 61 was in fact "dumped here" to this pretty lonely mariners fan in Comerica Park.
And then he whipped out the 62 version 😭
And then he whipped out the 62 version 😭
Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥
Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey
Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey
October 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I can't believe number 61 was in fact "dumped here" to this pretty lonely mariners fan in Comerica Park.
And then he whipped out the 62 version 😭
And then he whipped out the 62 version 😭