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Amazing. Thank you for the enlightenment.

Donna Summer – MacArthur Park Suite [ACT I - MacArthur Park] / [Verse 1] / Spring was never waiting for us, dear / It ran one step ahead / As we followed in the dance / Between the parted pages, we were pressed / In

I’ve had “MacArthur Park Suite” in my monthly playlist since the Olympics, since I’m just trying to mainline Alyssa Liu’s long program to get through life. Today was the first day I really locked into the lyrics, and that song is…not actually about cake.

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Wow.

As you can see from the comments on that West Seattle Blog piece, some of my neighbors in West Seattle are already pretty fired up about their concerns over this project.

FOLLOWUP: Security and other details for West Seattle's planned RV / tiny home site Glassyard Commons ('Site plan' from city permit filings for Glassyard Commons) With less than a week to go until the community meeting about the plan for a 72-RV lot and 20 tiny houses in southeast West Seattle, to be...

We help our partners at LIHI (Low Income Housing Institute) with site planning and permitting for tiny home villages. The next one will house 72 RVs & 20 homes. There is a community meeting on Thursday 3/5 at 5:30pm if you'd like to learn more or lend support.
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screenshot of a calendar invite titled "The world's most annoying project."

My co-workers are the best.
(I just got this meeting invite for 10 minutes from now.)

Text reads: You will be voting on all 30 delegates to be elected. Our delegate selection plan requires that the difference between the number of Male delegates you vote for and the number of Female delegates you vote for is not more than one. Since your district has exactly one Gender Non-Binary candidate, this means you must select either: • 15 Male candidates, 14 Female candidates, and the Gender Non-Binary candidate, • 14 Male candidates, 15 Female candidates, and the Gender Non-Binary candidate, or • 15 Male candidates and 15 Female candidates.

Just cast my ballot in the election of delegates to the state Democratic convention. I explained this rule to my 13 yo kid and why I had to switch 3 of my votes from women to men to meet it, and she said, “I mean, I guess, bro.”

I am glad to be alive in an era of college marching bands playing Chappell Roan.

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville

Post showing the Torrent had a sold out game.

Post showing attendance of 17,335, setting the record for largest attendance at a wine’s hockey game in a U. S. arena.

I want to ride this timeline until I forget that men even ever played hockey.

I overheard a colleague of the mister on a zoom call he was taking from our dining room table saying “and the City of Kenmore is looking for ways to build more affordable housing” and you can IMAGINE the charades show I put on behind his laptop in my dining room.

(Whispers: it is not the whiskey.)

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Last time I was at that Jiffy Lube, I parked there to meet Plymouth Housing folks about our project down the block.

A group of 5 children of DDOT employees and Ahna Chamberlain on the streetcar platform.

Me and the kids on the train, with a streetcar pennant.

Ten years ago today we rode with a bunch of other DDOT families on the first day of DC Streetcar, which is slated to close next month.

This is really impressive investigative journalism. Thank you for your work here.

This is really impressive investigative journalism. Thank you for your work.

Toyotas were also not unionized then. Again, I’m not ragging random drivers of old Toyotas driving around here, it’s just that a non-UAW car is a funny palette for your collection of pro-union stickers.

That’s a perfectly valid opinion!
It’s just that it’s not a position of solidarity with unions. That’s all I’m saying.

That’s a perfectly valid opinion!
It is not a position of solidarity with unions. That’s my only point here.

The other poster also made the same point, that people can only afford Toyotas, and my point is most of the cheapest cars available are not Toyotas. Look, I clearly struck a chord with a lot of Toyota drivers with this post, but I’m not sure I understand the loyalty to the brand.

2025 UAW-Union Built Vehicle Guide - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America These vehicles are made in the United States or Canada by members of the UAW and Canada’s Unifor union, formerly the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW). Because of the integration of vehicle production in bo...

The UAW has this list of all UAW- and UNIFOR-built vehicles, and it’s updated every year:

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I’m not going around looking at random old Toyotas; I’m sayi
G that maybe this isn’t the platform for your collection of anti-union stickers.

A lot of the cars for sale under $10k are made by Dodge, Ford, and Chrysler, and union labor.

Bullying? I’m rolling my eyes at the irony of a bunch of union bumper stickers on a non-union car. No harm or intimidation involved. I don’t think this is the definition of bullying.

A lot of the cars for sale under $10k are made by Dodge, Ford, and Chrysler, and union labor.

A Toyota with bumper stickers that read “Union strong” and “solidarity forever.”

Le sigh.

As a reminder, Toyota currently has no UAW-unionized manufacturing plants in the U.S. and the company has resisted unionization at its sites in Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Alabama, and West Virginia.

Buy Union-built cars, or spare me your solidarity bumper stickers.