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Jess Zimbabwe

@jzimbabwe.bsky.social

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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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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry, friend.

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 5h

Also, remind me to never invite David Kroman over to my house. I’d hate for him to expose the stacks of books and we’ve got a little water damage on a part of the ceiling in our pantry that we haven’t resolved yet.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 5h

Even for the corporatist @seattletimes.com, this paragraph from their profile of Katie Wilson is appallingly classist.

I already supported @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor *and* I’m more impressed by her lived small apartment experience, which will help our city solve its housing challenge.

A burden bigger than her apartment

Wilson’s apartment can’t be more than 600 square feet. It’s packed with books and wallpaper-plastered along the edges where the walls meet the ceiling, giving it the denlike feel of a speakeasy. At night, she and her husband put their 2-year-old daughter to sleep in a crib in their bedroom, before wheeling her into the living room when it’s their turn to sleep.

It’s just the sort of home one might imagine for a scrappy organizer, but far from Harrell’s 7,000-square-foot Seward Park home, more typical of a big-city mayor. The incongruity between its diminutive size and the enormous scope of the job Wilson wants is dizzying.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus take the wheel.

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not even our minimum wage.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 1d

$40k, for real? I know our salary range is out of whack and our housing costs are embarrassing, but the low end of this advertised job equates to $106k annually:

Clip of a job ad for an elevator inspector in seattle.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 3d

About last night:

@ronnychieng.bsky.social and @hasanminhaj.com have a lot of insight about race and immigration in America, disguised as a comedy bit. Was glad to see it live.

Also, I’d never been to the 5th Avenue Theater before, and it’s gorgeous.

People applauding at the end of the show.

Theater lobby with Chinese wooden details

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 3d

The inspirational bit at the end is good, but I’m also glad to know that Jane Goodall had a burn list.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 7d

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻

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Robert Byler @borghese510.bsky.social · 6d

Hearst Meadow squirrel
UC Berkeley
#ucberkeley #squirrel

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 6d

Gah!

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 6d

On the one hand, it’s mortifying that our leader is the laughing stock of the Copenhagen Summit.

On the other hand, how often does the Albanian Prime Minister just get to totally land back-slappers like this with Macron?

Maybe he _does_ deserve Nobel for building global rapport through humor.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 6d

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 6d

I love you, Portland.
Never change.

Azrael Abyss @shadowdancerpath.bsky.social · 7d

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland

The announcement comes in response to Trump's "militarization of our city."

www.oregonlive.com

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, if a fancy car had just waited or pulled out on its own, I would not have noticed (not being a car person). Instead, I was like, “oh, something is happening up there…what is going on?”

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 7d

What business would Zuck have at SMT? Picking up an OTC permit from SDCI?

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 7d

Ugh.
Just requested a refund for tickets for my family to attend a lecture by an Indigenous artist, because the event is now being advertised as 21+ because they’ll serve beer and wine.

I’ll be an old woman and will be questioning my decision to raise my kids in such a family-unfriendly state.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 8d

Who parks at Seattle Municipal Tower, drives a Porsche, and when the parking attendant saw them coming, they ran out and blocked two lanes of traffic to let the person pull out of the garage onto the I-5 ramp?

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 9d

A reminder of who we still are as a country, despite any claims that this kind of racism isn’t woven deeply.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, and like half of them are women of color, so there’s a bunch of white supremacy operating in there too!

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 10d

Spoiler alert: basically every episode of that show is how a different woman is painted in our collective memory as a slut, cheat, idiot, maniac, or fraud in order to protect the elements of the capitalist-patriarchy that she threatened.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 10d

Have you ever listened to the episode of “You’re Wrong About” about Martha Stewart? Highly
recommend.

open.spotify.com/episode/33Ng...

Martha Stewart with Sarah Archer

open.spotify.com

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 10d

Wordlebot always be like “BRICK was a good guess, but it would have been more efficient if you had guessed THE ANSWER TO THE PUZZLE, YOU MORON.”

Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 12d

Well, at least that system is designed for each station to have unique architecture, color, and lighting, so that you can easily locate yourself by looking at the station…right?

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 13d

Escalators know what’s up, man.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 14d

Straight from 1973 to your ears today:

open.spotify.com/album/5yXNYo...

Impeach the President

open.spotify.com

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