Jason Weill

@weill.org

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Seattle resident, New York born; not all my aggression is passive. Career break taker, "Personal Finance for People in Tech" author, election visualizer, housing and transit advocate, cat preferrer https://weill.org

Excerpt from Danny Westneat's Seattle Times column, with the first sentence of the fourth paragraph highlighted. The text: The average home in Clyde Hill, population 3,100, is worth $4.3 million. The typical lot is at least 20,000 square feet. It’s not exactly a hardscrabble kind of place. Yet this Gold Coast town in the richest part of the Eastside is … going bankrupt? “I call it ‘school bus going over a cliff,’ ” Wayne Burns, a business executive who served on a fiscal committee for Clyde Hill, told the City Council last week. “The city is going to run out of cash sometime between 2029 and 2030. The city would go bankrupt.” I learned of Clyde Hill’s financial distress in The Urbanist, which has been covering growth and budget issues on the Eastside. It didn’t surprise me, as one by one, every city and county in the state reaches this point eventually. Even the wealthiest ones are struggling to make the math work.
The Tully’s Coffee sign in Pioneer Square, Seattle, that outlasted its cafe by at least a decade, is finally gone. Long live the Kingdome Deli, which has outlived its namesake stadium by a quarter century.
A large fire in Ballard, viewed from a residential area to the northwest
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Mayor Katie Wilson
The stage for the Denny Way bus lanes announcement, with many media and some fans present
The author, with James May, at a table with many bottles of gin on it
The author, in a purple shirt reading “BUILD MORE SIDEWALKS & BIKE LANES”, reading a public comment in the Seattle City Council chamber, as televised by Seattle Channel
A Heltec V3 wireless radio, in an enclosure, on a desk
Sony Digital Mavica digital camera, photographed in much higher resolution than the camera itself is capable of
A Sony Digital Mavica camera in a Hawaiian thrift shop
Partial screenshot of two vague Chess app notifications on iOS 26, one in English and one in Russian.
Map showing the one precinct in the Stevens Pass Sewer District Commissioner Position No. 1 race, with Casey Cass receiving 1 of 1 vote, winning election
A Bluesky notification showing that 7 accounts, most of which show young, attractive women as their profile pictures, are newly following me
Excerpt of an Amtrak customer survey, asking the impact of “interaction with individuals who may be experiencing homelessness” on my perceived safety and security on a recent trip
Partial screenshot of an email from hotels.com suggesting an economy car or an SUV for a trip to central Tokyo
Election night map for King County Proposition 1, the parks levy