I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

I used to get the "how will you be safe without a husband" a lot from my parents until I pointed out that by not being in a relationship with a cishet man, I cut my chances of being murdered about in half.

A lot of y'all owe this man your whole sense of humour; go drop a dollar: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...

On Bluesky? All of us

It's super that every country in the world now has their own specific Trump-related reason to hate the USA.

If you scroll down this article appears to actually be an ad for a gold investments company and something called Masterworks (art investments).

it is genuinely insane that a couple weeks ago in his trans piece toby wrote "they may come for the sikhs next," people told him he was being hysterial, and then immediately after they started coming for the sikhs

NYT cooking recession indicator continues to deliver "I developed these spinach meatballs as a way to feed six people with just a pound of meat"

if you live in new york, please go right ahead and remind the state attorney general to fucking protect at-risk children’s medical privacy.

you can’t spell “pride month” without “demon”

The Portland Loo is a source of local pride. The entire city should be full of them by now. Instead.. we're deleting them!

A year ago: We're building data centers everywhere to run you out of your job and double your power bill. It's so you can look at fake videos of talking dogs on your phone Now: Why are people so hostile about the data centers

Guy Standing shares a powerful story from Namibia that illustrates how basic income can transform people's lives by increasing freedom, autonomy, and dignity. Listen to the full episode here: www.equals.ink/p/the-privat...

The way we got rid of screwworm is really interesting! Lady screwworms only mate once. They're VERY focused on their career (laying thousands of eggs) & don't have time for romance. So USDA raises millions of male screwworms, sterilizes them with low radiation doses, & releases them into the wild.

Are you new to Portland: Neighbors Welcome? Have you been a member for a while and are looking to get more involved? We would love to see you at our New Member Orientation on June 13th at 3:30PM at the P:NW office space! The orientation is right after our ice cream crawl (you should come too <3)

As I keep trying to tell people — if you have an email list, no one can ever buy it. If you have "a Substack" (sic), they already own it, so they don't even have to.

i mean the answer seems pretty straightforward…they were drinking doodoo dairy

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Breaking report. www.reddit.com/r/ripcity/co...

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

With every respect to Jello Biafra, it's "Give Me Convenience AND Give Me Death".

"The mortar cannot worry what the windows are doing - we all need to stay put to keep it standing". And this is why I follow Dr Guest.

#UBI: The only "trickle down" socio-economic theory that has been repeatedly proven to work. open.substack.com/pub/scottsan...

Thought this was @spindlypete.bsky.social for a hot second.

I'll do this and a few days later they'll switch it back

<grabs microphone> the bedbugs are a metaphor! The bedbugs are <security tackles me, drags me offstage>

Tell me how you know council is about to hear the social housing study report without telling me

For the love of god, make something people can fucking live in

Good luck to the people who brought you the original world’s most irritating assistant.

Yeah, I’m a single-issue voter. Here’s my single issue: I won’t vote for any politician who believes I’m not a woman. Oh, does that seem simplistic to you, even childish and petty? Here, let me explain.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

In case you missed it: there's going to be a free shuttle to Forest Park this summer! FPC will be hosting free events this summer like forest yoga, painting, bilingual hikes, and more. Want to join us? Take the shuttle and we will see you on the trails! forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...

unencrypt the scanner you shitheads. nobody is hunting you. the new citizens oversight board should compel them to unencrypt their scanner in the interest of public safety since they've proven they can't do crisis comms without it

The money was always there for the good things.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Read this new report from Columbia Riverkeeper about how gas companies in the Pacific Northwest plan to develop new methane gas-fired power generation -- and the pipelines to fuel them -- to meet data centers' skyrocketing energy demand. We need to stop data centers & the fossil fuel industry.

So much of the pandemic was us finding out life actually could be easier and better and more accessible, and then watching them peel every scrap of that back out of our hands & lives, often for incoherent reasons. (return to office!)

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."

Conservative thinking about art is "why are we not making the best most beloved art?" yet their thinking about craft is "this tool's main value is it will put every artist out of a job" and about artistic study is "lol you loser you'll starve with that degree" gee why have they produced no artists.

How many more studies does your city need proving that people on bikes and on foot spend more on shopping streets than people in cars? Bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth

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Yes please get rid of the search function and let the clownshoes over here answer my important questions

This summer, let PBOT + Plaid Pantry help you practice safe...riding. Starting Monday, June 1, PBOT and Plaid Pantry will give out 5,000 helmets across 53 Plaid Pantry locations in Portland for two weeks (or until supplies run out) courtesy of Lime. www.portland.gov/transportati...

Its not funny guys, this is what it looks like when a Billionaire is really stressed.

That’s a tactical baby bjorn.

Gee I wonder why women and girls are less inclined to use tools that were popularized via their ability to create fake nude photos of women and girls

If cry ass corporate people want economic boom in Portland, lower the rents. Lower it for housing. Lower it for commercial. Watch economy bloom.

COGE and Project 2029 are both stupid names for the same reason—we need new ideas to build a new world, and slightly altering the names of fascist programs does not give the impression you’re changing much.