A widely used internet infrastructure company said that it has largely resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday. https://to.pbs.org/3K10ZQC

the real thing that people are addicted to is the idea that there are no legitimately difficult choices. nothing has a downside. you don't have to pay for anything. the only reason that anything bad happens is that someone intended it.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Again, if they can learn from Mamdani, it's stay on message. If Rufo says Democrats want to teach homosexuality manuals, the response is not 500 words about sensitivity and so forth. It's, "I won't dignify that. I'm busy fighting for equal rights, equal protection, and money in your pocket."

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

BREAKING: MLS owners officially voted to flip to a "summer-spring" format beginning in mid-July and running through the end of May. Will start in 2027. Also voted on the regular season format. Details and quotes here from Palm Beach. www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

As age verification laws proliferate around the world, people have predictably turned to VPNs to protect their privacy. Instead of taking this as a sign that surveillance isn't popular, lawmakers have decided they might as well ban VPNs altogether. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Tonya Harding and the legend of the exploding whale were both born on this day in Oregon

MLS owners are expected to vote Thursday on changing to a fall-spring calendar that syncs up with many top European leagues, according to multiple sources briefed on the agenda. More details from @tombogert.bsky.social and @paultenorio.bsky.social ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

If you’re in the east Gorge, you might be able to see the aurora right now.

After record breaking wildfires, they deported a legal resident firefighter

Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive. Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.

"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Tomorrow, Nov. 12, is the 55th anniversary of Exploding Whale Day. I got to talk about this to my marine bio class today, as I do every year to bring some levity and about the practical nature of how these things happen. 🧪🌎🦑🐋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...

So apparently the sky is falling because Councilor Morillo wants to move $4.3 million from the camp sweeps budget to… wait for it… housing, food, and community support. Here’s the deal: Portland spends about $17 million a year on the “Impact Reduction Program.”

🚨BREAKING: In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Most people never have a house fire. So why are we wasting money on a fire department?

CONCACAF heritage alert in the CPL final.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

"vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends online following nazis and yet press seems completely disinterested in it if kamala harris chats with black hebrew israelites and farrakhan fanboys, the press would have ignored it or treated it like a sideshow"? bsky.app/profile/jame...

#SUNvARS Sunderland getting tired mentally and physically, and the ref and their crowd can only help so much.

Getting up to some fun this evening

Spend it if you got it.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

⚡Happy Godzilla Day⚡In 1954, an enormous beast clawed its way out of the sea, destroying everything in its path—and changing movies forever. On the Criterion Channel, celebrate with all-day marathon of Godzilla films through the decades! www.criterionchannel.com/godzilla-the...

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Cesar Chavez School and George Middle School have implemented the PPS's “secure the perimeter” protocol amid reports of ICE activity in the neighborhood.

I keep writing about the trump white house versus portland because of this. trumpism has never lived in the real world and in the second presidency this shadow unreality is sustained by Posting and the churn of content creation

we did it, Zo

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month. The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

PTFC says fuck offfff #rctid

Ha fuck you MLS #rctid

Amazing that MLS can couple two wet-their-diapers ref performances like this together.

My gods the Timbers score #rctid

My preview of tomorrow's match. #RCTID

#TOTvCHE finally the game of bad tackles, sloppy play and agro everyone wants

Full-time Burnley 0-2 Arsenal A comfortable win for Arsenal, in the end. Gyokeres and Rice with the goals in the first half, which killed the game, in truth. Burnley did not have a shot on target. Arsenal are, for now, seven points clear at the top of the Premier League.

heyo

You have to be very good to make things look that easy. A very impressive half from Arsenal - Rice, Gyokeres and Trossard among the standout performers. More of the same after the break, please.

new patreon episode on THE THING!

Here’s the #AFC team at Turf Moor. Arsenal: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Eze, Zubimendi, Rice; Saka, Gyokeres, Trossard

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.