At a party & folks are breaking it down Peanits style

i know most of us all know it implicitly but i do feel like we're not talking explicitly enough about how the atmospheric rivers the pacific northwest is getting right now are a) climate change related (it's a different, warmer type of winter storm!) and b) likely more common in future winters

Living in Portland is a never ending cycle of all your favorite places closing because the rent is too high and then seeing local media blame homeless people

Gay hockey show made me cry 👍

most well thought out republican healthcare plan

Real neat how Rapid Response & other city vendors are allowed to illegally park on the sidewalk in a bus zone (double whammy) even when there’s an empty parking lot next to their worksite!

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

just an fyi for portland ppl, this ursula exhibition is going on until february, it's free, and has a ton of her maps. plan for spending over an hour if you really want to take it all in www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-rea...

“Women can never become men” lmao bozo I am literally pretending to journal in a coffee shop right now

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Power’s out in Creston-Kenilworth as of 1:30ish am

the year is 1990. american children walk out of their schools chanting, "no blood for oil." the year is 2003. american children walk out of their schools chanting, "no blood for oil." the year is 2025

there is literally no high profile murder – not even this one of such a highly personal nature – that transphobic ghouls won't try to pin on trans ppl

Just emailed all my councilors to let them know I’m concerned about Millicent Williams accepting gifts from Saudi Arabia in her capacity as head of PBOT! Seems like something that shouldn’t need to be said but I guess not because she did that.

Maybe I’m radical but I don’t think the head of @pbotinfo.bsky.social should be accepting gifts from petrostates! I also don’t think she should’ve lied about the SW Broadway bike lane in 2023 but I understand that’s a hot take.

This widespread, unexamined assumption that restrictions on dangerous driving–speed cameras, road diets, crackdowns on individual drivers–are a burden for a given neighborhood instead of a demonstrably life-saving amenity is a sign of how car-brained our society is

Attending any events in Saudi Arabia is questionable; the comedians who performed in Riyadh were rightly criticized. But for the director of PBOT to attend an event in the country that smuggled out one of its citizens after his reckless driving killed a local teenager is particularly galling.

They should make a 75 bus that runs on time

Thank goodness PBOT freed these desperately needed parking spots from continuing to be an outdoor dining area! Coffee Beer’s still real sweet though

great time to think about how we can make our city more resilient to extreme weather events by building infill housing, removing asphalt, and daylighting intersections with bioswales ☺️

My waterproof jacket isn’t high-vis and my high-vis jacket isn’t waterproof & it’s too warm to wear both :(

Big fan of when you get to know someone so well they start telling the same stories over again & you develop a sense of what life experiences are important to them

One of my favorite regulars at work is facing charges for spitting on an ice agent so you know he’s drinking for free forever

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

I really don’t like how people are diagnosing these fascists with personality disorders instead of acknowledging that this is the type of personality that psychology never bothered to pathologize because it neatly fits into our society and upholds the status quo

Green-haired child playing “Sea of Love” on a ukulele on the bus, we’re so back

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Doing something I call tantric soup enjoyment today where I wait outside a pho restaurant for 20 minutes in the rain because my buddy’s late for lunch, this will drastically improve my soup experience

Big year for listening to @cheekface.bsky.social! What a blast to see them both in Chicago and Portland.

I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community

A mom in Portland has been separated from her child since June bc ICE kidnapped her. The only thing standing between her & her baby right now is a $7,500 bond. There's 5k to go. PLEASE let's do this. Many hands make light work. This is literally the reason for the gd mfing season gofund.me/3e980d9d3

A longtime Portland teacher is looking for a living kidney donor. Please take a moment to read his story & share! docs.google.com/document/u/0...

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

This is in my neighborhood. There is plenty of parking & very few places for one to enjoy a beverage outside. I’m sick of @pbotinfo.bsky.social destroying the street life of my city so that people can store their cars!

In the time since PBOT said they were looking into restriping Chavez at the Richmond Neighborhood Association meeting at least two people have been killed by cars. How many more of my neighbors have to die for @pbotinfo.bsky.social to do something?

Click through and read the assignment feedback, which was constructive, kind, and frankly very gentle. Suspending the instructor over this is a deranged overreaction in support of a clearly bad faith student, and the university choosing this action is once again another stain on higher education.

Didn’t get a response so I tried the other email on his website! I want Dan Ryan’s history reading list & will be annoying until I get it.

Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.

Just going about my day & remembered there’s people who believe that demanding city council start acting extralegally is the best way to help people, goddammit.

Here is a FAQ sheet that will clarify what Portland City Council does and doesn't have power to do in relation to revoking the Macadam ICE permit. TL;DR: (1) CC cannot unilaterally revoke the ICE permit; (2) CC cannot lean on PP&D to do it; (3) the CC is exercising its authority in other ways.

The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.

current internal mental debate: There's Still A Way We Can Coexist In One Country With Sociopathically Selfish Evangelicals vs No We Can't

It’s really being used heavily these days as a call-and-response for shitty people; just a quick test to see if you’re dealing with someone who is equally fed up with the expectation that you treat human beings with basic courtesy.

Visited the Burke Museum for the first time since at least 2010 today. Very glad to learn of their approach to reappropriation & providing attendees with correct, primary-sourced information about indigenous peoples and cultures.

what if we just took all of Phil Knight’s money

Tina Kotek has been trying to kill preschool for all for the super rich just to watch them keep making historically large contributions to the Republican Party.

this is a hate crime

the most crazy-making part of this whole thing is that so many trans people of all ages can speak powerfully & eloquently about the harms of being denied a timely & effective medical transition, but our words, our actions, even our *corpses* are treated as manipulative