Kellogg’s Smart Start was my absolute jam. Probably not much better than a kids cereal nutritionally but it was marketed to fancy sophisticated ladies and it was delicious.

When my 10th grade history teacher left unexpectedly mid year we had a sub for a few months who inexplicably hated me and refused to give me any feedback. I asked why I got a low grade on a paper and she said “it was good but not as good as others that were better.” THANKS THAT IS SO HELPFUL.

Boys (especially white boys) face different standards from when they’re toddlers. They have the same opportunities throughout their lives to learn emotional intelligence and it’s other men making them feel ashamed of their feelings. What are women supposed to do once they’re grown?

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

I love my dog so much but it is rough as hell when it’s Sunday and I don’t feel well and he still hasn’t figured out the concept of taking a nap. (He had PLENTY of exercise and enrichment today, he’s just a nap refuser)

It’s never overpopulation. If your instinct, especially with environmental stuff, is to say that there are too many people on this earth, I want you to take the next step and be honest with who you want to die, what cultures you want wiped out.

You know what’s fun is when you wake up at 4 AM with bed spins without having had any alcohol. Love this for me!

I got a call this afternoon from some folks working to get participatory budgeting on the ballot in Portland! After an extremely rough budget process this year, I’m excited for the possibilities and as always glad so many folks keep fighting for this city.

Apparently my job today is “fight with AI” and I’ve had enough thank you very much I do not want to hear from or read any more LLM content ideally ever again but at the very least until Monday.

Clap 👏 with 👏 me👏 ! The safest car in cities is not an autonomous car - it is NO car. Stop pretending that cities are build for cars.

Just calculated that I’ve been to 28 states, and have driven through or briefly stopped in 7 more. I’ve got a real deficit in the plains and southwest in particular.

If you don’t want to buy a whole new appliance for this, get a romertopf and stick it in your oven on whatever the lowest temperature is. Meat, veg, some kind of liquid, throw it in the oven for like 3-4 hours and it is guaranteed delicious.

I want to be that girl and say “great day to get an ebike” but I’m extremely aware that the built environment in way too much of the US is hostile to biking and walking. This is going to hit people so hard in places where there are no other choices.

Transit oriented development should not mean “housing on the busiest street where we put a transit station adjacent to a highway.” In Portland we call that centers and corridors, while just one or two blocks off those streets we only allow the lowest density housing. Apartments are not nuisances!

Wow wow wow went to Han Oak finally and am already figuring out reasons / special occasions to go back. I’m going to be thinking about that fermented cabbage soup for a WHILE.

A lot of cities in central Oregon have seen how much cash Prineville has now that the data center tax break expired and are seeking to follow their lead. Interesting to see a city say no thank you!

When I got into a bike crash and called to file a police report the cop who took the report refused to give me his email address or phone number because he claimed to have given me “all the info” I needed. Police are already masking in a million ways - the least they can do is let us see their faces

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

Burgerville marionberry shake.

Portlanders voted for climate action because they understood that the crisis was real.

Team is it good when your mayor keeps putting department heads on leave with no explanation or oversight?

Council has three powers: legislate, allocate money, & do oversight. Half this council is uninterested in oversight. Whether it’s checking contracts with oil companies, investigating undisclosed housing funds, or figuring out how unhoused people are abused in our shelters, they’re not interested.

ICYMI, Councilor Kanal put an amendment to fund this project during the budget sessions last week and Councilor Smith refused, demonstrating that this move is ideologically about targeting the social housing fund. Andrew Hoan of the Portland Metro Chamber is signed up to testify in favor.

"Masking isn't politicized. It is stigmatized." 💯

If it’s politicized…what, uh, what side of that political line are most of you on? Because it doesn’t seem to be the one where we protect vulnerable people from ongoing risks?

The problem with bluesky is not enough of you would get that when I say “the people love it” I’m saying it like the guy from Reel Big Fish in the live recording of Suburban Rhythm where they’re playing it as different genres.

Fuck peace I want justice.

I’m sure it helps a lot of people! I’m also sure one of the weirdest and most distinctive qualities of American titans of industry is that they absolutely hate fat people with a naked, smoldering rage and any time someone pushes anything weight-loss related I’m happy to opt out

I no longer follow basketball but it's heartwarming to see all this love for the Knicks, my favorite team when I was a child and thought I had a shot at being the first woman in the NBA (I was short and bad at basketball).

You know what’s fun is when you get a test result for something that isn’t giving you any symptoms and you immediately know that your doctor is going to once again try to put you on a GLP-1 and now you have to use all your mental energy to not spiral about it.

Just spent like 15 min reading the comments on a NYTimes article about using chatbots for nutrition advice and it was bleak as hell. A complete indictment of the healthcare system as well as the overall understanding of what these tools are and do. So many people are going to die from these things.

Hideous

My kitchen counter monstera has started taking over everything but I don’t want to move it because it gets such good light where it is. Any tips on when a moss pole isn’t enough? lol

Don’t have kids if you don’t want the responsibility of being a parent or understand the concept that you have to love your kids unconditionally, even if they’re not what you pictured. Don’t ever let them see you “mourning” kids you didn’t have.

My dog met a tiny version of himself at the dog park yesterday. She’s 3 months, recently adopted, and also from Texas. They even had matching harnesses!

Remember when we would fly and get sick every time and there were commercials for vitamins that were supposed to protect you from getting sick while flying? And then we learned you can mask and not get sick every time?

I think this is true AND I think about the infrastructure where I grew up - narrow roads where huge cars would speed connecting to giant stroads and highways - and I still think without better infrastructure a lot of people will still be too afraid to bike.

Yesterday my husband and I were biking to a food cart pod for lunch 5 miles from where we live and on our way, he slowed down unexpectedly, pointed, and turned around. It turns out we were passing his sister’s house and she was in the driveway! Bikes are so perfect for spontaneous interactions!

My friend sent me a clip from heathers recently and it reminded me that my sister and I used to always say, “who does that guy in the coat think he is?”

I was going to say Oregon because Portland is the only big city and the rest of the state is extremely different but then I remembered I’m from NJ and people absolutely revel in hating Newark.

I do love the part of the right wing image of Portland that is "they care too much about things people shouldn't care about!" Because it reminds me that I reject the idea that caring about things is bad, annoying, or meaningless.

these people seriously want to replace the actual forests outside Seattle with roads and car-dependent suburban sprawl, all to prevent other people from living more densely (and using fewer resources per person) here in the "city"

Years ago I started a Purim tradition of telling my sister the story through photos and gifs. At the time, my Esther was Aishwarya Rai because she was the most beautiful woman I could think of. Today Esther would be Lupita for sure.

Imagine saying this and not realizing you’re the villain. Those who wish to exclude trans folks from their spaces should go fuck themselves, and ideally also go out of business ASAP. Extremely unsettling to watch the UK just go all in on this fascist bullshit.

What I don’t understand is how Musk is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and yet he’s still the CEO of a company that is expected to go public for a wildly overinflated amount this summer. I guess if you kill enough people “serial killer” becomes “businessman.”

Lot of GLP-1 discourse, with the pro voices dunking on Tressie (and the comments). IDK, as someone knowing the women in my life have been negatively impacted by disordered eating and diet culture, there's decades of priors that bring caution to GLP-1s, which is valid and overlooked by pro-voices

I keep saying my bangs make me feel very French but I just biked home from a bakery in a dress, on a purple bike, with a baguette sticking out of my basket. Bonjour, babyyyyyyy!!

Anybody remember wearerobots or foamy the squirrel? As a teen I was always on those, homestar runner, livejournal, MySpace, and buffyguide.

Half of our city council chose not to do anything about this, even though there were allegations against urban alchemy before they even started working here. None of this was secret.

Hopping onto bluesky like a detective working backwards to figure out what everyone is talking about, increasingly feeling like I don't want to know...