"You might think that our rules about elevators would help wheelchair users, but they can inadvertently achieve the opposite: overkill in elevator code kills elevators." Thank you @ceceliablack.bsky.social for spelling this out so clearly! www.seattletimes.com/opinion/miss...

A fantastic thread for understanding what I mean when I say antizionism is not antisemitism unless it is actually just antisemitism. It is an important thing to understand if you don’t want to dive down a conspiracy theory hole and alienate your Jewish friends and family.

“It’s not eviction unless it’s from the evict region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling exits.”

What if we made sure that Portland was an affordable and welcoming place for everyone who wants or needs to move here? What if we made sure that as people move here, others aren’t displaced because there isn’t enough housing?

Fuuuuuuck this. Someone explain to me how money people voted on to support climate resilience can be diverted to police hiring, in a city that has had plenty of money for police hiring for years but nobody wants to work for the PPB because they’re fucking losers.

My best friend’s dad died of Covid weeks before her first baby was born. A doctor who had been radicalized into not taking the vaccine even as his family begged him to. RFK Jr and his allies are murderers and ghouls.

I love having a dog with a human name because I can proudly exclaim that Gerald is starting day care today and people don’t immediately realize I’m not talking about a human baby.

When I was a teen there was some carton with a fake commercial for a robot named Emilio that could do your homework and clean your room and why do I feel like the pitch for this was “Emilio for cheating.”

I took about a month off of biking because of injury and illness and on Saturday when I biked to the gym my road rage was out in full force. But also - I was passing by an area where kids were getting out of soccer practice and not a single driver was paying attention to their surroundings.

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame. Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm. Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

I have a neighbor who keeps pigeons and a local falcon has killed a few. One day there was a bald eagle in our neighborhood and I texted him to keep his pigeons inside because of the eagle and he said, “he’s too clumsy to catch them.”

If someone says something antisemitic on the Nazi site you really don’t have to make up excuses for why it wasn’t antisemitism. You don’t have to throw yourself on that sword. A lot of fucking people on this site are once again showing their asses.

Watching season 1 Veronica mars and I love when in a show there is a tiny pill next to a full large glass of water waiting for someone. 1) don’t take the pill out of the bottle for someone else; 2) HOW MUCH WATER DO YOU NEED????

After 13 years of a dog who was very unpredictable with other dogs and had a history of biting, to hear the behavior guy at the doggy daycare say Gerald did great and is ready for full-day was such a relief

Many disabled and chronically ill people are demonized for not working full-time jobs, when the truth is they can be forced out due to inaccessible policies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

While I consider it absolutely elite, many people have tried to tell me my beloved saltwater taffy is mediocre. It’s the part of Jersey you will never be able to take from this bitch lol

Please stop doing this guys

Realizing a pattern where my dog seems more timid and like he doesn’t know what to do when he’s around men, and noticeably better around women. Gerald just wants women in all positions of authority and that is why he is a good feminist 🐾💜

Increasingly it feels like historic preservation groups want to preserve exactly what [name any city] looked like when they moved there 40 years ago. It has nothing to do with history and everything to do with fear of change.

As a councilor who’s gotten lots of death threats, these particular protestors are annoying but mostly harmless. To me the line gets crossed when they try to break into offices where my staff are (which happened) bc I want my team to be safe at work. Threats to them are a no go, I love those people

this is exactly the wrong way to think about owning and carrying a firearm. i cannot overemphasize how irresponsible Councilor Smith's logic is here. Openly carrying a weapon you know nothing about is just BEGGING to have that weapon taken off your body and used against you.

Like 1) there is no real-world movement that is 100% immune to all types of bigotry and 2) if you’re either ignoring white supremacist posts by people flying your colors or nodding along, you can’t expect the people being targeted by the white supremacist rhetoric to trust you

Our first adolescent manners training class (humans only) was tonight and we learned Gerald’s classmates will be a chihuahua, a border collie, and a super mutt (30% pit bull). The chaos will be off the charts lol

Nigel Barker is traaaaaaaaaaaaaash

Anyone have doggy daycares they like in Portland? I work from home but my new pup definitely needs playtime with other dogs.

Give him the gold!

Sure: Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

During the pandemic I was really excited about all the tech that suddenly made remote work, meetings, and organizing more possible. It enabled accommodations disabled folks had been asking for forever. But people with power didn’t like it and now we have to pretend it doesn’t exist.

I’m trying to learn about dog training but also talking like a preschool teacher to dogs always works. He was trying to play bite me and I put my hands up and said “I’m not interested in that right now” and he stopped. Barking at the neighbors? I said, “Hey Ger, remember how we love our neighbors

The guy who taught drivers ed where I lived (not in like 1 school - everywhere) was named Bob. He didn’t believe women could drive and made most of my friends drive him around to run errands. But our first day I yelled at him when he told me to beep at a squirrel so he never pulled shit with me.

Th NYTimes has done infinite stories about GLP-1s without a single mention that THERE HAS BEEN NO RESEARCH ON HOW THEY IMPACT PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY IF DISORDERED EATING but no sure it’s really important how mean other fatties will be if you lose weight.

Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism. It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.

One of my coworkers uses the paid version of Claude and told me to use Claude for a basic task the other day. It couldn’t so he asked the paid version “can the free version do this” and it said yes. I had to show him that it couldn’t. These fucking things are not worth the energy they take!

Real conversation between me and my husband about a bed for our dog for next to my desk: “I wonder if we could get him a bed that was like a couch cushion.” “That’s why I was looking at ottomans on Article!” “No like a bed we could put on the floor.”

Last week I binged the podcast “the curse of americas next top model” and it is absolutely worth listening to because “Tyra is very weird and also a monster” was a big takeaway for me.

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I don’t have an overly rosy view of Portland and I think the regional job news is bad. But I have a hard time looking at the Metro Chamber report without thinking of the reputational damage they’ve done to the city.

I don’t believe in best in history but here are some of my favorites: I mostly gave more than I got Tried not to watch the ticking clock Like Always a bridesmaid Never an astronaut! -Dessa

Now that lobster Nazi is back in the discourse, here is my reminder that if you show up demanding people to not only forgive but politically support someone who hasn’t repaired the damage they’ve done, you’re communicating that you are not safe to be around.

Having spent a lot of time around rich people I’ve concluded that having that much money can melt your brain multiple ways, but a fundamental one is that to justify being so rich many convince themselves that some innate characteristic made them rich rather than luck and exploitation of others.

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language." I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.

Take a tour of the new cycle parking below Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. Designed for utility, sport, electric and cargo bikes, it enables a smooth transition to public transport, while taking a disused and uncomfortable private retail corridor and reimagining it as a safe and inviting community space.

valentine's day coming up tomorrow, please use these responsibly

Training my dog not to bark at people outside the window the normal way, by petting him and calmly saying we love our neighbors because they’re good boys and girls.

My pup is looking for mischief this morning and just stole my checkbook. Who does he have to write checks to?? I know he’s not paying any rent 👀

My sister named me because my parents couldn’t agree (Mallory or Gillian vs. Emily or Samantha - it was a heated battle). I’ve since learned that older sisters have a habit of overriding parents to name their siblings, and I am here for it.

So I went to Haverford where Lutnick is an alum and has donated a LOT of money. They recently renovated the library and renamed it for him. Students and alumni are screaming at the school to rename it and an email from the president today said she’s “monitoring the situation.”

Learning today whose older sisters made mix CDs of punk covers for them - some of us learned this while screaming along to Goldfinger as tweens.

Gerald has decided that the coffee table is an elevated bridge between the couch and the comfy chair.