Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

so wild when neurotypicals are like "wow how do you know so much random stuff??" I do special interest rabbit holes because it's fun. Also watching educational YT is a good stim Then I chat with other Autistic/ADHD/AuDHD friends and we swap infodumps like they're trading cards

I got done working in the garden and went to grab a cider to relax on the front porch with but we are out of ciders and I feel like this is blatant homophobia on the part of my refrigerator.

Routle - TriMet 06/20/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 www.routle.city/trimet

I am loving all the Scots in Boston posts but it makes me twitch every time someone calls a sporran a bag. I need to start wearing my kilt around more often so people are properly educated.

A few years ago, when the push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday had really started to hit the news, I asked my dad what he knew about the holiday, as a white Texan man born in 1942. He said he was aware of it as “the one day a year Black people were allowed in all the parks”

Rest in peace 🕊️

Being serenaded by a house finch at the MAX station.

I’m deeply sympathetic to folks with an emotional connection the Lloyd Center who don’t want to see it torn down. But it’s fate is sealed at this point, and any delay in moving on is just slowing Portland from building a ton more housing and giving this neighborhood some new life

Welp, it was a 50% chance either way. Routle - TriMet 06/19/2026 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

*cough*Novick!*cough*

I have a very simple question for my cats, and it’s why aren’t they doing their bare minimum duty and killing these damn grain moths I keep swatting?

Thank goodness!

And not only are they saying they’ll do things, they’re actually following through and doing them!

Long live Portland BlueSky.

Fuck this shit I’m going home.

Spent my lunch break at the park getting mobbed by ducks, and on the walk back to the office my sandal broke. This is more drama than I was really looking for today.

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

I’m starting to get better at identifying the right suburb, and then it’s just hoping I don’t run out of guesses before I hit it. Routle - TriMet 06/18/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

ODOT is closing I-5 south of the Moda Center for 14 hours in July, then 5 weeks in September. I think it should stay closed indefinitely. -> Traffic will adjust and Portland's East waterfront would be usable! The social benefit would be immense, so would housing development potential.

Conversation at the beach: BLACK WOMAN: Now that’s how you cook! A little of this, a little of that, that looks interesting, then add seasonings until the ancestors tell you to stop. WHITE WOMAN: Unfortunately my ancestors were also white.

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace

If the moda center deal happens as the rich assholes want it to, I think my engagement with the blazers is going to shift from "not engaged but happy people enjoy them and will support their joy" to "intentional boycott"

Routle - TriMet 06/17/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 www.routle.city/trimet

If you think making people post under their real names will make them civil, I encourage you to attend an upzoning public comment meeting.

RFK says I’ll never write a poem but check this out There once was an old man named Kennedy Who had the most unsettling energy He worked out in jeans While he ate raccoon spleens And had a brainworm as a frenemy

FINALLY some good news in 2026

My dragonboat team called me bougie because I wore a straw hat to keep the sun out of my eyes during practice instead of a baseball cap.

✊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿My people!

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

Just heard the kid say to one of the cats, “If you want to throw up, you need to open your mouth.”

Routle - TriMet 06/16/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 www.routle.city/trimet

all the laid off coders mixing with perpetually laid off journalists might, one day, lead to the launch of a publication whose CMS doesn't suck shit to use

Fuck yes.

I echo Koyama Lane’s question: why can’t Dundon just come to City Hall if he wants to talk to the council?

it's not illegal to be nude in portland if you're doing it as part of a protest so in our family the rule is if you're nude in the yard you have to periodically yell LEVITATE THE PENTAGON which i'm hoping the boys retain instinctively lifelong

Europeans: right about weight and distance, wrong about temperature and dates

In fairness, the historical memory of the Suffragettes that's been actively maintained by liberal feminists has erased all the arson, bombing and suicide protest attacks in favour of loads of twee bullshit about votes for women sashes and glorifying simultaneously Emeline Pankhurst and Nancy Astor..

PLS SHARE: In addition to dozens of libraries, misting stations, and other already-open cool space , 2 cooling centers will open from Noon to 9PM today, June 15: 📍Multnomah County East Building, 600 NE 8th St, Gresham 📍Bud Clark Commons, 650 NW Irving St., Portland

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

TriMet won't turn away anyone riding to or from a cooling center who cannot pay fare between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. today, Monday, June 15. Please tell your bus operator that you're heading to or from a cooling center.

This makes the fourth time someone has run over my planters in the parking strip. Half of these crashes have been after I put reflective tape on the street side. I fucking hate cars.

Routle - TriMet 06/15/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 www.routle.city/trimet

Routle - TriMet 06/14/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 www.routle.city/trimet

As a reminder for everyone saying, "The US had never before scored four goals in a World Cup" that they mean the men's team had never before scored that many. The women's team has absolutely scored more than four goals in a world cup, including in the final. And they also wins things.

I don’t even follow basketball and I am not from and have never lived in NYC but this thread is genuinely lovely.