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On a roll! Routle - TriMet 04/28/2026 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

It does my heart good to see a good old fashioned wacko in the voter’s pamphlet, given all the actually dangerous candidates out there.

I don’t want to pay for the ballroom or the Moda Center. I am happy to pay for the VA and Medicare.

People seemingly get confused or upset when my radical philosophy practically boils down to things like "fund public transit"

In 2026 Portland Oregon you are much more likely to be killed by a vehicle than murdered but Portland Police keep letting drivers off without holding them responsible. A driver who breaks traffic laws and hits pedestrians or a bicycle rider needs to be held responsible. This is not controversial.

Whoop woop! Routle - TriMet 04/27/2026 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

“There’s no need to be sarcastic!” “That, lady, is a matter of opinion.”

The Feds can try to end Bluesky as a communication and organizing tool for the political opposition, but they're too late. We've already blocked each other so hard no one has any idea what's going on.

Murder She Wrote is good for the soul.

Sitting under the tree in my garden is one of my favorite things in the world.

The Douglas meadowfoam is in full display.

Apparently hummingbirds are also partial to great camas.

You know, instead of debating how we should go overboard to protect the one man who's the most hated provocateur of malevolent violence in the entire nation, we could just remove him from office through the normal procedures.

Disturbing: it seems the would-be assassin was radicalized by reading accurate descriptions of the president's deeds

The rocking chair was too warm, the hammock was too cold, but the front steps were just right.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

This is a great point: we can have a wide, long-range vision (radically reimagining our streets so they are truly safe for walkers, rollers, transit riders, and bikers)... AND get specific about steps to get there (hold automobile drivers accountable when they endanger people's lives).

Two squirrels just ran along the fence in hot pursuit and hopped into the crabapple, then froze for a moment as they realized I was watching them, and then resumed their chase all the way to the top of the tree.

Pure luck guessing the right line once I got it narrowed down to the right suburb. Routle - TriMet 04/26/2026 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

Many people in my mentions proclaiming this the Reichstag fire, and it is very funny to imagine an increasingly-frustrated White House staging false flag after false flag, trying to get somebody to notice.

I feel like this is newsworthy given the constant PPB whining about their budget - since I got hit by a car while riding my bike on 4/12 I have heard SO MANY stories about PPB absolutely failing at the basic task of addressing reckless drivers who break the laws on Portland streets.

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Remove the office of the mayor, replace them with a crow mascot for ceremonial tasks. let the city council handle the management of the city. Just a dapper looking crow in a suit with a little rose. That would represent Portland way better than the parade of losers we've had as mayor.

The wapato has started coming up in the pond!

Oh hell yes. Routle - TriMet 04/25/2026 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

They should cut the Portland police budget and send that directly to public transit

“In order to have a truly representative government, Councilors must have the same access to information as our counterparts in the Executive,” Morillo said. “I am concerned to hear that as we’re exposing these barriers, new ones are being put in place.”

That was a miracle. Routle - TriMet 04/24/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 www.routle.city/trimet

How you know you’re neurodivergent: someone suggests making a list of all the birthdays in the volunteer group so we can wish people happy birthday, and your immediate thought is, “That feels like too much unnecessary socializing.”

Fuck yeah! Routle - TriMet 04/23/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Alex Horne feeding Kumail Nanjiani a banana was not an image I knew I needed in my life, but I am glad to have it.

Seriously, fuck the suburbs. Routle - TriMet 04/22/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 www.routle.city/trimet

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

My new dragonboats team jersey arrived today, and suddenly the idea of racing again is really real.

nature occasionally red in tooth and claw but quite frequently just wants scritches

Clearly I need to ride more suburban bus routes. Routle - TriMet 04/21/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 www.routle.city/trimet

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

This is my new favorite article.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Sigh. Back on my bullshit again. Routle - TriMet 04/20/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 www.routle.city/trimet

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

OMG I finally got one! Routle - TriMet 04/19/2026 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 www.routle.city/trimet