finally got that video done the thumbnail is honestly the most important part but there's some good info in there if you can stand it www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NG4...

Tell me you're utterly illiterate in #energy without telling me you're utterly illiterate in energy #climate

"An ad blocker is preventing this page from loading." No, my #adblocker is preventing your #ads#adblockerfrom loading. The fact that the REST of your page refuses to load if the ads dont load, well that sounds like a YOU problem.

I want this year to finally be the year where I get away from #amazon as the only marketplace for my books. So tell me: What platforms would you recommend for selling self-published English-language books on folklore? I am looking for both Print On Demand and Ebook options. Important: The […]

I do love this city sometimes #pdx https://www.wweek.com/culture/2026/03/25/the-price-aint-right/

It's kind of ridiculous there's no public #ev charing at Washington Park. People park there for hours at a time. It'd be perfect for cheap level 2 chargers like at the Electric Avenue sites and PGE's neighborhood charing #pdx

Love to see these projects in the works. #pdx https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/03/12-projects-that-could-transform-development-along-the-willamette-river.html

I swear there's a huge contingency of the general public which simply has not realized the electricity an electric car needs is the same electricity they already have at home.

Unpaywall: Extension that looks for open access versions of paywalled academic articles. https://unpaywall.org/ #academicchatter #paywalls #academia #openaccess

Why #rss? This is why RSS https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

I argue the collapse of local newspapers and rise of algorithm-driven social media has created an “information mist” of rumors and outrage. Readers should reclaim discernment by choosing sources directly (via newsletters or RSS) instead of letting algorithms decide what they see. Mist and […]

What is “the E-Bike Effect?” “Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.” Fewer car trips. Via @lloydalter.bsky.social

Just saying, the reason our streets are in such bad shape is because we're still utterly dependent on cars and trucks. Indeed, the reason we have so many lane-miles is because we depend on private cars for most of our mobility. Active transportation infrastructure is a huge money-saver, not a […]

Visit... War-Ravaged Portland

Been going through and pruning and reorganizing my music library. What a giant pain

Tell me again how this is fair use? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

[Oregon Pol] BREAKING NEWS: Free-speech Republican state legislator throws hissy fit over political speech he doesn't like https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/04/senate-republican-leader-pitches-increased-state-scrutiny-of-oregon-food-bank/

Not the best day for the heater to start making concerning noises...

A good day, generally, but for the whole sort of general mishmash of the world

Is Ice Cubes still the best desktop MacOS client? The little bugs that don’t seem to get fixed really grate on me.

I’m going to have to agree with the meteorological rodent this year. Six more weeks of winter it is. #groundhogday

Not me when my playlist starts going on a Shania kick

the only possible silver lining i can contort out of this moment is that the last few decades of "rule by EO because Congress is a dysfunctional body that can't do anything" were a truly bad thing which we need to start doing stuff about. though i would have preferred we started long, long ago.

Hooray! #pdx #pnw https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/30/portland-celebrates-year-no-pollution-willamette-river-sewage/

ah yes, the party of personal responsibility, proudly ensures we all know the buck stops anywhere but here.

Am I missing something or is there just no way to show media controls on videos in macOS Ice Cubes?

Not entirely sure we should want Drake to have landed here, but it’s kind of a fun story. I’ve been to the cove in question watching whales. #pnw https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/25/sir-francis-drake-fair-and-good-bay-oregon/

And not once does the word “trolley” appear. BRT routes really seem like they’d be ideal for overhead electrification, don’t they? #urbanism #transit https://itdp.org/2025/01/24/ebuses-are-the-solution-for-public-transport-stmagazine-36/

Well who would've thought days after I listened to @notjustbikes and @reece talking about American streetcar systems going under I’d come across this. https://www.wpr.org/news/future-milwaukee-streetcar-funding-operations-challenges-the-hop

For the new kids joining Mastodon, let me share a common mistake I see with new users: "Mastodon sucks. There is no timeline. It's like a tiny echo chamber here" What's the mistake you ask? They invariably only follow a few dozen people. This is what you need to understand about federated […]

Dear Everybody, PLEASE for the love of god stop posting your events only on Facebook. Thanks, Me

Anyone know what would make Google say my very active account is going to be marked inactive soon?

Friendly neighborhood stratovolcano. Mount Hood/Wy’east #pnw

https://takomatorch.com/index.php/2025/01/25/no-way-to-address-housing-crisis-says-county-that-makes-building-housing-impossible/ “Housing prices are sky-high, rents are unaffordable, and young people are fleeing the area. But what more can we do? We’ve already said we care.” #housing #satire […]

Getting seriously annoyed by Ice Cubes jumping around my feed when I expand a post.

I love Michelle Yeoh as much as the next guy, but absolutely nobody wanted a Section 31 movie. The entire concept of section 31 is anti-Star Trek, in my personal opinion, and shows that the people running the franchise don't understand it at all. "If the existence of your utopia depends on a […]

Sure, but the popularity of cigarettes et al can speak for itself, too. We realized there were real harms to cigarettes and took steps to minimize their use. At this point I think we need to be having honest conversations about what is and isn't healthy for our minds.

#pdx be sure to get yourself a nice wiener next week! https://everout.com/portland/events/portland-mercurys-2025-wiener-week/e194760

I wish we could cultivate a culture where people get excited about and share the new skills they've learned more than the new stuff they've bought.

If you guys aren’t using Wipr on your Apple devices, you’re missing out. From: @mipstian https://mas.to/@mipstian/113837612765400148

My deepest take, a rather new one, is that the specialization of modern society both creates and requires ignorance of... a lot. It is impossible to know all the things, which means there's value in individuals knowing a lot about some things, and those individuals exploit knowledge gaps.

The YouTube videos are too damn long these days

#caturday wishes from Potato

Doing some new year organizing with my following accounts and lists. I want to make a more concerted effort to engage with those on my feed rather than just scrolling through it

Seeing more and more videos about imported kei trucks and how cool they are and honestly I'm all for it. And it's heartening to know that the sentiment (at least in comments) is overwhelmingly "these are awesome and I'm pissed we can't buy these here"