As a non-sports gal I need to share: pub trivia has a Scattergories question. It was US Women's pro basketball or soccer team starting with S. We knew Seattle Storm but figured that in PDX, others would also guess that (answer must be unique). My nonjocky team offered these as likely team names: 🧵

I heard in reporting of the current heatwave, that 15K people had died in France's 2003 heatwave. I thought that couldn't possibly be correct because I would remember something with a body count of five September 11 attacks. Then I looked it up and saw that for all of Europe, 72k died (24 9/11s).

Also, speaking of Silverton (where we yesterday), did you know that way back in 2008, they elected the first out transgender mayor in the US? Stu was a fascinating person. www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ras...

Yesterday we went to a movie screening event near Silverton, OR that involved overnight camping. We got several downpours, a hailstorm, and then a giant rainbow. Happy "one week since Summer Solstice", everyone. Also glad we decided to outfit a vehicle to sleep in; a tent would have gotten soaked.

TIL after watching The Sheep Detectives (recommended, surprisingly moving): ORF, the airport code for Norfolk, VA, is also the name of a sheep disease that causes facial lesions. I've visited Norfolk 2-3x, and while it's not amazing, it does not deserve having an airport code equivalent to POX.

Really hope this post has the meme longevity of milkshake duck, because "not she berry or he berry but no berry" is an identity I can get behind. And just think of the Salt and Straw Pride tie-in flavor!

Wow, I don't remember that one. I didn't know the Three Stooges got that dark

Did anyone else see Backrooms and think, shit you could rent this place out to like 100 different bands for practice space

Although it was only moving from one parking area to another, when someone asks you if you'd like a ride in the banana, you say yes.

@counciloravalos.bsky.social @councilordunphy.bsky.social just now driving home, saw 7 police cars responding to something near the mobile home park at 10852 se stark around 1245 am. Is this common number? Seems like a lot if there's a shortage of sworn officers that we need to raid the PCEF for.

What metro area is nearest to Funkytown? Do you think if Funkytown gets large enough to incorporate as a city, it should change its name to reflect this?

I think this needs to be the "dont make me tap the sign" sign we point at for every claim of "voter fraud" that happens because people don't understand how competitions work. See also: Duke blowing 15 point half time lead to lose 2026 March Madness.

My mayor is Loftis My bay is Widow's Patricia is awesome I don't have a rhyme here, I just think Patricia is a great character.

my mayor just some dude my bagel winco foods they're clamdiggers not shorts i do not follow sports

Academic book title of the day: "Brush with death: a social history of lead poisoning" (2000, Johns Hopkins U Press)

Look, I don't have any proof that GOP leadership is behind the alleged recent penis thefts in northern Mozambique. But it certainly feels like the kind of diabolical thing they would do.

Three-word review of Backrooms: Worst Narnia EVER. But seriously, I liked it, go see it. Came home after Backrooms to finally watch a Lynn Shelton DVD (Your Sister's Sister) that I need to return to the library, accidentally programming a Mark Duplass double feature for myself.

There is no better satisfaction than seeing a movie at a theatre during the day when there's a rainstorm. You can't get any yardwork done today, go enjoy the hall pass. Backrooms, if you wondered. Creepy AF. Recommended.

Bluesky doesn't do polls, but if it did: how many Kinsey 0 women (exclusively hetero) would, if there was a drug or psych therapy guaranteed to succeed, voluntarily convert to Kinsey 6 just so they never had to deal with dating cis hetero dudes ever again? Yes, notallmen. But enough of them.

Okay, the beef supply is about to be thrown into chaos, but spare a thought for all the 14-year-olds forming punk and metal bands this summer who, by the time they upload original material to SoundCloud or bandcamp, will discover others thought Flesh Eating Screwworm was a great band name, too.

Buried at the end of this story is that there's an area man with an awesome famous name: "Portlander Brian Eno told the Mercury he was approached by someone collecting signatures for the campaign last weekend"

So many possible captions for this vehicle with what I assume is an air freshener in the guise of Nick Cave. "Straight to you/I'll come a-smellin' / one more time "The Good Smell/ he curses his father"

Arizona Ice Tea taught us the lesson Sprite will learn soon: if your beverage color even slightly resembles urine, sell it in an opaque container. If your beverage is known to be clear, adding ice tea to it just makes it look like a Trucker Bomb. Attention @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social

No spoilers, but unless it was at the French dance club, did Ava and Deborah end up doing Molly or not? Am I wrong, or are some of the biggest fans of this show genXers who are 25 years apart from either lead in opposite directions?

"A Confederacy of Dunces" is merely an okay novel and it did not deserve the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. As an LSU graduate and native of South Louisiana, this is not a safe opinion to express among those peers.

I found these at Grocery Outlet...

www.bagsunlimited.com is a great alternative to uline for you nerds that need to put plastic on your physical media. They even have stuff for 8tracks! My phone wanted to correct "Uline" to "urine" because it KNOWS.

I mean, to be fair, it's his second marriage, and Don Sr. knows from experience that those only last about 6 years. Dad can always go to the next one. Also, TIL Melania is almost exactly my age and has been married to that loathsome man for 21 years.

Laugh at this image all you want, but the last 3 plumbers I called hung up on me when I said there was no space to park their van in my kitchen.

I feel bad for laughing at a cheap shot at Episode 1, but not so bad I won't repost it.

the fix is in for Israel. Again. they pulled this last year too. #eurovision

OMG was that 2002 #Eurovision winner Marie awarding Latvia's 12 points?

If you were wondering "is Eurovision aware that Americans finally are watching?", the inclusion of a sound bite by Billy Joel and having a performer cover his "Vienna" (the current host city) should answer that for you. Personally I would have gone with Ultravox's "this means nothing to me/oh Vienna

always nice to see Verka Serduchka back in the silver outfits eins zwei drei #eurovision

@bagatsen.bsky.social please tell me you saw Erika "ich komme" and lordi doing cha cha cha

Any American who calls the Oscars the "Gay Super Bowl" is apparently still unfamiliar with the #eurovision song contest. It's got crazier outfits, more arcane voting, ridiculous staging, and way more fire and smoke effects that the Oscars. It was gay before drag performers won it. Link in comment.

Screenshot of town called Scenic Rim that thought scenicrimjobs.com.au was a good URL for an employment website is making the rounds. But the amazing thing is if you look in archive.org, URL dates back in 2020 and appears to have lasted until 2025, when it was redirected to jobsinscenicrim.com.au

Another benefit (?) of watching Eurovision is I had occasion to look at Boy George's Wikipedia page since he inexplicably joined San Marino's singer on stage. Hooo boy has he been up to some stuff before getting sober, including releasing 11 (!) solo records, one of which I remember hearing of.

Watching this year's Eurovision videos (not the live performances) in YouTube guest mode, because I don't want the algorithm getting any weird ideas about the music I actually want to hear the other 51 weeks of the year.

I don't speak Spanish, but does La Mayor imply a female mayor, whereas Le Mayor would imply a male mayor? So this Pratt candidate is a scared Karen lady?

IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE downtown is between 405, burnside, and the willamette POWELL’S IS IN THE PEARL WHICH IS NOT IN DOWNTOWN old town is also not in downtown THE CENTRAL EASTSIDE IS DEFINITELY ALSO NOT IN DOWNTOWN

Today I worked on my art car all day, or as I like to call it, I'm back on my Ship of Thesus bullsh1t.* *all of the plastic grapes and the fabric flowers pretty much have to be replaced annually for wear and tear and the plastic getting something that looks like eczema. I have spared you a pic.

The table next to us in this bar are loudly discussing today's Wordle solution (the word that started with U). It was a word I sorta knew but struggled to define. I had 4 letters (none green) and still couldn't get it until someone told me the first letter.

Conversation prompted by a discussion on Bluesky: Me: "is the plural of Bigfoot Bigfoots, or Bigfeet?" Spouse: believe it or not, I've actually thought about this before. I'm not saying the key to marital harmony is finding a partner whose theoretical grammar rules match yours, but it's nice.

For When It Happens: If you dont know the ancient joke about the musician in Buddy Rich's band who calls Buddy's wife after he dies, Google it. To explain the "who is that" part of the joke, Buddy Rich was a jazz band leader who was well known for being mean and awful to the musicians he hired.

My cat was given this toy that looks like a bird. It flaps and chirps. He is super indifferent to it. I though it would terrify him if past toys of this ilk (floppy fish, scuttling crab) could predict future results.

But is the spider okay?

They finally made the milk from that hotel