fwiw, it may not look like it if you watch TV news, but the Progressive Caucus just wrenched power away from the center-right old guard through sustained parliamentary action in concert with organized movements. It’s a huge accomplishment that will be lost on many casual observers. Organizing = 👍

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Cleaned up a cocktail of drywall, fiberglass insulation, and piss. Contractor was working on the bathroom ceiling and I think he may be a little incontinent.

I love Portland.

Oh goody. Measles in Linn County. I recommend asking your doctor for a measles booster if you are Millennial or earlier. You can usually get one if you say you don't know for sure if you got the full series as a child. www.koin.com/news/health/...

Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines. The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy. But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk. Get 'em at SquidFacts.net

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

New: “Fears are growing that the number of protesters killed by Iranian security forces now reaches into the thousands…cell phone footage has emerged of truck-mounted machine guns strafing residential streets, hospitals swamped by shooting victims, and a morgue overwhelmed by hundreds of bodies”

Yeah. This turns out to be a real post.

People aren't leaving; looks like more have arrived since we have. Someone just shouted "suck my dick" and the crowd joined in with a spontaneous "suck his dick!" chant.

I know theres a lot going on in the world, but I just lost thr majority of my income to AI. I have the cool story of how I ended up moving to Bosnia and marrying my cover artist after 5 weeks together going up on Patreon, along with other content. It’s free but subscriptions get extra content.

The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest

100 or so people at a protest starting outside Legacy Emmanuel Hospital on N. Vancouver in northeast Portland. Event organized by PDXCD Portland Contra las Deportaciones to protest the hospital being “the go-to hospital to bring detainees injured during their arrests due to ICE violence.”

Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

#Feathers&Form is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay. I thought this hummingbird’s feathers were worthy as their feathers diffract the sunlight into a rainbow of colors. #birds #RainbowWings

That's weird. There are three military helicopters over the state forest to the east of Salem and it's not wildfire season. Did something bad happen over there?

Gonna do a mutual aid run to quell the anxieties.

Portland Police assaulted and abducted multiple protesters on behalf of ICE at a memorial protest for Renee Good. This is also after ICE shot 2 people in the city

Vigil/press conference featuring six city councilors ends with an “abolish ICE” chant and the Portland crows circling overhead.

conveniently ratio'd for either legal or half letter size, so you conveniently can just print it out on any printer if you like, whose going to stop you (not me)

They're seriously going with the weaponized vehicle excuse again?

KATU has confirmed CBP agents shot two people in Portland katu.com/news/local/i...

German Shepard Dog?

The BBC Newshour was a tirade against Trump and the Monroe Doctrine so I think they're feeling pretty anxious about Greenland.

This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.

Just saw a fighter jet pass low over the IKEA in Portland. IKEA is Swedish, not Danish, but it still felt appropriate.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Renee Nicole Good murdered for filming ICE.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Most of the time you can put dirt in your mouth and not get ill. Children do it all the time and vaccines will not help with most illnesses you might get from dirt.

Leucistic #CaliforniaTowhee! Although Towhees are pretty common around here, I have never seen a leucistic one until yesterday! 🪶📷🌿 moniquedao.com/birding #birdguide #tourguide #natureguide #photographyworkshop #birdphotography #birding #birds #birder #birdwatching #californiabirds #letsgobirding

What a petty motherfucker.

How did all the hard reckoning and regrets about the Iraq war from the past few years turn into such excitement to do it again in another hemisphere?

I was house-sitting and I swear a jumping spider that lives in the plants in a sitting room crawled on me to check me out as an unfamiliar human.

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

Rewatching the first season of Frieren before the next comes out. That first episode hits so much harder on a rewatch.

Can Venezuela respond in kind? We can look the other way.

It’s hard to keep track of the political whiplash but Trump has ousted a president who denied the results of a fair election and stayed in power. On Tues, it’s 5 yrs since 1/6, the culmination of Trump’s effort to remain in power despite losing the election. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Goddammit. I miss this little asshole so much. This was apparently four years ago. I can hear her indignant chirps from whenever she came in from unfavorable weather.

Scowling over damage my clumsy oaf of a cat committed and really missing her.

Seriously, I need this year to get it together #birds 🌿

Head hurts so bad won't stop

Was there a TikTok trend that said spray foam makes a lovely Christmas garland? Because it really doesn't.

[lights 2025 calendar on fire] There. Now you can't hurt anyone any longer. [wind blows calendar onto my coat; I'm immediately engulfed in flames]