It is interesting no one has any footage of the mayhem that’s engulfed Portland

"the best rent control is a thirty year mortgage" is a hell of a thing to say in a ward that's majority renter. if i could buy a house, i wouldn't need rent stabilization, LYDIA.

Some days I feel like AI people never stopped to consider the actual needs of its end users and what problems it's solving before forcing it upon all of us as the next big innovation or we're left behind. If it really was innovative, it wouldn't need the hard marketing pitch, it'd market itself

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

I wish Greta Thunberg was in charge

The Portland Trump speaks of is one I don't know, and I've lived in Oregon all my life. There are cherry blossoms on the Waterfront in the spring. There are views of Mt. Hood beyond KOIN Tower on clear days. I go to the theater and the zoo. Powell's Books. Food trucks! Max gets you everywhere.

The sad part is that these points where you feel stuck on where to go next are part of how you grow and evolve in your craft as a writer. You have to learn how to process them and then you get the dopamine hit of working through the problem. Lazy writers give up, cheat, or just think they suck.

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today? Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL. LINK: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Can confirm. I've been there.

I wish I knew the cure to resentment beyond dramatically upending your life every 3 years. Gratitude or mindfulness perhaps. Sometimes I feel like resentment is eating me away and I'm tired of it

There is one central, core truth to hold on to: Most Americans don't actually know most of what's happening. But they still don't approve of the slice they do know about.

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The whole big thing 🦋🌸🌿 #embroidery #fiberArt

I usually feel overstimulated at crowded places like grocery stores, ordering from restaurant menus, comic cons, zoos, etc. But the one place I often manage to feel fine is, of all places, Disneyland. It's just so dang orderly

Lebanon, Oregon. It is not pronounced like the country. That one really threw me for a loop and I'm an Oregonian

Happy International Lesbian Day to all the lesbians reading this from your friendly chaotic bisexual femme 🥰 Lesbians are rad, us bisexuals love you too!

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

If you decide to have children, you have to do so knowing that your child could be gay, trans, etc., and if you go into it knowing that you wouldn't support them if that were the case, you don't love them and you shouldn't be having children.

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

BREAKING In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

I know I whine a lot about my cold but I really am getting better, I just wish I was well today. I can breathe easier and I'm coughing less. Just sick of being sick

Bruce Springsteen is my favorite, he is a poet for the working class. I also love Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Buddy Holly, Woody Guthrie, James Brown, Dolly Parton, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Prince, Carole King, John Lennon, Bob Dylan

Signed books!! Handmade candles!! Hats, scarves, and stuffies!!

Happy International Lesbians Day to all those lesbians out there ready and willing to fistfight god for each other 🏳️‍🌈🫡

Deadly cryptids roam the swamps of Louisiana, but when their bloodthirsty hunting sprees corner the paranormal clinic 17 yo Elle works at, she must challenge her beliefs of what truly makes a monster once she learns the girl she likes is one of the same monsters destroying her home #DVpit #YA #H #R

Poland’s two biggest cultural exports in the 21st century: 1. The Witcher 2. The saying „not my circus, not my monkeys” (heard now on yet another English language TV show)

I swear, I have the worst time following instructions. It doesn't help my life. No matter how many checklists, steps, reviews and double-checking I do, I always seem to miss something. I hate that my brain is like this. Takes me twice as long as normal people to get anything done

one time I tweeted praise for Martinelli's apple juice and they sent me soooo much apple juice in the mail

free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies

Millennials in my high school years in the 90s got super into big band swing dance (i.e. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy), so you never know... this may not be far off... 😂😂

I just (re)released the demo to my game, Push & Plunder! Alongside it, I'm releasing patch 0.9.5 with a near-complete rewrite of the entire game! You can download the demo now, Wishlist the game, and read the patch notes here: store.steampowered.com/app/3111550/...

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

I think my problem with posting about controversial subjects is that I am so reasonable that everyone just ignores them. The worst you can really say about most of my takes is "Nuance? How disgusting is that!" 🙃

I'm okay with VR glasses for gaming because it's a one-time thing, but as a glasses wearer who is forced to wear glasses because of terrible vision and hates them (but prefers to contacts) I wonder what the rest of the world would think about glasses on your face all day in place of a cell phone

we don't need cis people making art about how trans women are weird little freaks, that's our job.

Literary criticism has degraded a lot over the years due to social media and a lot of the review landscape can pretty much be boiled down to "I didn't like how this lesbian book had lesbians in it doing lesbian stuff"

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Matt's the real deal, he's a friend of mine and he does freelance copywriting work but AI took a lot of his jobs. Not every mutual aid request is a scam!! Best wishes Matt ☺️

I keep hearing that artists have to keep creating, to preserve hope, to make people want to carry on… …But that is really hard to do when you scrape the bottom of the barrel yourself. Can't pass on happiness if you barely have enough to carry yourself through the day.

I need more people to understand that men can be bisexual because so many guys who are obviously hardcore BISEXUAL MENACES get labelled gay the moment they look at a guy after dating some women

There are a lot of Zionists on here this week and the kind of misinformation they've been fed is something else. Try getting different information sources for a change, confront your biases. That's why I read The Economist & The Wall Street Journal as a liberal, myself

I feel a duty to criticize Israel because I want to see genocide end. I used to not call it that because I saw how hateful people were towards Jews, not just Israel. But they were hateful because of a genocide. I also feel a duty to criticize anti-Semitic violence. No human being deserves harm

It's October 7, and I condemn the attacks on Israel that day, and the fact that the hostages haven't been returned. No Jew deserves violence for Israel's actions But I also grieve that Israel has lost my support since. I recognize a genocide. Calling it that isn't anti-Semitic. It's heartache

I promise Mumma, I'll be good! #corgi #corgicrew #tri-colored #dog #dogsofbluesky #corgiscrew #NovaScotia #Canada #gooddog #Buffy #slayallday

I am really tired of being sick. This cold this year is not a very mild strain. I wish I could blame my brain fog on it but that is alas a usual feature of mine. I can breathe easier through my nose, but now I have the cough that won't go away

A photo as evening approached on Burnt Lake. #Photography #Minnesota #BWCA

I have to laugh when people say they're leaving Bsky for... Threads? Because Bsky has a crappy CEO? Have I got news for you. 🫠 You couldn't pay me to go back there. They were more responsive to users but it was a rotting cesspool of girl drama and leaving felt like quitting a toxic friend

Closing in on the dahlia season finale! #dahlia #blooms #bloomscrolling #garden #nature #photography #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦