finally, some snow!

the dopamine hit from fixing something is second to none fixing is my fix

The couple who got married during the Bad Bunny half time show got engaged at Cannon Beach www.oregonlive.com/living/2026/...

$6M in that arts fund. The city/state is trying to cobbled together $600M to renovate the Moda Center so that the Trail Blazers basketball team doesn't move to another city. Sports teams blackmail cities this way. That's $600M not there for schools, police, roads, arts, ...

Oregon gardening checklist for February 🌱

Some days I regret not going into a field of biology more than others. Today is one of those days. I wish I could be a Beaver Conflict Resolution Technician. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Made a few more today and learning you can make pretty much any stick into a whistle. This one works. 🌱

*SUPREME COURT ALLOWS NEW CALIFORNIA VOTING MAP FOR MIDTERMS

Multnomah County officials expect to have $87 million less to pay for shelters, rent assistance and eviction prevention in the next fiscal year. (Meanwhile, City of Portland may have $35M+ more?)

Did my tree pruning for the winter and had a bunch of branches without a use. With only a couple tools I made a whistle in 15 minutes, in case you might need a whistle some day soon. 🌱

Did my tree pruning for the winter and had a bunch of branches without a use. With only a couple tools I made a whistle in 15 minutes, in case you might need a whistle some day soon. 🌱

The Portland Housing Bureau has found additional unspent dollars in its coffers, adding to the previous $21 million it found through an audit last year. The uncovered funds could impact two pieces of Council business this week.

Oh no.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

run there's water coming!!! #birds

Federal officers at Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility fired a tear gas canister that shattered the window of a nearby apartment during Saturday’s protest. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

a playlist of my favorite punk songs from january + a little blog about a horrible month and the inspirational nature of punks beyond the music they make

“I was standing next to a five-year-old girl and an elderly woman in her 70’s using a walker,” he said. “I saw the 5-year-old suffering from the gas coughing so badly, dragging behind and doubling-over as they tried to leave the area.” #FuckICE #Portland www.opb.org/article/2026...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

We’re crushed to hear that Catherine O’Hara has left us. Horror fans know her work in BEETLEJUICE and THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (as well as a memorable appearance in TALES FROM THE CRYPT), but her body of creativity beyond genre is an epic one. Our condolences to all who loved her.

Oh no www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

The DOJ is now removing some Epstein Files documents it has just released.

#Bonsai Forest Friday Large liquidamber bonsai forest. 🇳🇿🌱

Not surprised. Not looking forward to it. Not giving them a single god damn inch.

Monsters

I don’t know, declaring victory in MN seems premature. They’re still arresting people and brutalizing the community. The changes appear—so far—to be cosmetic

Now we are hearing from @crockett.house.gov. She is describing the conditions that children like Liam are experiencing at Dilley. Education is thwarted; kids aren't eating. Crockett says she spoke with a 16-year-old who has been there with their family (including younger siblings) for 8 months.

I'm on the volunteer board for my local farmers market!!! Farmers markets are one of my favorite things. Cannot believe I get to work with one.

Bone Temple is incredible and anyone who remotely likes horror should see it immediately. The satanic Jimmy Savile cult, an unexpected love story, multiple dance numbers and a seriously brutal scene made for a perfect follow up to 28 Years Later. This franchise is all bangers.

We win by staying the course as long as our people need us! Please pick out a fund on the Stand with MN list to donate to today. Reply with your receipt and you can pick a destination from the list for $50 from the whistle fund. We’ll do this until we give $2,000 today. www.standwithminnesota.com

i am really excited to publish the first new WORK IS FOUR LETTERS in quite awhile. this one is with @dansinker.com, whose work i have enjoyed since i was literally a teenager. i hope you like it as much as i did, and go follow dan.

Portland author Renée Watson’s “All the Blues in the Sky” has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book.

So we’ve got premeditation and motive

387 tiny paper buildings, made in the 1950s / 60's by Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz. socks-studio.com/2013/12/06/t... They were stored in a plastic bag, before ending up in a junk shop where Oliver Croy found them in the early 2010s.

I’ve heard several people emphasize to need for a handcraft in times like these, some repetitive, manual task, to help prevent trauma from digging deeper into your psyche. I have to admit, the best hour I spent in the last week was with my son, hatcheting little wood bits for our camp stove.

Had no idea Oregon's Statehouse had top tier carpet. Never would have expected it in such a sterile looking building. www.hereisoregon.com/places/2026/...

New rendering of the James Beard Public Market, from the design review notice www.portland.gov/ppd/zoning-l...

*suddenly distracted from the horrors voice* oh hell yeah

Oregon had just begun to reap the benefits of leaps in energy efficiency and imagine a future where little or none of its electricity came from fossil fuels. Then came data centers, and extreme weather. Now the state faces a new energy crisis. @rogoway.bsky.social reports in the first of a series:

I work with a phenomenal team of journalists. Check our coverage of tonight's protests below:

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

NYT analysis confirms Pretti’s gun was gone by the time they shot him to death. 10 shots. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

National guard to control protests but not ICE. They protect power not the people.

yesterday I postponed the weekly punk column out of solidarity with a general strike. today Alex Pretti was executed by ICE on the sidewalk. you can find the new punk column on see-saw.fun for free. I can't really imagine asking for anyone's money rn. go donate to a mutual aid fund. fuck ICE.

The fact they’re arresting people who are assembling peacefully instead of the federal agent who just executed one of their residents is pathetic. Up to this point I have been pretty careful not to get to this point rhetorically but we’re over the edge, there’s a burden of responsibility.

Learn what extinction burst behavior is and how we are seeing it in real time. Recognize it for what for is: desperation, not strength. Panic, not control. They only win if we hand them a win bc they're losing hard, that's why they escalate.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Yes. And this is the moderate position.

There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.