Stone humidifier continues holding it's place as one of the best starter relics in STS 2 also sleight of the flesh is so strong

working for polymarket should be understood as loosely morally equivalent to, like, being paid to sell heroin (and nothing else) to 8 year olds (and nobody else)

claude code is bourgeoisie super meat boy

- CDC marks 95% population vaccination rate as "enough for herd immunity" - National vaccination rate for kindergartners is 92% - Oregon kindergartners have a 90% vaccination rate, and the vaccination rate has been falling every year for about that past decade

Unfortunately, for: - Immunocompromised kids with cancer - Babies too young for MMR vaccines - The 3% of people for whom the vaccine has low efficacy, Officials say "get fucked"

golang enthusiasts be like "check out our cute mascot" the mascot:

This is futurelock! - There is a future which needs to be polled to finish picking up a lock (it was granted a permit) - But no one is polling it, so progress cannot be made - and any other task waiting for this stuck future to complete will wait forever

hit a similar issue a few times, when I asked: - Please write a regression test first, check that it fails - Then write the fix Where claude will write an insufficient test, see that it passes, and move on happily. Such a straightforward mistake, but pretty bad if uncaught!

As someone who drives in SE PDX more than I bike, my goals are, in-order: 1. Don't murder anyone 2. Get where I'm going Making streets safer for cyclists helps me (and other drivers) do (1) without impeding (2). Bring back the planters!

Holman lane is one of my favorite hills in forest park. Yesterday I organized a little group run to go up and down it all day long. We raised a few hundred dollars for forest park conservancy! Perhaps I need to rally the runners for more hills repeat events soon 👀

> “Our fiscal system only works with immense growth,” says Mike Wilkerson, director of economic research at Portland-based ECOnorthwest. “That’s our economic strategy.” Not wrong, and choosing to ignore this will imperil way too many public services that we can't afford to lose.

Portland, estimating the cost of: bridges, schools, etc

Whenever you play a power, heal 2 HP

Is the US also bombing elementary schools, vaporizing children, to stop them from making more soldiers? God damn this sucks

Easy. Go for 100 miles. Do this backyard style: 1 beer, 1 taco, 4.1 miles every hour, for 24 hours straight.

Great story, with possibly the greatest author's disclosure of all time: "Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign."

people will use this as a pretense to fearmonger even though an average of 429 children are injured by manually operated vehicles every single day Waymo should absolutely be expected to analyze and prevent similar situations going forward, but human drivers are so dangerous

we should tax Waymo for presence in portland, and have outsized penalties for them for unsafe driving, resulting in compensation to the city/citizens. This could fund public transit options (trimet) I don't understand the pdx approach to ban technology, rather than force it to become a net good

This is a "Jane Jacob's" classic take, which would be one of the most significant ways to improve Portland. It's slightly counter-intuitive from a left political perspective, but this area (zoning) is one where I firmly believe reducing bureaucracy, mandates, & laws would be a game-changer

the recent AI discourse has me feeling things, so it's still worth stating for the record: - AI as a "self-justified product" for end-users is usually shit - AI for tooling does not release you from responsibility of what is produced - You can (and should) still do things by hand, whenever you want

Rust devs doing weird things 🤝 everyone in Minneapolis and Portland "Wow fuck this ICE"

For Rust people interested in async code at TokioConf, I'll see y'all in April!

going to start using "do you think the merlin bird ID app is evil" as a litmus test before discussing technology with people

in college I took courses on machine learning. As a part of that, we built simple neural networks - from scratch - which could generate text, make classifications, etc. If you really hate AI, consider what the breaking point might be here. Do you truly hate the technology, or the way it's applied?

It's possible to be skeptical and concerned about AI companies (disinformation, neurosis, lack of critical thinking, job security, plagiarism) while also acknowledging usage patterns of the public. quote responses to this reinforce how correct @davidcrespo.bsky.social is about "bubble opinion"

On December 13th, I'm planning to run with the Wy'east Wolfpack from sunset to sunrise to raise money for the Alano Club of Portland. Help make a difference for those in the Portland area who are struggling from substance abuse - consider donating $1 per mile. charity.pledgeit.org/MTD2025

This is the eternal question of a software developer: Am I failing to understand this because it's too clever? Or because it's too dumb?

I read the proposal. This is NOT a fee on arbitrary property owners/businesses that might have protestors. It IS a fee on detention centers that deploy chemical deterrents onto public spaces. So, in case there any confusion: it's hard to see how this would be bad for 99.99% of businesses

Group Runs in Places We Don't Have Races is returning this winter. Join us for a free and fun day on a cool trail. gobeyondracing.com/2025/11/17/g...

god damn I really miss this guy

The check engine light on my toothbrush came on and I'm just not emotionally ready to deal with that right now

I miss him so much. Ube was simply the greatest dog ever.

So, many thoughts: 1. This seems like an obviously bad idea 2. Can we have a discussion about whether or not the PCEF funding structure is actually working? Both in terms of "what it set out to do", but also, how is it possible for this fund to be such a constant raiding target?

Nothing like a respiratory illness to make you miss breathing normally

Does anyone in Portland know why the parks levy doesn't actually address the much-needed maintenance costs of running parks? I've read the following, and the situation seems dire: www.portland.gov/auditor/audi...

a guy named "chance-y bill-ups" getting arrested for an illegal poker ring is incredibly kojima-coded

Funny how thousands upon thousands of people can march through war torn Portland with absolutely no violence but some how anyone getting near a federal agent gets shot in the face.

If you think the military should be deployed into American cities because there’s the slightest tension at a protest, congratulations! You are a fascist! Lots of people want to hold fascist ideologies without realizing what they’ve become, but we have words to describe things and that’s what u are

There is day-of registration available for tomorrow's Lastest Not Fastest #justsayin gobeyondracing.com/races/lastes...

Just in case this isn't clear to anyone: - the president declared war on Portland, and wants the national guard to use full force against the "hellfire" of citizens here - our city council used to have a group chat And Willamette Week is more concerned about that second bullet point

it feels extremely jarring to try to focus on anything else while the federal government declares war on the city I live in, using rhetoric showing they're clearly hungry to murder civilians this moment feels like a calm before a (preventable, unnecessary, trump-instigated, amoral) shitstorm

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

I run by south waterfront in PDX at least once a week. People have been peacefully, persistently protesting in front of the ICE building for many months now. Nothing "new" justified any federal action - they're clearly looking for a fight. Hoping Portland can go where agents are not. (1/3)

Devastating news: I simply cannot delete my subscription to Disney+. Granted, it's because I never had a subscription.

It SHOULD go without saying, but I guess sometimes it needs to be said: If you respond to one of my Portland housing posts with the proposal to "just kill homeless people" I'm going to block you without a second thought

Have a buddy who works in construction (concrete). His job shifted his schedule, from super early to late in the evening. His union is ensuring that he can stay employed, even if that schedule becomes untenable for him. Seems like a neat case where unions truly facilitate employment!

@councilordunphy.bsky.social , has council considered a "local" version of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit? Could be a way to intervene as a city in this problem: - secures investment for development - expectation of a positive ROI, but not unbounded - the city collectively owns housing

🍴 Calories consumed: countless 💦 Liters of water consumed: about 5 💒 Weddings along the route that I crashed: 1 🫨 Times I tripped and almost ate shit: at least 10 😵 Times I tripped and actually ate shit: 1 🐕 Dogs seen along the route: many 🦉Owls that attacked us: 1

It's extremely uncanny to me that the Oregon Construction Contractor's Board website is full of AI-generated images. "Verify your contractor is real, even though we aren't!" Gross.

If I could ask @councilordunphy.bsky.social , @counciloravalos.bsky.social , and @councilorgreen.bsky.social to try to answer some questions for Portlanders during their trip, I'd ask the following: