oh but when I do it people are all like "are you OK" and "did you eat lunch today" and "can somebody take her to urgent care?" instead of listening to my ideas

Newspapers got a lot of things right. Serious news up front, comics, horoscopes and crosswords in the back. When you're tired of the news, you turn to the goofy stuff. Social media just vomits everything into the same canal.

i don't trust people who have an opinion on everything. like, there's no way you know enough about everything to have formed an opinion. sometimes you just don't know. and that's fine.

It’s so cool that our bodies work in such a way that you can accidentally brush your hand against the stove pulling a pizza out of the oven and have a mark on you for the rest of your life reminding you you’re too dumb to cook pizza

me reading the discourse

“I Love You, But I Hate It Here” focuses on Kade Dale’s upbringing on a farm in Idaho.

The union drive comes during a tumultuous time for the iconic comics publisher.

Really proud of Rachel Saslow's work on this piece, which was first conceived as a quick-hit blog post and ended up being so much more. (Also, props to the art department for producing an original illustration that captures these book covers' Dadaist vibes.)

we celebrate roses for a whole month and I think that's nice

i almost posted a take about graham platner and then i remembered i could just do my favorite activity, Absolutely Anything Else

Also, based on some posts I've seen today about this story, it seems like we're having yet another "Writing about something skeptically is not endorsing it" and "Read the goddamn piece first" kind of day on here.

This piece is so funny and insane and gets at something we need to keep asking ourselves as A.I. encroaches: what effect is it having, or not having, on US? If it's performing for us, what do we feel, or not feel, as the audience? What exactly about humans does it make us crave instead?

Your New Righteous Causes as a Portland Fire Fan www.wweek.com/sports/2026/... via @christenmccurdy.bsky.social #WNBA

Pretty fun that Springsteen managed to organize an America 250 concert line up that people actually want to see.

The hard rock segment included: Ted Nugent Foghat Rick Derringer Mahogany Rush (Whose frontman played a rock rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner") Head East Plus: Dionne Warwick The 5th Dimension Anita Bryant Chita Rivera The Young Americans And no one was ashamed to be included.🤷‍♀️ 2/2

Just in case you were wondering, our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 was held in multiple venues, and the artists included: The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Loggins & Messina (Their final performance before splitting up) Dan Fogelberg Elton John The Beach Boys America Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen 1/2

For #caturday, a thread of Chinese cat night-lights, porcelain figures made since the Ming period, often for the export market. A candle was placed inside with the light shining through the cat's eyes, reportedly intended for children afraid of the dark & perhaps also to scare off rats

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

My continuing emblem of hope. Whatever else we are, we are also the creatures who saved, and are still saving, the condors, and that is a beacon of the best of us. 15 healthy chicks at one conservation center! Unimaginable abundance. Miraculous future-insistent stubbornly-hopeful recovery. A model.

Mike Love must be so mad right now

Cat friends of Bluesky: do you have recommendations for good enrichment/puzzle type toys? So far Flannery’s grief is seemingly manifesting as (highly vocal) boredom and it’s gonna be a long summer if this keeps up

Quick, summarize America in one headline

I feel like just about everything strongly associated with Portland/western Oregon (Voodoo, Salt & Straw, Burgerville, etc.) is something people love to dunk on or distance themselves from in some way, which sucks some of the fun out of this game for me. We're already doing this! All the time!

I became a reporter because I like using my brain to find and interpret information! I became a writer because I like to write!

I'm not going to link or screenshot the main-character article of the day, but I will say, as exhausting as I find the constant pressure to use generative AI, what I find even more exhausting is the seeming desire of AI promoters to believe everybody already is using it. For the record, I'm not.

BRING BACK THE BIG BUDGET SUMMER ROMCOM

It does not seem like an overreaction to make the Portland Fire your entire personality.

I just got the most vitriolic hate mail I've received in 20+ years of journalism...about this piece (it closes with "Fuck you and fuck the WNBA")! Oh well

thought this was a great wnba 101 by @christenmccurdy.bsky.social www.wweek.com/sports/2026/...

A come and take it flag with an egg potato and cheese taco

Circumcision Tylenol / I can’t take it anymore

On a new Portland reality show, your dog picks your date.

Daniel Lavery’s novel starts as “Heartburn” for platonic breakups—but ends up somewhere else entirely.

“Ascent Effort” displays the trio’s evolved, explosive, and unwieldy sound.

Apruzzese has photographed about 200 junk drawers in Portland so far.

current mood:

INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.

Time and time again it feels like the “how do I get into media type x” question is best answered by “approach it as a deeply appreciative consumer first” but people just want to skip that step, as if you can have a career making [whatever] without first becoming a true sicko

I deleted this app from my phone a while back and am mostly happier this way, but I’m reinstalling to share a few last photos of Harper, who left us yesterday. She was an ex-stray who was terrified of indoor living at first, but became the most loving cat you can imagine. We loved her so much.

LIBRARY!

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Author Cheryl Strayed announced the filmmaker’s death Friday morning on Instagram.

girl are you Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey because you haven't even gotten here and a bunch of weird dudes are already whining that you weren't created specifically to meet their expectations

I've been thinking about it and I decided I want to live in a 1980s Mountain Dew commercial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN4p...

I'm enormously proud of this week's cover package, which features six notable Portlanders showing us around neighborhoods they love: www.wweek.com/culture/2026...

Not since Travel Oregon’s Studio Ghibli-style campaign have we seen our home turf animated so beautifully.

i don't think it's true that if i was like Bloomberg Index rich you'd never hear from me again. the temptation would be too great. but if i was just mid-tier rich, you would only hear from me if you went to my bookshop that also sometimes serves breakfast potatoes.

I'm enormously proud of this week's cover package, which features six notable Portlanders showing us around neighborhoods they love: www.wweek.com/culture/2026...

We started out with specific neighborhoods in mind, but sometimes our subjects took us on, well, some side quests.