imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

The new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary is a sprawling love note to Portland's most far-out visionary. The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!

The new Can Can Portland theater looks amazing! Can't wait to check this place out.

Blazers announce they've added KSTW in Seattle to their list of regional over-the-air partner stations carrying their game broadcasts.

Pie varieties in order: 1. Tart Cherry 2. Peach (cobbler is better though) 3. Apple (with cheddar in crust) 4. Pumpkin 5. Sweet Cherry

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.* So many forget that last part.

Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine

zoom in to see how happy tbh

I love this so much. Macaulay Culkin carried that movie on his back. Remarkable for a child actor. Plus it still holds up!

“if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000…”

Are you in the military? Are you concerned that the chain is command is fucking up and giving illegal orders? Call the GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487 girightshotline.org

good grief. One of the AI slop cake recipes was a 6 inch cake cooked for 4 hours at 320°F. 

Cops get very upset at the inkling of oversight and people who watch Copaganda and are not affected by crime but get so wrapped up in theoretical crime fight tooth and nail to make sure the imaginary police force in their head exists.

Nope. It is LITERALLY the first thing I would do if I was a billionaire. I would form a company, hire all my friends and a shitload of logistics 'officers', buy a venue. Get uniforms. The full works. Money is wasted on people like Musk.

Still the greatest rule in any wargame in history.

"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line

The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

It ain’t the first time RFK has prompted this kind of enemy of my enemy statement, but it’s good to see each time.

Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111. "I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021. Geoff Bennett has more.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

This thread is a delight

A local artist traded me some odd objects for some of my art. One was a soup bomb. I assumed ”bomb” meant it was for the bath, maybe a little vegetal. My mom LOVES baths. Turns out it was soup. In a ball. And my mom had to call for help to get out of the bathtub.

This is a crazy story: ICE/CBP took a Coast Guard Rescue helicopter from this shall town in Oregon. The major industry is harvesting Dungeness Crab which is dangerous, the Coast Guard is needed for rescues. www.opb.org/article/2025...

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Any bomb you can see from 300 miles away is a bomb that is too fucking big. And for reference: calisphere.org/item/67bcb98... calisphere.org/item/5de8d4d...

no thoughts only vibes

get those green beans the fuck off my screen

From now on I'm ending every unwanted interaction by threatening to call the Coast Guard.

WITHOUT CONSENT (out now)

The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries

Such a great thread.

I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum. Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."

The expensive solution - an exploratory surgery with all the problems described above - costs about $50,000 per hippo, with the added expense of "all of these highly paid experts need to be able to *run for it* at a moment's notice.

YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*

Perfect loaf of cinnamon bread.

A rare instance of finding her asleep on the *clean* towels instead of the dirty towels.

Orange has always been a peculiar little cat…

we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."

All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Thinks it’s kind of sexist to deny the fact white women can be just as racist as white men.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.