If you are running as a pro-union candidate, then use union printing and union shops. Seeing quite a bit of “I’m pro worker and pro union” lit out there without a union bug. (And we have great union shops in town if ppl need reccs, and union partners who print).

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At any point my lifetime, the most extreme views you could find anywhere in the conservative universe became the mainstream GOP position within 5, 10 years. As reliably as the tides came in and went out.

One of my favorite little parts about the redrawing of my research map is that I was finally able to more accurately show the clever bi-directional loop that sent cars to/from the Kings/Arlington Heights lines efficiently, as shown in this 1913 Fred Routledge illustration.

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Congrats

Disgruntled former employee is not the motive I would have guessed.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Kids in the Hall Mr Rogers Neighborhood The Muppet Show 30 Rock Breaking Bad Barry How To With John Wilson The Rehearsal Great British Bakeoff Community Parks & Rec Boardwalk Empire Jeopardy Too Cute Kittens 80s/90s Infomercials

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This game is really helping me improve my knowledge of the geography of Portland suburbs.

Routle - TriMet 04/24/2026 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ www.routle.city/trimet

When I say that streetcars built Portland, this is what I mean – here's a "Vernon" streetcar at the end of the line at Alberta and 25th, c. 1903, with no buildings to be seen anywhere. First named for the new addition it served, the line soon changed name to reference the street it traveled along.

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Uhhh

What up, fellow kids?

When the tv show “The Apprentice” first came out, I thought, “who wants to see this piece of shit be an asshole to people?” And then it was a big hit and I learned a lesson about how gross & debased most of America is.

Peak Portland racism is complaining about how hard it is to pronounce a word where the pronunciation is spelled on the fucking sign. Handwringing about which Custer this park was named for does not change one fact: it's stolen land. www.wweek.com/culture/2026...

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Routle - TriMet is a pretty fun way to test your Portland area transit/geography knowledge! I keep eating shit on the westside lines.

With every U.S. war of aggression, it’s so gross how mainstream media spends so much time centering it around the effects on the stock market.

I love playing this little freak: the Smartest Dumb Guy and/or the Dumbest Smart Guy in this particular fantasy world.

Here's a news article from 90 years ago (The Oregonian, 2/5/1936) about a city official who keeps getting swatted.

Lemurs: what if a monkey was a cat Baboons: what if a monkey was a dog

At work, I've had a handful of times now where someone's provided me incongruous information or data that falls apart under basic review and it turns out that the person's casually using A.I. without questioning the output at all.

Thing that seemed sketchy at the outset continues to look really fucking sketchy

RIP Jesse Jackson. The main thing I know about him is how in the 80s & 90s mainstream media presented him as a wacky fringe character with his "Rainbow Coalition" and quixotic presidential campaigns. So today there's a little dissonance seeing obituaries about how influential & respected he was.

Ocean freight shipping is my job, so that's my excuse for immediately looking up the price of this thing.

having identical reactions to people when they say they use chatgpt for something as when they say that they ate at jersey mike's or a subway... i'm not religious but you're aware you only have the one human soul, right. why are you feeding it into a paper shredder

I’m still really curious about what the loud explosion from 11:13pm last night was. Over on Reddit, there’s a theory that it was a meteor, which seems a lot more plausible than a firework as originally suspected (it was way louder than that). It was “The Big Boom” [March 2010] loud.

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Anybody know what the big explosion sound about 10 minutes ago in Portland was? #pdx

I saw a real uptick in this after Pretti’s murder, including from some accounts that should know better. Even if I’m on your side politically, I’m likely to Block or Mute if you’re spreading slop.

My afternoon

The irony of my child’s sign they were so proud to bring this afternoon.

As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.

Congress voted this year to give $170 billion to the government thugs that murder people in concentration camps and execute citizens in the streets.

If not getting enough engagement on social media makes you think about quitting art, then you are creating art for the wrong reasons

Portland City Council is meeting again tomorrow to vote on council president. The 6 members who were unwilling to compromise & vote in a progressive member are dug in. Please click and send a quick email to urge a vote for Councilor Kanal, an amazing public servant: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

There’s websites that track the movement of ships and planes and today I thought,”Oh, let’s find one for trains!” (there’s a railway next to my work.) It turns out that those don’t exist, and then I realized that trains are a lot easier to sabotage or rob than planes and boats.

Just began seeing the news about an hour ago, still catching up, and just got a Signal message from a friend who doesn't live in the U.S.: "Do you think we'll still be able to communicate now that your president has started WW3?"

It's the end of the second year of the project, so let's look at the stats for 2025: — Articles: 2,187 (+995 this year) Maps: 140 (+58) Streetcar companies: 69 (+26) Streetcar lines: 77 (+9) Interurban lines: 23 (+15) People: 9 (+9) Rolling stock: 16 (+16) Remnants/Removals: 72 (+72)

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

This year marked a new beginning for Portlanders after 100 years of local government operating at a glacial pace. It was the first under Portland’s new form of government. We asked councilors to reflect on their achievements and give us a sneak peek at what's to come in 2026.

I was visiting New York in the early 2000s and my buddy I was walking with nudged me and pointed out a guy pushing a stroller: “That’s Ethan Hawke!!” My response was “Who is Ethan Hawke?”

Been doing some deep-cleaning of the apartment and uh I think that I can probably recycle this