started playing hollow knight and it is Very Good (yes i am a bit late to the party)

one of my boomer coworkers is an avid avid fantasy reader and i mentioned in our team checkin i had been reading this novel called fourth wing and she just started wheezing from laughter lmao

it is a little sad that none of the talmudic sages got to experience the joy of potato

cool that it’s illegal for utilities to raise rates between nov to march so they just do it on october 31

back on my fantasy of manner kick, rereading the goblin emperor, perhaps hands of the emperor next?

heaping chili over potato kugel with zhoug on top slaps fr

another win in my ongoing crusade against OHSU billing - they just wrote off hundreds of dollars bc they issued a GFE for an insurance-covered appt and charged 20x what the GFE showed. i think they’re just afraid of getting reported to CMS for No Surprised Act vio, esp for gender affirming care

this is a portion of a drash i gave at shul for matot-massei over the summer. all the feedback i got from other synagogue members about it was positive

frankly it is astounding that JFed Portland is demanding an apology from 4 city councilors for... being at a zoom press conference has Marc Blattner apologized for this? it is still up on the Jewish Federation website, so clearly that's their position even today jewishportland.org/israel/nocea...

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

the leyning maven at my shul extended a personal invitation for me to join his advanced trope class (which is just for his former students, and i have never taken a class with him). not sure if i should be flattered or insulted lol

it turns out actually Doing Activism makes me feel less miserable about what I see on the internet news who knew

Please come through and show some support! It is needed more than ever as the rhetoric and tactics from the feds continue to escalate. Pull up after the No Kings march or instead of it, whatever works for you! Please share too!

reminds me of how when i used to live in DC, i would get deranged instagram ads for lockheed martin and northrop grumman. why do they advertise to the general public??

i have so much zhoug!! what is one meant to do with so much zhoug

my clinic asked me to fill out an annual demographic form and i asked how the data was stored and who they would report it to. the staff couldn’t answer, and said “i’ll just put you down as refused to cooperate” this is a clinic specifically created to serve low income queers. what the actual fuck

getting distracted from the very serious action by the hottie legal observer 🥵

exercising my g-d given, constitutional right as an american to incessantly text my friend on the portland parks board about off leash dogs

Running Down the Walls PDX 2025 is coming up! Come out and raise some funds for the ABCF Warchest to support political prisoners. Files available here if you'd like to print and propagate the flyer: 🔗 grafera.zone/archive/illu...

chat does inviting someone to YK break fast as a third date count as u hauling??

i am OUTRAGED to learn that the yacht club is not accessible by public transit. how am i supposed to get blackout drunk at an old man’s expense and winsomely wave a handkerchief at the sailboat races

hell yeah now do OHSU next

i took my gf to a queer spanish opera and now she is opera-pilled

i’m kinda over the main live triangle in TSITP but i am LIVING for steven-taylor-denise. obvs it’ll end in chaotic heartbreak bc they’re straight mono people in a tv show, alas

got the ick because the spine of his das capital was smooth

my mother asked me to go thru displayed family photos in her house to approve/not (this is a good thing to ask ur trans children) but when i disapproved all post-puberty ones she was kinda shocked and was like “soo all of them basically” like yeah, is that surprising??

i choose to believe it’s “خوق تواه" now imagine it pronounced in different accents… i need a tiktok star to make this!!

please clap, i just said no to some new potential commitments

when the evening service on your bus route gets cut in november, just remember: julie fahey just saved you two dollars starting in 2027 on a tax you didn’t know existed so she could get zero extra republican votes on a transportation funding bill

many author pivots are interesting/funny but naomi novik going from ‘epic 9-book retelling of the globalized napoleonic wars but with sentient dragons’ to ‘feminist jewish fairy tales’ is my personal fave

watching sabrina carpenter music videos makes me want to get stockings

I also recommend this doxcare guide. Even if you think you might not be at high risk of being doxed, the information hygiene advice in here is good. crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

found out i’m the first Jewish person my gf has dated (she is also Jewish) and i immediately chanted “ha-rishonah” gabbai-style and we burst out laughing

this is both cute and incredibly cursed at the same time

when we took the omelas child out of the internet we all became the omelas child in the internet

how is made in heights not on spotify!!

wait did I really never post this one

pretty sure i saw @candaceavalos.bsky.social riding the FX2 doing an interview earlier today. always nice to see councilors on transit that so many Portlanders use!

My contacts at U of Oregon have asked to circulate this to-do list + this list of contacts to call and write to speak against the proposed evisceration of several programs (and termination of affiliated tenure-track, tenured, and career faculty). For context: newsletter.uauoregon.org/after-accept...

every time anyone complains about property taxes in pdx i tell them to blame police and fire pensions. usually (bc of the politics of people who complain about property taxes in pdx) they immediately shut up

perhaps the fundamental issue with our economy is that most nominal value is in derivatives; and there’s never going to be another invention that creates a commodity frontier on the scale of financial derivatives from the 1970s onwards

Over the next two years, we are updating our Transportation System Plan (TSP) -our 20-year plan to guide transportation projects, programs, policies, and investments in Portland. The first step is defining the TSP's Vision and Goals – the north star the rest of the Plan will aim to reach.

like 80% of this book is laughing about bad shit, it’s the majority of my people’s humor culture

Today’s court order blocks the federal government from using Oregon’s Medicaid data for immigration enforcement— protecting vulnerable communities and preserving access to vital healthcare.

if you are under the age of 40 and have a praise kink, may i recommend regularly leyning at shul

Multnomah County will open three daytime cooling centers starting today: Monday, Aug. 11, at noon. The cooling centers will provide food and water. No one will be turned away, and pets are welcome. Locations and additional info on our response to the dangerous heat can be found at multco.us/hot

i stopped at a garage sale on a walk and found a library book mixed in with the other books, so i offered to return it to the library and the person running it still asked for a dollar for the book???? absolutely deranged

it’s gotta be David Weber