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

It is simultaneously true that these fuckers are antisemitic bastards and also it would help the moral and political position of the American Jewish community if its institutions weren't throwing down extremely hard—to the extent of collaborating with Nazis—for a genocidal ethnostate.

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

running into the lady who puts feathers into telephone poles is good luck

Our Tisha B'Av reader in collaboration w/ @atlcol.bsky.social is just as relevant, if not more, this year. You can download it (with a preface for 2025/5785) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1FDnU...

this is actually the premise of the book The Dorito Effect by mark shatzker

this is deranged, antisocial behavior

i like to play a fun game called “what quasi-useful info have i learned from a childhood of reading military sci fi where they end up on a low-tech world” todays iteration is that it is basically impossible to break an unshaken pike formation with a charge

oh what’s that? the means-tested (derogatory) program that Gov Kotek says should be the model of state-supported preschool and that she pointed to as evidence to get rid of MultCo’s Preschool for All did what? inadequate oversight & ‘potentially wasteful’ payments of $1.4 mil? cool cool cool

there is still time to submit testimony. it’s easy and just takes a few mins. OR should be investing in street safety, transit, ODOT staffing, & addressing deferred maintenance on roads & bridges thruout the state. not starting a new project w minimal public benefit that lacks a clear funding path

turning a dial that says anomie and looking back and forth at society (the dial only goes up)

leaving aside the weary arguments about the author-reader relationship and what one may owe to the other or not; ASOIAF, Kingkiller Chronicle, & Gentleman Bastards have all outlived their own promise regardless of if they’re ever finished. the genre has long since moved past their style!

With a handful of protests scheduled for this weekend, chances are there will be some kind of local police response. Legal experts say understanding the laws governing how PPB can respond is empowering, and provides a baseline for accountability. We lay it all out for you.

based on purely anecdotal evidence from my social circles, we could solve the birth rate crisis* by making uterine transplants a fully covered procedure for transfem ppl *obviously there is no actual crisis it’s just racism

back in the day i did a 3 month wilderness therapy program. most of the kids there were from exceedingly rich families. my favorite was a hollywood scion who kept on requesting that they send him his typewriter (that he would presumably lug around the utah desert???). my fav typewriter anecdote

how weird must it be to star in a show after the actor who plays your love interest married someone who looks exactly like you between seasons

Happy non-binary day and week! We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers. If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year. Shares are very much appreciated, too! www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

real ones know