shame on the Harry Merlo Foundation, who owns the land in question, for pulling out of this. Merlo was one of Oregon’s last sketchy sexpest timber barons and his foundation is really fumbling an opportunity to burnish that legacy

me, being the squeakiest wheel in the world while constantly filing grievances against my health insurance: Thank you for your attention to this matter!

my gf found out about snail mucin in skincare and she is VERY upset

Haman was just brutally framemogged while trying to jestermaxx the Jews by gigachad Mordechai. Mordechai doesn’t bow. Doesn’t flinch. Just stands there aura-maxxed. With Haman's cortisol spiked and King Ahasuerus unable to ignore the Foids, Mordechai, Esther and the Jews just cloutbombed Shoshan.

@agdanrayfield.bsky.social this business is violating the OCPA. there is no way for OR residents to request our privacy rights. proof: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...

i am excited for fields of mistria update 4 in a couple weeks, that game is a delight

the forbidden tzedakah box

Arabic verb form IX has entered the chat

Nathan Vasquez could’ve said this, and he didn’t, and that was a choice

hard to imagine but the data does in fact show PPB is getting more racist over time

washington county just announced a bid for consultants for a "jail expansion feasibility and visioning study". is that really what the county should be spending money on in this moment? wtf procurement.opengov.com/portal/washi...

gf: my most entertaining story involves a corpse in a fridge me: 🙊

my parents said they would pay for me to trans faster

rough new for oregonians :/

Tonight at 7pm at Fremont Methodist Church, we're hosting a panel on the US/Israel alliance moderated by DSA member @lydiakiesling.bsky.social

yiddish has a word just for the bimbo dolls 😭

sometimes i wonder if i am a little too hair-trigger on escalating bureaucratic issues. like for example today i was prepared to request a DOJ investigation into medicaid waste & abuse bc a medical provider told me i had a 1 hr electrolysis appt then gave me a 45min one

Idk how many Portlanders are on bsky but if you live in #PDX & rely on/care about public transit, please go do this TriMet survey on their proposed service cuts. These cuts will be devastating to low-income & disabled folks all over the city, so please be loud about how much these will suck

FACTCHECK

ok i made my iphone grayscale and it is kinda a game changer fr. just more pleasant overall

this sucks and is a direct consequence of the barely believable incompetence of Oregon’s governing Democrat supermajority trifecta

This lays at the feet of the state legislature. This is their fault for not doing the job we elected them to do.

this makes my blood fucking boil. sweeps kill. talk to your neighbors living outside about it and how you can support them. in my experience, having a “respectable” person present & challenging rapid response can make it more likely for folks to keep their belongings

my partner and i both read torah today and when we passed each other going to/from the bima our tzitzit got tangled and the rabbi audibly said “oh that’s cute” lmaoo

my partner and i both read torah today and when we passed each other going to/from the bima our tzitzit got tangled and the rabbi audibly said “oh that’s cute” lmaoo

the heating pad stays ON during sex

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (August)

ELK

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

this is so embarrassing. where are they going to get $2 billion? literally nowhere

if preschool for all has more resources than it needs for universal preschool we should consider expanding to a full universal childcare program

this sort of infill development should be legal all across inner SE

big pipe is full, folks

my gf and i were telling my dad about how someone at shul emailed us both trying to recruit us as Young Jews for an event and he was so confused bc he thought we had created a joint email address?? we’ve been dating less than a year lol tldr my dad invented a new form of uhauling

i looked it up and based on the most recent 990s (2023), OPB’s CEO made at least $550k (and potentially another $50k of non-reportable compensation). ghastly

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!