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Portland City Council is cleanly split between a “close fire stations, defund wildly popular voter initiatives, and glaze the cops with cash” bloc and a “keep fire stations open, uphold voter initiatives, and cut managerial bloat” bloc

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

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Hokum is 2026's Weapons, in that I'm not going to shut up about how good it was for MONTHS

📢 We’re raising a small pre-seed round for @heckbrewing.com as we head into the summer to support our first sales hire, grow our independent distribution, and introduce new quarterly seasonals: deck.heckbrewing.com Hit me up if you’d be interested in hearing more: [email protected]

i am fine spending my tax dollars on schools and roads and medicine and the like. i would prefer not to spend my tax dollars on a new stadium while my teacher friends go on furlough. Oregon is in financial crisis. $200 million for a nicer stadium is idiotic.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

INTROIT & PROPHECY AT 1420 MHZ OUT NOW. VIDEO BY ROBERT BEATTY. INFERNO. 29 MAY 2026. warp.net/introit-prop...

If John and Hank Green ever want to retire from doing Vlogbrothers I have a great idea for who should take over

The Oregon legislature failed to pass a comprehensive transportation package in 2025, and now TriMet and transit agencies across the state are beginning to face massive cuts to service. It's imperative we restore and expand transit service in the 2027 legislative session. https://loom.ly/RoS4Syk

OK do I need to be the one to plan a Boards of Canada listening party for Portland or what's up

i’m not haunted. please dont put it in the newspaper that i’m haunted

Heads up! Today is your last chance to order our limited edition merch, including tees, embroidered sweatshirts, caps, felt and enamel pins, XOXO Lego sets, and our Lower Your Expectations light sign. Don’t miss out! xoxofest.com/merch

The River Honey Robot Stop The Dripping Tap Rattlesnake Supercell Perihelion Grow Wings and Fly Head On / Pill Float Along - Fill Your Lungs

crystal ballroom fml 😭😭😭

If they don’t pay taxes then who gives a shit. Bye 👋

In addition to producing my own independent creative events, my studio Regular works with companies and organizations to bring their people together, from intimate one-day conferences to multi-day community festivals: regular.events Need help with your next event? Get in touch: [email protected]

Let me tell you about this ridiculous book I made for @xoxofest.com.

Something from the XOXO merch sale that may have gone unnoticed: we also made an enamel pin of the Empathy Symbol, which became popular as an emoji reaction in the XOXO community Slack. buyolympia.com/Item/xoxo-em...

This is extremely good.

Today was such a gift. Thank you everyone who took the time to tell us you appreciate this thing we made. The website and the festival. My phone hasn’t stopped buzzing all day. I really needed it.

One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com

please also don't forget to buy the lego sets they might be the coolest merch item i've ever worked on

WEBSITES!!!

As someone who only knows how to work really very hard on things, let me tell you, no joke, I worked harder on this than anything I've ever worked on before, including any previous year of the festival. Letting myself feel relieved and proud today 💛

Finally launching something tomorrow that I've been working on for over 2 years. 10+ years technically, but. You'll see. GAH IT'S ALL FINALLY DONE AND NOW I JUST GET TO BE EXCITED!!

HELL YEAH

AHHHHHH ITS-HAPPENING.GIF !!!

Stage managers. What you’re looking for is stage managers

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

When I was 10, I temporarily convinced my best friend that I had a time machine, and for weeks he would send me home with questions (mostly about whether he’d end up with a girl in our class he liked), and I’d come in the next day with stories about their happily married home life.

replace the national anthem with TV On The Radio doing "Wolf Like Me" on Letterman in 2011

absolutely impossible to overstate how critical Jonathan’s elbow grease has been to the larger local transportation advocacy ecosystem over the past twenty years

I’ll miss Lloyd Center as a core institution of NE Portland. But am so excited for what will come next for this great location w easy transit access We need more low barrier, dense commercial space across the city, as shown by Lloyd Center’s strange and vibrant second life of small biz & popups

It’s really happening!!

i mean great job New York, but we have democratic socialism at home 💛

Ranch Boundaries, yeehaw 🤠

flashbacks of the shot of the Linotype getting demolished in Linotype: The Film 💔

I hope my friends on Substack will once again consider leaving the service that gives a platform to abhorrent people like Andrew Tate.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

astronauts on the moon. affordable college for everybody. building a ton of housing for families. vaccines to end cancers. we can have all this cool stuff if you just vote for the people that want to do it. we can do so much great stuff. put down your anger. great things are right there.

Portland almost demolished a good chunk of Southeast for a freeway. Almost! I wrote a bit about the never-constructed Mount Hood Freeway for the @portlandmercury.com Transportation Issue.

hey hey i also love the moon! so much so I have this beautiful tattoo of it on my right arm that no one ever really gets to see!