i don't harbor any illusion that it's even possible to opt-out of every AI, every absurd overreach of data collection and invasion of privacy, but it does feel good to toggle everything off that you can get your hands on, if only out of spite

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

Dr Hancox-Li's thread is a great rebuttal, and to it I would add - even if a home is affordable, if it's located farther from good jobs (aka, suburban sprawl), it also means substantial costs of both time and money for transportation that aren't included in traditional housing affordability metrics

if we do indeed get widespread uptake in autonomous vehicles, without proactive bold radical policy it will be an unprecedented nightmare of congestion on our roads and highways, with significant air pollution and climate implications, and also all urban streets will just be downright unpleasant

It’s like the blazers knew i was about to turn it off

I increasingly believe Jordan Lewis is the best public testimony giver in the city, and it may not even be close. The absolute goat of saying whatever needs to be said to whatever feral morons are in the crowd or behind the dais

pretty sure @indinmkng.bsky.social just dropped a subtle "Lisa Needs Braces" reference in her senate transportation committee testimony today about the need for greater reform of odot's bonding authority

Post-leg days late night chinese takeout window looked at my order and gave me three pairs of chopsticks

I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

Dan Ryan’s social media is so bad and somehow only getting worse to the point he might have a humiliation fetish. Didn’t even know you could get ratio’d like this on instagram

Councilor Avalos' live-tweeting thread about the state of Portland's Inclusionary Housing is worth reading. IH is now working in Portland because the program is fully funded - ensuring that we build mixed-income neighborhoods while also encouraging more housing production across the city.

it will be insanely funny if the end result of this is California getting a blue gerrymander while Texas's is struck down. RIP Kevin Kiley, deleted by Gavin Newsom for nothing at all.

There's so much going on here: - Trump plans to launch strikes on World Cup co-host Mexico due to drug trafficking (???) - And invade Seattle and LA if they don't "behave" (???) - FIFA's Gianni Infantino then agrees Trump can take matches away from cities (???) www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

You heard it here first- the only legal highway improvement in Idaho is congestion pricing (reduces congestion, reduces travel delays, reduces engine idle time, reduces unproductive fuel consumption).

the absurdity of having my quotidian daily routine occasionally interrupted by a local neighborhood anti ICE signal chat, sending out an alert to ask all nearby folks to show up at the bus stop to make sure kids or their parents aren’t abducted by the federal government on their way home from school

This feels like a bit i’d have expected from Waystar Royco’s ATN

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

Also see: why Mayor Wilson deserves more time and money to get things done but also City Council is a mess entirely because of Angelita and Candace.

oh goodness yes

bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on

“Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.”

blazers are goddamn fun this year

gobsmacked by how broken America is but how stubbornly resilient and determined and inspiring some Americans are

nicely timed for World Day of Remembrance #wdor

new seasons strike authorized for next month. can donate to the strike fund here: www.nslu.org/donate

save the date

y’all weren’t kidding. Andor is spectacular. Wish it wasn’t so relevant

love seeing this kinda adoration for the stranger in the New York Times

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Elevator buttons be like 1, 1A, 1B what is this the Rose Quarter freeway project

The mayor-elect of Seattle fucking Washington standing in a picket line for Starbucks workers hours after her victory speech. This rules so hard

Really wish every housing advocacy organization was comfortable loudly condemning this sorta shit

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

cannot emphasize how limited public benefit projects like this create while costing untold hundreds of millions of dollars that could instead go to virtually any other infrastructure project imaginable. Just a profound embarrassing policy failure

My god what a sunset

even setting aside my general anti-change instincts, i think this is the dumbest idea imaginable for mls for a gajillion reasons but on the other hand if it means that the thorns have civic stadium all to themselves all summer, so be it

trees, homes, cars/parking. Cities can only choose two!

PNW Board Member @amb.fyi testified in support of the Morillo Amendment at last night's council hearing. Thank you to @councilormorillo.bsky.social, @councilorgreen.bsky.social, @jamiedunphy.bsky.social, @councilorkanal.bsky.social and @councilortkl.bsky.social for your support of the amendment.

"Now Governor Kotek has an opportunity to heal her wounded transportation legacy by picking an ODOT director that is humble enough to change the status quo and courageous enough to create a new one."

"City leaders said not a single person showed up in support of ICE." hell yeah, Newport.

People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.

legitimately wild congestion pricing wasn’t an issue in New York’s mayoral election

trump was president then!

today has not been a great day for my adhd, i'll tell you what

ODOT Director announcing his resignation on the 55th anniversary of exploding whale day is VERY funny to me ODOT: “We blow up whales, budgets, and careers!”

Removing fares from transit can have positive impacts. But... We need to consider the potential trade offs. "Would you rather have a free bus that comes every 30 minutes or pay $2 for a bus that will come every 8 minutes?" t4america.org/2025/11/12/f...

something profoundly broken about people weaponizing their children as a reason that we should continue to invest in sweeping the homeless. Why is sheltering your children from having to see poverty and injustice more important than just building a policy where we eliminate poverty and injustice?

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

woah woah woah let’s not be hasty everyone, when was the last time that jeff swickard or the PPA steered us wrong??? now hang on a minute while i take a big sip of my coffee

This naked attempt by wealthy special interests to steal these funds from low income Portlanders under the guise of “public safety” is ugly and frankly, offensive. #orpol www.wweek.com/news/city/20...