i wish i could eat it

this feels like it was workshopped in anticipation of an ICE agent getting shot, and they decided to roll it out now even though they have yet to successfully incite that specific event

y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)

"shitting on ai makes you sound like a Luddite" oh okay, thank you! Luddites were cool as hell

I did. Thank you @pcperini.com!

wealthy people who are supposedly leaving Portland because of PFA tax have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

I still remember when the fed pulled the gun on this guy in 2020, for some reason every service and gig worker in Portland knew that this had happened well before any journalist had printed the details. The story spread over city's entire working class in an instant.

For reference, the Portland Metro Chamber (Portland Business Alliance) endorsed these candidates in the 2024 city council races. The six who were elected are voting as a bloc

public ownership of NW Natural NOW

Socialize utilities. It’s madness that these are private monopolies

anytime a duck shows up on my deck in front of the patio door after dark you know something is up. I guess they got scared because this raccoon came by to wash his hands

oh I do have this one! ok stupid thing about me: I absolutely adore Ericaceae and I kind of hoard them. a lil bit

I suspect a comrade in England made this meme. I should make another with local carbon

I adore this downy woodpecker. she comes by throughout the day and just squeaks with apparent delight about her suet cake #birds #nationalbirdday

I'd like to call on @reformandrevolution.org and @portlanddsa.bsky.social to similarly leave the child abuse website.

trump saying kidnapping is “not a bad term” is the same thing as when he said it was ok for Mamdani to call him a fascist. The goal is to normalize and neuter those words, thereby normalizing the associated acts and inure people to them

Trump has aimed to turn American workers against their immigrant colleagues. Labor leaders say it backfired.

Because it's a tough news day & also #caturday, I feel like you all just need to know about Romare Bearden's cat, Gippo. Bearden, one of the leading American artists of the 20th century and a steadfast chronicler of Black life, had a cat named Gippo whom he clearly adored

any democrat who hedges on this should be screamed at until they quit tbh and if they don't, they should lose their next primary

I think he just understands signal/noise which is admittedly vanishingly rare among democrats

I mean…

It’s absolutely crazy how awful X, or Twitter, is now. The Grok stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. I went over there for five minutes to do my banking and it was absolutely appalling.

here’s another one. this is a song about the difficulty of getting out of an abusive relationship. a distinctive feature is a tritone substitution for a whole bar (penultimate measure of B section); the tritone represents the devil, of course

last month I dug my old gig book out of the attic and started getting back into these tunes via my new-to-me instrument (bass) it’s a real trip to play these on a completely different instrument! This particular song is, as of today, in the public domain

it would be meaningless and disingenuous for me, an atheist, to swear on a bible. I’d swear on this tho

it’s like he’s talking directly to @tinakotek.bsky.social!

he’s not talking about Republicans here, Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social

oh my god the crowd is losing their minds screaming "tax the rich" 2026 is the year of the guillotine

People are yelling TAX THE RICH.

this tomato plant made it all the way to new year’s day AND has fruit. wild

mayor mamdani in 24 hours 😎

finally brought this in. I like having plants in my house!

understand that I am a hardcore lover of the arguably perverse dry summer climate, and that is what drives most of this

hear hear! (says the lady with the duck as pfp) 🤓

ok here you go, you can have these. I made them with an older version of photoshop that doesn't have any AI features. The fonts are Berlin Sans by David Berlow, and Acumin by Robert Slimbach.

here's a sketch, open to critique

“Ai-Free” like the rBST-Free” badge on dairy products

cats are either liquid, OR bobbin case

cats are either liquid, OR bobbin case

thing is it’s probably achievable

aha so THAT’s why the hummingbird juice hasn’t been going down as fast in the feeders

has anyone read this, or do you want to read it? I kinda need an accountability/study partner

(noting for later) state capture: the use of public power to pursue private interests at the expense of the public

has anyone read this, or do you want to read it? I kinda need an accountability/study partner

RETVRN, COMRADES

I can’t get over this

obligatory annual OMG IT SMELLS AMAZING IN MY KITCHEN!!! post

in seriousness I did some rough arithmetic some years back to figure this out. it’s a political question but the money is mostly already there theweek.com/articles/792...