Winco-Pilled. Is this anything?

The latest print issue of @streetroots.bsky.social is a devastating read, even if you won’t read every word. 16 pages of items city contractors took during sweeps in the first half of 2025. Data, presented without comment, tells the real, human-centered story of unsheltered Portland homelessness.

I was told this was impossible without giving cops more money. Was I lied to? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Just read something about psych meds saying "it's better to be fat in an apartment than skinny in jail" and thought 'oh God...some people probably do think it's better to be skinny in jail'

I want to take a moment to thank my local bluesky community. I try to minimize negative personal life posting here for several reasons, but 2025 was a year full of loss for me and my family in a lot of different ways. However shit posting and discoursing through it all with y'all helped.

Late contender for absolute most dogshit take on the internet for 2025: People who are impacted by abuse just aren't mature enough.

A professor from France studying homelessness in PDX came to one of the council meetings and he was like “wow you guys are being so calm and civil? Our legislators would be fist fighting on the floor” And it was so funny because in Portland it was considered one of the most contentious meetings

it's weird to me how people on BlueSky are constantly lamenting their collective inadequacy and powerlessness. You're alive! You're an agent! Learn new skills! Learn how to organize! Team up with people and affect things around you!

Internet discourse always feels a little slow around the holidays so, bringing back what I like to do sometimes: Ask me (almost) anything! If you've ever had questions about your favorite Portland internet rat, here's the place to ask and I'll answer to the best of my abilities!

One of the weirdest things to me is when people move to Portland and make hating cyclists an aspect of their personality.

If you do not practice having new years resolutions, why not? Just thinking on how the concept, on its surface level of a group time of setting goals and supporting one another, seems really positive, but doesn't appear to work that way in reality.

it has come to my attention that there are some people on this site who were unaware that i am the first portland city councilor ever to be elected with the Poster’s Heart™️

Everyone is trying to dunk on this person but following the thread he is 100% correct. We use the existence of greater evils to ignore our own complicity. This thread feels like the everyone surrounded by piss laughing at the guy in clean water.

I only skimmed this, but did read through the section on accomplishments, because I believe it's one of the best ways to see what people think they got done. Dan Ryan's was hilariously underwhelming compared to every single other.

It's so weird to come across people from the UK who are like "Trump is such a terrible awful person. Except for all the trans stuff he's grade A on that"

Lukewarm take: if either side in an argument is posting dictionary definitions the argument is over and now you're just trying to piss on each other.

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

“PSR likely wouldn’t have been able to respond to this call because it involved a person inside a building, rather than on a street or other publicly-accessible outdoor area.” As PSR expands to 24/7 as promised next year, City leaders should continue to expand where PSR is allowed to respond.

Traffic deaths discourse is always weird because some people are always dancing around the idea that they're okay with a certain amount of deaths as long as they think they kind of deserved it for some reason.

dummies in local power think that Portland is just a few parking lots, or drive thru’s, or tax cuts away from eating the sun belt’s lunch. But our comparative advantage was always in how we distinguished ourselves from paved America. If we lose that, we have nothing.

Remember what's most important going into 2026: Vegetables aren't real.

How are we supposed to function as a city without a solid core of multinational fast food restaurants? /s

I do love when people are like "I'm not religious! I follow scientific consensus! In particular scientific consensus from 1987 and no later, that's when it became corrupted by the devil"

Cheez-It Sampling Bar, featuring 10 different flavors of Cheez-Its

One fond memory I have of twitter is when that one person pretended they were dropping off 6 ballots or something they had filled in for themselves and a bunch of gullible assholes went fucking wild. Don't know why that's in my head.

@mayorkwilson.bsky.social Why are you willing to step in and take action on behalf of one fast food owner's preference for a drive through, but you did nothing to stop PPB repeatedly sweeping our medical supplies and triage tents at the ICE protests over the past year? Shame on you.

The DQ drive through thing is so insignificant overall, but does kind of illuminate an overarching idea some people have in this town: in order to promote businesses, you should be able to do things with your business that violate rules and laws.

Sometimes people don't seem to understand the difference between legal fraud and "people using money in ways I don't like" and it makes me want to scream

Maybe I'm reading this weirdly, but so much of this feels like "I don't know whose butt people are supposed to be kissing and who is supposed to be disregarded and I think that makes things difficult"

People online "Boo-hoo everyone's dogpiling on me for my bad opinions" Me, with a wire running from my phone to my brain which causes a mild orgasm whenever I get a notification: "Curse my amazing and correct takes!"

Trans people and gender-affirming care are being threatened everywhere in the US every single day. Oregon is the queerest state in the country, yet we have never elected an out trans woman to office. I want to change that. Let’s change who’s in the room when these discussions happen, one by one.

Are there any random businesses you personally boycott in Portland? Don't have to give the reason, but I'm curious about any.

County governments and their nonprofit partners in Clark and Clackamas counties will open severe weather shelters Monday night as the Portland metro area’s overnight temperature is expected to dip near freezing.

I'm just going to start explicitly mentioning the media I took lessons from that other people should have. For example: Does no one remember the lesson of act 3 of Treehouse of Horror VII from 1996!?!?!

The amount of people whose allyship of oppressed people is contingent on them being nice to them personally is constantly horrifying.

I think it's important to say this clearly: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not "trying to be less evil." She is angry at Trump because he isn't being evil enough. Please do not help, rehabilitate, or otherwise tip your hat to her. You are running toward a painting of a tunnel on a cliff face.

I thought this was just going to be them jerking themselves off and then I clicked on it and read a bit and thought "maybe I am being too hard on them" but then the final one was like "WE HELPED FIGHT SEX TRAFFICKING!" and I was like, well, there it is.

Me when one of my mutuals runs for office in Beaverton: 😊😊😊😊 Me when they get signal boosted by a large account calling it Portland: 😣😣😣😣 Anyways check out @evelynforbeaverton.bsky.social

Sometimes I engage with people and it seems that they've never had a conversation about their personal or political beliefs that wasn't either responded to with "hell yeah buddy!" Or someone politely excusing themselves as soon as it started.

I both love and loathe that we make trimet free on drinking holidays. Showing both how important it is and that we generally, as a society, don't care about how important it is

A survey like this would have been eye-opening to me as a young queer person. That's why the opposition to it has been so full-throated.

Anyone noticing that PFA hate seems to have replaced PSR hate as the defacto "I hate when the city does something good for people I don't like" stance?

Our political system and discourse is poisoned by liberals who run the math on exactly how shitty they can be before someone labels them conservative.

My resolutions for 2026 are currently as follows: -Get even more politically active offline -Get even more trans

The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place

Although I hope most people are aware by now I am a big supporter of councilor Morillo and her continued work to support Portlanders. There are few people I've met that I believe represent the spirit of the city of Portland in the way she does. You should support her too.

Do you wish your local city council had more transit nerds? Well, you're in luck! Follow my campaign account at @evelynforbeaverton.bsky.social. I'm super excited to have a chance to give back to my hometown. Learn more at evelynforbeaverton.com!

This article is accurate about a lot of the failings of the mental health system here, even if I don't agree with the implied conclusions. However, the fact that they just brush over this as something of a side note is fucking wild. And this is the only information and context provided.

Artists must hold true to the most important principle of all: performing for anyone who gives them money