Free idea for Peacock: educate us about the big 5 families running Portland. Expose the backers of the status quo.

anyway I am not an energy analyst and but punching holes in the earth to pull up liquids and moving it in ships or pipelines amongst continents to then boil it and again move it in trucks or pipelines to burn it is a really dumb way to move a car… never mind the horror show of CO2 emissions

The best thing to do for housing affordability is one that costs us nothing. Allow 4 story 8 plex stacked flats citywide in Seattle and other various King County 2nd tier cities and let people build without a bunch of rules and stipulations

Really happy to see the Council improving our parks amenities. I will note it requires a truck/trailer and parking spot. No tricycles. I also worry they'll have gas generators running all day unless PPR provides utility hookups.

This is incredible, haunting art for 2025. www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCrin...

CFO, software developer, product manager

This is the next stage in our housing struggle. We can’t build if there are no workers.

My toothbrush handle has a cavity, presumably for weight savings and high performance.

We are excited to announce that we are co-sponsoring a Single Stair Design Competition along with our friends at @strongtownspdx.bsky.social and the University of Oregon School of Architecture! The competition will be open to undergrad + grad students in Oregon and Washington pnwdreams.org

To the millions of people who tagged Benson Boone to join our #BikeBus, thank you. You helped make something truly magical happen. To #BensonBoone and his team, your energy and kindness gave our kids and community a memory we’ll never forget. 💛 Learn more about the movement at BikeBusWorld.org

It was such an odd title for a podcast, it took me about a month before I realized The Neighborhood Listen is a play on “Neighborhood Watch”.

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

We could do this with much of Portland’s eastside grid, with carts and seating at each.

the wordplay in the second line is utterly flawless. 🤣

Change doesn’t happen by chance — it takes everyday people to step up, organize, and run to win. Join me at Rooted to Win: Working Families Campaign School to train alongside candidates, campaigners, & community leaders fighting for a future where Oregon works for all. https://loom.ly/aR_wooA

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Reading Impossible Toronto, on how Toronto’s side streets can be redeveloped with a denser, more European form. Applicable really to almost anywhere in North America though. Free here: impossibletoronto.ca

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

What do we need to do to get this legal everywhere in Portland metro? @stephrouth.bsky.social @senkhanhpham.bsky.social My SFH lot is 50x120, why can’t I build this by right and turn one unit into twelve?

No. It’s a sign that our stroads should be redesigned so that speeding is essentially impossible. Citing people who go above the speed limit on a surface level highway that *you* built and maintain is entrapment. Make streets safer for humans outside of cars.

Simply incredible loss of life on the Russian side.

There are still seats at this incremental development lecture tonight at Revolution Hall, Portland Free www.incrementaldevelopment.org/events/portl... Cc @pnwelcome.bsky.social @strongtownspdx.bsky.social

“All this started over a lost sponsorship” That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.

The more dense an area is, the more people realize they need to make compromises & be empathetic towards their neighbors. You can't ignore societal problems: you see them in front of you every day, & you're motivated to help the people around you who need it. That’s why theres no republican cities.

We should also allow more areas to evolve into walkable places by legalizing the creation of small businesses in them

A cornerstone of conservative ideology is "never let the government provide what a corporation can charge for." You can prove the government ineffective, provide a captive user base for corporations, AND fuck over poor folks in one fell swoop.

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

"I have advocated for #RankedChoiceVoting, but Portland’s changes went beyond what I had imagined. The early outcomes are worth examining as we consider ways to strengthen democracy in Hawaiʻi." – Former Hawai'i state Rep. Beth Fukumoto on the success of proportional RCV in Portland, OR

Next time your fire dept blocks single stair reform, ask where’s the data showing they are dangerous? Because here’s the data that shows they are safer.

Ummm what is going on at OPB? You’re gonna both-sides this serious issue and use sources WHO DON’T EVEN LIVE HERE??? Please tell me I’m missing something.

This effort to build a small scale social media for independent media orgs seems promising. All small towns with no media presence could use something like this. Today Facebook and Nextdoor dominate the community social space. www.blog-pat.ch/building-app...

The City Cast PDX interview today with @counciloravalos.bsky.social on social housing and their trip to Vienna was quite good. portland.citycast.fm I’m happy to see the city expand its view of what’s possible.

Here's one of Barcelona's famous superillas, or superblocks, on Rocafort-Consell de Cent. All of this used to be asphalt and space for moving and storing cars. Now it's green, quiet, calm, and safe.

Our #WeekWithoutDriving rides Mon Sep 29 Local groceries Tues Sep 30 Ride to Vancouver Wed Oct 1 Farmers Market Lunchtime Thurs Oct 2 Powells Books Fri Oct 3 Ride to PDX Airport Sat Oct 4 Forest Park Bike & Hike Sun Oct 5 Cost of Car Ownership @shift2bikes.bsky.social @americawalks.bsky.social

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

This video of people riding bikes into a river is non-stop laughs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tl... #bikesky

Some very major barriers to more efficient buildings are right-leaning code/fire professionals and craft unions. Sunrise and their ilk are bad and all, but liberals’ problem is that they can’t stand up to *anybody* with a plausible-sounding concern, not just those on the left.

How is this not bigger news in tech/security circles. Jaguar Land Lover lost $250M (£200M) and counting thanks to a cyberattack that it still couldn’t mitigate. This is growing every week. The cost of underinvesting in security is very real. 1+ month recovery is bonkers

A few other lovers of East Portland and I are starting up a local news source called @eastportlandvoice.bsky.social. We are still warming up, so please subscribe, share, and engage! <3 #eastportland #portlandoregon #localnews

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. Violent crime is at a 50-year low. This is amazing. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

US bans import of bikes and bike parts from Giant, by far the biggest manufacturer in the world. #bicycle #uspol #bike #bikenyc #fuckingfuck www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat...

@skgoetz.bsky.social I'm happy to find you here! 😎

Automatic hot dog and condiment line by Matt Thompson Woodworks.

Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy

this is the Portland I love.

Larry Ellison bankrolled Elon Musk purchasing Twitter, is part of the consortium buying TikTok, his family just bought Paramount/CBS and wants to buy Time Warner/CNN. From database vendor to the next Rupert Murdoch. Practically every major media property will belong to a Trump ally at this rate.

This. 1000 times. Our city will have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.