Just chatted with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on the phone, and there's some confusion that I want to help clear up: she was not attending the dinner, did not have a ticket to the dinner; she was seriously just there to try to talk to someone who was at an event at the Hilton.

Fyi if you muted or blocked over WHCD and Taylor Lorenz.

Woah so cool. This is a save and do I so wish we had bookmark folders.

Disillusionment and cognitive dissonance can be a dangerous combo. Most of the angriest people right now are normal centrists & liberals outraged by chronic atrocities. I’ve said this many times before, but the right wing is underestimating the sheer rage centrists and liberals are feeling right now

A real problem with our nonprofit services sector in the States is that they have no choice but to follow the funding, because most grants only last a year to three years, max. So they’re never free to stop applying for new grants. And new grants may not fund their current services or population.

Community work thanks to @loveree.bsky.social for Bipolar understanding and guidances today.

Epilepsy awareness & art history! Vincent Van Gogh was only ever diagnosed with Epilepsy and his "bipolar disorder" was only a speculation by people who don't understand how TLE affects a brain. I learned this because I have it too & was also given a working-dx of BD-II before it was ruled out.

Oh good, got MAGA posts showing up on FB that he wore an Israeli pin or something in Instagram photos. This always goes so well for US Jews.

My SURJ PDX team for admin and membership is a delight. Again I am surrounded by enby and women. Last meeting, they checked in with me on personal stuff. It was a moment of right, these folks care about others. A gift.

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"This is the first thing people need to understand about clergy organizing: When faith leaders show up publicly for justice, we’re not just adding bodies to a coalition. We are contesting the theological ground that Christian nationalism depends on."

Re Ai is being used by Moleskin in QP. Only sketch books recommended in thread so far are Talen Art Creations made in Japan.

I had a coworker call me at 10pm one night in a panic because she’d just accidentally forwarded porn to the entire non-profit agency 😂😭

So sickened by MAHA in the US advancing the "over diagnosis" to undermine all our healthcare support. My healthcare worker friends despise RFK and new age heal thyselfers.

I should know who Mendhi is but have no idea. Given all the stuff with SURJ, I may watch just to see this play out.

Hyped. Finished reorganizing our materials on Twine and digital storytelling with support activities of exquisite corpse and make your own trading card. Gonna maybe deploy for @pigsquad.com PIGCon in Portland.

they're going to make a lot of the fact that the shooter had a bluesky account, when they should be making a lot of the fact that he had a november 2024 bluesky account

WHCD block or mute list of red carpet or seated at tables journalists. Lmao.

I'm ambivalent toward those saying the kids are alright. It's typically followed by they will save us from fascists. I think about the reassurance we take from seeing students speak up, organize, and walk out. I feel it too, but it's qualified by how hard they have it.

Cat coffee/tea cafe with a special place for elder cats & paired cats not getting a forever home. Huge free range catio, and some apartments. Work trade program, free rent and you help care for them.

I keep trying to brainstorm tshirts to answer why am I am masking. Nothing solid yet to deal with the aggro jerks. Truthfulness of it is not an issue to brainstorming.

I picked up a few new follower who seem real people. I periodically post about Masking for Covid prevention and not killing our disabled friends or friends with organ transplants. That has annoyed some who keep arguing, "it's too late. Asking others to mask is crazy." *They get saneist quickly

Friends on FB debating if ACAB includes Columbo. I'm side no.

And the QP has turned off ablity to quote, after seeing sympathy has gone sideways.

Anything Pat Metheny group. Saw them live decades ago on my college campus.

Have we heard anything sketchy about him? I don't want to get invested in my curiousity of child-of-BP-parent narratives if so.

The thing about all of these autism articles is all of these “autism parents” only make me hate them and feel they shouldn’t be allowed to have ANY kids, autistic or allistic, because loving parents of autistic people are SO MANY worlds away from them. The good parents make me hate them so much more

I got really angry at mom last night for refusing to use the commode in her bedroom. She fell, refused me lifting her up, and spent 40 excruciating minutes trying to get up. She doesn't remember any of it.

This is really cool to see

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This isn’t really shocking when you remember Auchincloss was a Republican for a bit and also voted to ban “critical race theory" in schools. Oh and he constantly rants about progressives That said, if you have to use a LLM to read your kids a story, then you’re a bad dad and also unimaginative

Oh neat, today's read.

Caturday with Ming the Merciless

One last time, for your weekend reading pleasure:

My normie friends are way more radicalized and aware of news in the last year. Like amazing progress and ability to express what the Right Wing is doing.

“In order to have a truly representative government, Councilors must have the same access to information as our counterparts in the Executive,” Morillo said. “I am concerned to hear that as we’re exposing these barriers, new ones are being put in place.”

the alt text is so good

A thoughtful, balanced approach to the ethical issues involved in assessing the personality and cognitive capacity of the president

there is a really cool paper by Paul Slovic on risk perception differences between males and females (including results on striking difference between white males and everyone else): chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...

A good event host is a blessing. The best I ever had was the Jesuits while I was a professor.

Would buy

Portland! My friend cured me of my ignorance of cakes heaven.

I just can't jam on Cyberpunk 2077 because of Keannu. Love everything I hear about him IRL, and enjoyed many films pre and post Matrix. It's an odd disconnect to me.

Reminded again how atrocious our mental healthcare looks in Oregon. Portland Street Response are amazing people and effective, and mayor wants to cut 4 staff.

Ahh our Mayor

The bundle's at 176% of the goal and about to pass $4,420.69 yeaaaaaaaaahhhh!!

Came across my first Ai YouTube video in game reviews. Repeating phrases. Nonsense adjectives in sentences. Missing words. Impossible number of games

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Oh fuck. Look at these fuckers Portland. The mayor has a lot to answer for.