Bringing a knife to a gunfight would actually be an improvement over bringing “turn that frown upside down!” or whatever this is to a gunfight.

today in wAr RaVaGeD portland, i went to a screening of a short film about the dying process, drove through a popular neighborhood at lunchtime where families ate at busy food carts, and had a friend over to pick grapes in the backyard. you know this, but here it is again: he lies. all the time.

Keep posting pictures of a beautiful city about to be invaded by federal troops for no reason but the leader's political weakness. Show the beauty. Show the truth.

I’m worried it can still get stupider

“Going forward, journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn't been authorized for release.” 🙃 www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

SO MANY STREAMING SERVICES THROUGH THE LIBRARY! plus, they still have actual DVDs.

Insufficient numbers got to see these VERY GOOD DOGS.

#TodayInTherapy... i found an unexpected gateway to (anticipatory) grief in imagining my mother's house when she isn't coming home. somehow, thinking about the loss in a defined space rather than in something nebulous like "my life" made the grief easier to access.

New knitting pattern is up on Patreon! This is a self-published re-release of a pattern that was originally in Stranded Magazine in 2017. It's available on ravelry & payhip too now, but of course without all the fun extra patreon stuff! www.patreon.com/posts/139128... www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

this is VERY good news. oregon's pharmacy board is meeting right now, & will 🤞 mean oregonians no longer need an Rx to get vaxxed. 🤞🤞 it also nixes the "underlying condition" requirement, too. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Say it with me “release the Epstein files” (Sound up)

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Getting a COVID vaccine in Oregon doesn’t need to be this complicated, @tinakotek.bsky.social. (a rant, a call to action, and some practical info) 1/x

We're at a point now where a Fox News host can just casually suggests killing homeless people with a lethal injection on air and no one bats an eye but a MSNBC contributor gets fired for calling Charlie Kirk "divisive".

This is how we used to have to get our misinformation before the internet.

Do people think civility is the tone you speak in and not the meaning of the words?

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The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Good lord this is an excellent phrase that we should definitely be using all the time.

Anyway seems not great that so many people with large platforms or in actual positions of power appear to have entirely lost their minds

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

If the hole you're in keeps getting deeper, you can always stop digging.

Somehow I missed this before. What the actual fuck, @tinakotek.bsky.social? apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsr...

Charlie Kirk was a victim of gun violence, and none of these conservatives want to admit that. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Once again, I am calling for the immediate and total abolition of David Brooks.

Holy hell…

I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

i am completely inside out about how anti-fascist ideology has become something we're supposed to be against and afraid of. antifa implies the existence of profa and let's just fucking name that shit too. damn straight i'm antifascist. you should be too. (not YOU, you're already in on this.)

JFC

I am shocked—shocked—that the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk had his brain cooked in online right wing cesspools Here is my face rn: 😶

Evergreen skeet, but also, it's going to get worse and more dangerous to be there. The second best time is now.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Oregon’s mifepristone stockpile was set to expire this month, but following the 2024 presidential election, the state exchanged its remaining supply with the drug manufacturer Danco at no cost for drugs with a September 2028 expiration date.

hey, perimenopausal folks, Women Living Better has a new research survey about "mood experiences on the path to menopause." add your two cents here. womenlivingbetter.org/mood-experie... it's a 10-20 minute anonymous survey. #perimenopause

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

The horror in that video you saw today has happend to children at Annunciation Church and in Uvalde and in Sandy Hook and countless other schools over the last few decades. If you’re outraged by the death of Charlie Kirk, you should be equally outraged for them.

Now is a good time to turn off video auto play.

They even killed her dog and nobody cared.

today, i reached the "gone through a whole box of tissues" stage of therapy. i would like a badge, please. #therapy

We interrupt this coverage of a shooting with another mass shooting at a school. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

If you want a better world, you don't want this. It leads one direction and we all know which.

Nothing gets better when a gun goes off on a college campus. Never has.

We could have these kinds of protective measures in Oregon, too, @tinakotek.bsky.social. You just have to DO IT. Instead, Oregonians need an Rx for a jab (WTAF) and neither pharmacies nor docs know if or when they can even start giving the shots. GET IT TOGETHER.