Twenty-plus years ago, did big, long Atlantic story based on formal "war game" involving "preemptive" attack on Iran. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Lots of details have changed since then. But not the fundamental conclusion of the war-game: ARE YOU CRAZY?? DO NOT EVEN THINK OF DOING THIS.

Why is Pat Riley doing the Staying Alive dance from Airplane in his statue??

From the AP, last year: "Since 2005, the numbers of newspapers published in the United States has dropped from 7,325 in 2005 to 4,490 now....Daily newspaper circulation that averaged between 50 and 60 million people at the turn of the century now stands at just over 15 million."

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

I’m dang near 50 and just had jajangmyeon for the first time ever

Today we visited the mouth of the Columbia River and the wreck of the Peter Ireton and walked around coffenberry lake

First campsite since moving to Portland …. Fort Stevens state park in Astoria

Love Astoria Forests and coasts

Hey you guys I found the Goonies house on second try

My sister has a much better eye for detail than I do and realized from across country that I was not in fact standing in front of the Goonies house

Came to Astoria, Oregon on day trip from Portland!! First stop: hurricane ron for clam chowder; Next stop: the Goonies house!

Since 1990: -- Only the richest 1% of households have grown their share of U.S. wealth -- For the top 0.1%, their share of U.S. wealth has risen nearly 6 points to 14.4% -- For the bottom half of households, their share of US wealth has dropped from 3.5% to 2.5% Free 🔗 www.wsj.com/finance/bill...

I know “tart ale” is something I’ve only started typing since I moved to Portland but my iPhone always wants to correct it to “fart ale” and nobody wants one of those, I promise you.

Man I’m heavy and I’m out of shape but I really love hiking

I’m not scared of the forest and I’m not scared of the dark but I am absolutely afraid of being lost in the forest after dark and I feel like that’s a healthy fear to have.

Can you dehydrate an avocado? Don’t know the answer but my kitchen now smells like two sliced avocados slow-roasting at 135 Fahrenheit for several hours

Several months late and 40 minutes into Sinners and … this is a really good frigging movie.

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

Portland 2026: I’m too eccentric for the normals and too bougie for the weirds.

Ok, I think I’m ready for hiking season!!! It’s going to be a great year of exploration for me and my doggo

Man I’m out here just enjoying Portland and people are getting tear gassed which is a messed up sentence to type

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

NE Alberta street bar crawl and food hop … great notion for the tart ale, Thai mix drunken noodle food truck for the win

Rose City Dogs took great care of my roommate, hiking buddy and all-around best friend Pepper #dogsofbluesky

Evergreen

Tired: I just blindly order IPAs off instinct Wired: I drink tart ales now

Triple berry shake, my new favorite tart ale

I was expecting it to be a nightmare to book my dog for a grooming … but the first Portland groomer I called got her in for tomorrow!

Musical taste is subjective but also if you don’t like this album your taste stinks open.spotify.com/album/24tZ7Q...

Can’t wait for my day off so I can get a forest park hike in followed by a tart ale or two. That’s a sentence I never would’ve said prior to 2026.

Oregonians are always so surprised that you chose to live here. “Why did you choose Portland?” is a question I get a lot. Because Portland is awesome?? Back in NY, when people move to NY, we don’t ask them why. We just assume it’s because NY is a cool place?

Listening to Miles Davis and curating the NBA’s apps … goes together like peanut butter and jelly. open.spotify.com/album/0xr31o...

Got a good forest park hike in for the second straight day … Great view of the St. John’s bridge, Mount St Helens, and I think Mount Adams?? My Portland geography still not great …. If you zoom in on Mt St Helens, I think that’s Mount Rainier over its shoulder, 100 plus miles away

I’m doing a flight of tart ales! I’m a real Portlander now

Easy Saturday hike at Hoyt Arboretum and got a great view of mt st Helen’s 54 miles away as the crow flies

Happy Anniversary to all who celebrate the day my mom landed a perfect “Your mother” line on me on Facebook

Dopes on Bluesky want to reply to months old arguments like that’s normal

JUST IN: At least 2 police officers hospitalized after shooting in Portland, Oregon; heavy police presence seen on Lloyd District. Video: KATU

There’s apparently been a shooting of two police officers two blocks from me and there’s a manhunt going on right outside my apartment but I need to take my dog out …

Egyptian brothers, pod 28 in Portland is Pepper approved!

I don’t appreciate People who Don’t appreciate open.spotify.com/track/2cf3Yj...

There’s a spa here in portland called the bearded lady and it made me laugh walking by it …

Sometimes you’re driving in Portland and you see a mountain with its head blown off and you’re like “hmmm that’s a weird angle of Mount Hood” and then a few seconds later your brain realizes you’re actually looking at Mount St. Helens.

I went to habitat for humanity restore a couple weeks ago and there was an air fryer but I didn’t buy it … I went back today and when I drove into the lot a lovely woman was walking to her car carrying an air fryer with a Cheshire Cat grin… But then I went inside and there’s also one for me!!

Sorry for the heavy breathing while hike/narrating but Mount Hood looks incredible today

Mount hood looking so close you can reach out and touch it today

There’s a navy vet in my building who has decided that my dog’s name is Riley and I don’t have the heart to tell him her name is Pepper so now this sweet girl is Riley whenever we see him

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

Way late to the party unpopular pop culture opinion: the new fantastic four movie was actually way better than the new Superman movie, which surprises me given the long history of terrible fantastic 4 movies before this one

I have not googled this and I have not looked at the menu but I present this for your amusement