Slowly pulling Portland/MultCo stats together to draft an article, and these two popped out: Between 2020 and 2025 the parks levy became 7.93% less popular with the voters The gas tax renewal, which didn’t change rates, became 4.76% less popular with the voters in the same period.

Am: made wife a breakfast tostada with the last of the masa harina Pm: gifted fancy new masa flour and a bottle of nice reposado Moral: many benefits to breakfast in bed

I have a wildly embarrassing number of hours in this game. It’s a steal at this price. Just a fun deck building game that you can play on your phone that has, truly, incredible depth and replay value.

I’ve posted Stancil twice in 24 hours; I’d like to apologize for that

Mutual aid is actually super distinct from charity. The thing is, what most people call mutual aid/what most mutual aid orgs actually do, is just charity! And that’s fine! That’s good!

I got a DSA wall calendar in the mail today. On one hand, thank you? On the other, can my dues pay for like a brake light clinic instead? Regardless, it’s going up in the background for my zoom calls.

Without speaking to the merits, I can’t wait for this particular race to be over so the discourse superposition collapses

Double feature of Weapons and Casablanca on today’s holiday transcontinental flight. Solid pairing, no notes.

Reading the news about wage garnishment for ppl with student loan debt in default, and coming back to my old opinion that every “just don’t pay your loans, now or ever!” organization that came out of the woodwork during Biden was an op. The debt collective had content advocating this everywhere!

I just take so much extra psychic damage from my political enemies being the dumbest, least cool, most annoying people on the planet, on top of being ontologically evil.

I want to de-sock puppet but I have *so much* stuff to delete first.

I overuse sports metaphors a lot at work, but they really are very useful for our industry where there is an opposing team who can only win if we lose. And it’s less annoying than martial metaphors

The “🎶five, five dollar, five dollar footlong🎶” jingle has done genuine political harm to the nation because people anchored $5 as the correct price for a one thousand calorie meal and now no amount of graphs will convince them that the economy is okay when a five dollar footlong now costs $13

I consider myself a patriot because I believe in fighting for the unrealized promise of America

Still kinda in awe of that Seahawks comeback last night.

You may think that just because the other team was better the Seahawks would lose. Wrong.

If the refs give the Seahawks two points rn we are going to lose the game; you burn all your luck on some shit like that

I’m watching the Seahawks game on Amazon prime video, and there are POP UP ADS during the ads. I can click them with the remote to have *deals* sent straight to my phone.

It’s football posting hours up till the exact minute they catch the Brown/MIT shooter

now the question is who can actually beat the clown car of chud freaks that’s about to pile into that race

Cannot be overstated how much the American public doesn’t know or how much they wait until an issue is locked in before they learn anything about it

Lotta unfounded claims and “critics say” text in this article that goes to show exactly why JVP may have chosen to not run again and avoid getting the Schmidt/Eudaly/Hardesty treatment

Re-upping this before the speech

I believe that one of the greatest political divides and determinants is if, in your heart of hearts, you think drunk driving is really really bad vs not as big of a deal as people make it out to be

We shouldn’t call these dogs! They’re robots, not dogs. People love dogs; people feel warm and fuzzy toward dogs. We should not accept a name for these that in anyway evokes how people feel toward dogs. “Police robot” is perfectly adequate

Data for Progress has some neat new Medicare for All polling out, but my main takeaway from it is that how the polling is worded matters way more than the idea itself, and that revealed preferences have painted a very different picture of M4A’s popularity over the last decade

The average homebuilder would mix his grandmother’s ashes into the foundation if it saved him a cent, and he would ignore a dozen govt studies saying that grandma ashes make foundations less structurally sound if it saved him two cents, and he would deploy the NAHB lobbyists if it saved him three

I am doing such a good job getting this wet wet wood to burn

My grandmother did MAiD this year. It was *not* easy to access, but it gave her dignity and control that she desperately wanted. I’ll forever be a proponent for doctor assisted suicide.

Cleveland high school does not need to cost half a billion dollars, which is 10x as much as big pink sold for

About to take my 30th and 31st flights of the year. My carbon footprint haunts me.

This is a true & effectively irrefutable argument ... which is why it's so fun to read the absolute cosmic nonsense in the comments. "I need to go higher than the speed limit when I'm passing/avoiding something/driving in snow/feel like it!"

Every sadistic fascist is just projecting, example 10 million

Deliverism and Stove Touching are two sides of the same coin: they don’t work and willfully ignore how normal people engage with politics

The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.

Everyone lost their minds over a team going to Europe to do a genuine case study of best practices re: the single most important issue for our region, but the city sending an exec to SAUDI ARABIA for no reason is getting zero play?

Today in International Coalition Building, one of my guys has way better spoken English than written, which is remarkable b/c it’s almost always the other way around.

Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.

True stove touching has never been tried

G-d, may you confer blessing upon the work of my hands and grant me grace, kindness, and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all who see me, and bestow upon me abundant kindness as I walk this path. Guide me, and may I reach my destination in life, joy, and peace.

My friends sent me this

Portland and Portlanders are not good at telling people “no” or being told “no” and nowhere is this more apparent than people bringing their big ass dogs into the grocery store

I was told to “shut the hell up with that” about two lines in, so YMMV

I love all the code/bldg reform people I follow. I love that my feed is like 70% PDX/OR and 29% codes/standards, and 1% friends I made when this place only had 100k users. I’d like to apologize to everyone for the unhinged political posting I’m going to do when this bloodbath of a session starts.

Both in Portland and in Oregon and nationwide I see no evidence that “touching the stove” works at all to discipline voters. The theory that letting people hurt themselves will teach them to vote better is built on sand; it ignores everything we know about political psychology. and it’s cruel.

Gift of prophecy ass post from 2014

I swear I’m not getting more conservative it’s just this scene pops into my head now whenever anyone suggests a new govt project. “Let’s just build a new waterfront park and also a new aquatic center” Bro the parks dept is about to take an axe to the capital project list like in American psycho

The correct answer is “fund weatherization assistance programs, mandate modern building energy codes, and require and fund energy retrofits for existing multifamily buildings.” The average homebuilder would rather throw his mom’s ashes into the foundation than spend an extra cent on insulation

The reason Trump-ism/maga will never die is that the Republican base is both stupid and evil. They are simply a fascist party, but I repeat myself.

I’m not a huge fan of Kotek, but she’s not going to pick up a primary challenger and Drazan is going to win a crowded Republican primary and that makes this easy. Funny thing; “Front Populaire” actually translates to “vote blue no matter who”