Great Decoder episode this week with @hankgreen.bsky.social and @reckless.bsky.social discussing nonprofits and liberal arts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

The sponsors of the O’Connor & Folley conversation promise better living through better inputs, while the guests patiently explain why life doesn’t work that way. youtu.be/h9Bp7AuUh_E?...

Checking out @rutgerbregman.com ‘s Moral Revolution lecture series. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

@gruber.foo Given your recent posts on accessible fonts: the Braille Institute’s Atkinson Hyperlegible Next is well worth a look. www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...

Atmospheric River means it's time again for the Big Pipe Tracker. www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe...

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

We’ve been using Affinity for a while, love not being tied to Adobe and being able to design wall-sized, 1:1 layouts without the scale math. Now it’s free?! Amazing. youtu.be/9WGPQaQZV_8?...

All those peaceful scenes of the waterfront, our parks, etc. are real reflections of Portland. So's this.

Tilda Swinton on her remarkable new Amsterdam exhibition and 8 new projects with Almodóvar, Jarmusch and the late Derek Jarman We meet Swinton to talk collaboration, creativity and why the process matters more than the product. www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibiti...

Tram bowling!

The international tram driving championships are live on YouTube right now! www.youtube.com/embed/smp0vo... One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point

@mayorkwilson.bsky.social, aren’t you scheduled to speak at Bike Happy Hour now? We’re here for you.

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

Excited to see @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social in Portland tonight!

Fascinating video on the history of iconic chair design. youtu.be/pruIWHMxZb0?...

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, spend five minutes watching Ido Agassi work. His videos (quiet, precise, and full of intent) are a masterclass in focus and care. youtube.com/@idoagassi

Portland has a bike community. Just saying. Here are volunteer-led rides for the weekend of July 19-20. @shift2bikes.bsky.social @bike-summer.org

"If you’re going to drive a car across town to go to a Timbers game or a venue, you have the means to do so, right? Generally speaking. And you should have to pay some of the cost of the congestion that creates." - Councilor Mitch Green bikeportland.org/2025/07/17/c...

Swedish street art collective Anonymouse, known for whimsical miniature mouse-themed installations, revealed their identities as Elin Westerholm and Lupus Nensén in 2025.

Wohlenberg’s interview is a useful look at what creative producing actually entails—especially at this scale. Hiring, trust, tone, and what it takes to keep a project like Andor cohesive under pressure. youtu.be/YDs_nYTYMqg?...

The Coruscant safehouse. The Gorman café. Dedra’s painfully perfect apartment. This convo with the Andor set team is full of great details on how they built all of it. youtu.be/j85QwpiD3KY?...

Just learning about @chenoweth.bsky.social’s research on nonviolent protest, and it’s giving me a cautious kind of hope.

Live at 9pm eastern friends youtu.be/L-l9adDlIF0?...

All of Portland will be alive today with people on bikes, heading to Peninsula Park for the start of the @bike-summer.org Kickoff w live bands & merch. Nine feeder rides are coming from all over the city to the start of festivities. Here's the route the ride takes at 3PM to Colonel Summers Park.

“Opinions aren’t ideas.” And regularly making things for others, even something as small as a bowl of cornflakes, can be central to creative work. It’s not about genius. It’s about generosity. youtu.be/wLb9g_8r-mE?...

Asked a question about job creation at his State of the City event on Friday, Mayor Wilson spoke about how driving less can yield a big green dividend. It’s time for Portland to, “Leave the cars at home,” he said.

A cheat sheet for conversations about ChatGPT and the environment https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about (putting stats in context) #AI #energy

The Telegraph (£) looks at public health in the Netherlands, including the benefits of government policies that support everyday cycling: “It helps prevent diseases like diabetes, heart conditions, and depression… It improves mental wellbeing, increases life expectancy and boosts social cohesion…”

Art.

😅 Reminded me of this one:

In life ALWAYS shoot your friggin shot. And if someone doesn’t respond right away, remind them in a little while. Everything good I’ve ever gotten in life came from asking. Squeeze under the door like a hardy little cockroach and dazzle those fools.

Man this video took a long time to make. Loved every second of it nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

Some city agencies have more trust in drivers than others

Will have full story tomorrow, but here’s a peek at a new creation by Portlander Matt Zajack… an “Open Source roadway object detection and radar speed monitoring” device that could revolutionize urban planning and streets advocacy.

U.S. Pedestrian and Overall Road Traffic Crash Deaths have continued to rise compared to other high income countries www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... #VisionZero

Rachel Saslow covers the Food Court 5000 mall walkers of Lloyd Center: www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Stepping into the ring tonight at @cinema21-portland.bsky.social to support my friend Rob Taylor’s Portland indie film, ‘Raging Midlife.’ With @paulaabdulofficial.bsky.social, Eddie Griffin, and Walter Koenig, it’s sure to be a heavyweight comedy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrUX...

@pbotinfo.bsky.social The crosswalk guidelines page links to traffic count data requiring a “City of Portland network account” for access. How can I obtain such an account, or is there a public page available for this data? www.portland.gov/transportati...

Extremely glad to find this detailed look at how prop company make3 created that absolutely beautiful emete… uh, “woemeter” for the latest episode of Severence. It’s so very good!! make3.co/work/woemeter

Excited for this! We used Atkinson Hyperlegible for the body copy in the Skyline Trail exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society — because good design should work for everyone, especially in public spaces.

At the @aipdx.bsky.social Meetup, a panel of experts, including @chrisbrida.bsky.social and Seth Fleischauer, explored how AI is reshaping learning. One provocative idea: Schools of the future may focus more on social and emotional learning than traditional academics.

NEH has updated its website and grant notices with language about how ("as required by the Administration’s Executive Orders") NEH grants may not be used to promote "gender ideology", DEI, "discriminatory equity ideology" and environmental justice… www.neh.gov/executive-or...

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.