bomp!

🏆 🥱 Remembered to Put Water in the Coffeemaker 🥱 🏆

Oof, I'm reading some of the testimony that's been submitted, and apparently their interpretation of Morillo's amendment is "stop cleaning up needles and waste in the street near my kid's school"? 🤦 Let's get some more testimony with common sense and a heart!

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Still a bunch of signature issues, so check your ballots, Seattle!

If you’ve seen me biking around, you know I basically live in these 😄

This is tomorrow! Come hang out with Doug and Sarah at Bike Happy Hour Weds 11/12 Migration Brewing on N Williams Ave. They'll sit down w me at 5:30 for a convo followed by some Q & A. Show up earlier than that to hang with them! See you there!

Support not sweeps. We don’t have to live like this.

Testify to stop the sweeps before Wednesday!! > Scroll to item 8 > Testify on this item > Submit written testimony > Support with changes > Write a comment supporting Councilor Morillo’s amendment to defund sweeps and fund social services www.portland.gov/council/agenda

Todays postcard: still appreciating the leaves

Today.

we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers

Todays postcard: still appreciating the leaves

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Aww, looks like Naomi 😊

Some of the best advice I ever heard was from @silviamg.bsky.social who said that you shouldn't set goals that require other people to do what you want. You can write a book. That's a goal. You can't control whether anyone buys it. Other people have free will.

All the creature really wanted was more female representation in Sci Fi but Victor wouldn’t do it

We were interviewed by Lillian Karabaic @anomalily.net of @opb.org about our new book, Life After Cars, in advance of our live event at @powells.bsky.social on November 13th.

Bill Watterson wrote that he found storylines about the cartoonists’ own hobbies (e.g. golfing) to be self indulgent, so he tried to keep the cycling strips to a minimum, and keep them focused on Calvin’s dad’s personality. This was another elegant solution:

I’m rereading the final Calvin and Hobbes collection, and in retrospect, there are a LOT of strips about not wanting to get up for school and wondering if this is how you want to spend your days

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#WarRavagedPortland The trees are beautifully ablaze. Holding on tight to this last gasp of autumn color before the winter gray settles in until March.

TriMet Policy & Budget Committee public comments on dedicated bus lanes (BAT), starting w/ @pdx-fss.bsky.social @sarahmrisser.bsky.social Also @binnig.bsky.social @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social @aaronkuehn.bsky.social @kielbybike.bsky.social - representing current & former BikeLoud Board members

I wonder who was like “Quick—the bicyclists are coming to this one! Who’s got a sharpie?!”

It’s a beautiful day for the Showers Pass warehouse sale! 😦 The line is already two blocks long

😄 Thanks @koriander.bsky.social! I hope the meeting was recorded, because afterwards I’m always like “ 😵‍💫 what did I say and did I say it good 😵‍💫 “

naturally if you have a private chef who prepares your meals and does the grocery shopping, you have no idea what a gallon of milk costs right now, and IN ITSELF that's not a character flaw; but it becomes one if you're presuming to make decisions on behalf of a milk-buying public you aren't part of

Portland PSA if you can get outside RIGHT NOW for a few minutes, the air feels beauuuutiful! ☀️

"Different places/peoples require different things" should not trip folks up! But people are still shackled by the idea that if they don't receive something then no one should have it, and if they don't need something then no one needs it. Break free from that thinking, it's literal toddler level.

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

Wild that this isn't sold out. Is it cause YOU'VE been putting off buying a ticket?

The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!

If you’re near DC and like fresh stagings of classic musicals, Damn Yankees is playing through this weekend! My mom (the person responsible for my love of musicals) saw it yesterday and absolutely loved it. (I hope it eventually tours!) www.arenastage.org/tickets/damn...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 6,1943

My time to shine

My 3 life phases: 🧒🏻 wants to watch Fievel again 👧🏻 excited that An American Tail includes so many details she just learned in US History! Unsuccessfully tries to convey this to the kid she’s babysitting 👩🏻‍🦳 😱 omigod danger! That tiny mouse child is in mortal danger! The entire time! He’s just a kid

This was entirely unexpected but also it would be extremely cool if there were any way for it to happen.

😃 I had not, thanks!

My weirdest childhood VHS combo was definitely Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and a demo video of a gall bladder removal (my mom used to be a PA) Unfortunately they weren’t in that order, so my sis and I watched “gall bladder demo” rather than try to fast forward the right amount

man who else remembers that brief, shining moment in the late 80s-mid 90s when folks in the US briefly sort of cared about "saving the planet" and "protecting the rainforest," what a time that was

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

*psst* heard yall was looking for a big tent

Fox Mulder's poster, only it's about politicians who care about trans people

[kitchen dance party]

Today's postcard: a peek at the outdoors

One of the things that's nuts to me is how, with commercial aviation, we've basically decided on the worst possible option as the *default* mode of long-distance travel, mostly because it is necessary for a tiny class of insanely privileged people to do objectively insane things. 1/

🧵 My family took the train from Pittsburgh to San Diego for a lot of Christmas visits because 2.5 days on the train with three kids was more tolerable than 6 hours of my baby sister climbing the walls on a plane 😂

This is how I found out