The lesson of the ACA is not that Dems did everything right and bravely pushed through the reform we desperately needed. It's that they will never give us anything no matter how hard we try to be nice, so when we have power, we should use it to do what we want and not listen to a damn thing they say

everywhere things are both very good and very bad, and at the same time

i was not aware that Torrid made straight sizes. i found some size 10 ***TALL*** crimson jeans from Torrid new with tags on at the thrift store today and they rock, they fit super well, nice high waistline too, they didn't just scale up in one direction, probably due to being familiar with "bodies"

got a new yellow tablecloth ☺️ made split pea soup for dinner and served it to two very messy young children on my new yellow tablecloth 🫣 the soup stains are the exact same color as my new yellow tablecloth 😛

has anybody reputable reported on this andrew hugg dude being allegedly escorted out of the pentagon for allegedly leaking state secrets, all i can find is the hindustani times and someone called "europe says" and the whole thing with the hidden camera has o'keefe vibes to me

@spindlypete.bsky.social ass post

my son just said to his toy whale as he submerged it into the bubbles in his bath, "goodbye, whale. i've got to be going to work. at the silly factor."

In 1993, this became gangs, but the gangs were also drugs. Then recycling kind of took over for a while, and then it was 9/11 and I was allowed to have coffee.

Your cider too boozy, your stripes too Breton, your crepes too savory. They’ll kill you.

got a breton stripe knit top at the thrift store the haters and losers are seething about this classic look

just saw the trailer for the new practical magic and can i just say i am levitating out of my seat excited to see that. i ADORE that movie i've probably seen it 700 times

spring rain is a bummer in terms of playing outside but damn does it make for excellent bird-looking-at in the garden. they're going bananas out there

that guy who bought the blazers is coming off as such a dick i'm starting to think we don't even want the blazers if he's part of the package. he doesn't seem like a guy who has a long and happy relationship with portlanders ahead of him put it that way

Apropos of nothing: Portland Mayor Wilson released his proposed budget at 4:20 pm on 4/20.

If you live in a town with a mid sized concert amphitheater it can be 20-50 years ago all summer long

that thing about house spiders not being able to survive outdoors is obviously not universally true because here in oregon anyway i've seen a billion giant house spiders living perfectly happily in my garden or even off in the forest

watching LOL Last One Laughing. the showrunners should have warned bob mortimer about that prank with allison hammond in the refrigerator, the man has had a very very serious heart surgery, you cannot frighten him like that, he's like a rabbit

i will never stop smiling widely at and complimenting strangers and being extremely nice to them and friendly towards them at all times and telling them to have a super day and if that makes europeans uncomfortable that only makes me want to do it more. good

would watch the shit out of every single episode of this

family legend has it that this rose came out with my great-great-great-grandmother on the oregon trail. i looked it up and this rose wasn't introduced until well after the oregon trail but i didn't tell my family because that seemed mean. anyway we took a start and here's mine

Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned today, a week after this:

i am going to try and make a legit omelette for dinner tonight, i have a new pan specially for this purpose and i am watching the french chef episode right now to try and learn the technique. i just never bothered to learn before

i'm happy to see the onion take over infowars. i've been a big fan of the onion for quite a long time and it's given me plenty of laughs over the years. and as for infowars, i really disliked alex jones and disagreed with him on a whole lot of things. so to me, this whole situation is a win-win

literally no business will ever under any circumstances share the tariffs refund with the affected consumers. they wouldn't even do that if we passed a law saying they had to. they wouldn't do that at gunpoint. if you think they'll do that you are a rube

noticed that the tiny model trimet bus the lads got for their birthday is the 15 to gateway TC which is our closest bus line! tempted to go sit at the stop and wait for one to pull up and ask the driver to sign the miniature one

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

something very wacky indeed taking place at powell and about 84th, about every cop car in the city is blocking it all off

well-meaning adults and their intermittent indulgence have random-risk-random-reward conditioned my sons to instinctively throw bouncy balls at everyone's faces in the hopes of instigating a game of catch

one of the lads just claimed that "people are strange" so i of course am playing them the song by the doors, normally i would not find it appropriate to expose impressionable children to jim morrison but this song is fairly innocuous isn't it

it is now 60 degrees which i believe to be the proper temperature

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

spatchcocked whole grilled chicken with new potatoes and leeks also grilled, rough-chopped parsley capers anchovy lovage butter sauce, whole loaf rustic bread to tear up and dip, honeycomb and blue cheese, nuts

just saw video of barack obama doing a library storytime in the bronx with mayor zohran which seems like an action and a choice with an implicit message for democrats

behold our enormous feasting table (imagine a tall wooden fence also behind the raspberries instead of the chain link, that's coming later this summer)

my mom (old, offline) thinks gavin newsom seems like a slime ball, she wants AOC to run

once again i am asking for a cut of lord of the rings i can watch with my three year olds that does not feature orcs, torture, mortal injury, interpersonal violence, or scary giant spiders

lads had a really great birthday. grandma and grandpa and uncle kyle and aunt caitlin all came to visit and showered them with fun new toys and they had cake and ice cream and then they got to go out for pizza. pretty good stuff if you're three

fuck this day for making me go get on erowid

with candles

i cleaned my house please clap

even if nobody knew i would feel that i was being disrespectful of the country in which i was a guest by visiting their finest museums cathedrals public markets etc in anything but totally clean underpants. that seems like disrespectful behavior in someone else's house

instead of save the lloyd, why not use these final weeks to - rave the lloyd (throw a big rave in there) - grieve the lloyd (funeral procession thru town to the mall, rowdy public wake) - hotbox the lloyd (self explanatory) - purge the lloyd (do the purge, but just inside)

Really tough situation for Democrats since "unreliable and ineffective drunk who uses the FBI as a way to fly around the country in a personal jet" is like by far the best possible outcome for Trump FBI Director

talking to my neighbor about freaks in our neighborhood i'm reminded of the people with the gigantic cyclone fence and YOU ARE ON CAMERA signs who had their house blurred on streetview and for about three months after they moved in they had a goat tied up in the backyard right on the astroturf

used the word demonstrably and iggy seems to think i'm talking about "da monster Abbly"

That "friend" should be defrocked.

i am pleased to announce i am actually quite good at growing ranunculas and they do like me. previously i had misunderstood