Sisyphus who, for the perverse sin of having a good time once, was condemned to his rock, was mercifully spared this legion of mouth breathers certain that one is withholding something, to which it appears the gods have assigned me for a similar crime

Reviving my municipal Ikea idea for any local pols with the will

Yeah it’s important for progressives/leftists to witness conservatives pulling this Nixonian “silent majority” bullshit and NOT MAKE THE SAME GODDAMN MISTAKE of assuming your own political beliefs or history or time aligns with some mythical group named “the people” who are just waiting to rise up

Thousands of constitutionally qualified people, all of whom are magnitudes more brilliant and creative and caring than the shitbag from Maine, none of whom can match his aesthetic. Aesthetics being the qualification that concerns American voters the most

Cat at the bar tonight, shouldered like a pirate parrot

Replies are off. I’m right. Take it to a therapist

Look, if your response to Black and feminist critiques of Bernie 2016 was to double down and point to Black Bernie supporters and female Bernie supporters and say “what problem?” and ten years later you’re still right there, you’re worthless to the movement. The movement’s moved. You’re dead weight

Halfway through what’s shaping up to be his most conventional plot. Hoping the account of the Illinois palookas’ raid on the cheese factories of Wisconsin is down payment on a zanier second half

Feed them, give them space, and in time the parents will bring their teenage kids to meet you

In the week since reactivating Hinge the app has suggested a neighbor, my PCP, and Talia

It is my great privilege to be acknowledged the Torment Nexus

Restrained myself from shouting across two tables at the grayhaired budget committee of the respectable mainline congregation that yes the miserable state of their institution’s endowment was foreseeable as early as 1961

Trying to be more carefree and less responsible but it’s a hell of a lot of work

Need to see the criteria for “best”

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Other way around. They want to brush against my leg and trill while I ask where their home is and advise them to go there

I am still so bummed Alberta lost the popsicle shop to N Williams Ave

Two people who were hired to gather signatures for a Portland ballot initiative that would use clean energy funds to hire police say they were trained to mislead the public about the proposal. At least one person has already detailed their concerns about the campaign in a state ethics complaint.

While the "conservative art" convo is going, note how "The End of the Innocence" walks the edge of conservatism without jumping in. The video invokes traditional imagery in elegy for a way of life and to indict Henley's generation: "Now we've come so far so fast," and look at what we've given up.

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Closing in on a finished manuscript of a book I didn’t expect to write and feeling anxious about it, knowing I’ve lived a life that all but guarantees that if I manage to get it published, there are people I’ve known who are going to read it purely to find out whether I’m getting revenge

Someone playing a solemn, almost dirge-like trumpet rendition of “Piano Man” down at the park

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After seeing a guy leave the grocery store with one after lunch yesterday I stopped by the shop last night and learned they’re pronouncing Tacolate like “chocolate” with a T and not “taco latte”

Conservative art exists, you probably like some of it. It’s backwards-looking, preoccupied with squaring its concerns with those of the “great art” of the past. T.S. Eliot laid the foundation for the leading (and conservative) literary-critical movement of the twentieth century. Important essay:

PNW has ruined clamshell berries for me

ran into this just now at the Powell Dollar Tree very sad to see the immediate defensiveness—“it’s 25%/we already have $400M/it’s this or a stadium”— when i merely pointed to the petition and said “this is from PCEF”

This is a great example of having the will part of conservative masculinity - a guy having an independent partner (who he hasn’t forced to marry) *is* a scandal to them. His inability to get her to eat meat is a failure to impose his will on her, and makes him weak. It’s illegible to us.

Oh yeah. By the time I left my hometown for college it was clear to me that “masculinity” was and was understood to be primarily a license to be willful and arbitrarily and a means of designating people and groups as subject to its ridicule, abuse, and silencing,. And that the license was revocable

I wouldn’t be surprised if after Portland voters reject PPB’s effort to swipe millions of dollars from the climate energy fund, the cops then staged a 2020-style wildcat strike on account of residents not adequately loving them

He moved from group to group and person to person, strangers all when they began, chatting everybody up: each conversation personalized, distinct, engaging, funny, enthusiastic, like a TV with a broken Power Off button

Some nights it feels like the bar is my house, and all these people swarming the bar have come to a party for me, and I don’t want to talk to them

Having soured on James Joyce and celebrity after high school I used to scowl when people bragged about knowing people who were reading Ulysses like they were talking up their neighbor’s son’s heifer winning blue at the county fair. Book is hysterical though, James Joyce you are a friend for life

Nobody knows

@cabel.panic.com any chance of a post-Rosetta ShrinkIt?

I’ve been stuck on the example of the 12,000-line change set that “merges with no one having read the full set of changes” remembering just a few years ago working at a place where code changes were nitpicked and a pull request might be marked as unmergeable if a variable name was ambiguous

A string of Dover Thrift Editions until Amazon stopped sending me five dollar coupons

Portland, if the bold text on the petition says “Clean Energy” and “25%” get loud and tell the canvasser they’re stealing from PCEF. Don’t think twice, don’t doubt yourself, don’t let them gaslight you. “Clean Energy” + “25%” = cops stealing from PCEF. Get loud so others hear.

Spare a thought for me

Regarding foie gras

Just saw a waymo. Wanted to destroy it

Urban Alchemy was shady af before Ted Wheeler brought them in: misuse of funds, SA, all of it logged in court filings. Did Wheeler know? He had to know. Why’d he bring them in anyway? Attraction to a shiny readymade fix? Gleeful anticipation of violence against the city’s poor? Are there kickbacks?

Every congregation sticking “bible-believing” on its marquee or in its marketing is leveling an accusation against liberal churches — and eventually against its conservative co-claimants to the Truth

Good time for Oregon’s Universal Health Plan Governance Board to submit their plan to the legislature and for the legislature to quit acting like wet noodles

On these terms I too am a threat to your very way of life

I don't listen to streamers but I clicked a video and caught a minute of a streamer talking and recognized the old talk radio cadence. When I say I felt my skin crawl I'm not using a figure of speech

Ah shit

Can one of @councilorgreen.bsky.social @councilormorillo.bsky.social @councilortkl.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social run a Revenue PRR for 2025-26 Clean & Safe fees and have someone check parcel IDs against public properties so the public knows how much tax money we’re tossing at the PMC?

With age and experience I’ve gotten better at detecting and discerning the emotional states of the people around me and I don’t recommend it