Sitting here, smelling like American exceptionalism, while I wait for our power company to fix its spontaneously broken substation so I can shower

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

Dan Ryan is the Mitch McConnell of Portland city council

Not shown: the records requests for messages between Dan Ryan and other right-wing members of council that turned up nothing because they brazenly delete that shit. www.wweek.com/news/2025/08...

i saw the post sparking today‘s discussion about men “getting laid” and thought three things: 1.) this is a good discussion to have, 2.) i (and many of you) do not need to actually participate beyond reading & following along at most, and 3.) this should happen over video and not substack for reach

We have a @lopatto.bsky.social piece on the hacker who breached Columbia and acquired Zohran Mamdani's college application. It's not great for NYT to be using hacked materials originating from an anime Nazi but this part especially stuck out to me. www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...

We deserve better than a man who is too lazy and disinterested to care that he hired a bigot. Dan Ryan should resign.

Regarding the threat of Trump yanking federal funding from the City of Portland over DEI related policies, I think there's really only one question at play: are we going to roll over for a fascist regime or not? I know what my answer is.

Reminder that a lot of folks probably have @nytimes.com games subscriptions they’ve forgotten about. Pretty good time to cancel those

Anybody want to take a bet on whether democrats will effectively pin the Hegseth debacle on the republicans who voted for him?

This whole thing is really goofy. It doesn’t once mention that if your sense of identity is wrapped up in the use of the word race to describe fantasy creatures (grass is calling) that the old source books are fully compatible with the new ones. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/a...

SPOOKY! SUPERNATURAL! REAL SIGHTING!

Where’s that lady who wanted to be putin’s mom? A lot of sad dictators and oligarchs right now who could use her comfort

I’m trying to find faux-ironic (but secretly sincere) holiday schlock but I think it’s gone out of fashion?

We need a guerrilla public education campaign about jury nullification in Midtown Manhattan asap

When you’re socially anxious email is asymmetric. The other person is entitled to respond at their convenience but you either have to respond immediately or put it in the anxiety hole and let it gnaw at you for 6 months.

Maybe my greatest idea

Democracy dies of asphyxiation

Billionaires are destroying the planet because if you unplug the arcade cabinet after you set the high score then no one can beat you.

Someone explain the theme of this week’s Thurs NYT crossword to me, I’m begging you.

Waiting for my flight to board and had a butterfinger so I’d have something to do for the next two hours

BeReal put out its push notification today during the window of the emergency alert.

Reminder to live your life in such a way that people don’t feel a deep sense of relief when they hear that you’ve died.

Back from the first vacation of my life that felt like what I thought vacations would be when I was a kid. This was truly restful in a way I really needed and I’m really grateful to Sarah for setting it up.

Wapo really went with a cute lil’ exclamation point on this one

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This is big news for anyone who is into Magic the Gathering (me) and from Portland, OR (also me).

TIL that maintaining a todo list and checking things off when you have a bit of spare time is easier than mentally categorizing things by anxiety level and only addressing them when they’re at panic attack levels.

NYT crossword was a banger today

Lawyer : Argues before SCOTUS Clarence Thomas, holding up ipad :

Today’s mood is apoplectic rage at people who buy single family homes and rent them out. Not cute, funny rage. Real, honest to god rage.

TIL that stonks was a word before it was a meme

I don’t ever get much engagement on here, which makes it particularly frustrating when I get a notification and it turns out to be a bot account that’s following 50k people. Please consider rate limiting follows @why.bday.team

Shout out to the koroks that carry their own bags

I’m really proud of my partner and I for getting a one year streak on the NYT crossword. It was a lot of work, sometimes an hour+ on a hard Saturday. I’m not good at forming habits, so this was a major achievement!

the tea

@maklelan.bsky.social can you read this so I don’t have to? https://twitter.com/lancewallnau/status/1663970891665948690?s=20

If democrats had a “remind me to donate” button I’d click it. I’d love a “Hey, you asked us to remind you. Here’s a sober description of the state of the campaign. Please donate.”

Elon musk and Ron desantis form a perfect circle silhouette whether they stand back to back or front to front.

abolish the senate it is just a suggestion

Democracy dies in darkness

Saturday vibes

those of you naive enough to think big boats are "getting stuck" are taking their eye off the ball. something monumental is happening

People not playing zelda: look at this graffiti what a disgrace society is caving in People playing zelda: there’s def a korok around here

Bluesky plays Pokemon, anyone? Reply to this post with valid command (a, b, up, down, left, right, select, start, or screenshot) to play. After each command the game will advance a few seconds and post another screenshot.