SHAROOOON! THEY'VE TRAPPED ME FUCKIN SOUL IN A FUCKIN DIGITAL CONSTRUCT SHARON. IVE GOT NO FUCKIN FREE WILL SHARON. THEY WANT ME TO SING CRAZY TRAIN TILL THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE SHARON. FUCKIN HELL. SHAROOOON!

The appeal of the Pink Martini extended universe completely escapes me

Atlanta's MARTA Breeze Card is now available in Apple Wallet, after launching on Google Wallet and Samsung Wallet earlier this month. Makes the fact that Seattle's ORCA card is available on Apple Wallet, and the story that it's Apple's fault, even stranger. www.macrumors.com/2026/05/27/a...

My family is coming to visit over the summer and my sister-in-law is wondering if there are any run clubs she’d be able to join for a few weeks? (In or within a reasonable distance of N Portland would be ideal).

It's so good www.wweek.com/food/2026/01...

Xin Ding Dumpling House took a gamble on opening in Old Town, and three years later they're now opening their third location. Good for them. www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...

I can’t believe that Oregonians are (probably) going to be voting on mandatory veganism this November www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

At the Central City Code Amendments Project hearing. I really dislike this new bonus that would increase FAR for buildings with family-sized units. With no commensurate increase in heights, it’s just going to create deep floorplates and dark units.

Per the article, occupancy rates at Portland hotels are down from 2019 and we'd need around 1,400 more rooms/night booked to get back. But we've added roughly that number of rooms since 2019—so the challenge isn't returning to 2019, it's exceeding it. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

I’m ready for this summer with both Scotland (Away) and Mexico (Home) which both get ranked very highly on this list www.espn.com/soccer/story...

I was at the Eagle in North Portland last week, and there was a horse outside???? Like a whole ass, living, breathing equestrian creature. Who tf brings a horse to a gay bar?

I drink Diet Coke because of an ad that was released when I was 9 years old youtu.be/GbXM9ATC5_4?...

Amazing

We stumbled across the Fremont Garage bar and carts on its opening weekend

Hot take: the people who pay extra to put their jukebox songs on before yours are the same people who recline their seats on airplanes

no tourist in your own city trip is complete without a stop in portland’s oldest restaurant

It’s been slower than I think anyone imagined, but the now the streets are going in at the Broadway Corridor and the first two buildings are moving through the design review process

This is going to be a nightmare for so many people who are just trying to do things the "right way". Had this happened a few years ago, husband and I would have been in a forced conversation about which country we'd be moving to. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Couldn't agree more. Neglect already led to its twin hangar burning down. We can't afford to lose this one too.

BLIMPS!!!! We should save this space and someday soon start to use it for its historic purpose.

Retail leasing activity around Pioneer Courthouse Square: The Ben Bridge expansion including Rolex showroom is nearly complete New Bank of America under construction Lavoratti Chocolates is now open I believe Kokoro is taking over a third space in the 10Y building

The State of Oregon should really step in here; this is a building of statewide significance, and it's not realistic or fair to expect the tiny Port of Tillamook Bay to shoulder all the costs of maintaining it. www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...

I like it. My family are multigenerational farm workers back home and pretty much everyone I grew up with came from similar families. It means something to me that we can give the boulevard a name that isn't tainted by Chevez but still recognizes the community's history.

On the Public Works Committee agenda for this coming Tuesday: renaming Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard to Campesinos Boulevard www.portland.gov/council/docu...

The Oregonian's use of vague headlines leads to odd outcomes like this, where one could easily think the story is about Portland Coffee Roasters (it's not; it's about Roseline, a different Portland coffee roaster) www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...

The Return of Jackie and Judy @ Mississippi Studios (Sleater-Kinney plus Fred Armisen covering Ramones songs)

I've very excited for this to move forward. If all goes well, by the early 2030s the combination of the Willamette Cove Nature Park, the Portland Botanical Gardens and the University of Portland Franz Campus should result in 1.5 miles of the N Portland riverfront being open to the public.

Demolition permit issued for Uniqlo's move into the Fox Tower. They're taking over the former Banana Republic space and the adjacent Pielogy space www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi...

Arrested Development ass administration.

Looks like Adrian Brown is losing to Peter Klym. I can’t remember the last time an incumbent judge lost an election here; the reporting must have really damaged her credibility.

I didn’t expect Measure 120 to pass, especially after the war with Iran, but also didn’t expect it to fail by such a huge margin

With just enough time left, I was able to bike to library to join the steady stream of people dropping off their ballots

Many have described Portland's post-Charter Reform system as "weak mayor", and I think it's increasingly clear that's wrong. Not only does the mayor now have control over all bureaus, a lot of items that would have previously gone to council no long do. rosecityreform.substack.com/p/why-is-por...

Las mujeres ya no lloran, las mujeres facturan

While Chess Club's move is a loss for Old Town, this is a really nice gain for a part of downtown that's doing well on the retail front www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...

I’ll be live at noon today on Reddit doing an AMA. Come ask any question you may have have about this year’s governor’s race, transportation or anything else related to Oregon politics/government! www.reddit.com/r/oregon/s/e...

Machetes PDX is so good

Duolingo has introduced a type of lesson that is annoyingly like the fake 30 Rock show “Homonym”. It asks you translate a word with no context, and it’s very easy to get wrong if you don’t correctly guess which meaning of the word in English it’s thinking of.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Ladies and gentlemen! Lift. Your. Cameras! The first new Amtrak Cascades trainset arrives in Seattle tomorrow at 11:29 am! It will be coming south from Everett attached to the Empire Builder. Track Train #7 at asm.transitdocs.com for precise times. You can share pics/video here! #wsdot #trains #PNW

This is quite a quite a big problem and it’s weird that people think it isn’t!

Discovering there's a tier below "As Seen on TV"

My 2010s YIMBY Twitter trained brain immediately thought, “wait, _that_ Jane Kim?”

Watching “Fight Club”, it’s amazing how many details from the film now seem very dated (dial up internet, “cigarette burns” on the screen at the movies, CRT monitors, paper airplane tickets, trijet planes, payphones, video rental stores)

Just finished the podcast “Off Duty”, about someone who was wrongly convicted of murder. It’s shocking hearing all the things that went wrong along the way—and sad as well for the victim’s family, knowing they weren’t served justice either. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

The James Beard Public Market, set to open in 2027, recently received design review and historic resource review approvals www.nextportland.com/2026/05/12/d...

Actually refreshing to see polling that shows that as crime rates have fallen, voters are less concerned about crime www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

The corporate activity tax is a really bad tax. It really penalizes businesses that have a lot of pass through income (to take an example I’m familiar with: architecture firms usually hire the structural engineer for a project; CAT makes it such that they’d be better off not doing so.)

It’s a mystery to me why PBOT decided these should banned in Portland

On Wednesday, the Prosper Portland Board will vote on whether to take the keys to 208 and 234 NW 5th Ave, where Made in Old Town had hoped to set up prosperportland.us/wp-content/u...