today's short story club was BECAUSE FLORA HAD EXISTED. AND I HAD LOVED HER BY: ANNA MARTINO ( @annadixit.bsky.social ?) samovar.strangehorizons.com/2024/10/28/b... it was a perfect club book, because we had a lot to chew on and disagree about! I really liked it, i had the most romantic reading

#slowBookClub resumes Tues, Feb 24, 6p Pacific everytimezone.com/s/b3e30825 ​We're reading Part 1 of Abolition Geography , Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore bookshop.org/p/books/abol... sign up here luma.com/loo00dmz to receive event reminders

My short story collection that includes The Pill 💊 is on sale for $5! Support an independent press and also me, your favorite unemployed author.

Amused with the lack of variety in my library checkouts: - locked room mystery- in space - mystery - in fantasy setting - mystery - contemporary, main character is a book editor. (Dead Space - Kali Wallace, The Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison, A Howl of Wolves - Judith Flanders)

WEB DAY! A week from Saturday, on Jan 24th, 2-5pm, Albina Library Rm 2A. Last time, we discovered how to play ANY Flash game from our childhoods. Then we surfed web rings, fed digital pets, and explored historic Portland data. What will we do this time? Come find out! #pdx #portland #www #event

Join the Portland Chapter of HCAO on Saturday January 10th, at 4:30 pm at Zidell Yards for our Art Show and Silent Auction! Step into an evening of elegance and purpose—our silent auction invites you to bid on exquisite treasures, all in support of a cause that truly matters.

thanks to @elisebell.bsky.social for telling me about cluesbysam.com - LOGIC PUZZLES. I love this sort of thing. (which is why someone should be paying me to write SQL)

I have been knitting for 2.5 weeks and i am thrilled to already be knitting lace. Am i doing it correctly? Almost certainly not. It feels like progress anyway.

This Saturday 12/20 It's ! Web Day ! @ Albina Library 1-5:30PM Room 2A Explore The Web Together In Person. What spark will ignite in your browser when another human sits next to you? I don't know, let's find out together! reeds.website/2025/webday/ #pdx #portland #web

I learned the very basics of knitting yesterday. It’s very satisfying

@elisebell.bsky.social you were the one who suggested www.imdb.com/title/tt1047... right? Apparently i am going to watch a million low effort movies and knit for the foreseeable future (i learned the very very basics of knitting today!)

#slowBookClub Safiya Umoja Noble's Algorithms of Oppression, through ch 5 luma.com/gpzppkp9 Tuesday Dec 16, 6p everytimezone.com/s/3a30e294 people are very welcome to join if they've read any of the first 5 chapters.

i wanted to share a statistics joke from tumblr, but I can't find it. oh tumblr.

are you in #pdx? do you want a personal website? do you HAVE a personal website? Do you want to help people with their websites? my friend is putting on a Personal Website Workshop at Albina Library, Nov 16, noon-3p. reeds.website/2025/website... the web belongs to all of us! see you there?

placesjournal.org/article/extr... fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.

TONIGHT: Free show at Starday Tavern in FoPo! We’re up first and playing a super short set—BANGERS ONLY! Come party? It’s FREEEEE

@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social today's #shortStoryClub story was www.khoreomag.com/fiction/memo... it was REALLY GOOD. in that way where I think it dealt psychic damage to at least 2 of us, and made all of us feel things. uhm, thanks!

The Tigard Tualatin School District Health Resource fair is on Sunday, November 9, at Tualatin High school. This is a free community event for folks to learn about what free services may be available to them, such as care Oregon or OHP. Get up-to-date on your vaccines, and more!

are you in #pdx? do you want a personal website? do you HAVE a personal website? Do you want to help people with their websites? my friend is putting on a Personal Website Workshop at Albina Library, Nov 16, noon-3p. reeds.website/2025/website... the web belongs to all of us! see you there?

dear #pdx, #oregon folks - my favorite volunteer activity of the year is in danger: The North West Science Expo needs funds if they are going to be able to hold the science fair in 2026. Even a virtual fair would allow kids to go on to further fairs! Also you should be a judge! nwse.org/fundraising/

My Real Children, my novel about a woman with dementia who remembers two different versions of her own life, is on sale for only $2.99 as an ebook right now www.amazon.com/My-Real-Chil...

#SlowBookClub is meeting again Monday, Nov 17, at 6p Pacific everytimezone.com/s/7da32995 We're reading the intro and first 2 chapters of Algorithms of Oppression. luma.com/djt7v235 It's ok to attend even if you don't quite finish the reading. tell your friends!

Join us for our Labor webinar this coming Tuesday. Winning True Health Security - How Single-Payer Health Care Will Benefit Unions and Workers October 28th, 6pm to 7:15 pm Moderators: Valdez Bravo, Lou Sinniger. Panelists: Michael Lighty, Rose Roach, Todd Farris, Kaleigh Roehl

⏰ 7-8:30 PM ET: Join @haymarketbooks.org for the virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social’s Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts. Register:

2 virtual events happening on 🗓️Tuesday, November 4th, featuring each of our 2 co-founders: ⏰ 5-6:30 PM ET: Love zines? Join the Avery Research Center for a virtual conversation with @prisonculture.bsky.social about zines and her archival orientation to pull from the past to make a better future:

Hey #pdx did you know there’s a skating rink in the basement of Mt Scott Community Center? I have now been twice and i will go back and someone nice should come with me so i have someone to talk to. Open skate is 4-6:30 Tuesday and Thursday

I just finished a 3 part book club on @prisonculture.bsky.social 's amazing book, We Do This 'Til We Free Us to follow it up, the next book club I'm going to run is Algorithms of Oppression by @safiyanoble.bsky.social - this should take about 3 months/sessions Let me know if you're interested!

#pdx #sewing community: there was a fabric swap at www.sincerestudiopdx.org Sincere Studio today! they have them about 2x a year, expect the next one in May. It was such a treat to watch people realize it was FREE FABRIC. (Also pay what you want rotary cutter blade replacements!)

#pdx it’s apple (and pear!) time at Portland Nursery www.portlandnursery.com/events/apple... I just stocked up - i bought 11 lbs of newtown pippins for baking, plus a couple asian pears to snack on.

Just learned about queeniescrew.com Queenie’s Crew - an opportunity and set of activities for kids age 6-10 to imagine a world without prisons (they will also send info and activities to educators and activists working with kids) #abolition #PICAbolition #interruptingCriminalization

Extremely specific ask! in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred! ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me

I’m going to the @healthcareforallor.bsky.social ‘s 101 session tomorrow to learn more about how they are working for All Our Health Care! health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/virtual-hcao... you can come too!

“Things are always happening that have the potential to change you.” 🔥

Hey #pdx the next @healthcareforallor.bsky.social pdx chapter meeting/social is coming up Sun Oct 19 3p-6p health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/portland-cha... i promise it’s a super nice bunch of nerdy people! (I will be there, but i will be late)

NYC based instructors: we're looking for an adjunct for a graduate level Ethics of Data Science class this Spring. Please share widely apply.interfolio.com/175474

@besha.bsky.social www.sincerestudiopdx.org/event-detail...

#pdx let’s have a moment to appreciate this Math-y theater/haunted house/escape room combo existing! us.patronbase.com/_Matheatre/P... It’s not for me but i love everything about the idea of it. Also that there exists an org to help fund weird math stuff like this www.mathhappens.org

I went to the Portland (#pdx) chapter meeting/social of @healthcareforallor.bsky.social today! Everyone was super nice, and I think I am going to be helping with some volunteer work. I'll try to remember to post about the next meeting here - really impressed with what a great group of people

I went to Breadfest. Here is most of my haul

Routine PSA: If you ever wish you could put time into directly helping out some kids who need help, I'd be happy to talk about being a court-appointed special advocate in your local foster-care system. There are a whole lot of kids—queer, trans, and otherwise—who need someone to have their backs.

OK!! #DataBS conf starts in 45min and I'm gonna be busy hosting, SO, things to know: Chat is on discord, NOT zoom: bit.ly/databs-chat Last min registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Official Schedule: databsconf.com/schedule/

Today is one of my favorite tumblr holidays

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is like

hey, Oregonians (#PDX in particular) did you know we have friends trying to get universal healthcare in Oregon? www.hcao.org (somehow I have both made a friend and agreed to help with data stuff) Anyway, Portland meetup Sunday after next health-care-for-all-oregon.solidarity.tech/portland-sep...

Spooky season starts Saturday, October 4th at Arbor Beer Lodge in NoPo! 8PM $5-$10 sliding scale NOTAFLOF Our friends Left of the Dial will start us off with some 80s alt rock, then we’ll tear it up with Siouxsie and the Banshees classics like Spellbound, Monitor, and of course, HALLOWEEN #pdxshows

#PDX www.repairpdx.org Repair Cafes are back in session (we took July/August off for Portland summer reasons) I'll be one of the people sewing/mending today - many other people will be fixing things like small appliances, sharpening knives and tools, bike repair, maybe even book repair

Does anybody have a use for the domain robot.wtf? I bought it years ago in a fit of I don’t know what and have never found a use for it. Pitch me anything at all and it’s yours

The entirety of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's discography is currently free (name your price, no minimum) on Bandcamp. kinggizzard.bandcamp.com

The #DataBS Conf draft schedule (sans time assignments, and maybe a straggler or two) has been posted! databsconf.com/schedule/ Now is the time to get hyped and grab a ticket to attend the online-online event Wed Sept 24! tickets: ti.to/databsconf/d...

Did you hear? Douglass Day 2026 is on the way! Friday, February 13, 2026 Sign up today: DouglassDay.org Oh, and this year we are featuring a massive *new* trove of rediscovered documents from our friends at the @ccp-org.bsky.social! 🎂