Perhaps it is time to rename the street for a woman who made history without raping her supporters.

Seems like critical infrastructure to me. In any case, I’d love to truly understand who gets to determine the #price of things like #bridges. Is it gonna be like one fighter jet? Two fighter jets? Why is a bridge in France cheaper than a bridge in America for the same span and traffic volume?

Reading a list of all the #PDX birthday freebies makes me extra annoyed to be in Des Moines on my birthday.

Sitting through hours of meetings to watch people fill in form fields within #Azure #DevOps for a team of 20+ with endless debate over how to use the tool makes me want to create a board to project manage taking my own life

Another famous #chef with a long history of abusing his staff. Why do #kitchens have cultures of #abuse? Glad I never went to #Noma. If you can’t perform your talent without abusing those around you, you’re less skilled than you think. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

I’ve seen many leaders get excited about high fidelity designs and many #designers completely ignore the underlying user path to spend weeks and weeks debating the look and feel. #Figma helped to kill proper #UX analysis in favor of shiny UI. As a researcher it’s often a hard campaign.

You cannot buy happiness, but you can buy cheese. 🧀

Honestly a session of Civilization IV sounds pretty relaxing right now as a way to temporarily escape the daily news cycle.

Our new #dog #walker volunteered twice to get our pup first before other clients to reduce first day #overwhelm in a van full of strange dogs. Just watched him shove Aubie into a van full of at least 3 other dogs, all twice his size. Hope it goes well. Timestamping in case it doesn't. Poor pup.

Tomorrow brings #PDX the first 6pm #sunset of 2026, and next week it will be a 7pm sunset due to Daylight Savings! The winter --> #spring shift this year is swift and I am thrilled to see it happen in March instead of May. #daylightsavings

We made chestnuts and from that, chestnut paste and from that, chestnut cookies! 🍪 🌰

Bad vibes in #Portland tonight: I was screamed at by a man in a dark parking lot, got home to two #coyotes approaching me in the street, and, after fleeing to the backyard, heard the absolute weirdest animal cry in the alley just beyond the fence. Sorry Aubie, we are in for the night. #PDX

The best little house wolf 🐺

Sharing a little joy and cuteness on your timeline instead of thoughts about the #SOTU

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

We have a Louisiana Mardi Gras party today and for some reason @jacobgrier.bsky.social wasn’t into the idea of me making a Mountain Home Soup Bean Pie to bring. Can’t imagine why.

This writer somehow thought it was realistic to find a hotel in New York in June for $150/night. $150! When I lived there *15 years ago* I never found a place under $190/night that I’d want anyone to stay in (unless they wanted a hostel). Paris, sure. Not NYC. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

I am determined to spring clean despite being sick. I wanted to bring my shredder inside the house to get rid of papers with personal info on them. (Currently it lives in a shed outside.) When taking it off the high shelf, I fell and it fell… on my head. It weighs 20 lbs. Sums up my week.

The best people in the world are working to heal others from whichever Epstein made them suffer the most. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/rele...

Admirable.

Paid $516.27 for a dermatology skin biopsy as my $660/month United HealthCare plan doesn’t cover diagnostic tests *at all.* So I paid $8000 on premiums in 2025 just to pay this bill and another $500 for a mammogram. I find this incredibly problematic.

“1200 per cent more relaxing than other CDs” — a tempting offer at a little free library in Portland this morning.

At exactly 3am we were woken up by music coming from my *closed* MacBook Pro, which somehow started to play Spotify for 30 seconds before stopping. That’s a first for me.

“I am very tired, very stomachy & hate nearly the whole world” is very relatable for me for three days every 27 days or so.

I desperately wish our female attorney general cared about female victims of sexual assault as much as she cares about being a pick me for old, conservative, pedophilic men. Was she also a SA victim and can’t deal with showing empathy? Perhaps this is Stockholm syndrome at its utmost demonstration.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

I am glad to see promising new treatments for debilitating brain injuries. I hope we can decriminalize and regulate psilocybin as a legitimate option.

Helpful romantic advice a week in advance of Valentine’s Day. Your partner doesn’t want to date ChatGPT (hopefully).

If you live in Oregon, made $69k or less last year (the link preview paragraph saying $60k is not correct), and need help filing your taxes, check out this FREE resource / team of volunteer tax preparers! cashoregon.org

It’s -5 °F in Warsaw and their sunset is at 4:30pm in February, which effectively kills any dream I had of moving there.

A tale of two cabinets: @jacobgrier.bsky.social is on the left and I am on the right. This is exactly us 😂

When I search for “animal news” it’s because I want uplifting headlines, not this haunting lede. #animals #badnews #lotr #thehobbit

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Someone got scolded for scream-barking at me during my manager 1:1, so he’s taking it out on his bone and making sorrowful eyes at anyone who will listen.

And now in addition to infringing on constitutional rights in America, they’re violating article 23 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...

Just watched GitHub Copilot slowly and incorrectly calculate the average from a column of values in excel, then argue with us about whether or not there was a column header, so yeah. Not ready for AI to dominate UX research quite yet. #ai #copilot #uxresearch

Friday mood. #facepalm #publicart #PDX

“We, not our detractors, were the clear-eyed and clear-headed ones, but that is no comfort right now.” www.theunpopulist.net/p/wed-have-b...

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Due process for anyone, citizen or not, is apparently totally off the table at this point.

The northern lights forecast had us up past midnight (no luck) and then the rodents living in our basement woke us up at 4am, so here’s my best backyard attempt at hoping I got to see some faint shadow of aurora for the sleep deprivation. View from Portland, Oregon. #northernlights #auroraborealis

How it started/how it's going

When politics gets personal, you bite those politics and rip them to shreds.

Ah, Yule cat is here to eat all who didn’t receive new clothes before Christmas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_cat

May you all enjoy your Sunday as much as my dog enjoys a good stick.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

My dog leads me to the local treat library on nearly every walk.

Did you know that in Oregon, you have the power to delete your data and ask for a list of third parties that got it? You can learn more about the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act – and how to take control of your personal data – at https://ow.ly/AsHi50XVLJK.

It appears that DHS agents have strategically been stepping in front of vehicles to ‘justify’ shooting since at least 2014. This seems to be the training. www.thenation.com/article/arch...