Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to a guy with ailments.

People who don't live in Portland are very eager to hire other people who don't live in Portland to do violence to people who do live in Portland.

Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 21h ago

A ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

100% of every public figure is due to someone realizing their time in the spotlight is almost up and they’re desperate for that to continue, and they realize the conservative ecosystem will turn you into a media figure if you promise to endanger as many trans people as possible

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · yesterday

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

If the Mariners trade Randy and AQI gets too high for me to go to Nickel Beers Night at the Pickles I’m officially done caring about baseball for like two days.

The folks I know in harm reduction are the biggest advocates for safe public sharps disposal I’ve met! It’s the people who obsessed with street needles conceptually who are the most incensed when there’s a needle bin attached to the trash can in the park

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is the exact problem, right here: people would rather make up a social justice warrior to get mad at than take a hard, honest look at the problem.

Oregon Dems Don’t Know Ball and It’s a Genuine Problem exhibit eleventy dozen

Rip City Not Rip Off@ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 5d ago

Tim: So you don't feel that Tom Dundon should have to put in a couple hundred million on this thing? Lieber: "I mean I, I, it was not something, it was something that we had sort of talked about, um, it was not something that was overwhelmingly needed at the time.

There’s a fair number of people I thought were my friends but actually value me less than their imaginary friends at Joanne’s School of Magical Phrenology! I am unsure how I’m supposed to feel normal for the rest of my life with this knowledge.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5d ago

there's clearly no point in scolding most people for their indifference to anti-trans bigotry. the refusal to leave Harry Potter behind, the hemming and hawing about the NYT's puzzles. people won't even put down their toys for us. I cannot express the white-hot frustration boiling in my stomach.

Wish that all the apps on my phone realized they had different jobs; I don’t want to watch music videos on music streaming apps, to watch shortform video from randos on the pictures of my friends app, to buy products from the shortform video app

In Portland, the police have decided it’s legal to drive through a red light because you’re texting and hit somebody with your car, as long as the victim doesn’t take an ambulance from the scene. www.portlandmercury.com/news/road-ru...

Road Rules - Portland Mercury

In early April, Portlander Jennifer Shuch was biking across Northeast Halsey Street near the Hollywood Transit Center when she was struck by a driver running a red light. The impact, which was caught ...

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The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 5d ago

We have seen what happens in cities like San Francisco when in-person enforcement just stops because the police decide not to do their jobs. Enforcement has its place. But a system that depends on the work of manned enforcement is problematic, to say the least.

I’m really tired of people who hate Portland having so much power and influence on Portland. (This could apply to “US cities” in general I guess but I live in Portland;)

Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · 6d ago

if this is going to be the line then fuck these guys

From what I’m hearing now, Tom Dundon’s lost the good will of middle school boys who watch ESPN at my job

You’re telling me an active Mormon has bad opinions about LGBTQ people? Even though he’s got enough media training to normally keep them to himself? WOW I’m shocked

Don’t like that one of the child Charmin bears is now a shitting influencer

Portland guy watch: dad with teen daughters in a De La Soul shirt very proud of ordering in Spanish at my corner birriera

The CEO of Market of Choice, a tiny chain in a single state, had a private plane when I worked there so I entirely believe that a municipal grocery store could operate at 30% below SRP without being a huge money loser

Mixed up omiyage & okonomiyaki while catching up with a friend and am now haunted by visions of someone returning from a weekend trip with pockets full of stir fried cabbage for their coworkers

New @cheekface.bsky.social report: horns good

There’s a version of this where the pigs coulda presented as victims of FieldWorks’ disregard for local elections law but instead they are again insisting the laws don’t apply if you have a thin blue line sticker on your truck

Kori 🌹@koriander.bsky.social · last wk.

Safer Portland is calling for the state to count signatures for their Pro-Cop ballot measure, rather than the city, which to me smells like desperation. The Police Union Chief calling for an elections official to be fired is a new low IIRC. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Feels like this could be the pivot point for the Mariners season if we manage to split this series, that Canzone homer specifically

Youtube auto captions not transcribing “swear” words is one of those neat little intersections of ableism & internet capitalism that fucking irritates me

Having a delightful time at the last bits of Coffee Beer’s community street fair & block party! Feel like I’ve stumbled upon a solvable problem too

Missed my transfer bus & stopped into the pub by the stop for a pint while I waited for the next one only to see my handsome son Bryan Woo getting lit up by the fuckin Rangers on national tv, maybe transit-oriented urbanism was a mistake #mariners

✅SIGN AND SHARE! No More Layoffs for Do Good Multnomah Workers! Workers at Do Good Multnomah, a shelter organization in the Portland metro area affiliated with AFSCME Local 1790, are 15 months into their first contract campaign and are facing their 4th major round of layoffs in the last year.

No More Layoffs for Do Good Multnomah Workers!

Workers at Do Good Multnomah, a shelter organization in the Portland metro area affiliated with AFSCME Local 1790, are 15 months into their first contract campaign and are facing their 4th major round...

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If I were Prosper Portland & my shoe incubator wasn’t gonna happen, I’d be trying to figure out how to build Portland’s version of Pike Place Market in Old Town.

The only response to "trans kids can't play with their friends" is "fuck you, you bigoted piece of mutant crotch-sniffing shit"

Being a state senator must be so cool, you can just make up complete bullshit & other government officials have to take it seriously

Brandon Mullen@brandonmullen.com · 2w ago

Senator Lieber tries to claim that people rent cars to go to Blazers games and that is where the County will get revenue. Commissioner Moyer... isn't having it. Side note: neither am I. Come on.

If I did anything to cause a $50k settlement from my employer, I’d be fired. PPB promotes you for it, as long as you’re assaulting journalists they find inconvenient

Marc Poris@marcporis.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Portland Police Bureau promoted Corey Budworth to Sergeant on July 16, 2026. He was the PPB officer that was indicted for using unjustified force against a photojournalist, by pushing her to the ground and hitting her in the head with his baton while she was seated. bsky.app/profile/marc...

seeing the Odyssey in 70 mm tomorrow because what’s the point of living one bus away from the Hollywood if I don’t ya know

Hearing Eugenio Suarez making great plays at third while Brendan “Thin Blue Line” Donovan’s flop ass has been on IL for more than half the season… #mariners

Too tired from going out two nights in a row to actually go to the parade, happy pride