didnt read this as literally about the joker at first this idea also describes a lot of fellow travelers (libs and leftists!) who think social conservativism is essentially fake and they're actually temporarily embarrassed socialists who just need to see the light of universal healthcare
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2w agoNot enough scorn being poured on the idea that the reason why the Joker dons clown make-up and commits crimes is 'wealth disparities'.
@trimet.org is building a “transit champion” mailing list for the legislative session next year. would encourage everyone who follows me to sign up: trimet.org/champions
Transit needs you now.
Join the Transit Champions and help protect the TriMet bus and MAX service our community depends on.
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eliminating I-5 for a week seems to have caused remarkably minimal disruption to Portland's regional traffic flows. so why again do ODOT, Governor Kotek and the Oregon Legislature think we should spend three billion dollars (!) to literally double the width of lanes on I-5 through North Portland?
City Observatory@cityobservatory.bsky.social · 4w agoCarmageddon does a no-show in Portland. Closing the I-5 freeway increased AM peak hour travel times about five minutes compared to normal conditions. cityobservatory.org/wheres-my-ca...
get ready to cyber bully your legislators that restoring and expanding bus service is a nonnegotiable component of a 2027 transportation package. It won’t happen unless we annoy the crap out of them with untold hundreds of angry constituents blowing up their inboxes and phone lines
Tony Jordan@tonyjordan.bsky.social · last mo.As I wait on a busy road for a bus that is perpetually coming in 12 minutes I’m just reminded how the city of Portland, the county of Multnomah, the regional Metro, and the State of Oregon really don’t give a shit about anyone who isn’t in a car. It’s obvious, shameful, and inexcusable.
love whenever I have to use one of these things in downtown tigard lol significantly more annoying to lock up at but great for virtue signaling that you could bike here
If the Dems do a Project 2029 type thing of shovel ready policy papers it's gonna be a lot of shit like "loan forgiveness for pell grant recipients who start business" when it should be "we asked 50 retired OEM dealer relations lawyers how to fuck over car dealers and here's what they said"
claude code whinging it didn't have enough context to do a task
they also banned battery energy storage lol great job everybody
The Oregonian@oregonian.com · 3mo agoThe Hillsboro City Council unanimously adopted a four-month moratorium on new data centers. Hillsboro was responding to public outrage triggered in May, when the city fielded 17 applications for tax breaks ahead of a state moratorium on some new incentives. www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
*chuckling and putting down my copy of the financial times* President Trump executed Order 66? Doesn't that clown know that'll be bad for military morale?
we all agree donald personally cursed the US men's team with his involvement right
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
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its literally impossible to not have fun watching mexico play tbh
what's your character animation when a driver tries to run you over at a crosswalk? ive been throwing my arms wide and doing a "you serious??" sort of routine but have been thinking of switching to a condescending finger wag
we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society
farmers markets are a great way to experience "what if the grocery store was twice as expensive, far less convenient, and you had to get up early on the weekend to go there"
the skies and waters themselves rise against the vile king
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs NPS drains the Reflecting Pool for repairs, thunderstorms and strong rains work to replenish the water.
At some point this claim from white rurals and their advocates that "You can't get along with different people" means that they are the different people with whom we cannot get along.
hmmmm think i just got got by the ol' "excel deletes all rows after 1 million without telling you" routine stop storing your data in excel!!!
it's so sad thinking about how good the vibes would be to have the world cup and America's 250th birthday without the fucking guy
space data centres are like, flat earth levels of stupid even before you get to the "launching shit into space" bit theres no case for trading more efficient solar panels in exchange for having to dump all heat thru vacuum
Semafor@semafor.com · 4mo agoBuilding data centers in space could be cost-effective by the early 2030s. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
something like "you're radical enough to say stalin didn't go far enough and make your parents gasp, but are you radical enough to say parking, petrol, and car registration fees should cost more?"
Paul Crider@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 4mo agoThis is a meme I can get behind. What will *your* Liberal Currents article be about, Bluesky Poster?
car drivers when you tell them that stopping for people at a crosswalk is the law and required and not “doing them a favor”
If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.
Kyle Pfannenstiel@pfannyyy.bsky.social · 4mo agoIdaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says they didn't name two dairies potentially linked to the outbreak “because this is a potential risk for any raw milk producer.”
btw my bud @chaoslord.bsky.social coined the motto "stey or die", just in case it takes off after steyer does well tonight
they ask him to point to the elephant every single day just bc he's so good at it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoQ: If the president is in such perfect health, why does he keep going back in for checkups? DR OZ: I think he likes the results. He does really well. He aces the test every single day.
