BEAN YEAR

@billhookunion.beanyear.com

Say Yes To Beans! https://beanyear.com Mastadon: @Beanyear@epicure.social

I am low key obsessed with salep, a Turkish drink I have never tried because the orchid it’s made from is endangered and hella expensive in the US. The orchid root has a lot of soluble fiber, and thickens up warm milk. Add some cinnamon, sweetener, and maybe a drop of rosewater, and you have salep.

Single-stair buildings have become an increasingly important topic in housing policy because they raise a fundamental question: are there opportunities to safely build more housing, on more sites, by modernizing regulations that were developed decades ago?

Housing affordability remains one of Portland's most pressing challenges, and if we're serious about increasing housing production, we need to be willing to examine every part of the development process—from land use and permitting to building codes.

gave the lads some big juicy dill pickles and salty plantain chips and watered-down gatorade for snack, trying to get the ol' hydration up, and they looked at it very politely, sniffed it, and one said diplomatically, "mama i have a fun idea. let's go to a restaurant!"

If there’s one thing we can be sure of, it’s that Phil knight authentically wants justice for displaced albina residents as much as he wants the Oregon GOP to win in elections

Someone introducing themselves: My name is [first name] Roy My Brain 🧠: THAT MEANS KING! NO GODS NO KINGS! Me to my brain: ok ok just don’t say that out loud Someone else: My name is [first name] Fitzroy My Brain 🧠: King’s BASTARD !

"In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would... ...Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.” Yeah, so happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day?

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.