Portland appears to have some sort of white nationalist meetup going on. A source sent me photos of a pamphlet with references to various white nationalist figures and authors.
Luke Kanies
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Founder of Puppet. I helped create DevOps. Writing at https://lukekanies.com/.
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌
I’m so mad that Portland isn’t even experimenting with this. Every non-arterial should be controlled access. Every single one.
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2d agoHow to design a Barcelona-style superblock. 🧵
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
@greatdismal.bsky.social i just reread Pattern Recognition (at least the fifth read for me). Thank you for such a great book (and for so many others). I am traveling a bit, so those parts land, but the mirror world blending into “normal” hits too. But mostly, I just love reading it.
I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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This is a rough read. In particular what gets me are the details of a prominent survivor invited to spill her guts at an institution with a deep sexual assault problem, greeted with boredom by male frat members. Horrifying.
Anne Helen Petersen@annehelen.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6d agoA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
It’s us. Men are the problem, and it’s men who have to do the work. (I mean, others *can*. But we are the ones who *should*.) Don’t rape! Don’t sexually assault! Don’t harass!
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 6d agoStop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.
Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.
Updated information shows PPB killed the man and the dog. Absolutely shameful how some media talked about this man’s life like it was an afterthought, and unquestioningly put out copaganda.
Nick@ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is one of the most insane news segments I’ve ever seen. Hey this incredible hero dog died this is terrible day for the police — we’re not going to tell you who shot the dog — also a human was shot and killed but we’re not saying by who but the police say he’s violent. Also cops on admin leave
We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.
"TriMet said the MAX Yellow Line saw more than 18,000 additional trips from Sept. 13 to Sept. 19 — a 35% increase compared with usual ridership." Stop making driving easier and they will come. www.kgw.com/article/traf...
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That's because you (and I), unlike Kai, have had to actually hire people to do real jobs and aren't in the business of making up unspoken tests to disqualify otherwise perfectly suitable candidates. Kai has lived his entire professional life being a bullshitter on the air so the stakes are lower.
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
folks: please use the housing org’s recommendations as input into your ranking, weighted by how housing compares to your personal priorities
Portland: Neighbors Welcome@portlandneighborswelcome.org · 2w agoWe are proud to endorse Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social, Councilor Mitch Green @mitchgreen.bsky.social, and Councilor Olivia Clark for election to Portland City Council District 4. You can see our full endorsements here: portlandneighborswelcome.org/2026-portlan...
the thing with luxury condos is that they're mostly a myth. 1. within the same county, condos sell for 35% less than single family homes 2. within the same neighborhood, they sell for 43% less 3. within the same neighborhood and adjusting for some quality characteristics, they sell for 21% less
somebody is gonna yell at me for sharing slop and i’m so sorry. but i just got this AI ad for a network install company on tiktok. flawless work, definitely the firm to hire. cc @tracketpacer.com
📣 TUESDAY, 10/6 at @codetv.dev studio! Bluesky CTO @pfrazee.com is going to blow our minds with his talk, 💫 Crazed Visions of the Future 💫 + time for demos and discussions RSVP here:
ATProto PDX: October Meetup
It's time to join your fellow idealists, builders, and shitposters for another meetup about the atmosphere! Together, we’re doing our part to create a more social web so the internet belongs to us, Th...
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A n'hood assoc. colleague remarked that "getting more housing downtown will be impossible" as the downtown is "already very built up." I hold a different impression of my community, so I took to Google MyMaps to graphically illustrate just how much land in downtown on which there is left to build.
The City Council on Wednesday called on Mayor Keith Wilson to use his tie-breaking power for just the second time in his term. Wilson voted to approve the transfer of a contract Zenith Energy has with the city to an international investment firm called I Squared Capital.
Mayor Wilson Rams Through Massive Fossil Fuel Deal in Second-Ever Tie-Breaking Vote - Portland Mercury
Mayor Keith Wilson on Wednesday used his power to break a tie City Council vote for the second time on his watch, this time to facilitate a massive fossil fuel deal. Wilson joined six councilors in voting to transfer a contract the city has with Houston-based fossil fuel company Zenith Energy to a Miami-based international […]
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approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoDr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
If you want a sober view of why the federal government was so vulnerable to DOGE’s draconian efforts, what’s been lost, and how we might rebuild, read this donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system...
The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted
Here’s How We Fix It
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