Spent the morn meal prepping components for the week, so we now have black beans, refried black beans, a pasta sauce made with roast cherry tomatoes, and a bunch of shredded cheese and cabbage. Behold my empire of deli containers.

URGENT REPOST: We still need school supplies for this weekend's MacArthur Park distro! Spare a kid from having to beg for paper to write on (I've had to and it was embarrassinggggggg) Shop directly from the wishlist: tinyurl.com/unhousedinLA I promise you'll feel better after clicking checkout!

oh no@ili.bsky.social · 5d ago

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ADL has become a hate organization

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 15h ago

The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.

just looked up where this Le Guin quote came from, and got a truly fantastic reveal

[smiling beatifically] coca-cola exists bc ppl in georgia wanted to get on the cocaine wine bandwagon, but wine was illegal in the state at the time (cocaine very much was not). that's why there's brown food coloring in it, to make it sort of look like red wine

sadiebat@sadiebat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reading a novel set in the late 1800s and a character casually mentions "French cocaine wine" which 1. I thought they made up and 2. Finding out it was real sent me down a rabbit hole that lasted half the day. The POPE endorsing French cocaine wine literally *mind blown*

The obsession with making elections a referendum on Hassan Piker reminds me of this

I biked a 14 mile loop today and got to see someone carrying their standard poodle in a sort of crossbody bucket purse plus I got ice cream. Really killer day honestly.

Fun Fact: If you don’t have a discount code at a supermarket or whatever, try entering that with the local area code. I’ve had it work 90% of the time. Did once have a Young Go-Getter Cashier tell me that entering a fake code was a crime. I looked him dead in the eye and told him to call the cops.

Steve Daly 🇨🇦🇺🇦@stevedaly.bsky.social · 2d ago

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American exceptionalism is now obviously a myth in terms of our greatness but it’s almost like it has then flipped to explain our hopelessness, but that too is a myth! it is not “pragmatic” to believe that normal laws and regulations common in other countries aren’t possible here

I’ve hit the point where I’m just listening to stomp clap playlists from college now.

1. I am four eels 2. Jail for mother 3. Moon’s haunted 4. Uh oh, it’s getting kind of hazy

My Pun Killed Steve Albini@texannolongerinnyc.bsky.social · 3d ago

What would you put on the Mount Rushmore of all time Tweets? (Mount Rushmore means 4. Do not be a coward and hedge by saying more than 4. Make a decision. (Less than 4 is fine though))

Surprising nobody, O Brother holds up.

Mary Oliver didn’t know a damn thing about my specific situation actually re: having to be good

The TikTok girlies are referring to Amanda Palmer as “steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell” and damn

www.imdb.com/title/tt1499... saw this sweet documentary about women’s skating tonight and I recommend it to everyone who wants to cry at a bunch of women being nice to other women

Whether the movies are good or not, I like it when The People determine what the true title is for a film. SEX PURGE. SPACE JAIL. THE BEACH THAT MAKES YOU OLD.

Boyfriend encountered his first raccoon today, very exciting for everyone. this is the third one I’ve seen by bike now lol.

The Mercury spoke with several people who purchased electric bikes through Portland Clean Energy Fund's new rebate program. While the recipients’ backgrounds and transportation habits varied, everyone echoed the same general sentiment: e-bikes are game-changing.

E-Bike Town - Portland Mercury

Earlier this summer, Sabrina Taylor picked up her new electric bike, purchased with a rebate through the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund’s (PCEF) new e-bike incentive program. Not long a...

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This program is one of the cooler things that Portland has done recently, and I wish we’d funnel more money to this and improved transit frequency rather than Moda Center shit

From the CyclePDX community on Reddit: E-Bike Town - Portland Mercury

Explore this post and more from the CyclePDX community

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No money for schools No money for childcare No money for healthcare No money for transit 900 million dollars for a billionaire who hates us with no strings attached

Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 4d ago

Portland is on track to send hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to renovate the Moda Center on behalf of the Blazers, the Multnomah County Board approved a term sheet that will send $101 million in public funds to pay for the demands of private enterprise, & more in today's GOOD MORNING, NEWS.

I love that the answer to a huge number of “how did they do that” muppet questions is “massive suffering on the part of the puppeteers.” They’re hardcore!

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Councilors Avalos, Morillo, Kanal, Koyama Lane, and sometimes Novick: you all tried to get something better for Portland. The rest of you have vested your faith in a negotiation team that is profoundly unfit for the moment.

I still chuckle at the review of the Hey Man's pitch for the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man

Oh boy I can't wait for this monkey extravaganza about a total stranger #robbiewilliams #monkeymovie #betterman #bettermanmovie #movies #movies2024

TikTok video by The Hey Man

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this is a shit deal and it shouldn't go through.

Willamette Week@wweek.com · 4d ago

The Portland City Council on Thursday evening moved toward approving a non-binding term sheet for the Moda Center renovation that would propose the city contribute $120 million for renovation costs in exchange for a lease keeping the Trail Blazers in town for at least 20 years.

I swear people out here acting like HP is their diabetes medicine. You're not gonna die from quitting the racist wizard books for children. You're 39 years old, Christ.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 6d ago

JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

My mom, who is 87, just got the roof on the house replaced then cheerfully said, "Well, I'm never going to have to deal with that again!"

Dental receptionist just asked an older woman if she knew her schedule six months from now and she replied, “I don’t know. I might be dead then.“

I know the air is still not great, but opening a few windows this morning because the house is so stuffy after 3 days of this.

Excellent reality check. I think it's legit to argue that having the Blazers here has real cultural and vibes value (the Oregonian editorial board did just this), but the fiscal case is marginal at best.

Would Portland be Better Off Financially Without the Blazers?

Empty arena? Lost revenue? Not so fast.

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I love that every rental market is insane in its own way. What do you mean in Los Angeles I have to buy my own fridge, or in Amsterdam I apparently have to buy my own floor, or in Germany I have to get a whole kitchen.

Brian Actors Guild@spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 5d ago

My level of racism against the Dutch simply cannot keep up with reality