I failed to meet my 2025 fitness goals because the physical stress of last summer’s heat waves aged my body. I suffered through it, I wasn’t trying to prove something, I was poor. This year I have an a/c unit because I want to live a while longer. Please get yourself someplace you can be cool.

Justin@justinskolnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Settling into a pleasant existence. Working almost every day. Walking almost everywhere I need to be. Haven’t watched TV since White Lotus s3e2. Six pullups

Can’t do it, can’t watch Leo in this role, this is Inherent Vice the sequel, Joaquin Phoenix shit

Justin@justinskolnick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Should I read Vineland before seeing the movie?

If the police union is feeling like unburdening itself of more money I have a couple ideas

Kaliko Castille@wizkaliko.bsky.social · 20h ago

Looks like Portland Police aren't going to be able to raid PCEF to hire more cops when they can't even hire for the positions they already have open.....sorry about your luck!

I coulda sworn she was trolling

Brandon Mullen@brandonmullen.com · yesterday

Councilor: when you make public statements, people listen. When you delete a public statement, it would be helpful to understand why. What was the reason this statement was deleted?

I maintain that we’re talking about Christianites plural. The Christian community was multicultural and polyglot from the first generation, emerging from an occupied backwater, spreading across the empire, and taking root in existing cultures whose habits of interpretation gave its emissaries grief

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d ago

A huge issue for the populist right in adopting Christianity so heavily as a identity marker against Muslims, is that the core theology of Christianity very explicitly rejects their ideas.

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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municipals and states have got to start thinking about creating their own 18Fs, man

I chased a reference back into a lecture by Emmanuel Levinas and just about lost my shit again at the precision of his thinking

Should I trust the research of numerous respected scholars or what some random guy named Jaron thinks? 🤔 Bye.

Your pitch opens with ominous silence that sucks the air out of the room and your first words are “so the thing to understand about Justin is” or I doubt our friendship

Can Seattle’s booming matchmaking industry solve the ‘relationship recession’?

Matchmakers see Seattle as a market with a lot of opportunity. It has a high concentration of well-paid professionals, and a reputation for being full of chilly introverts. It’s also, increasingly, a ...

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Adhesive is a beautiful name for a puppy

I realize this is core tooling in the field now, and a barrier to finding work, but I sincerely don’t want this stuff on my computer appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Someone in my LI network posted this consultancy report that Waymo (assumedly) commissioned. I say “assumedly” because the analysis and conclusions are truly crazy. It’s a good look into how consent is being manufactured for Waymo’s operations in Portland. www.tellagence.ai/pulse-feed/w...

Waymo Portland: Pre-Launch Sentiment Data — Tellagence

11,900 records show Portland residents forming opinions on Waymo before a single ride — inherited straight from San Francisco. Full data breakdown.

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This piece raises a bigger question than one viral City Council moment: What happens when race, age and culture are used to shield a public official from accountability, while the Blackness and legitimacy of other elected leaders are treated as negotiable? 🧵 www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/the-...

THE BLACK BYLINE: Viral “Daddy” Rift Highlights a Bigger Culture War Within and Beyond Portland City Council - Portland Mercury

“I read all the revolutionary shit you read. But I am alive because of what my Grandmama did with her understanding of Christ.”—Kiese Laymon, 2026 “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed peop...

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I sincerely believe that men cannot handle this. women may be falling in love with their chat bots, too. But I don't think they are categorically attached to its flattery to the same degree.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

Common as it is for adults to yearn for the stuff of their formative years, experience tends to broaden and complicate early definitions. This makes the conceptual hold Evangelicalism has over Evangelicals and Exvangelicals fascinating. From the inside, Evangelicalism is and remains Christianity

Reckoning With the Youth Groups That Raised Us

We were meant to live for so much more. But we lost ourselves.

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Important for the city’s white leftists and progressives to include these dynamics in their analyses

THE BLACK BYLINE: Viral “Daddy” Rift Highlights a Bigger Culture War Within and Beyond Portland City Council - Portland Mercury

“I read all the revolutionary shit you read. But I am alive because of what my Grandmama did with her understanding of Christ.”—Kiese Laymon, 2026 “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed peop...

portlandmercury.com

Storefront windows wore plywall long after the protests. The big metal fence around the Apple Store didn’t come down until 2023. The chain store “organized retail theft” freakout has been shown to be elite paranoia. If you want a better business climate, trust the residents your business depend on

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

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

Play it right and we can get these two shamed right out of the legislature, squeeze the governor away from preschool meddling, and fully fund transportation

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

Senators Lieber and Rob Wagner who sponsored and championed this bill gave up all of the public's leverage before negotiations even began, roping in the Mayor (who does not have the authority to make promises without council) and County Chair (who does not have the authority without the full board)

I believe you

Sort of neat to think about how in 20 years I could become a religious studies professor in the university system we’re rebuilding from scratch after the wars end and the oceans have reshaped the continents

Same

OPB@opb.org · 6d ago

Portland Trail Blazers officials told city councilors the city needs to do more than just help fund a renovation of the Moda Center if it wants to assure the Blazers’ long-term presence in Oregon.

Now I'm less Angry on the Internet I do think that part of what's happening is that people are not actually used to a healthy political culture wherein you do a pilot scheme to see if something works and discuss its comparative merits. They're used to excuses for inaction and bad faith quibbling.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last wk.

But a rabidly anti-intellectual culture wherein asking about whether a proposed means is the best way to achieve social ends is... well it would destroy socialism, utterly. In fact I think the failure of previous socialist states are not unrelated to developing this exact culture.

istg the bats are trying to communicate with me

Do you in Portland hem blue jeans? or do you know a place that does a real good job hemming blue jeans?

What are we doing

idk man changing interaction settings when your argument begins to fall apart is maybe not the move

Justin@justinskolnick.bsky.social · last wk.

I know that you know that your Expedia example and “new technology” designation are disingenuous. Clever but disingenuous. For them to be sincere you yourself would have to believe that all technologies are equivalent and economic conditions are stable across time, and I doubt you believe either one

Like Ted, Mayor Keith wants to starve us of our tax dollars and trick us out of thinking we deserve good things, like parks. That money’s for my vanity projects, he says. A second helping of the mind of @mitchgreen.bsky.social is key to getting back what we deserve. secure.actblue.com/donate/m4pdx