Fran Skafka
@keitechnical.bsky.social
Portlander, boat-enjoyer, etc. I'm interested in history, ecology, trek, and culture. Brillat-Savarin enthusiast. public key: ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIMzKsBywymTS0u77hQg4jgVUBLtUpFiaPQb5pyRHWPT0 keitechnical.bsky.social
Another perfect summer day in the best city in the world: Portland, OR
Verify your age: I remember great swarms of monarch butterflies, like a slow motion murmuration. Something great and precious has been trampled.
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · 4w agoVerify your age: I used to print out Mapquest directions and take them in the car with me.
1/ OK! We analyzed all ~5,300 pages of public records on the Moda Center deal — every email, text, contract, and invoice produced so far. Before Portland commits ~$850M+ ($1.12B after interest), here’s what every Portlander should know. It’s not the story you’ve been told. 🧵
Edan Krolewicz@edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 4w agoTraveling for the next few days, but all of this information just dropped and there is so much information about the entire Moda process none of us have heard about including Project Mt.Hood details, the early promises made, etc internet do your thing portlandor.govqa.us/WEBAPP/_rs/(...
Every artist's life has tragedy, and Cormac McCarthy's was that he never wrote a judge dredd story
Oh ho ho ho, that sounds worse than deliberately staying within the limits of the open meeting law
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · last mo.Two Portland city councilors are facing a potential state ethics investigation after missing most of a public meeting to instead attend a local chamber of commerce event last week.
Two dead malls and one live one in Portland should be rendered into mixed use campuses with moderately overbuilt rental space (to encourage culture), little parking, Olmsteadey park space, and pedestrian arcades. Anchor with a clinic and community college.
Brendan Dawe@dawe.bsky.social · last mo.We talk a lot about residential land use but what’s one big non-residential change that you would make to your city’s planning policies?
you know what else we could with the billions of dollars that ODOT want to spend on the Rose Quarter / IBR? How about a wholly integrated regional passenger rail network? i finally got my hands on a high level feasibility report Metro put together last year: ti.org/pdfs/MetroRe...
For Eru Illuvatar so loved the world, that he sent several wizards, with mixed but on the whole positive results.
I guess we're bringing effontry back as a concept?
Jeremiah Hayden@jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Council work session on the Moda Center later this month coincides with the Portland Metro Chamber's big-ticket annual meeting. But Metro Chamber CEO wants councilors to hear the Blazers' owner speak at their event, so he's asked council leadership to accommodate and reschedule the public meeting.
Spielberg's disclosure day takes us into a world seemingly like our own, but where brutal exploitation of alien technology has allowed Dodge to make good cars
The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums
Once in a while you gotta get a mid-wander appetizer and spritz
Squat Erry Day@implicitpower.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe gourmand. The flaneur. These are my people. I am them.
Much like CS Lewis discovered that the church of England was right about everything, I have figured out that Cully is the best neighborhood.
United airlines won't let you bring your violin in a gig bag, probably as a deliberate attempt to smother the human spirit
Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.
American culture is terribly equipped for this right now, and I can only hope for a fashion in po-faced honesty and rigor
Brandon Stewart@bstewart.bsky.social · 3mo ago1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.
This would be way more worthwhile if the Portland DSA hadn't recommended that people vote for 120.
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · 3mo agoRaising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.
One of MLK/Grand should be a transit corridor and the other should be converted back to two-way traffic. There’s zero reason to have a four-lane urban highway in the central city.
Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · 3mo agocontraflow transit lanes would be a great fit for our eastside couplet streets, especially MLK and grand tpa.transitcosts.com/atlas/toolbo...
