Is Go Portland Go going to convince commercial real estate owners to admit the market has changed and to lower rents to entice small businesses downtown? Or nah? #astroturf #portland
Katie Sinback
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Writer, lapsed rocker, Portland Thorns supporter⚽️🌹, WNBA fan, Regional Wine Lady (she/her), work in The Rumpus, Necessary Fiction, and other rad litmags and anthologies. Katherinesinback.Wordpress.com linktr.ee/katherinesinback
(TW sexual assault) I wrote an essay about a friend stopping a guy from sexually assaulting me when I was passed out drunk called “Lucky.” When stories like the Cornell 7 surface I think about how different my life would be had my friend not intervened.
Shout out to the agent who sent me a rejection within minutes of my query. Would have preferred a different result but I respect the speed! #writingcommunity #querylife
This thread is why I ALWAYS do carry-on and bring a ridiculous amount of snacks no matter how short the flight.
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3w agolol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>
Just received my first scam offer of representation from a fancy literary agency. Achievement unlocked? Tempted to reply to see how long it takes for them to ask me for money.
A new coalition, Go Portland Go, which filed as a political action committee (PAC) with the state in April, says it is pooling resources behind “leaders who can actually run a progressive city.”
Grassroots or Astroturf? “Go Portland Go” Campaign Backed By Conservative Donors - Portland Mercury
“Portland doesn’t have a money problem. It has a leadership problem. The next election is our chance to change that.” That’s a statement on the homepage of a new coalition, Go Portland Go, which filed...
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Sophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBA https://theonion.com/sophie-cunningham-claims-any-woman-who-averages-more-than-8-points-per-game-should-not-be-allowed-to-play-in-wnba/
Trump is constantly talking about how under threat he is from antifa or whatever, and meanwhile he's just letting some weird lady sleep in a crawl space directly above his head and then spend her days trying to clone him from scraps of his diarrhea.
During my lunch hour I stopped by to watch a Courtney Barnett soundcheck, picked up some peaches at the Farmer's Market, and watched some jugglers practicing in the Park Blocks. Good vibes abound! Three cheers for downtown Portland! #Portland
Check out this appreciation of the Fire and the Portland fans. I am so excited to support this team and be a part of the electric atmosphere!🔥🔥🔥
Hitting the Hardwood@hittingthehardwood.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis week, the Minnesota Lynx tipped off their first game in Portland in 24 years. @terryhorstman.bsky.social was there to witness it, and shares why — from the city, the fans, the Fire Pit and more — having the WNBA back in Portland is absolutely a home run ⤵️ hittingthehardwood.com/horstman-wnb...
Possibly controversial opinion: I don’t want explosive diarrhea🤷♀️
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3mo agoLook who’s taking the side of explosive diarrhea
I have an internal T Swift-o-meter that swings back and forth between she’s great and booooo. The Adam Sandler officiating her wedding is going to get me stuck on booo for the foreseeable future👎
I know it’s been said before but why would Democrats cheat at elections and allow the opposing party to win the presidency and both houses of congress?
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Daughter diagnosed the yellow woman on The Pitt-“it’s turmeric!”-and now she wants to be a doctor.
Been approached by several canvassers asking me if I want to reduce 911 wait times. Not one has uttered the words “hire more police.” Disingenuous at best!!
I hope Spencer Pratt ends up in 5th place as a salute to Riley Gaines and whatnot.
Squirrel Unaware He Embroiled In Months-Long Feud With Homeowner — theonion.com/squirrel-una...
Squirrel Unaware He Embroiled In Months-Long Feud With Homeowner
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Think I'll spend my day watching that final play. What a fantastic win!
The Oregonian Sports@oregoniansports.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Fire's togetherness, grittiness and attention to detail carried them to an upset win over the New York Liberty on Tuesday night.
A Pac-Man ripoff but I was good at being the rat. Perhaps my love of cheese was more motivating than abstract dots?
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 5mo agoAnyone who used computers before 1992, what's a video game you still think about all the time?
The push for AI reminds me of the ubiquitous ad campaigns for competing collect call services in the 90s. As if everyone everywhere constantly needed to make collect calls. We didn’t!
Adam Conover@adamconover.net · 6mo agoI don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
I don’t know what a Krassenstein is and I refuse to learn 🙅♀️
It’s past time for him to go. This was beyond disrespectful behavior towards Coach Staley, the Gamecocks, and his own players. What a sore loser.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6mo agoBoth Auriemma and Staley are addicted to success and neither will back down. More from our senior columnist on the exchange and its implications ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...
Geno Auriemma: sore loser? Or sorest loser? Go Gamecocks!!!