They’re threatened that she’s brilliant and believes in things
They’re threatened that she’s brilliant and believes in things
Mad because I wanted to do work today but the power outage forced me to chill
They better run
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nate silver isn’t here so why bring his posts here you dumb asses
If the grid can’t reroute my connection or rebound before spoilage sets in, then I’ve got anecdotal evidence of the success of the Reagan Revolution and the elite’s long war against the people of the United States. @brooklynmarie.bsky.social talks about resilience targeting and I think she’s right
The next big question is how thoroughly to restock. Given what I’ve learned about Pacific Power’s infrastructure and agility, probably not too much
After twelve powerless hours I have the great privilege of completely cleaning out the fridge. It’ll be like new
We should be able to count on a resilient power grid
Unplanned grid maintenance. 15,000 customers without electricity since 3am. Tens of thousands of dollars of wasted food. But for a beautiful moment we created a lot of value for shareholders
In left spaces it’s the slip-sliding of hyperlocal, if not hyper-personal, varieties of blue collar lifestyle into a total definition of “working class,” and the model is the violent racist uncle who’s always been kind to you
Much is hanging on what people mean by “real people”
All my posts should have a thousand likes and I should be admired and my DMs overwhelmed with declarations of love. PAC expenditures for the pleasure of reading me. The world should be musing about my adventures, haha what is Justin up to now
Am I supposed to have opinions about bluesky?
Watching the collapse of an entire theory of government. Kind of neat
As an adult I saw Book of Mormon in Portland with friends. It was fine. End of thread
Years later they do it again. Sneakier, since they knew we’t put up a fight if we knew what they were planning. Donny Osmond in Joseph. Faint recollection of responding to the colors (kind of neat, Chicago’s a drab place) though my only real memory is the harem dancers in pasties awakening something
The extent of my experience with musical theater: Parents had to trick my sister and me to dress up and get in the car. Twice. First, soon as the car passed the 💋 sign on the Kennedy, it was clear to us they were taking us to the city. Big opera house on the river. Phantom. Bored out of our minds
Tracks
I like what I’ve got going now so probably more or less just sticking with this
Dating has always meant settling for someone committed to mishearing things I’ve made plain or showing up in someone’s life years too soon
Weaving in and out of a familiar emotional/evaluative mood. With a personal new year approaching on the horizon I felt the glimmer of an inkling to hop back on the apps and promptly squashed it
I’m wondering whether the legislature has any means of supplementing this package subsequent to the vote, or whether whatever funds are agreed to in this round are locked in until the next round, no more, no less
So best case is we’re stuck with this for two years?
Is the transportation budget an annual deal?
The next state election is winnable for the left if candidates can 1) coalesce around localizable, meme-able, nostalgic pitches for the idea of a public sphere 2) paint wingers like Drazan as the looters and death-dealers they are 3) stick it to moderate electeds for compromising with extremists
My take is it’s sincere, like chuds digging RATM
Fucking time capsule. “Folk Mass at the chapel”
100%
I wonder how many people know about the Gospel manuscripts
Had a stretch where the family drove downtown to watch the Cubs
I have no knowledge of Hamilton but the title told me this had to be Dan
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.” - Grace Lee Boggs
Ate a donut, vacuumed, put up a new shower curtain. Not a bad day at all
I remain inspired by his example. The bar is high and I aspire to meet it
Be the change
If you’re looking for a good analogy for AI in terms of popular reception, revolutionary cultural/cognitive impact, and environmental cost, it’s cars
Really does come down to the quality of the candidate
I think they might ride it once or maybe for a week or until the feeling of the potential for sanctioned violence wears off and then switch back to their cars where they can feel it all the time
Maybe if we do the bus seats like one cop per seat pair then the people who are too scared to ride public transit will ride. No one else will but the scared people is the most important demographic. I’m going to tell the mayor
Media empire
Delicious. Grand and Burnside.
No one shares my passions
They should have hired me to mask the cart. I’ve run clipping paths around objects for textbooks. By the hundreds. Couple hours tops. Reasonable rate
Haven’t been back since 2020. They remembered me
Nice scents outside tonight
It is
Hard to be yourself somewhere, taken as you are, just as you show up, as opposed to how you might be of use
Learned too much theology and history to blend in anymore, without setting down hard boundaries. Pastor wants to talk, probes your intentions, wants to know you back them up, asking but not outright. Council starts putting out feelers, there’s an opening next year. Old folks want to find you a job
Strange thing lately but this peculiar loneliness has the shape of a good midwestern church. Mainline. Circle of folks you know well enough, affirming things together, singing songs together, come back next week and do it all over again
For all the PDX politics nerds
Sending my chatgpt to meet up with your chatgpt
What does the dream dictionary say about enjoying a variety of breakfast cereals
Someone threw a water balloon at my car on Lloyd Blvd. It made me laugh but when I find them I am going to destroy their vehicle
There’s something important you’re not getting. I’m posting with my name and face. My beliefs aren’t shameful and I’m not conflicted. I have no trouble being who I am and saying what I mean. I have told people what I think about them and I would tell you to your face your brain is made of pudding.
Walking in the street as God intended
Nuyorican
I’d absolutely say to your face your brain is pudding
What did you do with the money
Reposting. No reason in particular
Madeline Pendleton vindicated
Been meaning to poke my head in and ask if they know about the density of cobwebs around the big lamp out front
If someone cancels I am available
*Ridiculous as it might sound I should not be trusted with a keyboard
Sound some of the anti-science junk is simply Where We Are on the question of authority in the long struggle to find a basis for truth outside of the assertions of the Church. Countless small indulgences and betrayals on the scale Olivia Nuzzi-on-RFK or everything Jake Tapper‘s done, all piling up
I just think it’d be neat
Maybe the city and county will join forces and go to war against the chamber of commerce
Gets to be fun mapping out the chain of decisions that led the nation to the state where this nut gained say-so over the vaccine schedules. No single point of failure. The whole system of checks and balances corrupted by ordinary denial, desire, and acquiescence. Long chain of interlocking kinks
I have a calming presence
Does MultCo own any property zoned into the Downtown Clean & Safe ESD?
Your brain is pudding
A box of veggie burgers decided on its own tonight the time had come for liberation. Tumbled from its precarious perch and broke the weak, weak seal of the freezer door. I’m tossing years of packaged frozen vegetables, all purchased with the best intentions and forgotten
Learning more than I ever wanted
Literally their baby: “The message, spoken and unspoken, is clear: we will not take care of you, or allow you to take care of yourself, because part of us wants you out of here, or dead. The visceral fact of motherhood … is an affront to normal — meaning, free of mothers and babies — life.”
Humans don’t give birth to animals and AI is their baby
Spain kicked a few of my people off Tenerife but they made peace with it
Might take a train trip just to feel something
What a great day for pizza
Occurs to me that the market for my style of writing and concerns may be niche
🌮 🌮
I didn’t want to say but they were out of bread
That the impulses that give way to right wing thinking are part of us, that they’re basic and human, and that evil is something we ourselves are capable of. We’re going to have to figure out how to get a lot better as raising ourselves past the point of danger. We can’t keep doing this same shit
We’re going to have to remember, after all of this is over, that no learning is going to happen. We’re going to have to hammer it in that there is no historical formula that led to a genocide, that it was in the works a hundred years ago, that we made identities precious to let ourselves ignore it
Too hot for everything but torta
Going to do this
Ah shit, my mistake, you have the reading comprehension of a child
This is interesting. You're smart enough to understand the implication of my question and avoid giving a direct answer. But not smart enough to lie to get rid of me. You like the attention
You answered yes, the city should prioritize the value of your property?
No, I am asking about your specific property value. Not the city in general construed as property values. Not the value of properties in your neighborhood or even your neighbors’ property. You believe the government should take as its paramount objective the increase of the value of your property
We are not going in circles. You’re dodging my question. I asked “you believe the government’s sole function is to increase the value of your property?”
But you think the city should prioritize the value of your property, the property you own
The city is your property values?
But you think government policy should prioritize property values above all other concerns
Weird to disagree with bare facts but sure. Based on what you’ve said this far, you believe the government’s sole function is to increase the value of your property?
