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alasdair

@alasdairc.bsky.social
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Portland, OR. Physicist. City Liker.

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
didnt read this as literally about the joker at first this idea also describes a lot of fellow travelers (libs and leftists!) who think social conservativism is essentially fake and they're actually temporarily embarrassed socialists who just need to see the light of universal healthcare
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@trimet.org is building a “transit champion” mailing list for the legislative session next year. would encourage everyone who follows me to sign up: trimet.org/champions
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Transit needs you now.
Join the Transit Champions and help protect the TriMet bus and MAX service our community depends on.
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amb @amb.fyi · 19/09/2026
eliminating I-5 for a week seems to have caused remarkably minimal disruption to Portland's regional traffic flows. so why again do ODOT, Governor Kotek and the Oregon Legislature think we should spend three billion dollars (!) to literally double the width of lanes on I-5 through North Portland?
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amb @amb.fyi · 07/09/2026
get ready to cyber bully your legislators that restoring and expanding bus service is a nonnegotiable component of a 2027 transportation package. It won’t happen unless we annoy the crap out of them with untold hundreds of angry constituents blowing up their inboxes and phone lines
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
its time
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
love whenever I have to use one of these things in downtown tigard lol significantly more annoying to lock up at but great for virtue signaling that you could bike here
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If the Dems do a Project 2029 type thing of shovel ready policy papers it's gonna be a lot of shit like "loan forgiveness for pell grant recipients who start business" when it should be "we asked 50 retired OEM dealer relations lawyers how to fuck over car dealers and here's what they said"
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
claude code whinging it didn't have enough context to do a task
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
they also banned battery energy storage lol great job everybody
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
*chuckling and putting down my copy of the financial times* President Trump executed Order 66? Doesn't that clown know that'll be bad for military morale?
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
discovering new ways to be annoying in slay the spire
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
we all agree donald personally cursed the US men's team with his involvement right
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
its literally impossible to not have fun watching mexico play tbh
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
what's your character animation when a driver tries to run you over at a crosswalk? ive been throwing my arms wide and doing a "you serious??" sort of routine but have been thinking of switching to a condescending finger wag
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
farmers markets are a great way to experience "what if the grocery store was twice as expensive, far less convenient, and you had to get up early on the weekend to go there"
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
ok why not
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
the skies and waters themselves rise against the vile king
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
At some point this claim from white rurals and their advocates that "You can't get along with different people" means that they are the different people with whom we cannot get along.
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
hmmmm think i just got got by the ol' "excel deletes all rows after 1 million without telling you" routine stop storing your data in excel!!!
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
it's so sad thinking about how good the vibes would be to have the world cup and America's 250th birthday without the fucking guy
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
space data centres are like, flat earth levels of stupid even before you get to the "launching shit into space" bit theres no case for trading more efficient solar panels in exchange for having to dump all heat thru vacuum
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
something like "you're radical enough to say stalin didn't go far enough and make your parents gasp, but are you radical enough to say parking, petrol, and car registration fees should cost more?"
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Jackson 🌻 @georgekansas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
car drivers when you tell them that stopping for people at a crosswalk is the law and required and not “doing them a favor”
angry man, malding
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
btw my bud @chaoslord.bsky.social coined the motto "stey or die", just in case it takes off after steyer does well tonight
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
they ask him to point to the elephant every single day just bc he's so good at it
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
on a quest for food in albuquerque
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elynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 01/06/2026
its pride month, you can’t expect the “strait” of hormuz to open
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
it's so nice how many people showed up for the burnside bridges birthday party
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
doing tactical urbanism (trimming the brambles around the bus stop after they attacked me disembarking)
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
probably shouldnt threaten someone with a handgun at the library while running for office tbh
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
lol
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
does microsoft office just bring everybody's computers to a crawl these days? im on a quite new, quite powerful, quite clean desktop for work and like, opening and saving even quite small excel or ppt or word files just wrecks it.
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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The morning commute was a little wet. At least I wasn't stuck in a multi-ton metal box! Me passing 225 people in 150 cars. I passed even more as I biked on side streets skirting Interstate 5. #SeeYa 👋🏽 Cars=least efficient way to move people through a city. Yes, even electric cars.
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
i dreamt i was drawing a political cartoon last night, this is my recreation
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🥺 my beautiful city
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”
John Brown, no beard, arms crossed, looking intense as hell like usual
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Comic panel of Donald Duck and a wide-eyed young Mickey Mouse. Donald's speech bubble: "Democrats should do a huge middle class tax cut to address affordability." Mickey's speech bubble: "Fool that you are, for you treat taxation as a burden rather than the means by which our burdens are eased. Behold a civilization rich in private wealth yet starved of public provision, where every man owns what his grandfathers could not imagine and yet trembles at the thought of how he will weather an illness or loss of livelihood. Will you fight for an affirmative vision of broad contribution and universal benefit? Or will you perish like a dog?"
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
on max car 420 😎
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
weird amount of worldbuilding going on here
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
hmmm. someone took a journal article from my group, rewrote all the text with ai, (badly) redid all the figures with ai (badly), and then submitted it to a different journal? I'm so perplexed it would have cost hundreds of dollars!
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
tbh its so easy to criticise israel's abhorrent treatment of palestinians without blundering into anti semitism, that doing it anti semitically is a definite racist choice
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
doing this w the soju she doesnt like rn
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
environmentalists should be as embarrassed to say shit like this as they would be to be caught rolling coal tbh
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
im on the friggin shinkansen!!
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
its kinda cool to know im smarter than goldman sachs
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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
got married lol
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