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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Raimore Construction will exit the I-5 Rose Quarter project early next year, citing its "business needs as the project's schedule, funding and anticipated construction opportunities have evolved." www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did the on-train system maps always display the downtown couplets as single lines? I feel like that's a change but without being able to see the old version I'm not sure.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

amtrak doing some guerilla mode shifting

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tired: drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not. Wired: Killing people while driving drunk isn't even homicide unless the drunk driving was undertaken for the purpose of killing people.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The first three Amtrak Cascades Airo trainsets will enter revenue service Sept. 30! www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I-5 southbound closure starts Sept. 11, will last at least 5 weeks. Here's what to know: www.kgw.com/article/traf...

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think I'm hearing bass from the Bridge City Block Party right now? I am well over a mile away from the waterfront with many, many buildings in between.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's really incredible how fast it's going; it looks like they've taken down about 25% of the overall building shell and it's not even noon. www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the video from this angle you can pretty clearly see the whole northwest wall of the building swaying — can't say for sure but it looks like the tower hit it on the way down — but it stays standing!

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A spectator send KGW this unbelievable photo of the moment of detonation. Photo credit: Barbara Bond.

Photo of the moment of detonation on the demolition of the Centennial Mills building rooftop water tower. Photo credit: Barbara Bond

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's down! New web story is posted, including video of the moment if you missed it or want to replay. www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ok I'd be lying if I said the wait wasn't getting a little long

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There appear to be multiple watch parties going on the balconies of the Vista condo tower in the Pearl District (directly across Naito Parkway and the train tracks from Centennial Mills).

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We don't know the exact demolition time yet, but we're told it'll be this afternoon and there will be a one-hour warning before it happens. We will be streaming it.

Photo shows the Centennial Mills building on Monday morning, Aug. 17, with a work crew in basket near the rooftop water tower, hanging from a mobile crane arm.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The closure zone includes Union Pacific tracks just north of Union Station, which is why Amtrak Cascades is paused. But the city has criticized Union Pacific for continuing to run freight trains through despite concerns that the vibrations could trigger a collapse. www.kgw.com/article/news...

Overhead drone shot showing the burned-out interior of the Centennial Mills building and the nearby rail line, courtesy City of Portland/Portland Fire & Rescue.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In case you haven't heard, crews are gonna bring down the Centennial Mills rooftop water tower in Portland today, using controlled explosives to sever the support structure and drop the century-old tank eight stories inside the burned-out building. Should be pretty cool. www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm sorry but at this point I'm like

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Not really germane to to the story, but personally very curious about why they said "bravely" here because to me at least it reads as super passive-aggressive for no apparent reason?

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Another Naito closure, this time for a grain spill at the south end of downtown. Or at least possibly Naito? Unclear. PF&R says the Naito/Harbor intersection is closed due to debris on road but the photos they posted show the crash around the corner on Harbor. www.kgw.com/article/traf...

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Me, late last year: Four crib sheets is enough, right? I mean he can't spit up four times in less time that it takes to do a load of laundry. The baby:

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The ODF number for today is even higher, and would make this year already the second-worst on record after 2024, at least in terms of total acres burned.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Total acres burned in Oregon roughly doubled since Friday, and it looks like the total is now higher than it was at this point in 2024, which became the worst year on record.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

those mad lads at skippy dared to ask what if peanut butter had protein in it

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

cursed to hear the last line of this tweet in my head every time I step outside during smoke season

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

You could probably build this portion of the viaduct as planned, then turn it north to line up with the missing C Street ramp. After passing over the I-5 SB ramp loop you'd have about 800 feet of horizontal distance to get down to street grade before 7th Street. Hopefully that's enough, I dunno.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

But in this scenario the C Street ramps are also unbuilt/unfunded, and without them C Street is pretty empty. So, what if you kept just the southbound C Street lane and sacrificed the center/northbound lanes to become at-grade LRT tracks for three blocks, with a terminus station next to the library?

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In this scenario you can't finish the line as planned in the LPA because it's on a viaduct directly above the southbound I-5 collector/distributor, which isn't built yet and is stuck in funding limbo. The Evergreen LRT extension and the freeway rebuild from SR-14 to Mill Plain are a package deal.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm bored, so here's a pointless armchair engineering thread: Hypothetically, if the full IBR "core" phase got built but the rest stalled for lack of funding, and you still wanted to get light rail to Evergreen without having to find funding for everything else... could you just run it up C Street?

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If they need a reason for Steve to be back in the present day in Doomsday they can just say he's buying diapers. Taking care of a baby in the 1940s while knowing about Huggies would be unbearable, I guarantee you he would use the time travel gizmo to make at least one trip to like a 2024 Fred Meyer.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

a cheap source of diluted blue green algae, you say?

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

what I'm learning as a new parent is babies follow a cyclical model and it's this

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Skycam froze right when the ship was arriving so we didn't get the footage but on the other hand, lol

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I love the single bullet point that just says "Trains"

Screenshot of a slide from an OTC presentation next week on the Oregon State Rail Plan with a table listing Key Freight and Passenger Needs, and in the Passenger Rail column one of the bullet points is just "Trains"

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

they turned him into that one tweet (complimentary)

[Deep South tobacco CEO voice] Now ah, this here ah, Bowsuh charactuh... enlighten me as to hhwhy Mistuh Mario's got such animus for the boy

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

What's changed from the IBR Draft SEIS? Well, this new bit in the summary certainly jumps out:

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I love the Marquam Hill campus architecture, it looks like the product of a series of battles between the design people and the budget people where the design people somehow won every time. This is a Minecraft fortress.

Photo from the 7th floor of Dornbecher, facing east.

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Onesies That Are Nominally For The Baby But If We're Being Honest Are Mostly For Dad

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Anthony Macuk @anthonymacuk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

the baby has really upped his spit up game lately. It's like he heard us talking during the first six weeks about how lucky we are that he never spits up and was like

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