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@armandjeff.bsky.social
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leftist. former paralegal, current law student. I moved to Portland from Texas because I like the weather. they/them.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 11h
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/10/2026
the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
my neighbors are mad because i dug a moat around my house without getting a permit. they’re all outside really mad but can’t cross without me lowering the drawbridge. they’re just throwing soldiers’ heads onto my lawn. not even my soldiers
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
no self-respecting texan gives a shit what two racist white dumbasses from california and new york say about whether or not we're "assimilated" into "american culture" (whatever that is supposed to be)
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is fuckin wild. Crockett is doing a sinema speedrun
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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026
It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Updated information shows PPB killed the man and the dog. Absolutely shameful how some media talked about this man’s life like it was an afterthought, and unquestioningly put out copaganda.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.
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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Obviously not the most important thing going on here but goddamn, just look at the absolute contempt for the idea of culture emanating off this Suella Braverman post
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this reminds me of the time I accidentally ate too many edibles and then came up with a new system of government that I'm still kinda half-convinced would solve a lot of problems
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes a drug trip is a profound experience where you realize that you’ve been carrying pain in your heart for years, that you can forgive yourself. Other times you come up with a concept called “gay money” (money that’s gay) and you text your friend “gay money” days later. Both are healing. ❤️‍🩹
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At least two people have filed complaints against Day with the Secretary of State’s office in the past week. Both alleged that Day used his position as a public employee to “promote or oppose” a person’s election campaign, in violation of a state law.
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Portland Police chief accused of violating state law by criticizing city councilor’s past tweets
Did Portland Police Chief Bob Day break the law when he criticized a city councilor last week? That’s a question several Portlanders are asking state officials to answer.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i'm traveling and can't sit down to write out the portland police's history of using town halls, press conferences, and leaks to campaign against elected officials but they are repeat offenders and we should call it what it is: election interference by a cartel of armed washington state residents
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Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So the responses I’m seeing from Chief Day and Councilor Clark to @councilorgreen.bsky.social’s heartfelt plea to build a world that doesn’t need police or prisons is the same line I’ve always heard, “Well that’s not *our* reality.” No duh! You’re actively standing in the way of it.
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As I wait on a busy road for a bus that is perpetually coming in 12 minutes I’m just reminded how the city of Portland, the county of Multnomah, the regional Metro, and the State of Oregon really don’t give a shit about anyone who isn’t in a car. It’s obvious, shameful, and inexcusable.
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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.
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even my friends don't text me back that fast
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/08/2026
Really hate this performative "youse" people use to appear more like large hired goons
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
She took a side in culture wars. It might feel like she didn’t bc she was proudly a hillbilly country singer from evangelical family, her comments were affirmative rather than critical (eg “yay trans people” rather than “boo transphobes”), and she commented less on electoral politics.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I struggle to describe what Dolly meant to me as a southern blonde who spent her entire life getting disrespected to my face for being trashy and vain, but I will encourage you today to reflect on the ways YOU have treated women in your life whose aesthetics you find insufficiently respectable
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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of the most interesting developments coming out of China's growing game dev industry is that we're probably going to see more stories about China's fight against Japan in WWII, something many Japanese politicians refuse to even acknowledge happened.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
one reason old school Dems are so poor at modern comms is that they really seem to think their audience is the most selfish self centred people alive. The only moral is an appeal to self interest. Anti immigration is bad because who will pick veggies. fighting allies is bad because tourism revenue
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our transportation infrastructure may be falling apart, but at least our billionaire support infrastructure is working at peak efficiency!
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You are not morally obligated to a state that enforces the law through masked secret police. you are not morally obligated to a state that sends people to torture prisons without even a trial. This is a tyranny.
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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I hate the Portland police and the way city officials excuse police brutality. The police are either professionals who can and should be held accountable or they're infants who shouldn't be given a gun or authority to hurt people. They can't be both. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
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Portland blamed systemic failures, not bureau leaders, for police mistakes during 2020 protests
After six years, Portland released eight pages of findings and recommendations on police leadership during 2020 protests. So far, the reports say no one has faced discipline.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/08/2026
Gary Indiana hasn't had power for almost two weeks
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‘I can’t take it’: Thousands of Gary residents go over a week without power after deadly storms
Residents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages.
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Of course the best way to introduce students to the Bible is through Leonard Nimoy voiceover lines from Civ 4 in the intro and at each tech advance. youtu.be/DPur5HzHLhM?...
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Civilization IV - All Technologies
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/08/2026
"are texas christian nationalists forcing kids to read the bible to give them a thorough education in classical western letters or are they doing it to indoctrinate kids into their fascist death cult" seems like an easy question to answer
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
a real problem is that the internet has exposed us all to too many attractive people and made everyone picky. it used to be that over the course of your life you’d see 3, maybe 4 women tops.
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
and that's why you don't negotiate with terrorists www.opb.org/article/2026...
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Owner of Portland Timbers says Moda Center negotiations are a ‘wake up call’ for regional leaders
Merritt Paulson, owner of the city’s professional men’s soccer team, weighed in publicly for the first time on renovations to the home arena for the Portland Trail Blazers.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
reminded of the genuine greatest interaction I ever had on here
Screenshot of a Bluesky conversation. lastpositivist.bsky.social posts: “My people (the Celts) have quite an impressive roster of martial ballads (Men of Harlech, Flower of Scotland, every Irish rebel song) despite basically losing every war we've ever fought since, like, the Roman Empire. Incredible theatre kid energy.”

JimmyC (@j-212.bsky.social) replies: “WHITE music of course.”

lastpositivist.bsky.social responds: “What?”

JimmyC replies: “Cracker.”
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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 17/08/2026
My reaction to all of the weird thirst posting about Nancy Mace’s basic ass tattoos
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you guys would fuck a fence if it was white
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think people have a poor understanding of what makes Flock cameras, or more accurately the network, so pernicious relative to basic traffic enforcement cameras although I do agree that the line is often murkier than it should be.
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The utility of Luigi Mangione isn't that he put a stop to anything it's that he exposed that almost the entire country, regardless of politics, understands the concept of social murder. With three key exceptions of course: politicians, columnists, and posters who think they're on The West Wing.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/08/2026
Today, I was back in Floral Park for the Queens India Day Parade — this time as the first Indian American mayor of New York City. It was an experience I will never forget.
Mayor Mamdani stands on stage with India Day Parade participants.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Very funny to have professional policy workers go in on the nowhere loserville that is DSA’s FP committee while the intellectuals of mainstream liberalism straightforwardly endorse genocide. Like come on, what are we doing here. This is all a bit pathetic.
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jimpers crimpers @jimprov.sendusyourmoney.com · 18/07/2026
temu 9/11
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The left is perennially defined as: the most annoying academics and shouty people I am aware of. (Nowadays that means on social media journalists check.) These people are the only existing causal force in the universe pertinent to bad stuff happening, which is what justifies the attention on them.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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amb @amb.fyi · 11/08/2026
If it was stopping a highway ODOT would’ve blown up that building yesterday like it was a washed up whale
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amb @amb.fyi · 11/08/2026
I understand the circumstances are unique and it’s certainly not Amtrak’s fault but it’s just flat out unacceptable that this service is delayed, diminished or just straight up canceled, with no end point in sight. America just doesn’t give a shit about non-car/plane intercity connectivity
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
American political pundits and pundit-wannabes really love to sound alarms about "Marxist-Leninists" and "left authoritarians" without any understanding of what those terms mean or how "left authoritarianism" has arisen historically
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Good advice on the restroom wall at Grendel's Coffee House in Portland
"Read mo' Ursula Le Guin [a drawing of a heart]"
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armandjeff.bsky.social @armandjeff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I bought a $750 bike a decade ago, have spent probably $100-150 on it per year since then, and I have done almost all of my commuting on that bike. American culture simply cannot tolerate that level of not participating in the market economy
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I personally wouldn't find it "humiliating" if the US were to withdraw our military from around Iran & lift sanctions. I do find it humiliating that we massacred 120 schoolchildren & no one in the US political system cares or will do anything about it.
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our Burmese neighbor kids no longer play in their front yard or street with the other kids, due to the parents fear of shit like this.
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