Reposted by True DefectiveTrue Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Poker guy laying down a straight flush Louise Glück laying down stanzas in October 🤝 Read 'em and weep poems.com/poem/october...poems.comOctoberIs it winter again, is it cold again, didn't Frank just slip on the ice, didn't he heal, weren't the spring seeds planted didn't the night end, didn't the melting ice flood the narrow gutters 011
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Poker guy laying down a straight flush Louise Glück laying down stanzas in October 🤝 Read 'em and weep poems.com/poem/october...poems.comOctoberIs it winter again, is it cold again, didn't Frank just slip on the ice, didn't he heal, weren't the spring seeds planted didn't the night end, didn't the melting ice flood the narrow gutters 011
Reposted by True DefectiveArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s 353260537
Reposted by True DefectiveBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026 102351254
Reposted by True DefectiveMr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 16/09/2026Portland area friends please do come out and say hi! This is gonna be cool and fun 091
Reposted by True DefectiveTrans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Absolute S-tier level of dudes rocking 72058365
Reposted by True DefectiveMika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026 25916
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026But when my girlfriend and I wanted to dress as the twin towers for halloween that one year everyone one screamed “no no no” 100
Reposted by True Defectivejesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026thrilled to add that i'll be interviewing alan trist onstage at this event in portland, oregon on 9/24. a close friend of jerry garcia & robert hunter going back to 1961, alan ran the dead's ice nine publishing starting in 1970. he'll also be speaking about his work as hunter's literary agent. 4454
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026... I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berryaeon.coThe poet Wendell Berry reflects on the sublime peace of escaping into wilderness | Aeon Videos‘I come into the peace of wild things’ – how the poet Wendell Berry finds respite in the awesome now of nature 011
Reposted by True DefectiveAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.alilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 551524623
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Reading the news about the lake and I am reminded of a proverb as old as the lake: “today would be an excellent day for it to happen.” 000
Reposted by True Defectivean evan @elsplice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Rule of threes but we all get to vote on the third 1201
Reposted by True DefectiveMichael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Spent some time this morning watching gravity powered vehicles here in Portland with @zamafir.bsky.social . A supercut of just some of the cars at the 2026 MT Tabor Soapbox Derby. ☺️ 618648
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026More for Portland Metro folks: Multnomah County is hiring for a number of entry level positions at Aging, Disability & Veterans Services. As David Byrne says: "some civil servants are just like my loved ones." Make it true for you too, pass it on. multco.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Multco_Jobs/...multco.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comLTSS Office Assistant 2 - ReceptionCurrent employees: Please apply through the employee portal to be considered for this opportunity. Pay Range: $26.07 - $32.06 Hourly Department: Department of County Human Services (DCHS) Job Type: Re... 010
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026For folks in the Portland Metro, Home Forward will be opening up four waitlists for Project-Based Voucher communities on September 9th. Eligible income is up to $44,950 for an individual, and up to $64,150 for a family of four. More info here: www.homeforward.org/waitlists/ ... spread the word.homeforward.orgApartment Communities 2026 Waitlists | Home ForwardVisit our apartment communities page for information about each waitlist, to help make application decisions. 000
Reposted by True DefectiveDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Meal Team 6 20794120
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 10/08/2026well, this isn't gonna help him get into berghain. 010
Reposted by True DefectiveCoraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫 81765490
Reposted by True DefectiveTrue Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026On this date in Raymond Carver history, he died. So it goes. Here's a poem he wrote before that. 022
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026On this date in Raymond Carver history, he died. So it goes. Here's a poem he wrote before that. 022
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Dundon wore a Whalers cap to his first Blazers game as owner. The Whalers, the team moved from Hartford and relocated to Raleigh to become the Carolina Hurricanes, the other team owned by Dundon. Gross stuff. It's like if Clay Bennett bought the Buffalo Sabres and wore a Sonics hat to his 1st game. 140
Reposted by True DefectiveRachel Bean, still sick but less @colocharachel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Hi all. I’m back again regarding Quelvin’s court costs. He has two court dates next week and needs to make some payments on his tickets in O’Fallon. Currently he owes $1748 to O’Fallon and we just want to make some kind of good faith partial payment before his review hearing on Monday. 12633
Reposted by True DefectiveMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 24/07/2026The NYRB Author’s Closet, a series of videos of the least camera-ready people in society mumbling inaudibly about Vasily Grossman. 833157
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Wright Thompson talking about Lives of the Saints. Gimme. 000
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 22/07/2026“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping. 010
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Read this is as "Trump on Lebron," and you know, this would no doubt be the most break the internet option for Decision pt4. 000
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 20/07/2026share someone who looks stylish wearing a hat 010
Reposted by True DefectiveMarit 👹 @maritstensby.bsky.social · 19/07/2026What is it with dogs and sticks! 🐕😂 29282921802
Reposted by True DefectiveTrue Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I don't share every insight I have online, just the important ones. 011
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I don't share every insight I have online, just the important ones. 011
True Defective @asmallgoodthing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026five living writers that you've read five books by each Mary Gaitskill Miriam Toews Haruki Murakami Don DeLillo Margaret Atwood 000
Reposted by True DefectiveTerry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Truly impressive example of doing the homework. 1303
Reposted by True Defectiveiain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Taking away power from the people we elected, and giving to an unelected board, is pretty bad actually 3294
Reposted by True DefectiveRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Me getting mad thinking about Belgium for the next 4 days 16101289
Reposted by True Defectivesarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Awful news this morning — one of Oregon's best reporters has passed away, all too young. His absence will be felt by the media and by the public at large. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...oregonlive.comZane Sparling, reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive, dies of cancer at 33“He wanted his identity to be a reporter, and that’s what it was,” his father said. 171268206
