Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Brendan Hunt is the perfect combination of Toby Zeigler and Josh Lyman. Am I the only one who sees this? This is a hill I'll die on. 010
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Lost Browser Game Pikmin Space Force @maincharacter.today · 18/07/2026As I’ve tried to back away from the full RSS firehose and have that show me personal blogs, Tidings has become my “longreads newsletter of choice”. Check it out. And Seabird is made in Portland! 113
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I know people don't like the business model of Lyft/Uber but every time I'm in a US taxi I am *stunned* at how bad the experience is, from top to bottom. It's been over a decade and they've learned nothing, despite the competitive pressure. 100
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026My last set of endorsements for Primary season: www.mortlandia.com/p/may-2026-e... Get your ballots in by Tuesday!mortlandia.comMay 2026 Endorsements: All the CandidatesBrief briefs on every race 110
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Should you pay the equivalent of a sandwich in property taxes to support the Oregon Historical Society (measure 26-261)? A good question! Here's my analysis: www.mortlandia.com/p/may-2026-e...mortlandia.comMay 2026 Endorsements: OHS Levy RenewalHistory repeats itself 000
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social ) 294122694384
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026In advance of Tuesday's election, I interviewed a gubernatorial candidate who is very wooden, but somehow charismatic nonetheless. mortlandia.substack.com/p/interview-...mortlandia.substack.comInterview: PENCIL 4 GOVERNORYes, in which I sit down with an actual write-in candidate for Oregon Governor 010
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Thoughts and cares @blueskybeth.bsky.social · 03/05/2026How’s everyone’s Saturday? I toured two open houses, walked the dog, shopped locally on Alberta, saw a bunch of scary posts about bugs in Portland, came home and encircled my home with 5 lbs of diatomaceous earth and Ortho Home Defense spray like it would protect me from Satan himself. We will see! 151
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Willamette Week dropped their Measure 120 endorsement today. Do you know who beat them to publish by ~8 hours? 👈 This guy. Let me know what you think, of my analysis and of transportation funding more generally. www.mortlandia.com/p/may-2026-e...mortlandia.comMay 2026 Endorsements: Gas TaxTo pay, or not to pay, more for your gas during an oil supply shock 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026After an ungodly number of listens, I have settled on the following as the best My Little Pony songs (alphabetical order): * Legend of Everfree * Smile Song * Winter Wrap Up 010
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The new and improved Seabird for iOS is out now too! Shout-out to @bmortimer.bsky.social for getting us to a cohesive experience across web, Android, and Apple. Check it out! 021
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I dropped a last minute tax day post on the old policy blog. Enjoy it, nerds. www.mortlandia.com/p/mortlandia...mortlandia.comMortlandia wishes you a happy Tax DayMusings on how to make a big state run a little better 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026q: How did the Gen Z linguist become a popular influencer? â: Circumflexxing ... ... I'll see myself out. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I don't generally recommend taking personal advice from @mattyglesias.bsky.social but this is genuinely excellent advice. open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...open.substack.comWorry less, do moreParalyzing anguish isn’t how you help people or solve problems. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Today a chatbot that's a couple months old told me to say hi to a 90 year old fish. I wonder what the fish thinks about that? 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026New milestone: today I learned the word "idempotent" thanks to Claude. It's one I never recall hearing in my previous 42 years. 020
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/03/2026David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.” 15684491733
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I hope you all enjoy my new rap persona: MF p(Doom) 000
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · 06/02/2026who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice 3050901026
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The Oregon legislature is considering a bill to legalize autonomous cars (e.g. Waymo). Public testimony will occur on Monday! Is this a good idea? A bad one? Somewhere in between? I went DEEP on it. Come nerd out with me. www.mortlandia.com/p/autonomous...mortlandia.comAutonomous Autos and Vision ZeroA look ahead to the future of transportation, if we let it happen. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I try to stay out of the AI / consciousness / 🦜 discourse because it's mostly trash. Like, I barely know what I think and I have a pretty deep background in CS + Epistemology + Theory of Mind, how do y'all spout off with such confidence? But also, this is pretty funny: 040
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸teq @quilling.dev · 13/01/2026if I scroll enough something good will happen 110616
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The local Alternative station in town (shout out to 94.7 KNRK) put "American Idiot" on heavy rotation last week and "Killing in the Name of" yesterday. I'm sure it's purely coincidental. The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland. 151
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician 323653758
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025I've come to believe that most AI art is and will continue to be bad because most people's taste in art is bad. Don't know if AI will ever be able to create novel and genuinely interesting art but it won't matter because even when it can, that's not how it will be used. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025A thing I like about growing older as a longtime, voracious music consumer: hearing tracks I used to love but haven't listened to for years. It's delightful, that moment of recognition from "this is a jam" to "this is *my* jam!" Happened to me this week with Air, Rhye, and NFG. 110
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025As someone who, back in the 90s, qualified for accomodations like extra test time but chose not to use most of them, I am deeply conflicted about this: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comAccommodation NationAmerica’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem. 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025I'm not sure I've ever been to a city in more need of a subway line (or at least BRT) than Vegas. From the Airport to Fremont street, right down the Strip. Would be a game changer for tourists and the revenue from that one line could pay for significant operations elsewhere. 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025This piece is filled with valid and righteous anger and I recommend it for that alone. What's unclear to me is how extensive the problem actually is and what the solves are. I presume "more money for schools" and "real accountability" are good starts but I dunno. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...open.substack.comWhen grades stop meaning anythingThe UC San Diego math scandal is a warning 020
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 05/11/2025We're turning our Seabird Sunday link roundups into a newsletter. Sign up for interesting and intriguing links from around the web sent to your inbox, all shared by our community of readers and writers at Seabird. 042
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster. 303159836
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Only one thing on the ballot this Fall for Portland. A Portland Parks levy. I waffled! It was a much closer call than I expected. www.mortlandia.com/p/parks-on-t...mortlandia.comParks on the ballot!Do you love walkable, urban nature? Do you love property tax increases? Let's talk about it! 120
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I think this whole thread about Mamdani / communication is excellent but it's worth flagging: these are all bad ideas! The challenge for everyone else is to have *good*, consumable, and fresh policy ideas and execute/communicate them as well as Mamdani. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Hi 👋, Long time Taylor Swift fan here. I don't think the new album is very good. That's ok. No shame in that. They can't all be Red or whatever. Anyway, the discourse around her (both pro and con) is unhinged and completely divorced from the music and it makes me feel weird. 020
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Did you hear that there are now Federal troops in Portland? I, for one, don't find this concerning at all and decided to put together a friendly list of things that the locals would actually appreciate them trying to tackle while they are in town. open.substack.com/pub/mortland... 020
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025One way I can tell I'm getting older is that I like Tom Petty a lot more than I used to. 020
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025New in Mortlandia! I dig in to the hottest trend in housing wonkery, and why you shouldn't expect Oregon to be out ahead on it anytime soon. open.substack.com/pub/mortland...open.substack.comDid Oregon drop the ball on Single Stair Reform?It's time to get nerdy about building codes 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025- Spoon w/ Crooked Fingers & Fiery Furnaces opening @ Middle East in Cambridge, MA - Taylor Swift on the Speak Now tour - Fall Out Boy opening for Catch-22 in Baltimore @ Fletcher's - Arcade Fire @ University of Glasgow - The Hold Steady changing a lyric based on a show @ Bowdoin College 120
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 27/08/2025Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze, 369118743113
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025A Taylor Swift cover of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" would be incredible. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Everyone's always talking about em-dashes but you know how y'all can tell my writing's always genuine? Two spaces after a motherfucking period. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025It's wild to me how bad this bill is. It's even wilder to me that it may not even be the worst thing this administration has done. At least they should pay a political price for this one, unlike for what they did to USAID. 100
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025TBH I literally don't trust any Bowdoin graduate who hasn't had a run in with security for some sophomoric hijinks. 120
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I don't think anyone from NYC follows me on Bluesky but fwiw if I lived there I think my order would look something like this: 1. Tilson 2. Lander 3. Myrie 4. Stringer 5. Mamdani 000
Reposted by Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time 390364457701
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025TIL I have had a personal GitHub account from 2009 and made zero commits in the subsequent 15 years. 020
