Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think so? I don't know what it's called exactly but it's super common in the cities of my youth (Baltimore, NYC) to "rename" a street or plaza with for various historical figures and local luminaries. But yes, it's usually a brown sign above the green street sign. Is that conaming? 110
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Could we go with the honorary system that's used in, like, every other city? Had we done that in the first place we would have avoided this Cesar Chavez mess entirely... I honestly relate streets here more to the Simpsons than the dead white guys they're actually named after anyway. 110
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I somewhat recently read "I Am the Cheese" and I was struck by the same thing. 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I took a class with Pete Coviello! Before all the drama in "Long Players", which I haven't read. Good professor. I think I got a B-? 010
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 · 11/06/2026I don't know why but the first one that came to mind is "The Mountain Go! Team" I'm not sure if this means I am disqualified or eminently qualified to partake. 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026And now we are driving on the wrong side of the road on Cully. 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 01/06/20261. Driver doesn't know where he's going 2. Music is too loud. 3. He's rude. 4. Smells like smoke 5. Price is ludicrous. Waymo (or better public transport options) can't come fast enough to PDX. 110
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 · 31/05/2026You going to see her at Mississippi next weekend? Or, better yet, in Trout Lake(!!)? I caught her at the Showdown a year or two ago. 100
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Womp womp. The answer is yes (except the answer is actually no because you're required in Oregon to use blue/black pen to ensure your vote counts). 110
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
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Happy to pay for the arts. Hate the way it's administered. Would much prefer it as a levy that's attached to my property tax or water bill. 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 · 29/04/2026To be fair, I want buses that drive themselves too! You get me the tech that's battle tested as safe and I'm in. I don't care if it's built by the government or by a company that we then regulate. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This is a little dated because the news moves so fast but I'm pretty convinced Waymo would be a net good in our city: 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 · 29/04/2026"Who put this shit together? I'm the glue." I think it's still in some sense "your" work when you use AI this way but more as a conductor rather than as a soloist. You do something but you don't learn as much doing it. And it can be pretty good! Travis Scott quality. But it's not going to be Nas. 100
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
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I'm confused. It pretty much is in bullet point form? If it says 'exploring' I read that to mean "we haven't made much progress here yet but we want to" and 'introduced' or 'underway' is further along. And then the legislation passed section means...it's passed. 080
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 · 14/04/2026No one has ever asked me this question on this basis and now I'm thinking through all the ways I could better signal my being to folks in the world. 140
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I think about this a lot when I go to two shows in a week. Like, sometimes it's obvious I'm the only one (e.g. Richard Shindell and Cigar) But other times? I saw Pretty Girls Make Graves and American Aquarium same week. Perhaps there was exactly one, or maybe two other 40-somethings like me? 020
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026We had crazy fucking times Until her visa card expired. 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I didn't blow up any relationships over it. Mainly because I don't see how that would be effective in changing their mind. One of my closest friends is a (multi-time?) Trump voter. He failed the ethical test. I still try to have grace and I love him dearly but it makes me sad for him. 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I am still sympathetic to the apolitical folks that voted for him, especially the first time. But for anyone deeply invested or paying attention, it was clearly a simple ethical test and one so many failed. 200
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 · 30/03/2026There are surprisingly few bands I can credit The Algorithm for but one of them (Pandora? Spotify?) introduced me in ~2014 after a run of Frightened Rabbit and Admiral Fallow and I've had "I Could Give You All You Don't Want" on my emo heavy rotation ever since. Excited to check it out. 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Fair. I mean, they all tend to at least be good ideas. But they'll have, like, turkey stuffing at thanksgiving, Earl Blumenhauer's fruit cake at Christmas, olive oil is a regular flavor, and so on. When I bring people there, especially older folks, they find these flavors too wild. 110
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026They actually make lots of weird flavors! I live in walking distance to the OG salt & straw and they do super weird flavors all the time! I don't know if the weird flavors are just a local thing though? 110
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026They would use Magic! - "Rude" for me. With an occasional dose of Black Eyed Peas - "Where Is The Love?" to keep me on my toes. 011
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026That song is on my Shameful Pleasures playlist for a reason! It's really terrible! (But also, I like it.) 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 · 07/03/2026I thought about going to the show and couldn't motivate. Glad it was good! 010
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026"Learn to code!" is right and proper when it's one of a medley of ideas like "Read Moby Dick!" and "Try an instrument!" The other great irony is that I suspect in 10+ years learning to code the old fashioned way will be incredibly niche, but incredibly valuable. (Like Latin, but more monetizable.) 020
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
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026You don't have to answer these questions on Bluesky. 🤓. I just think that this is hard stuff and the trade-offs are where the rubber meets the road! 000
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Which one matters when? Is it ok to displace someone for 1 new unit? For 3, for 100? Should we have stricter rent control? Even if it raises rents in aggregate? Should we allow no cause evictions since that lowers rents in aggregate? As principles they're good but do they guide decisions? 210
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026- A Portland where you can afford to live where you want - A Portland where you only move if you want I want both for folks too. But there's often a real tension between them! 110
Mort Mortimer 🇺🇸 @bmortimer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I love these principles! Though I worry, in practice, that they often conflict with each other and one has to make trade-offs between the two. 130
