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Christen McCurdy @christenmccurdy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I started going to aqua fitness classes when I hurt my foot in 2012, and again last year while recovering from another injury. I wrote a little bit about what those classes did for me during a couple of very dark periods in my life:

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 30/09/2026

Aquafit and other water-based exercise classes might be a good fit for your aging parents. But they might be what you’re looking for, too.

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Water Aerobics Has a Rap as an ‘Old Person’ Exercise. That’s Why I Love It.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thinking of service professionals as part of your community & not your staff is a lost value (& skill frankly) for too many. Gotta sit everyone down & make them watch the Sesame Street “These are the people in your neighborhood” song w/their eyeballs preyed open like a clockwork orange.

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

really sucks how much social media (even just text based ones) has fragmented....bluesky has lib chopped uncs...substack notes has annoying writers...threads and twitter have all the really mentally ill people. That used to be all in one place!

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you cut the roof off of Baba Yaga’s hut it can still run around for several minutes, but this is only a reflex action of the house’s nerves, not magic (as previously believed)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 26/09/2026

Celebrating 30 years, the music recording magazine is out with a new book.

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‘Tape Op’ Editor Larry Crane Explains What a Music Producer Actually Does

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

hauling out the sign again

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Christen McCurdy @christenmccurdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve been getting egregiously predatory robo-calls for things like life insurance, and when they asked how old I am I end up up saying something like “About 300”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 22/09/2026

Her restaurant, Lovely’s Fifty Fifty, is still a family affair, and has retained its commitment to using ingredients found, foraged or locally grown.

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Sarah Minnick Embraces Intergenerational Living in Her North Portland Home

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you haven't seen @electrolemon.bsky.social's September 21st videos, I highly recommend doing so! They're a source of joy every year. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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9/21 - YouTube

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 31/08/2026

If pubs are doing ranked lists they should only let one person write it. It should always be 100 items long and done in one day. you should be able to read the writers long descent into madness as they near the top ten. By the time they hit One it should be theories on how to trap & kill God.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Chasse. Chasse was beaten to death by Portland Police in the Pearl District despite not posing a threat. Having broken 16 of his ribs, they took him to jail instead of a hospital at first, and only after the jail declined to admit him due to ...

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 17/09/2026

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 16/09/2026

Each is hour spent in the company of people shaping Portland’s creative scene.

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Talk It Out at NestFest Panels This Weekend

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 16/09/2026

“I think I quite literally surround myself with things to feel like part of something.”

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Nolan Kurtz Created a Maximalist Oasis in the Middle of Downtown Portland

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Two of the outdoor cats have bonded. I think it’s because they kept meeting up in our yard for food. Just goes to show you, you gotta get off the apps and put yourself out there

Grey and white tabby Tobin and his paramour, tabby TOG

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the best thing about being in my 40s by far has been the freedom to refer to anonymous guys in their late teens/early 20s as “kid” like Han Solo calls Luke in Star Wars. been waiting my whole life for this. worth every second. indescribable feeling of power.

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Brian Libby @brianlibby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And what unites them besides Lincoln High School is the doubters: Rothko was voted most likely to become a pawn broker. Blanc was nearly expelled by the principal for continually making strange cackles in the hallway instead of attending class. The cackles became the voice of Woody Woodpecker.

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Brian Libby @brianlibby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc: one of the truly great Portlanders. I was just saying earlier today how much I love that Blanc and Mark Rothko attended the same high school here in the 1920s. I want to write a dual biography called, “Of Color Fields and Cartoon Voices.”

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Christen McCurdy @christenmccurdy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

every day we fall further from God’s grace

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I refuse to learn what you people are talking about

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Christen McCurdy @christenmccurdy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

did I just hear Le Tigre in a Starbucks ad?

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whatever you're doing, please, just stop for a moment to imagine you're kneeling down on the surface of Mars and trailing your gloved fingers through this beautifully coloured grit covering the ground around you... (Curiosity image) NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

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Till Geske @oneonion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's incredible that we have access to this kind of imagery, that we can experience other planets in greater detail than ever before. I say this with 100% sincerity. So please don't take it the wrong way when I say that it also looks like delicious Turkish Lahmacun.

Lahmacun, flatbread with minced meat and herbs.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Twenty years of writing fashion commentary has taught me that this is the single most-cited fashion reference by the general public. People who don't know a thing about fashion or costume design remember this dress. It's safe to call it one of the most remembered dresses of the last hundred years.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.

Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Absolute S-tier level of dudes rocking

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everyone is always like “oh Dracula is so bad, oh Dracula is so weird and horny, Dracula bit my dad” but Dracula also has times when he’s just at his house for 200 years bothering no one so maybe chill out

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Nevertheless, She Persisted @educatedrants.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is perfect on its own, but damn if he doesn’t have a good point I. The whole 🧵

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Christen McCurdy @christenmccurdy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As an editor, it's maddening. I don't need a summary of the document; I need to read, and reread, every word of it so *I can make judgments about the copy*

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Christen McCurdy @christenmccurdy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One thing I know for sure is that if cats could talk they would talk about their bodily functions so much more than any human alive would be comfortable with, no matter how unsqueamish they think they are. (Dogs, too, but I feel like that's a given.)

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Daisy @daisy91.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I bet if animals could talk raccoons would always talk with their mouth full

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