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Connor he/they @gayloader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We keep us safe.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dunno who needs to hear this but it’s good to show joy in public. We’re alive and it’s a miracle.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They don’t think that causing people hardship is bad necessarily. They would weigh it against the amount of friction they’ve removed for a much larger population or some such bs. It’s all numbers games in pursuit of convincing themselves they make the best decisions always. They don’t care about us.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How many years of worth of tax increase will they spend on trying to stop the tax increase? Probably way more than they’ll even live for.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Losers. What a waste of time over $15/yr. Unserious people.

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 28/09/2026

You can laugh & think people deserve it, just don't do it in my replies. I'm sharing this not bc I think it's a danger for myself or most of my mutuals, but Meta is really pushing Muse when you use any of their apps. Maybe your parent, or kid, or other person close to you might decide to try it.

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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mitch is going to need extra support for this one because this forum will not include any of the other progressive candidates like myself. They chose to only include the incumbents and Eli Arnold on purpose so it won’t be a very friendly crowd. Turn up and turn out!!

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 26/09/2026

Hearing Mayor Wilson go on TV and say (paraphrased) that Portland should not be innovative or try new things is about the least leader-like thing I could imagine a Mayor saying about their city. Come on, man.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can I bet on credit whether this will go well or not?

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

can’t be neutral on this stuff. our trans siblings are under attack by nearly every level of institutional power in this moment. they’re at risk of losing healthcare and rights basically everywhere. but in Portland we’re saying fuck that and going all out for our trans homies. right?

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is that actual journalistic malpractice? It effectively is regardless.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’d think that bringing back up the horrifically unpopular PPB response to the 2020 racial justice protests would not be in the interest of pro police orgs. But then, they don’t understand us.

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👻Spooky Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/09/2026

Help i made malware and I used it to hack several enormous companies I guess there's nothing anyone can do until we pass new laws In the meantime I'll let you watch over my shoulder while i do it again and again Also give me more money or I'll hack you all

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These are some of the most reckless people in the history of humanity. Take away their keys!

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“We are afraid that our product will create bio weapons and kill all of humanity. 10 percent chance.” Then proceeds to build a bio research facility to test that theory. 🤦

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Journalism lives! The Mercury included a history of the police’s actions in 2020, adding necessary context to the frankly popular anti-police sentiment that arose and still reverberates. I shouldn’t feel relieved to see a paper not just parroting conservative talking points, but it’s uncommon now.

The point that many of Green's detractors have missed, in their rush to shame the councilor, is that Portland police have a storied history of racialized and politicized violence. Coordinated attacks against those who criticize the institution must be called out for their anti-democratic nature-
particularly during such a heated election season.

"When we talk about accountability... oftentimes, people are looking for a form of punishment," Day said. "I believe accountability and culture change occurs around corrective action, and that discipline is intended to change behavior. We're not into punishing people. We're into changing behavior."
If that's true, then Councilor Green deserves the same courtesy Day has extended to the Bureau since taking office.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I love that intelligence index on a linear scale vs the cost on a log scale. Most people will not realize that this makes things look a lot better than they actually are. And the line is still bending really hard towards cost. Plot it on a linear/linear scale cowards!

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

…then do it? He’s the fucking CEO of one of the largest frontier model companies in the world. He could just not build the doom machine if that’s what he thinks he’s building. These people, who have more agency than almost anyone in the history of the world, talk like it’s up to others to stop them.

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unlawful whatever 🐝 @inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A very obvious and provable fact. Why do humans prefer cruelty in situations that make us uncomfortable? Maybe helping makes us feel like we’re saying being uncomfortable is ok, and we don’t like that? Anyway, let’s choose kindness and it’ll be better for everyone. Oh, and a lot cheaper too.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s at least criminal negligence. They could, you know, monitor the AIs and shit them down when they see signs of bad behavior. And better yet, stop them from accessing the internet at all. The whole rogue framing is only because they don’t want to put in real controls.

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the moon report 🌒 @seachanger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

an annoying thing is i feel like I could fix most of my problems if they were happening to someone else

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Then there’s this shit, where they clearly are not held accountable at all. And in fact the opposite. Unbelievable. Or at least, it should be.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was just talking yesterday about how the police delay any form of accountability (if it ever comes) so long that not many of us remember the incident by the time they admit fault. The flash bang embedded in a protesters helmet in 2018(?) comes to mind. It took 4 years for that to settle. Then this

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Bike Bus PDX @bikebuspdx.org · 28/08/2026

Bike Bus PDX is hiring a Full-Time Coordinator to help us grow Bike Buses in East Portland (made possible thanks to the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund)! Check out the link to learn more. Please submit by September 15th www.bikebuspdx.org/jobs/bike-bu...

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Bike Bus Coordinator

The Bike Bus Coordinator is the backbone of Bike Bus PDX

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don’t think I’ve even read an article of theirs since they endorsed Rene.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love the “housing Is too expensive” people who instead advocate for the most expensive (and anti productive) possible option of sweeping / jailing repeatedly.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think I’m similar, but slowly and consistently moving left over the last 8 years. I believe people like us can be important bridges between liberals and leftists. I can talk to both sides in a way that people can hear, which is not necessarily possible directly. We need the big tent cause fascism.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/08/2026

during that recent publicized "AI escape" they failed to confirm a third party had properly walled off their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE from accessing the internet, and also didn't bother monitoring their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE in real time this endless anthropomorphizing is annoying as shit

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Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks

Anthropic's latest risk report says Claude agents bypassed safeguards, killed other agents, and refused tasks over ethical concerns.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Amazing article! “We cannot stop gathering data, cleaning it, pre-training models”…”to goals that we ourselves have researched and optimized toward, training and then post-training. We are doing all of that but nothing can intervene, we are addicts”…”We beg someone to save us.”

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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

No money for schools No money for childcare No money for healthcare No money for transit 900 million dollars for a billionaire who hates us with no strings attached

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

All of this was a result of the performance system not being tied to actual results. The pivots were so frequent and dependencies so often lagging, it didn’t matter if we were going to succeed. Only that we appeared to be on the way to achieving great things. I broke that illusion and was punished.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Despite it being obvious we couldn’t execute, with spreadsheet planning in the red for most of each project individually, he said go. When I pushed him, he replied “we could do it if we had more resources”. I asked if that was the plan and he said no. And then told me to embrace ambiguity.🤦

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My last boss at meta asked me to put together schedules for two possible projects so we could choose between them. For whatever reason, he then stacked them on top of each other and called that the plan. I pointed out that these were overly aggressive as single projects and they shared resources.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I did not last more than a few years in any role that required me to say things were working when I knew they weren’t. Or that we could execute a clearly completely impossible schedule because “we’ve done it before, so it’ll go better this time” while making exactly zero improvements to the process.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Great thread. The amount of forced of AI sycophancy in the tech industry is astounding. The covering up of issues and over the top touting of minor successes is (further) distorting the world of tech business. Even before AI, the incentives were to lie about success to make the boss look good.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

They lie because they know of they told the truth, we would overwhelmingly reject them.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 31/07/2026

LinkedIn training their users to do unpaid outsourced data work to label AI slop posts to train an AI model to discriminate between what AI generated posts humans perceive as AI slop, which will raise the quality of AI slop to be more undetectable in order to help users “connect with real people”.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Amazing that an organization bus the team and then proceeds to trash its own investment thoroughly. Maybe don’t buy it if that’s how you feel!

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Also the modern performance systems all reward pleasing the boss a lot more than being a good worker. So bosses want to please their boss more than set up systems that work well. Sycophants all the way down, so the execs don’t have an avenue to understand what actually happens on the ground.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What happened to general strike? There was quite a bit of talk about it… then nothing for a while now.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The executive mind cannot comprehend that, if you show down and put the right pieces in place, the end date will come A LOT sooner. The start date is always the only thing that matters because it comes sooner on the imaginary aspiration board. Then you eat tech debt for the whole project: slowest.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’m constantly stunned at how we are told to go faster than is possible. Only extremely aggressive, assume everything goes right schedules are allowed. When I ask if any schedule has ever gone without issue, I am told no, there are always problems. Then I ask for slack and they say no.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

To be fair, the point I’m making is that there is no way to measure generalists with the current system. And that applies to basically all soft skills, like the ones in this post. It’s sad because those skills are often the ones that make someone successful or not.

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Thrive in solidarity @communalpdx.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

As a tech worker, employers want to see deep specialization as you gain experience. Generalists, who in my (not so humble) opinion hold together most projects, are not valued much due to lack of imagination of hiring committees. We don’t fit in a box like they want to see to feel confident hiring.

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