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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I'm voting NO on #Portland participatory budgeting prop 26-267. We shouldn't fund services with a public beauty contest. Budgeting is our elected reps job. And if we aren't electing good reps, what makes you think we'll elect good budgets? Even the Mercury says NO […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Mmmmm, who wants a big pile of disgusting slop?

A food trailer's banner for Bigoli, "Authentic Venetian Pasta," is illustrated entirely with AI-generated artwork, including five fake-looking, unappetizing plates of noodle heaps under the dish names. On the right, an unrealistic glossy photo shows a woman grabbing a fistful of limp, plain spaghetti and dangling it over her open mouth.

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jette ski massacre @jette.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Nothing will make you appreciate Portland more than flying from PDX to ... just about any other airport really.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@nonelvis It breaks my heart when I hear about the woes of the T. My early experiences on the Boston subway are why I love transit so much and am so happy living somewhere with pretty good (albeit declining due to budget problems) transit.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I've found billboards (and huge campaign banners erected on commercial properties) to be immensely helpful during election season. If the billboard says "vote for a candidate", I probably won't. If the billboard says, "don't vote for", that's somebody I'll look at with interest.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

And, yes, I'm the very first person ever to make that joke.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Lucky me! I got a single seat ticket up front to see Jeff Goldblum and the Arlene Schnitzer Orchestra perform at the Mildred Snitzer Hall in #Portland. Ughh ... wait! ..

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I suggest using the "Endorsers" tab over the "Endorsements" tab. Find an Endorser of interest (either because you want to consider or avoid their recommendations), and then scroll across to view their choices in the race of interest. #portland #pdx

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Here is a in-depth spreadsheet of candidates in the Portland city election. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U3h… Note that you can filter "Candidates" tab by doing Data → Create Filter View then click on the three lines symbol […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@psfshr Interesting. I've taken to buying one of every Matter device I've found at Ikea to play with it. (They're pretty cheap, so that was doable.) I've got the Bilresa dual button and that's been working great, but I never did get the scroll wheel. Maybe a future trip.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I'm enrolled in the local community college. I emailed their "Ask a Librarian" about a technical e-book I wanted to read but they didn't seem to have. The response was basically, "Want us to order it for you?" Libraries are cool. 😎

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@chris I ended up moving my stuff from AWS to Vultr some years back. I've been pretty happy, although I'm not using anything there besides VPS instances.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

My AWS account has sat fallow for years. Got an alert yesterday about anomalous usage. It may have been one of my old containers launched to run in a lambda. I dunno, it was a couple pennies. No matter, rather than debug the problem, I finally did what I should have done long ago: closed the […]

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HLK 🧛 @hlkfotos.com · 13/10/2026

A photo of a dusk scene in which a giant plastic skeleton looms in the right foreground with glowing eyes and a menacing scowl. Teal and green light shines through its ribcage. Behind it stands a dark craftsman-style house with a covered front porch, decorated for Halloween. An orange and purple neon jack-o’-lantern glows in an upstairs window, large black spiders crawl across the siding, a neon purple bat shines in a porch window, and a wreath of red lights and snakes hangs on the front door. Warm string lights glow along the porch ceiling, and a dog stands near the doorway beside pumpkins. The sky overhead is deep blue, and evergreen trees fill the background on the right.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I just encountered a new kind of spam. It's LLM generated, responding to a recent blog post relating to home automation. The email is clearly slop, referencing unnecessary details from the post, and asking a question based on a superficial (but not inaccurate) read of the post […]

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

You know when serious actual investigations of wrongdoing by elected officials are announced? Not October. #USPol

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@Edent FYI, the stability of my Matter/Thread network improved significantly when I added some smart light bulbs, to extend the mesh. Yeah, different networking, but same idea. Maybe worth a try.

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nonelvis @nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Finally watched this today, and if you haven't, you should. Fascinating and infuriating, especially because as McKenzie points out so clearly, this grift is screwing over the people who can least afford to lose money. (warning about the opening credits: the quick flashes nearly triggered a […]

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Nate Allen @mossyfoot.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hey if you are an unhappy #veterinarian or vet tech and you'd like to live in #Portland, let me know. If my employer, DoveLewis, hires you after my referral I get a big bag of cash, too. :) It is a rather nice place to work in my opinion.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

**TOMORROW** Come to the Web Surfing Party and re-discover the fun and cool Internet. Sat, Oct 10 1pm - 5:30pm Belmont Library 1038 SE Cesar Estrada Chavez Blvd Portland, OR 97214 clipdx.com/webday/index.html hosted by @clipdx #portland #indieWeb

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Aabra Mastodon, PDX stereotype @glassdelusion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The #pdx county library created a reading list inspired by a local production of "Little Shop of Horrors". ❤️ multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list…

"Little Shop of Horrors" the musical is in town through October. Read the related books, Portland!

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Enjoying all of that political text spam you're getting? Then you'll love political spam robocalls. Even better, good about *AI generated* political spam robocalls What a glorious time we love in, thanks to the Trump FCC […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Great news! Thanks to the folks at the PDX Hackerspace, we will be having an Open Home Community Day celebration in Portland. It will be Nov 7 at the CtrlH Hackerspace. luma.com/1oxif935 #portland #homeAssistant

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

OH NO!! The Beard Papa is gone from Uwajimaya Beaverton. 😭 CC @agnes

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HLK 🧛 @hlkfotos.com · 04/10/2026

!!! For the "bullying works" files? (We used to eat at this place in Austin, and the food was fantastic.) www.reddit.com/r/austinfood...

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I can see from the clock on the wall that it's "get mailings from every single incumbent that's up for election next month" o'clock.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

WEDNESDAY - Celebrate National Digital Inclusion Week at Multnomah County Library! ** TOMORROW ** Talk Tech Together: Strategies for Digital Empowerment Wed, Oct 07 12:30pm - 3:30pm Albina Library, Portland Join a gathering of community members and digital […] [Original post on pdx.social]

A graphic titled "Talk Tech Together" in large orange letters, with the subtitle "Strategies for Digital Empowerment," beside a photo of a man wearing a "Digital Helper" name tag showing a laptop to a smiling older woman. A banner reading "Access. Skills. Opportunity." hangs behind them.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@timtrautmann.com DMs don't go across the bridge. Want to email me? cr@crosenthal.com

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I'ma try this one more time. Thanks for the initial response (lots of likes and boosts), but not quite enough confirmations of interest to book a meeting room. Let me know if you'd attend a #Portland meetup for #HomeAssistant on Nov 7.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@PizzaDemon The dude has an econ degree (iirc), so he's actually got some creds here.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Does your library include access to the Kanopy streaming service? Lucky you! That means you get to watch "Everyone is Lying to You for Money" for free It's a very good, entertaining doc about the crypto grift. It includes an interview with Sam Bankman-Fried around the time FTX was collapsing […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The Open Home Foundation Community Day is coming up on November 7. I don't see any events registered for the Portland, OR area. www.openhomefoundation.org/communit… If five Portland-area Home Assistant enthusiasts respond to this post and indicate they'd attend an event that day […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The hardest part of flying home from Japan is adjusting to the time change. For example in Tokyo I got to experience a future where everyone deserves dignity but I’m flying back to a country intent on pushing itself back to the 1950s. It’s hard to adjust your watch to that.

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

ProPublica is a non-profit newsroom, with no corporate owners or paywall, dedicated to investigating abuses of trust and power in the public interest - and making real change. There's still time to donate and support their work. Show them that the #fediverse is behind them […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Stop fear mongering, Guardian. The risk isn't the tool. The risk is bad design.

A screenshot of a Guardian article headlined "Georgia holds emergency meeting on A̶I̶ exposing voters' secret ballots," with the struck word "AI" scribbled out in magenta and "bad design" hand written in. In the subhead, "A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could b̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶b̶i̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶A̶I̶ ̶t̶o̶ link voters to their ballots," the struck words are also scribbled out in magenta.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@pabloniusmonk I wonder how many people, like me, are interested in the Shield because we're sick of the adware, slopware, and spyware of mainstream streamers. I'm using an older Onn 4K streamer that I bought because it supports replacement launchers (instead of Google TV). The Shield was on my […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Celebrate National Digital Inclusion Week at Multnomah County Library! Talk Tech Together: Strategies for Digital Empowerment Join a gathering of community members and digital inclusion practitioners to discuss interests, needs, and concerns related to […] [Original post on pdx.social]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

So, the "we aren't political" Piano Guys are coming to Portland. As a reminder, they played the 2017 MAGA-branded inauguration ball for Donald Trump. And for insult and injury, they included the Hilary Clinton theme Fight Song in their performance. I hope they get the warm #pdx reception they […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I've got my email inbox down to just four messages. Everything else has been either dealt with, disposed of, or filed. I am a beast.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Two women walk into a woman's clothing boutique. One petite and cis. The other large and trans. Both came to shop. The store clerk only talks to the cis woman. Eventually the trans woman speaks up and says, "I'm shopping too." The clerk talks to her only long enough to point to a rack that […]

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@nonelvis Excellent thermal insulation design of NE residences got you through 26 years, but, alas ...

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