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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 28/09/2026

I wish normal people could get paid $70/hr to just stand around blocking traffic for literally no reason at all @councilorgreen.bsky.social @councilormorillo.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social @councilorclark.bsky.social

5 cops stand in the middle of a street, several cars have had to turn around

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 26/09/2026

@towerwizard.bsky.social is not AI but it is a bot and well... the universe felt like sharing its sense of humor

screenshot of two tweets next to each other in the feed. The first is the original post, the second is a post from the bot @towerwizard.bsky.social that says "the wizard works on revising his research paper."

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 24/09/2026

From Portland's Fair Share Tax overview page: Mega Corporations can cut their taxes by 80% with this ONE WEIRD TRICK www.portland.gov/council/dist...

A Tale of Two Business: How This Ordinance Works
A neighborhood bakery with $300,000 in sales pays $0.
A Mega Corporation with $100 million in Portland sales, 7% margin, CEO paid 1,800 times the median worker pays about $1.1 million.
Note: "Mega Corporation" can cut its city tax bill by more than 80% simply by raising worker pay or bringing CEO pay back toward norms in the 1970s (roughly 30 to 1 ratio).

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 22/09/2026

I'm not as much a memer in my old age but I'm in the ClimateTown discord and there are some memers there! They're largely transit focused and like to chat in the meme channels but here are a few I could scrounge up

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 17/09/2026

And if you need some help drafting a comment, this is mine

When Police Chief Day says he "no longer has confidence" in Councilor Green in an official statement claiming that it is because he believes the councilor has an "agenda" that is, he strongly implies, "uncivil and not inclusive" he is using his position and office to influence public opinion about a political figure up for reelection. This is in direct violation of Portland City policy HRAH-406
(https://www.portland.gov/policies/human-resources-administrative-rules/employee-behavior-expectations/hrar-406-political).

Specifically "The City defines “political activity” as an activity directed toward supporting or opposing federal, state or local measures, candidates, recalls, political committees, or petitions." going further with "While engaged in a political activity, non-elected City employees may not use their official authority or influence."

I call on you to hold Chief Day to the same standards as any other non-elected City employee.

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 16/09/2026

I had 9 songs thumbsd up before this. What an absolute disappointment.

YouTube Music showing P!nk's songs with thumbs down next to each of them

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 16/09/2026

I mean.... This was the costume. It was for Thrift shop. I'm sure he's grown over the years, which is honestly more important than whether he was sorry at the time, but we don't have to and probably shouldn't try and whitewash the past

Pictures of Macklemore in his Jew costume one straight on and one from the side. The nose is fucking enormous and also crooked like a classic Nazi cartoon Jew depiction.

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 15/09/2026

This might fuck up my general mix but hey, at least he can't get another fraction of a cent from me ever again

Ed Sheeran's top songs on YouTube Music, all have been given a thumbs down

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 28/08/2026

Very grateful to my younger self for buying this Canon 70D and accoutrement so I can take artsy photos of lunar eclipses that don't look like a shriveled ball sack after AI is done processing them (Not sponsored by Thule, but if they wanted to...)

the lunar eclipse photographed between two tall bushes, light rail power lines cross between them framing the moon

Canon 70D attached to a folding tripod perched on the roof rack of a car

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 21/08/2026

Huh, that's weird, they must send a different receipt when you donate so much money. Well, good on you, mate. Since you're able to be so generous you should spend some money on a therapist to work through why you're willing to donate so much to people you treat so poorly.

$10 donation receipt for Foodbank Queensland that looks completely different with different information and identifiers than the one presented by OP

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 20/08/2026

Seemed like a short survey, but then I started writing...

My comments on the first set of questions:

Getting people out of cars and onto buses and bikes will do more to improve safety and reduce costs than any other possible measure. How do we reduce maintenance costs? Reduce the cause of those costs: cars. Any steps that don't work to reduce the number of cars on the road will ultimately increase current and future costs.

Removing cars from the road is a win for everyone, even people who choose to, or must, drive. Fewer cars on the road means less congestion, more reliable transit (inducing demand for transit), and is safer for pedestrians and bicyclists (inducing demand for those modes as well).

You know, as we all know, that adding more lanes doesn't solve congestion and it doesnt make things cheaper. It costs more to build, more to maintain, and induces demand that strains all other roads in a city The responsible thing is to support non-auto based transportation modes. Do the responsible thing.

My comments on the second set of questions:

Driving sucks. Driving is individually *expensive*, S1000/mo on average according to AAA. We have a lot of key assets along I-5 we need to preserve for the sake of interstate trade, but the majority of money should go toward supporting infrastructure that reduces the miles people need to drive, possibly down to zero for many people. That would mean the $1,000/mo could be spent on literally anything else, food, rent, child care, a cool new bike, savings, a second even cooler new bike. Things that directly benefit local communities, not auto manufacturers, banks, and oil conglomerates.

My comments on the third set of questions:

The "Traffic congestion" impact is misleading. Removing alternative modes of transportation (buses, bikes, and walking) is what will cause increased congestion. Forcing people to choose to drive means more cars on the road which means more congestion.

Removing those things are also what will decrease safety. It's also what will increase repair costs.

My final comments on the survey:

"Transportation" is a term that all to often ends up just meaning "cars." To be sure, cars make up a large portion of how people transit from pointA to point B; however, a transportation system that doesn't provide an equal amount of support for non-car centric transportation options can't use "everyone drives" as a justification for prioritizing cars above all else.

I would be more sympathetic to state and agency leaders tasked with balancing priorities if there wasn't mountains of research, real-world examples both domestic and abroad, and historical data backing up the reality that cars are not inevitable or even to many people *preferable*. I love riding my bike. I hate that I'm treated like a second-class citizen, forced to work around cars instead of cars working around me.

What would make me confident the state is spending the transportation budget wellQ Being able to get to destinations outside my city without having to drive; Seeing projects that benefit all modalities, not just cars; Leaders who lead and make decisions that are backed by science, not driven by businesses that make demands that will make their own lives worse.

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 07/08/2026

Question you maybe aren't allowed to answer, but do you know if you see any difference in payout between a direct purchase vs. as part of those weird bundles? i.e. all things equal can I support devs more by not using the bundle?

screenshot of Steam store page showing two purchase options, the game or the game bundled with a second game I already own for a little cheaper

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 06/08/2026

My immediate thought was "That looks an awful lot like Castle of the Winds" (shrines.rpgclassics.com/pc/castle2/h...), the iconography at least!

screenshot of the game Castle of the Winds

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 05/08/2026

It's like everyone decided to be so traumatized over having to wear a mask for a year or two that now the thought of wearing one for any length of time for any reason is repulsive. Meanwhile I hear people walking down the street coughing in the red haze... Trying to do my part though

a box of free respirators perched on the corner of a fence

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 15/07/2026

I was guessing wildly on this one but holy cow I had no idea we have a bus that goes all the way to Estacada!! 🤯

Routle result showing three guesses, including the super long Estacada route

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 10/07/2026

This is a weird hill to die on given the fact that for the moment Street View images are as close to unimpeachable as you can get on the internet anymore It's not as if someone hacked Google to add an AI generated image to the wall in a Street View photoset. There's also this sign

a cropped street view image showing the back of the alley of the photo this thread is about. It shows a no parking sign matching the one in the photo

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 08/07/2026

If you do that you'll never achieve the satisfaction of emptying a roll of floss

the inside of a floss container showing just a few wraps left on the spool

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 22/05/2026

Don't stop there, you could also be eating Pokemon

a limited edition box of Kellogg's Pokemon cereal with the word Pokemon foil embossed. The cereal effectively Luck Charms with pokemon shaped marshmallows

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 13/05/2026

After living on a street with a couple outdoor cats I do 15 in neighborhoods much to the chagrin of assholes using them as "shortcuts" This bumper sticker keeps most people off my ass though

A car bumper sticker reads "speed limits maintained. Vehicle's speed is monitored by GPS"

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 08/05/2026

Note that only the women need to weigh < 150 lbs, the dudes can weigh up to 220 lbs. I guess men aren't expected to put kids on their bikes or carry cargo since 220 + 65 only leaves you with 115 lbs to spare, not nearly enough for anything else! I guess I'm glad I bought my @ternbicycles.com used

Response to the original message by Sean Smith, Creative Director for Tern Bicycles: "I'm sorry. The size ranges in that casting call needed more context and I should have provided it upfront. Our bike has a 397 lb maximum gross vehicle weight (MGVW). Factor in the bike, a kid, a dog, and cargo, and the math gets real pretty fast."

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 03/05/2026

I would like this post but.... I feel that might bring 7 years of Satan's Fistula upon me for upsetting the balance

screenshot of OP's post showing that is has 666 likes

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 17/04/2026

Either that or Cloudflare charges way more to protect a site like Bluesky than the nothing they charge me for my random zero traffic sites and someone at Bluesky was hammering the "Under attack?" button last night 😂

screenshot of Cloudflare's home page, next to the "log in" button is a bright orange button labeled "Under attack?"

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 17/04/2026

I dunno what to tell you. That looks like pre-sliced gyro meat that you'd find mass produced for a navy ship

A bag of precooked gyro meat slices. They are a sickly grey

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 07/04/2026

Elisa doesn't think her daughter should use AI, but once you're old enough it's totally find to ditch all those critical thinking skills and use AI for everything up to and including legal documents. "Critical thinking? Isn't that like algebra? No one uses that when they graduate."

EDITORS: What concerns do you have about AI?

ELISA: My main concern about AI is our children using it. My daughter, who is in middle school, wants to use ChatGPT for everything; I worry that she is not spending enough time thinking—developing knowledge and critical-thinking abilities

ELISA: I believe I was the only person using AI in my building at the beginning of the school year. I’m the kindergarten chair, so I’ve been sharing how I use Copilot with my team. But for the most part, they feel tired and overworked, like Louis said, and they don’t see (yet) how much time it can save. More recently, our exceptional student education teachers started using it, as did our support facilitators, to help them with IEPs and legal documents.

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 30/03/2026

Welp. Fuck Andy Weir I guess. Imagine claiming to like sci-fi and then bitching about how "political" it is as if that wasn't a large part of it's entire reason for existing, to explore society through an infinity of lenses. Straight up 13 year old brain thinking. gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

"l dislike social commentary. Like... I really hate it. When I'm reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at bg the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author's political agenda is validated. I hate that," Weir said. "l put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all.Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I'm not truing to affect the reader's opinion on anything.Mg sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that."

"For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fans it's always bothered me that there is a presumed 'responsibility' within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues," the writer added."l just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other."

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 25/02/2026

For anyone reading this, Shrek the Musical has some BANGER songs

donation receipt to rent assistance in honor Shrekrovski

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 19/02/2026

Tale of two journos I'm not super surprised the white one is clutching at pearls over how bluesky bullies some people off the site, but like, don't be the type of person no one wants at their parties and you'll be fine? Society needs consequences for acting anti-social and we've been missing them

screenshot of a series of tweets, the first is a thread starting with Erin Biba, the latter is a retweet of Erin Biba

‪Erin Biba‬
The people of Bluesky genuinely do not give a fuck about attracting more people to the site or ass-kissing journalists and personalities to come here. This is largely a group of countercultural progressives who are fucking tired of the very status quo people who come here to complain. ‪

Alan Elrod‬
I actually do want more people to come here. In fact, I’d love if everyone who isn’t right-wing freak left X tomorrow and came here.
Twitter when it was good was full of a lot of different people, often going at it (for better and worse).
And I think Bluesky is designed for better discourse

‪rimidar‬
Yeah, this is the kind of mentality that is absolutely corrosive to the website in general. ‘countercultural progressives’ oh get over yourself

‪Anil Dash‬
Counterpoint: people who say it's better on a site that profits from generating and selling child sexual abuse material should actually not be welcomed to this site, and can't be trusted to build a healthy community here.

Reposted by Anil Dash
‪Erin Biba‬
This audience doesn’t want any and every journalist. They want a type of journalist who isn’t lying about the fact that media can’t be unbiased, who values morality and ethics over clicks and overlord messaging. And who is honest about the world.

If you can be that, you’re most welcome here.

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 18/02/2026

I'm not bitter that it gave me DARK GREY BLUE as a color. In the game's defence it was my best score, 9.62 on that one. It was the second weird flesh tone one that sunk my score with a 7.21 Super fun! Go play at dialed.gg

the results of a dialed.gg game, 44.31/50 points

dialed.gg color result. Score 7.21/10. The top color is an almost dusty rose, the bottom is a weird flesh tone

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 10/02/2026

Not sure if you know this, but you can use your own domain with literally every other non-nazi bar platform

a screenshot showing the domain "westernedge.media" and the call to action showing it's hosted on Substack

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 03/02/2026

I had a cached version of this post on my feed before the NYCrimes deleted the tweet. People say Bluesky is bad because of the bullying, but actually it's great because the bullying works

screenshot of the above post with the original NYT post, now deleted, still showing. the NYT post is accurately described by the original post

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 30/01/2026

I wanted to have Jacob Wysocki's Regular Guy affirmations without Sam and a loud buzzer at the end Now go forth and do that transaction

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 16/01/2026

They do, it's in the video description So, what about his current actions?

screenshot of YouTube video description with the transcript section highlighted

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 13/01/2026

In Starcraft there's a concept of resource gathering saturation where the resources gathered slows logarithmically past a certain point due to in-game physics No games come to mind that explicitly model things like injuries, but I love it as a concept!

a graph from liquidpedia plotting the number of workers harvesting minerals against the minerals collected per second. the curve is roughly logarithmic

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 13/01/2026

IMAGINE being the kind of racist fuckhole that responds for comments on a story that clearly shows you being a racist fuckhole going "How dare people call me a racist fuckhole"

Quote
Giardini: "He’s [Kanal] been the chair of safety and no one has done anything racist you cunt bitch"
Giardini: "I’m saving this for our list. I hope someone calls her out."
Owendoff reacts: 👍
End Quote

Reached by phone January 12, Giardini told the Mercury she was upset by accusations of people being racist.

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 08/12/2025

Well crap, I was going to like it but if I did now it would ruin the moment

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 03/12/2025

So your upset that I have different moderation lists for different purposes? Your life must be very sad to feel the need to come into my mentions to share

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 03/12/2025

And hey, while we're at it, did it mention it's a *design study* that hasn't been constructed? I guess the lie machine is up to it's old antics of telling lies www.codot.gov/projects/us3...

Google Maps satellite image of US Highway 34 and 35th Ave in Greeley Colorado. It shows an at grade intersection

Google Maps satellite image of US Highway 34 and 47th Ave in Greeley Colorado. It shows an at grade intersection

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 03/12/2025

I'm not saying they're perfect bike lanes, but I'm not sure what your argument is, we have unprotected bike lanes all over Portland and we've had decades of bike activism here, so I'd say Greeley isn't doing half bad

street view in google maps of a bike lane along burnside featuring unprotected bike lanes and cars parked on the edges

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 03/12/2025

I grew up in Colorado and lived in Colorado Springs and Denver for 29 years. I have not biked in Greeley specifically but it shares the same design patterns as where I did. It also shares the same patterns as Beaverton and Hillsboro and you can find bike lane on strode there too

google maps street view of a narrow bike lane along a 5-lane road in beaverton oregon

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 02/12/2025

It has pretty decent coverage considering the low density. Honestly, in some ways it's better than Portland. We have a higher density grid with more official greenways, but so few of our dedicated bike lanes actually *connect* together And the burbs are going to be lower traffic like our greenways

biking layer of Greeley Colorado in Google Maps, includes a roughly 7mi long marker for reference comparison

biking layer of Portland Oregon in Google Maps, includes a roughly 7mi long marker for reference comparison

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 23/11/2025

@scrivenerapp.bsky.social Seems like the Scrivener Overview page is borked. Windows, Chrome, without ad blocking, and in Incognito www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/ov...

Scrivener Overview page containing only one testimonial and no other elements

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 14/11/2025

@merriam-webster.com Love you, but I notice you haven't added "copaganda" to your dictionary (to yourself? unclear how this parasocial relationship works)

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 20/10/2025

"I felt similarly deep concern for the rank-and-file personnel I met. Most were far from home, overworked and exhausted while receiving no pay in the midst of a prolonged government shutdown. I can only imagine the family and financial stress they are under..." www.newsweek.com/portland-may...

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 19/10/2025

Gaslighting is a tool of the enemy. You can't both take COVID seriously and find what science has proven time and time again to be the single most effective tool for preventing the spread of ALL airborne disease "unreasonable." We eradicated an entire linage of Flu B with the meager efforts we made.

Four tweets:
‪@joadsprocket.bsky.social‬
I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

‪@jamellebouie.net‬
yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

‪@jamellebouie.net‬
(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

‪@dysio.de‬
I'd personally rather not live in a society that subjected two generations of their children to repeat infections of a disease that causes systemic damage with every infection.

But I guess brunch was more important.

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