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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I did three (3!) administrative tasks that require high executive functioning this morning BEFORE NOON and I think that should excuse me from ever having to do similar tasks again.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Clearest not character 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the character and most coherent explanation I've heard. Why is it so hard for PPS to communicate this information?

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm a PPS parent and I certainly haven't seen anything. I feel like PPS sends too many identical looking emails - it's hard to tell a "here's why we're doing this" message from an "it's spirit week" or an "enroll youth sports for a high school outside your catchment" email.

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amb @amb.fyi · 13/10/2026

“A common misconception is that closing schools serves primarily as a cost-saving measure...The primary driver for consolidation is operational scale.”

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My View from the North

Right-sizing, racial equity, and learning from the past.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I love the mercury so much. What a gift!

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

girls only want one thing and it is a single aspect of human life that has not been intentionally made worse in the interest of chasing limitless profit

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh my god is it only MONDAY still?? I swear to god I've lived at least three days already this week.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Having your coworker's external partners text racist epithets about you during a public meeting is also a sign of terrible workplace culture. No one should have to experience that!

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's really weird to me that one of my city councilors said they'd rather die than work with one of the other councilors & half of PDX is like, "she's just sassy, get over it." That's a terrible workplace culture! No one should have coworkers saying stuff like that about them, esp. not on blast!

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can't find a picture of a Jake! sign from the 2000 Portland mayoral election, but perhaps that's the youthful energy she's going for.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Italians call J "i lunga" - long i. You're people won't let the wool be pulled over their eyes!

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If a single AI bro had ever used self check out at Fred Meyer, we'd never be in the mess we're in with AI. It's so obvious that some jobs take a human touch.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Anthropic told police the false tip was generated as the company tested interactions between its AI model and 'randomly selected websites,' according to Gripp." share.inquirer.com/uT8FjH?utm_s...

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Anthropic’s artificial intelligence gave a false homicide tip to Philly police, triggering a meeting with the company

The incident happened on July 18 but was not discovered by the Silicon Valley company until September, authorities say.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No child should have to sit and watch while masked officers open fire on his father. House Democrats have a duty when we take the majority. Get ICE agents off our streets. Keep them away from our children. Abolish ICE.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The only solution is to not react at all, like you can't hear them. It feels so rude, and I hate being rude, but also, I didn't ask to hear all about how you missed the previous bus due to your bum leg! Grumpy and people pleaser are a bad combo.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have a face that makes strangers want to tell me their life story. I don't want to hear everyone's life story. Riding the bus in high school, I learned that even the most lukewarm, half shrug is more than enough encouragement.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Holy moly what a GORGEOUS day! Used my lunch break to walk to Director Park and through the PSU farmer's market, ran into an old friend... Just a perfect #pdx October day!

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why is the city of Portland able to find $120 million for the Moda Center but can't find $50 million for Portland public schools?

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think he may have also been depressed. I can't remember exactly, but a lot of presidents end up very depressed. It's a horrible job, I don't know why anyone would want it. Plus, in the Olden Times, several presidents lost children during their presidency. Sometimes because of the White House.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Coolidge is also a fascinating guy! It's my understanding that he was really into micromanaging agency budgets, marking line items with a pencil. He was notoriously taciturn and didn't seem to like people at all. Word that he went into public service!

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I didn't know why I've always found the forgotten presidents so interesting (maybe it's the "look ye mighty and despair" of it all) but Arthur is my favorite.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is Chester A. Arthur's birthday. I think he's one of our most interesting forgotten presidents. From his early law career at an openly abolitionist law firm to his career in machine politics, benefitting from the spoils system, to his unlikely presidency... He's an interesting guy!

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been following this saga all morning. What a crazy travel story! Do you think PDX will have the therapy llamas waiting at the gate when they finally arrive?

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was enjoying talking to old friends so much tonight I forgot to eat dinner. I'm not a "oh no, I forgot to eat" kind of person normally, but I've got some pretty interesting friends!

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's so unfair that I have to sleep and eat and do chores and run errands and work. All of that is wasted time when I could be painting or crocheting or knitting or sewing or reading or cross stitching or writing letters. I was clearly meant to be an independently wealthy regency lady.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't know what the police bureau was hoping to accomplish by bringing up Mitch Green's tweets from 2020-21. All it's done is remind me about how lawless their behavior felt at that time and how many Portlanders were poisoned by CS gas in their own homes.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The noises my tummy has been making all day are truly troubling. I think I swallowed an angry cat in a thunder storm.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't get me wrong, I, personally, would have died because I'm extremely allergic to dogs. But I think everyone else would have really benefitted.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here me out: give every high school three elderly dogs that just hang out all day. They can wander around the administrative areas, hang out in the cafeteria, fall asleep under the history teacher's desk... And they get picked up every evening by their family or foster family.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

During the I-5 closure, is the city turning parking lots at Lloyd Center into a park and ride and running the max more frequently?

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is exactly what i think the “ai will end humanity” talk coming from silicon valley execs is all about. selling cybersecurity measures to protect you from what they might unleash

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't know if it's the midlife part so much as being in an extended existential crisis since 2016. But this year, at least, I've crocheted over a hundred squids and started watercolor painting (poorly).

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If downtown #pdx is so dead, what's with all the traffic? Why are the no parking spots? It's almost like downtown is pretty great and people like doing stuff on the weekend!

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I found it. "Weekend." I set it for five minutes after my normal alarm, like a one-time snooze, and named it "weekend." 😂

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't remember an alarm ever disappearing before but I don't see any with names.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The dream had ghosts and kaiju fighting, there was a mystery and it was all in a cyberpunk setting.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

While I was still mostly asleep this morning, I set an alarm for myself but didn't make it repeating. I named it something that I think was related to the dream I was having. But now it's gone forever, so we'll never know!

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The trend where no one clips their little microphone to their shirt but holds it instead can be over any time now.

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Sydney @hathats.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So much coyote howling and yipping in SW this evening! #pdx

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Timeline cleanse from the Black Flute Brigade of Los Angeles.

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