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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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Portland Bureau of Transportation @pbotinfo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Pride Plaza is back and better than ever! Last year, we repaved the street and updated the curb ramps to be ADA compliant. This year, we painted the street, added furniture and planters, and made sure this is a welcoming space for all.

New colorful street paintings, furniture, and planters in the Portland Pride Plaza.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is an unconscionable amount of death. The DOGE-related cuts resulted in no reduction in taxes (because whatever meager budget reductions they did make were not sufficient to result in tax reduction) so Musk et al. are killing these people for nothing. Will there be consequences?

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

LA Times headline: "Retailers say thefts are a crisis level. The numbers say otherwise."

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I want better transit on powell but many data points to me suggest that the 14, 15 or the 20 are the best subwayification opportunities if we’re looking at SE<->NW routes

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 09/04/2026

End the White House Cover-Up. Release the Epstein files, NOW.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

how it feels taking public transit rn

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/03/2026

That's, like, Greg Egan or Peter Watts

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

with every new Avatar movie there's a chorus of critics saying surely the series has lost its juice NOW and then days later the new Avatar has crossed the $1 billion threshold. it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 06/12/2025

This is the way. 😎

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𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍄𐌰 @favourite-sinner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

reminder that penguins aren't actually penguins

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It was not closely related to the penguins of the Southern Hemisphere, which were named for their resemblance to this species.

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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 22/11/2025

Build approximately 100,000 homes here please

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A good read, housing code is complicated and requires a lot of careful planning and consideration.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

An honor to get momos with our Mayor-elect today! 🥟🗽🌹 #TeamNoSleep

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🎃trash🎃 (haunted) @dollarpbr.gay · 25/10/2025

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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 09/10/2025

That MF sign SB 79 yet?

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The real war zone is the brunch wait up on Alberta

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This is an actual headline www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I know the Wall Street Journal has been getting worse over time, but this blatant lack of journalistic integrity, deliberate fearmongering, and straight up fabrication is insane. Why lie this blatantly when senior officials are directly saying this is not true? Why keep the article up?

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yes yes, I know that particular definition of insanity, but I can assure you this time it will be different. - Democrats

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu. Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices. A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.

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They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

roses are red violets are blue singular they predates singular you

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This whole article is insane. The same party who routinely claims to the party of guns, freedom, and the Constitution is now seemingly the enemy of all three. I didn't realize the "first they came for" poem in this case would only have two groups, immigrants and then immediately everyone else.

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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Congratulations @pbotinfo.bsky.social for completely killing the activity on NW 13th Ave 10/10 you should all be proud

Concrete street plus a Tesla coming at us, where there used to be bar seating

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Battersea has probably had the biggest glow-up of any heavy industrial wasteland on the planet.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Just because people you don't like make an argument doesn't mean the argument is not sound.

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K.M. Sykes @k-m-sykes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A zoo with an IT problem suddenly becomes a petting zoo.

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Eric Blair @ericblair-fabulist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Surprised that nobody has mentioned this all-time classic yet!

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It's pretty funny that while Melbourne has a level crossing removal program LA might as well have a level crossing creation program

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Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak. Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 22/05/2025

Join Portland: Neighbors Welcome, @strongtownspdx.bsky.social and @commongroundorwa.org for a lively social event to learn more about ways our organizations can connect and collaborate. Enjoy appetizers while we explore mutual interests at Steeplejack Brewing on Tuesday May 27th, between 6:30-8pm.

Flyer for event that is a collaboration between Portland: Neighbors Welcome, Common Ground OR-WA, and Strongtowns PDX. Event is at Steeplejack Brewing on 2400 NE Broadway on Tuesday, May 27th from 6:30-8pm

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If you add up the annual passengers on the light rail systems of Seattle, Portland, and LA, double that number, and then cram them into one station, that's the volume we are talking about.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Hey, Portland, I don't know what I did to deserve you, but I'm grateful to say... "seen around Portland today"...

Bursts of white blossoms exploding from the limbs of a tree.

The famous salmon sculpture of Salmon Street, mouth open as if arguing, almost as tall as a small man, with a dotting of tiny white round flowers behind as if the fish just spawned or whatever

Interlocking escherlike lizardous garden tiles in blue, not pink at all no not pink, and gray, in a front yard where a smol book sat for a short period of time on a stoop. There was a scent of fresh baked cookies and entangled flowers in that place. For a time.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Find someone who loves you as much as North American transit agencies love to give up the most important segment of a bus lane, the one just before the intersection, to honour the sacred right of cars to turn in every direction everywhere.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey

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1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos.
2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background.
3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights.
4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

ALGORITHM: It doesnt count as animal abuse content if the animals are abusing each other ME: Yes thats correct. Thank you for showing me it

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 17/03/2025

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selfie of jay in shirt that says mundus sine caesaribus

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“Nineteen percent of U.S. households have one member with a mobility disability—yet nationwide less than 5% of housing is accessible and less than 1% of that is wheelchair accessible.” www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/11/o...

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Op-Ed: Single Family Zoning Is Keeping Seattle Inaccessible to Disabled People - The Urbanist

# For the last 30 years, Seattle has adopted an urban village approach to growth that has reserved 75% of the city for single-family zoning while concentrating growth into walkable urban centers. This...

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