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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You are embarrassing yourself, my friend.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's a very long way to write "no, I don't understand."

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We knew he lied. It's insane he is still given credit for anything other than theft.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fine, I'll dissect the frog for you. The implicit assumption in my statement is that golf courses are not a valid land use, and can be ignored as a form of development. This is a jab at their low utility. "We can put something else there instead of that stupid thing." Does that make sense?

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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 · 01/10/2026

Car brain so crazy when you suggest developing land around a transit station people jump to "asphalt and roads" instead of functional public space like parks and plazas.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like with evolution, it's not about what "wins" but simply what persists.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fun fact - I taught one of Hank Green's former employees both in class and as an undergraduate member of my lab. You are hitting my exact point. If it can't form a comprehensive solve to fully prevent cancers, how would it conquer the whole planet? A single human is less complicated than a planet.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I firmly believe that AI deploying a widespread cure for cancer at (relatively) low cost is orders of magnitude easier than doing The Big Bad Thing so until cancer is gone, the worriers should be dismissed out of hand. And I am, technically, an expert on these things for what it is worth.

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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Make this happen. You have the influence. The People demand it!

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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This, unfortunately, feels correct. Which only proves how much highways bisect neighborhoods.

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

how it feels taking public transit rn

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Peter Watts supremacy, Blindsight changed my life.

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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Now the real question, while we fail to decipher their own have they yet learned our languages?

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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Yes this, and a dense rail network within the circled region as well.

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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The Tin Shed is just like that. Off The Griddle and Ben & Esthers are right there, and I recommend both strongly over Tin Shed regardless. (Not that you are going wrong with any of the options nearby.)

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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This has been my thing, at this economic point nuclear feels like what we then start making when we *literally run out of room for solar panels* since there isn't really a point where nuclear becomes cheaper than just more solar until we run out of fields for them.

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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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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It is interesting, they do genuinely seem to be trying to kill as many Americans as possible within the political realities they face. If I were designing a perfect admin to destroy both American soft power and cause the highest number of statistical casualties, it would be pretty close to this one.

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(the official) Jake Palumbo @jake-palumbo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Chop chop, the legislature needs to get moving. The best time to consolidate housing along transit corridors was 20 years ago, but the second best time is now.

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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 · 29/08/2025

We need to retaliate, and do so egregiously. We need to force red states to agree to a federal-level independent system which redistricts states in as fair a way as possible. Anything short of this is Democrat leaders implicitly handing over the country to one-party rule.

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