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Cars are the reason children are not safe on our streets. I think kids should be able to move independently through a city without the threat of being violently injured.

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This is drivers doing violence in cars. This is not about the danger of e-scooters, it’s about the violence vulnerable road users put up with every day. A car ran a red light and hit me while I was riding my bike - I would be pissed if someone ran a headline like this about my crash.

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I’ve had so many people tell me just to book an appointment early in the day so they’re not running too far over - I’ve had to do the 40 min wait for a 7 AM appointment! It’s so absurd.

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I couldn’t figure out why so many PowerPoints at WA APA had such tiny font and it was recently pointed out to me that that is frequently an AI thing. I don’t love that we are moving away from accessibility!

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This is going to seem like a shitpost but I hate Up. That movie made me so fucking mad.

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Hey pro tip - no matter how atrocious Israel’s actions (or this one guys actions) are, you don’t need to use a slur made up by fucking neo-Nazis, lest someone think you are one!

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These are children. Children stockpiling guns, children being shot, children finding out they don’t have anywhere they can just be safe. My heart breaks for the families in Bend and Aurora and at the Jewish day schools.

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What the fuck is going on - these were the first 3 posts I saw when I hopped on Bluesky right now. How can we keep living with all this violence around us?

A screenshot of my Bluesky feed, showing a NYTimes post with the headline “Teen Arrested over Plan to Attack Hindu Temple, Officials Say” followed by a post by Bmoregabe that says, “bomb threat hoaxes called into four US Jewish day schools” with a link to a JTA article.

A screenshot of my Bluesky feed, with an article from JTA with the headline “Bomb Threat Hoaxes Called into Four US Jewish Day schools” followed by an OPB article with the headline “OPB Sources: 3 Children among Dead in Bend School Shooting.”

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Money Talks. It Also Lies. - Portland Mercury

I wish the wealthiest people in Portland didn’t hate the city so much! The City is far from perfect, but business interests are always busting their asses to undermine the people with the best track record of doing good things. www.portlandmercury.com/election-202...

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A while ago my husband couldn’t remember the word “goy” and said he was a “gomer” and since then that has become my favorite thing to call people. It’s an insult that means nothing, but if I were to say “look at that gomer” you’d know what I meant.

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Pretty key sentence. People have screamed “ITS ENDEMIC” at me since at least 2023, and A) it wasn’t and B) using endemic to mean “it’s fine now” is very, very stupid.

"We were told it was going to be endemic, and people didn't really think that that just meant it was going to keep coming back. It is back," Thirsk said.

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Don’t make fun of people for how they look. Not if they’re conventionally unattractive, not if they’re disabled, not if they’re too hot, not if they have had plastic surgery. Just don’t do it.

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I had a brilliant friend in high school who was running for a leadership position in a club she was super involved in and her campaign was sabotaged by someone loudly making fun of her for “looking like Barbie.”

Meanwhile - layoffs are everywhere! People cannot find jobs! It’s bleak as hell! And the extreme pullback in government spending is exacerbating everything, because communities are broke and the safety net is crumbling.

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And the AI bubble is its own thing but it’s having a massive distortion effect on stock markets, construction, and investment. But none of that actually benefits most people. AND it’s driving the prices of everything else up because of GPU demand.

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Fuel costs are high because of the war in Iran and we have never as a nation adequately invested in the infrastructure we need to get people out of cars, so people are having to bear the costs even if they can’t afford to.

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Homes are not more expensive because that is what people can afford, they’re more expensive because building never actually recovered post Great Recession, and high costs and interest rates are making building even harder now.

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The problem isn’t really the 2.6% inflation. The problem is that inflation is being driven by fuel and housing costs plus an AI bubble. The fiscal tools we have to deal with inflation assume wages are rising and the job market is good, but neither of those are true.

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Also my cousin had taped Heathers off of the TV at some point in the early 90s and there was a Wash N Curl commercial where a woman says she was thinking of going straight “but then Bill called!” I think of that every time I hear the name Bill.

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There was a tampon commercial in the late 90s where they were advertising a box with multiple sizes of tampons together. The woman in the commercial kept saying “ALL IN ONE BAX” with this bonkers midwestern accent. My mom and I said that to each other for years.

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Baby Gerald here with your regular reminder that you can just go adopt a silly little guy. We took Gerald home same day we met him and now he just lives with us.

A photo of a very dark brown pit bull with a white chest sitting on a blanket on the floor and making a surprised face as he catches a bit of carrot.

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Someone backed out of their driveway on a neighborhood greenway without looking and I had to stop suddenly to not get hit. At no point during the entire backing out process did he realize I was there. We need to make it harder to get a license.

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Dan Ryan’s 0% vote on Avalos items stands out to me. Nobody else is near that percentage on her items.

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I did not fit in with my family. I did not fit in with the kids at school. I started saving up to move out (maybe to Japan) at 5 years old. Everyone was afraid of my dad but I would hold his face and make him pay attention to me. There was never a question.

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Of course why wouldn’t there be a ridiculous audio delay when I embed a video into a powerpoint slide? And apparently no real fix for it? It’s 2026 we can’t just be embedding videos into PowerPoint slides and expecting something better!

The lack of daylighting in my neighborhood makes the streets unsafe for EVERYBODY! I just saw a panel about Seattle’s efforts to build more bike and scooter parking, and daylighting corners for corrals was a major strategy! I would love to see Portland do more of this.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well obviously the trillion dollar IPO was based on absolutely nothing. It may be part of his business plan but so was the hyperloop, and so was going to Mars by like 2020. The man is an absolute charlatan.

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Eli Arnold is apparently telling voters he wasn’t involved in clearing protestors in 2020 (read: beating, batoning, & gassing) but there are thousands of hours of footage & he was out there in helmet 17 and badge 1022402. Gonna go out on a limb & say it is *highly unlikely* Eli never used force.

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amb @amb.fyi · 13/10/2026

Just saw an Instagram reel about a multnomah county land auction and there was a 1 second clip of the auctioneer and I regret to inform everyone there appears to be at least one more wheeler/ryan/Adams type guy out there.

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

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Today I heard someone talking about Elon Musk building data centers in space like it’s a thing that really might happen in the next 20 or so years and team I managed not to turn into a hybrid between the Incredible Hulk and the guy in Edvard Munch’s The Scream.

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Every little girl with a Samantha Parkington doll is about to show up in your mentions lol (I absolutely believe you but the fictional Samantha was 9 in 1904 according to the Pleasant Company in the 1980s)

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The first time I took the SAT for real I got the same score as Buffy Summers and that’s honestly probably my greatest accomplishment lol

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I know - I spoke to someone over the weekend who said a bunch of her clients have said they’re going to vote for Drazan and I’m so stressed about it. Like I get that Kotek isn’t perfect but COME ON!!!!

This is directly tied to her wanting to lift the death penalty moratorium. What she is offering is state sanctioned violence for everyone.

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Right now Oregon has some of the most permissive abortion laws in the country. It is a haven for people from other nearby states that have become extremely dangerous for birthing people. We cannot risk losing that access at this critical time - our lives are on the line.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but even after she became a US citizen my Bubbe was always terrified that she could become stateless again. If we want our society to be functional, I don’t think the govt should be able to threaten citizens with statelessness.

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oregon voters please take this as a sort of christmas carol situation where we get a window into the world where we elected a fake moderate female republican candidate statewide who pretended to be pro choice and anti trump and ended up voting consistently for republican priorities

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I’m so sorry that men might not pick up books like “Voyage of the Damned” (Frances White), “A House with Good Bones” (T. Kingfisher), or “The Power Worshippers” (Katherine Stewart) because they were written by women. Imagine living such a limited life of the mind!

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Anyway, I’ve read way more books this year than any other year in the recent past - a mix of fantasy and nonfiction - and nearly all were written by women. I don’t see why they wouldn’t be as compelling and interesting for men as they were for me.

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There’s a genre of video where a man, usually someone’s husband, gets really invested in female-coded reality shows like real housewives. Men love gossip and drama when they have permission to engage in it! I’m not saying that’s all books by women are but patriarchy is so restricting.

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My favorite book for most of my life was written by a man, with a female main character. It focused on inner lives and the nature of love. Men do not need to be siloed like this.