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Fran Skafka

@keitechnical.bsky.social
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Portlander, boat-enjoyer, etc. I'm interested in history, ecology, trek, and culture. Brillat-Savarin enthusiast. public key: ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIMzKsBywymTS0u77hQg4jgVUBLtUpFiaPQb5pyRHWPT0 keitechnical.bsky.social

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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City Observatory @cityobservatory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Carmaggedon? Here are two snapshots of weekday morming commute travel speeds on Portland freeways, one is from before the Rose Quarter shutdown, one is from after. Can you tell which is which?
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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Currently reading the diary of a French 11 year old in 1793 & loving it Summary: Hate having my portrait done, so boring Went to the palace and saw a really mangy rabbit, YUCK My tutor tells me I've got to stop picking my nose Also Marat has been murdered
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
While the majority of the media ecosystem focused on decorum during the budget they ignored the real story: 6 Councilors voted against an amendment that allowed Council to exercise our oversight powers to investigate what’s happening to these people. www.portlandmercury.com/news/records...
A document obtained by the Mercury that summarizes anonymized complaints shows a variety of recurring issues guests raise about Urban Alchemy-run sites. Among them, complaints of unsanitary conditions, allegations that staff stole guests' personal items, multiple claims that staff sexually harassed or sexually assaulted guests, and alleged retaliation against multiple guests who filed complaints. Other allegations include a lack of disability accommodations, staff failing to address violence by other guests, and staff trading goods and cash in exchange for sex.
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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 14/08/2026
Upcoming opportunity for N and NE Portland residents to direct their ire at three people whose party squandered a majority and helped defund Trimet
Graphic emailed by the office of State Rep Tawna Sanchez advertising a Fall Town Hall

Join the State Senator and Representatives from North and NE Portland to reflect on the 2026 Legislative Session and discuss legislative priorities for the next session.

Wednesday, September 2 at 6pm
Albina Library
205 NE Russell St, Portland, OR 97212

State Senator
Lew Frederick
Senate District 22

State Representative
Tawna Sanchez
House District 43

State Representative
Travis Nelson
House District 44
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
[inarticulate yelling]
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Moda giveaway is proceeding with the honesty and popular consent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq* *I swear to God, don't you Bluesky this
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LIke all Canuck fans, I hate the Canucks. @palkyrie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
IT'S CALLED BURNSIDE NOT TURNSIDE
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 31/07/2026
waow
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
People really do love Mr. Plywood
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Terrific shirt, and this museum was very kind in sending me (a rando) ships' logs when I emailed
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Another perfect summer day in the best city in the world: Portland, OR
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Verify your age: I remember great swarms of monarch butterflies, like a slow motion murmuration. Something great and precious has been trampled.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/ OK! We analyzed all ~5,300 pages of public records on the Moda Center deal — every email, text, contract, and invoice produced so far. Before Portland commits ~$850M+ ($1.12B after interest), here’s what every Portlander should know. It’s not the story you’ve been told. 🧵
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Every artist's life has tragedy, and Cormac McCarthy's was that he never wrote a judge dredd story
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James @james.tarnation.lol · 08/07/2026
📸 Eel
A slender orange-and-white banded eel emerges vertically from pale sand, its head curved forward and a large dark eye facing the camera. Blurred green plant stems in a dark aquarium background.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Oh ho ho ho, that sounds worse than deliberately staying within the limits of the open meeting law
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Two dead malls and one live one in Portland should be rendered into mixed use campuses with moderately overbuilt rental space (to encourage culture), little parking, Olmsteadey park space, and pedestrian arcades. Anchor with a clinic and community college.
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John Cutting @fortunasaga.com · 21/06/2026
Alexander saying I love you father
Worf saying I don't think about you at all
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amb @amb.fyi · 18/06/2026
you know what else we could with the billions of dollars that ODOT want to spend on the Rose Quarter / IBR? How about a wholly integrated regional passenger rail network? i finally got my hands on a high level feasibility report Metro put together last year: ti.org/pdfs/MetroRe...
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
For Eru Illuvatar so loved the world, that he sent several wizards, with mixed but on the whole positive results.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I guess we're bringing effontry back as a concept?
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Spielberg's disclosure day takes us into a world seemingly like our own, but where brutal exploitation of alien technology has allowed Dodge to make good cars
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Matthew @mapoochoo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums
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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 08/06/2026
Let's goooooooo 📕
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Who Would You Have Been in Early Modern Europe? A Typology Quiz — theodramatist
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?
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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
oh my god
bipedal running anhanguera
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Once in a while you gotta get a mid-wander appetizer and spritz
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Much like CS Lewis discovered that the church of England was right about everything, I have figured out that Cully is the best neighborhood.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
United airlines won't let you bring your violin in a gig bag, probably as a deliberate attempt to smother the human spirit
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.
A display of diseased potatoes mounted in the wall, each in a little coffin A diseased potato in its coffin.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
American culture is terribly equipped for this right now, and I can only hope for a fashion in po-faced honesty and rigor
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This would be way more worthwhile if the Portland DSA hadn't recommended that people vote for 120.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Not waving my big foam district 2 finger today
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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
One of MLK/Grand should be a transit corridor and the other should be converted back to two-way traffic. There’s zero reason to have a four-lane urban highway in the central city.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Jay Ungar is a fucking wizard
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Multnomah County Health Department @multcohealth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Gambusia, or #MosquitoFish, keep ornamental ponds and pools from becoming #mosquito breeding sites. #MultnomahCounty residents can get FREE fish from May 15-August 30. Pick up by appointment only at our North Portland office! Call 503-988-3464 or email: vector.nuisance@multco.us to schedule.
Illustration of fish swimming in a pond with mosquito larvae floating under the surface and an adult mosquito flying above the water. Headline: Got mosquito larvae in your pond? Adopt a free mosquito fish. Multnomah county residens can get free mosquito fish from May 15th to August 30th.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
and Rhode Island is famous for you
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
ORParksForever has a scam where you're trying to just buy your NW forest pass, but then they show you absolutely sick hats with patches for OR state parks
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Clackamas town center is an abomination, and it should be rewilded
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Oregon Rail Heritage Center should host bluegrass jams on some of their rides. This is the most pressing issue facing Portland.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
That's how Gimli's beard should look, and it's a red flag if you disagree
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
wheezing
Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender
a little wrinkle for WHCD attendees: anyone who checked a coat is not going to be able to get it back until after the investigation is over, law enforcement tells me. our coats are part of an active crime scene
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The assassination attempt is fake. All physical existence is an illusion. Māyā, as the Hindus call it.
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Man, it's a real motif that the voters can't possibly have wanted (charter reform, ppb oversight, clean energy fund, etc.) that they voted for, so better deliberately fuck things up instead
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Portland should allocate $10M to make the Moda Center worse
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Fran Skafka @keitechnical.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Look at this cool stuffed swan from a Siberian barrow depts.washington.edu/silkroad/mus... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazyryk...
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State Hermitage Museum: Southern Siberia/Pazyryk
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