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Barry Parr

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Entitled pedestrian. Co-creator of MercuryNews.com, VP at News.com. Blogged at Coastsider and Mediasavvy. Ex-Dow Jones, Forrester Research. #PDX #Portland

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Barry Parr @parr.org · 2h
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at anything.
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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 7h
A building permit is under review for an office-to-residential conversion on levels 2-4 of the Slate building in the Central Eastside www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi...
SLATE OFFICE CONVERSION - PARTIAL CHANGE OF OCCUPANCY - Convert existing office space on Levels 2-4 to 42 new residential units; convert shell space in SW corner to tenant amenity space; existing ground floor retail spaces and existing residential units on Levels 5-10 to remain as is; work in basement and on roof limited to mechanical, plumbing, and electrical system and equipment upgrades; no changes to exterior facade *** w/26-069420-MT ***
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 10h
I unfortunately can not help but recall how much vitriol and bile Uncommitted received and note how little of the same is being dished out for those who clearly want Abdul El Sayed to lose— including this Democratic state representative
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Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed
Noah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ...
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 28/09/2026
Lanterns is the second season that True Detective should have had.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 28/09/2026
He’s going to jump this shark. bsky.app/profile/nigh...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mayor Wilson should probably concern himself more with fulfilling his campaign promise to end unsheltered homelessness in a year (guess we’re getting close to the 2 year mark, imagine if I’d made such a promise!) than disparaging councilors who are undoubtedly returning to office. Just a thought!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Portland is on Amazon’s target list for drone delivery. This would be a noise pollution disaster, horrific for our birds, and just another way this megacorp seeks to infect our lives. It’s a hell no from me. (🎁🔗) www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...
oregonlive.com
Amazon's drone delivery program is headed to Portland
The company plans to launch the program in 500 cities across the country by the end of the year.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 23/09/2026
I can't believe someone hasn't done this with ICE agents. www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
404media.co
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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ProfMasseyGO @profmasseygo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Portland Police Chief Bob Day should resign for breaking the law.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 21/09/2026
Big news: Oregon Attorney General capitulates to Ellison family and tries to sell it as a win for consumers
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you want an example, here. The major corporations are already training their AI to engage in corporate espionage and subterfuge. And yet, Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, gets to hide behind the “rogue AI” bullshit and avoid consequences.
Guardian story with edit: Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies with says its Gemini AI model crossed out
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
my husband just looked up from his phone and said, the daily mail is mad about some portland city councilor who tweeted about hating cops. and i said, that rocks, how can i support him? luckily mitch’s haters put up a billboard with a link where you can do just that!
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OpenAI employees circumvented paywalls to scrape training data from sites like NYT, per un-redacted court docs. An alleged violation of JSTOR's terms of service set federal prosecutors on Aaron Swartz, even though the parties had already settled. Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann disregarded that.
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Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future
The inaugural class of the YCombinator venture capital/startup accelerator was photographed in 2005. YCombinator provides seed money and advice to promising startups in exchange for a percentage of eq...
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 19/09/2026
Hegseth: i’m worried about the semen Sec Nav: Yes, sir, they’ve been deployed at the Strait for a long time H: No, dammit, the Army’s semen SN: the Army doesn’t have seamen H: Exactly!
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Lïså Lōvê🪶 @lisalove420.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you to the Mercury editorial board (Wm. Steven Humphrey, Courtney Vaughn, Taylor Griggs, Jeremiah Hayden, and Katherine Chew Hamilton) for laying it all out so concisely. Well done.
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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is crazy. The report predicts that by 2030 datacenters will use 40% of Oregon's electricity.
The report predicts that by 2030 datacenters will use 40% of Oregon's electricity. Line chart showing a steady increase
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 14/09/2026
“So now it’s a crime to have friends?”
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 13/09/2026
In the bunker beneath the ballroom, the reanimated corpse of Albert Spear signs off on blueprints
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is exactly why @councilortkl.bsky.social and I are bringing our resolution seeking to ban NDAs for data center development and initiate a moratorium next week. We need a moratorium now.
oregonlive.com
Portland data center planned inside five stories of high-rise, records show
Plans to convert part of a Portland office tower into data center space come as gubernatorial candidates call for a ban.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don’t buy the lie about a war on cars. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking
Same text message as in the post, on a new poster from the Urban Truth Collective. Background image is a massive wide freeway, splitting neighbourhoods and filled with cars. #CarDependency #Traffic #Congestion
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026
The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 10/09/2026
“In this diner in the swill producing region of the San Fernando Valley, the conversation among the regulars turns to how the Democrats are always talking about how great Hamas is.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Realizing that Trump is someone bad people can look up to. See themselves. Like a kind of representation, visibility.
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dreww @dreww.gg · 09/09/2026
a friend cooked up a dashboard to track go portland go's donors: whoisgopdxgo.org
whoisgopdxgo.org
Go Portland Go — Campaign Finance Tracker
Who funds the Go Portland Go political committee, and where the money goes. Built from Oregon Secretary of State ORESTAR filings.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 09/09/2026
We gave your contact info to our junkie friend. We think he wants to scam you.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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amb @amb.fyi · 08/09/2026
mitch being an impressively witty online brian poisoned poaster is proof that charter reform has increased pure representation in city politics, at least for me, personally
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 06/09/2026
None of these people figured out that Starship Troopers was satire
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Bryan from Stumptown Savings @bryanmvance.com · 06/09/2026
Cascadia Cast Iron has a perfect 5-star rating on Google! Do you have an old cast iron or carbon steel pan, skillet, Griddle, Dutch oven, etc. that has seen better days? Let me bring it back to life for you! maps.app.goo.gl/FeDSg1mRxEda...
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Bryan from Stumptown Savings @bryanmvance.com · 04/09/2026
We've now added 18 new members by my count, meaning we're only 81 away from reaching out goal. If you value the work I do with Stumptown Savings, become a member today! It's just $8/month, $80/year and helps provide my reporting and resources to the thousands of Portlanders who depend on it.
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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 04/09/2026
The Portland Business Alliance, in the guise of Downtown Clean & Safe, has employed hawks to haze the natural crows of the city’s downtown — no doubt at below-market rates. Surprising no one, in their intolerance for uncontrolled life, they’ve gone all-in for the artificial kind
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cassandra Wilson has left us, at only 70. How tragic. www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...
wbgo.org
WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson
WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight.
theguardian.com
Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/08/2026
Here is what the Israeli-occupied West Bank, not including a detailed look at occupied East Jerusalem, actually looks like in 2026. The International Court of Justice ruled in July 2024 that Israel’s nearly 60-year military occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza was illegal.
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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 31/08/2026
Let's talk about accountability and transparency regarding Zenith and ISQ. I Squared Capital (ISQ) is worth about $66B. It takes 15 different entities to run this bullshit... shell games.
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Marc Poris @marcporis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Court Appointed Monitor in US v. City of Portland is interested in "your perspective on the Portland Police Bureau's community engagement" - link to their survey is here. portlandpolicemonitor.com
Email with subject: Survey Deadline Extended to September 7 – Portland Community Engagement Survey

Email body:

Portland Community Members,

We are writing with an update that the closing date for the Independent Court-Appointed Monitor’s community survey, “Perceptions of PPB’s Community Engagement,” has been extended to Monday, September 7, 2026.

As part of our responsibility to assess the City of Portland’s compliance with the Settlement Agreement on policing, the Monitor is evaluating whether the Agreement has helped create robust systems of community engagement between the public, the City, and the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). Hearing from a broad cross-section of Portland’s diverse community is critical to this work.

If you have not yet participated, we encourage you to complete the by Monday, September 7, 2026.

If you have already completed the survey, thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. We also welcome your help in sharing the survey with others throughout the Portland community.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your participation and support.

Independent Court Appointed Monitor
Settlement Agreement on Policing in Portland
(503) 451-0289
info@portlandpolicemonitor.com
portlandpolicemonitor.com
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 30/08/2026
Because we live here
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 29/08/2026
Regional manager in a large organization “goes a little silly in the head” and his team has to be recalled.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My idea to help w speeding: A city-sponsored “neighborhood pace car” program where volunteers get a placard/signage on car saying, “I’m going the speed limit. Are you?” Or just do it w city fleet vehicles. We just need to normalize going slow and folks will chill.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
The Simpsons in a Brady Bunch style matrix
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
okay i’ll bite: who is hasan piker?
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