Reposted by Barry Parriain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 7hA 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... 5404
Reposted by Barry Parr#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 10hI 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 representativejewishinsider.comRising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-SayedNoah 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 ... 211007213
Barry Parr @parr.org · 28/09/2026Lanterns is the second season that True Detective should have had. 000
Reposted by Barry ParrCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four 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/3VSWaycnyti.msDid 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. 892115864
Reposted by Barry Parrpnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mayor 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! 916324
Reposted by Barry ParrDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026Class solidarity.hollywoodreporter.comThe 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. 642162612
Reposted by Barry ParrMadison Moskowitz @moskwtz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Portland 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.comAmazon's drone delivery program is headed to PortlandThe company plans to launch the program in 500 cities across the country by the end of the year. 64317
Reposted by Barry ParrWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The 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. 42103174379
Barry Parr @parr.org · 23/09/2026I 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 EmployeesA sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses. 000
Reposted by Barry ParrProfMasseyGO @profmasseygo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Portland Police Chief Bob Day should resign for breaking the law. 042
Reposted by Barry ParrMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is not great 61972721984
Reposted by Barry ParrBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I 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. 652609904
Barry Parr @parr.org · 21/09/2026Big news: Oregon Attorney General capitulates to Ellison family and tries to sell it as a win for consumers 010
Reposted by Barry ParrJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If 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. 8341115
Reposted by Barry Parrmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026my 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! 18824114
Reposted by Barry ParrDavid Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026OpenAI 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.flaminghydra.comSam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the FutureThe 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... 116349
Barry Parr @parr.org · 19/09/2026Hegseth: 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! 022
Reposted by Barry ParrLïså Lōvê🪶 @lisalove420.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thank 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. 032
Reposted by Barry ParrLeft Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is crazy. The report predicts that by 2030 datacenters will use 40% of Oregon's electricity. 12513
Barry Parr @parr.org · 13/09/2026In the bunker beneath the ballroom, the reanimated corpse of Albert Spear signs off on blueprints 000
Reposted by Barry ParrMitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This 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.comPortland data center planned inside five stories of high-rise, records showPlans to convert part of a Portland office tower into data center space come as gubernatorial candidates call for a ban. 714743
Reposted by Barry ParrUrban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Don’t buy the lie about a war on cars. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking 6429133
Reposted by Barry ParrHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026The 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. 192192710
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.” 010
Reposted by Barry ParrJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Realizing that Trump is someone bad people can look up to. See themselves. Like a kind of representation, visibility. 3844246
Reposted by Barry Parrdreww @dreww.gg · 09/09/2026a friend cooked up a dashboard to track go portland go's donors: whoisgopdxgo.orgwhoisgopdxgo.orgGo Portland Go — Campaign Finance TrackerWho funds the Go Portland Go political committee, and where the money goes. Built from Oregon Secretary of State ORESTAR filings. 22810
Barry Parr @parr.org · 09/09/2026We gave your contact info to our junkie friend. We think he wants to scam you. 021
Reposted by Barry ParrBerin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel 398208424803
Reposted by Barry Parramb @amb.fyi · 08/09/2026mitch 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 1242
Barry Parr @parr.org · 06/09/2026None of these people figured out that Starship Troopers was satire 000
Reposted by Barry Parr𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com 521190785423
Reposted by Barry ParrBryan from Stumptown Savings @bryanmvance.com · 06/09/2026Cascadia 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...maps.app.goo.gl 001
Reposted by Barry ParrBryan from Stumptown Savings @bryanmvance.com · 04/09/2026We'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. 002
Reposted by Barry ParrJustin @justinskolnick.com · 04/09/2026The 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 001
Reposted by Barry ParrSiddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Cassandra Wilson has left us, at only 70. How tragic. www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...wbgo.orgWBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra WilsonWBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson 28336
Reposted by Barry ParrMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight.theguardian.comTrump’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 27512319
Reposted by Barry Parr#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/08/2026Here 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. 13973430
Reposted by Barry ParrKat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 31/08/2026Let'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. 44824
Reposted by Barry ParrMarc Poris @marcporis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The 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 11817
Barry Parr @parr.org · 29/08/2026Regional manager in a large organization “goes a little silly in the head” and his team has to be recalled. 010
Reposted by Barry ParrTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live 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 6277282026
Reposted by Barry ParrJonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My 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. 4417
Barry Parr @parr.org · 27/08/2026Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express. 000
Reposted by Barry Parrlowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026okay i’ll bite: who is hasan piker? 010812