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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 5h

Amid a media firestorm around since-deleted tweets that were critical of police, Portland City Councilor Mitch Green has seen a fundraising boom. The spike in donations combined with community responses supporting Green may signify a continuing rift between PPB and Portlanders.

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Portland City Councilor’s Donations Skyrocketed After Old Tweets Resurfaced

Mitch Green raised thousands of dollars following articles about his 2020 and 2021 tweets that were critical of police

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Monks of New Skeet @amagire.bsky.social · 6h

grazing animals' eyeballs rotate when they lower their heads to keep their pupils aligned with the horizon. you know this now. you're welcome

a sheep with its head up and with its head lowered to graze, showing the freaky eyeball thing

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 8h

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 6h

On one hand I have been banging the drum that letting LLM’s be called “artificial intelligence” by the marketers was a bad idea for literal years. On the other hand this is somehow actually worse

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 9h

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 10h

I’m reading the depression-era diary from a highschooler in North Dakota and it’s making me emotional

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 11h

next week i am going to the undertale symphony and i forgot that when i bought it i got really fancy seats :>

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13h

If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.

The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way

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cyrus @professorbutts.com · 22/12/2024

welcome to the cocktagon

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chaff @earthlikeplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whole Foods knows about the Four Waters that are combined in a specific order to create normal water but they won't tell you them

Bathroom sink area where one can see three pipes coming out of three adjacent places on the wall which combine left plus center and right plus center and then all three again into one and then up through a weird larger tube section and then up and then down again to combine with flow from a fourth pipe coming out of a different place in the wall and then into a white plastic shrouded pipe section(?) and then up into/under the sink. Hot water has its own separate pipe from the wall. Ok

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh. i genuinely thought i did bad on this lmfao but it turns out i'm the world's greatest braine geniouse........

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WX Alert Mashup @wx-mashup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORTLAND, OREGON has issued a REGIONAL POWERPOINT NOW ON LASERDISC until 4:25 PM... #WXsky

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I bought something on eBay and it shipped from less than 7 miles away and like. man. I paid $10 shipping for this lol

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did not have Harold and the Purple Crayon as a kid and I just read it to Isaac for the first time. Is Harold some kind of god, living in an empty void, alone but for his creations

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have absolutely no no idea what “choosing Texas” is or means or why everyone is talking about it, and I intend to keep it that way

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jug-hooting yokel @limusrex.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

the rest of my life is gonna be every month or 2 getting a text or pm like "hey i saw your old tweet on ____ and it had a bunch of updoots and imbeciles arguing in the comments"

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PLANT KNOWERS: help!!! Why is my fiddle leaf fig so unhappy?? This thing is nine years old, I haven’t done anything new with how I’m taking care of it, but it’s suddenly started shedding leaves like crazy. All of these leaves are from ONE DAY :(

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Léo Chérel @cherelleo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Don't mind me, I just found a good excuse to repost my Majora's Mask saga with the new 10 photos feature.

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

⚠️ This user is physically harmed by podracer ass names. Please do not type Kai Ryssdal.

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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“He needs to be eating worms” is maybe the funniest quote the Times has ever published.

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

force PPB to de-encrypt their radio, the public has a right to know if there's an active shooter without trying to piece it together from wildfire surveillance apps and rumors on nextdoor

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

baseball is parryslop

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

god forbid a woman have hobbies

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

the thing about the pokemon scalper discord posts is they are very funny but they’re not unique. that is how the vast majority of investors, landlords, business owners think. obviously you can find exceptions but that is simply your brain on capitalism

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September, but I lost my 45 adapter

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

isaac's neurological exam came back normal which is great news. means he's just floppy. he's just Like That

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

you left out the fifth scenario

President Donald Trump died when he hit a golf ball at a tree and it bounced back and bonked him in the nuts and then the tree fell and squashed him flat and his body hat to be peeled off the fairway

Positive 95%
Negative 7%
Net sentiment +88%

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 19/09/2026

I hate when I’m hit with a weapon or elemental damage type that corresponds to my weakness

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spent like 40 minutes on the plane yesterday organizing all of my like 7 pages of apps down into 1.5 pages of folders and while things are much more organized now I also have to relearn all my muscle memory

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ana from situations @wr0ngdoll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is what it feels like going through your bookmarks and seeing 'this post has been deleted'

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolutely infuriates me how many people park and wait at the arrivals section of PDX directly in front of the big “NO PARKING NO WAITING” signs. If you don’t see your person, go around!!!!!

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i see you baby on board bumper stickers and raise you this

bumper sticker DO NOT HIT ME I'M TRANSPORTING SOUP IN OPEN CONTAINERS with a pic of soup in a bowl

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Opening bluesky in a plane is a real gamble I tell you what lmao

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