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Ryan

@ryswoff.bsky.social
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PTFC, the Beavs, and Tottenham Hotspur in no particular order. Enjoyer of trains. Resident of Portland.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One thing about speed cameras: they're mainly a tax on people who DON'T live in your city (and also they boost safety *mostly for residents* by changing those people's behavior). Kind of a win-win-win for local government.
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Senator Khanh Pham @senkhanhpham.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ODOT needs to hear from you - do you want the agency to prioritize investments in safer streets, road maintenance and transit restoration next year? I encourage all Oregonians to take this survey: www.cognitoforms.com/ODOT2/ROTVSurv… #orleg
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Cops. Do. Not. Have. To. Do. Traffic. Enforcement. You can support speed cameras without letting the cops have unfettered access to data! It’s so frustrating to see people conflating speed and red light cameras with giving cops all your data.
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Khanh Pham for Oregon @khanhphamfororegon.com · 12/08/2026
Update from @trimet.org today: Without additional revenue, TriMet's budget deficit will ultimately force the agency to cut in excess of 33% of its total service by 2030 or 2031. This is what a 31% service could look like:
Eliminating 30 of 79 bus lines (38% of bus lines).
Ending weekend service on many bus lines.
Ending service on many bus lines after 9pm.
Shutting down WES Commuter rail system.
MAX frequency goes from 15 mins to 20 mins (3 trains per hour vs 4)
Bus frequent services goes from 15 mins to 17.5 mins.
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Jeremy Peterman𓅪 @jeremypeterman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Six years ago today. You'll never sing that. #RCTID
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David Beffert @dbeffert.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Gift link to Oram’s column. #RCTID www.oregonlive.com/sports/2026/...
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Tom Dundon needs to see Portland at its best. He should start at a Timbers game | Bill Oram
If the new Trail Blazers owner had any interest in understanding the city with which he is at odds, there would have been no better place than Saturday's Timbers game.
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It was a perfect night at the park tonight!
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Clayton @claytonwk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am BEGGING the state of Oregon to realize that funding TriMet helps downtown recovery. It’s not just transit bringing folks to downtown, it’s also the fact that union TriMet employees make decent wages and those dollars get directly put back into small businesses in our city.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
new from me: why oregon needs transit oriented upzoning urbanpdx.blog/why-oregon-n...
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Why Oregon Needs Transit Oriented Upzoning
2025 was a big year for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) on the US West Coast. Washington and California both passed major bills that set statewide standards for zoning around transit stations: * ...
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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Again, Ja Morant was neither arrested nor charged for anything that went down during his time with the Grizzlies. The Oregonian should be ashamed of themselves for this
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Another day of Portland suffering immensely from our entire rail infrastructure relying on one 124 year old piece of infrastructure. Loss of power and stuck train on the Steel Bridge means no MAX trains being able to cross for going on 6 hours now. We desperately need a MAX tunnel
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fun thing I noticed while waiting for the bus: this relatively new build apartment building on Burnside between MLK and Grand has the arcade style sidewalk hangover that’s common on the old buildings further down Burnside when they were still widening it. Fun little design Easter egg
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nominating Fire Burning by Sean Kingston or Fireball by Pitbull
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
They just opened the north escalators at PDX and it is hilarious to see the difference between the bright and open escalator area compared to the old, dark, and still under construction baggage claim area
North escalator at PDX to baggage claimBaggage claim area at PDX
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
More Alaska growth at PDX is always good news news.alaskaair.com/destinations...
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Coming this fall: a new connection between the City of Roses and the Apple Capital of the World - Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air
Alaska Airlines’ newest route will connect two northwest communities with nonstop service this fall between Wenatchee, Washington’s Pangborn Memorial Airport (EAT) and Portland International Airport (...
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The NBA is a corrupt organization, this is legitimately a fucking travesty
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train.

"If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
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Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 16/04/2026
Huge news: Portland City Council Unanimously Advances Resolution to Build More Homes in Inner Eastside. Thanks so, so much to everyone who testified, to all who showed up at our rally, and our champions on the city council. portlandneighborswelcome.org/ie4a-resolut...
Portland City Council Unanimously Advances Resolution to Build More Homes in Inner Eastside
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
MLK BOULEVARD WE ARE LIT THE FUCK UP LFG ZERSSSSSSS
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
portland hasn’t done a sunday parkways in inner northeast or southeast in years because they want to be able to do them in low ridership east and west portland neighborhoods. but we could just do more than five and have them everywhere in the city
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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 13/04/2026
Everyone shed a tear for Steve, who has been forced to suffer the *INDIGNITY* of having a 3-floor apartment building built next door to his home that's tripled in value since he bought it 13 years ago. Just think of the QOL impact! 😭 Steve wrote in opposition, you should write in support.
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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰 @bradleyclover.com · 13/04/2026
Have you not submitted testimony for the Inner Eastside for All resolution? Better do it right now! I strongly suggest you join me in writing them to ask for an amendment to bumb the timeline from summer 2027 up to December of this year. www.portland.gov/council-cler...
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Portland Timbers @timbers.com · 12/04/2026
𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆: PLAYERS IN THIS SECTION MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR ⚠️
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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
After really internalizing this, and seeing the Billions of $$$ proposed to extend the MAX 2 miles into Vancouver (where most buses run 2x/hour) All I can think of is, how many line 70s could we make frequent for that kind of money? Line 71? Line 24?
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Here’s the plan: we convince Damian Lillard to change his name to César E Chavez and claim that the street is named after our beloved Trailblazer and not that OTHER Cesar E Chavez, saving the city at least hundreds of dollars
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Here’s the plan: we rename this overpass the Brooklyn Bridge so we confuse international tourists to visit Portland, providing a major boost to the economy
Nathan Fielder
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I love da bus and da MAX
Sunset over Rose Quarter with the MAXSunset over Rose Quarter with the 44 bus
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Chuck Slothower @chuckslothower.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I canceled my Washington Post subscription after Bezos axed the Kamala Harris endorsement. Not because of Harris, but because it was a watershed moment that showed us the WaPo had gone from being a public trust to Bezos' personal instrument. Everything since then has confirmed as much.
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Will U'ren @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Portland, this could be us but without the tuck-under parking! Fire Marshall's office needs to get its act together.
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It’s a good night for some Hawkey🏒
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Jeremy Peterman𓅪 @jeremypeterman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ICE should be dismantled, all "agents" should be put on trial and jailed, and every member of Congress who voted to keep funding a police force of misfits created to terrorize American communities should be primaried. That's the bare minimum.
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Upon further reflection, we should tear down the Lloyd Center just to spite the magic shop dude in there
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Downtown is so lively today, huge crowd for Tuba Christmas and lots of people out and about!
Large crowd at Pioneer Square for Tuba Christmas
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Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
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Ryan @ryswoff.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It’s awesome seeing football at Providence Park and it was a pretty good crowd! Would be great to see the day that Portland State plays every game here and fields a decent team in the process…
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
A light blue, grinning, bigfoot-style monster with a purple nose, yellow eyes, and pink hands and feet poses, arms outstretched, on a wooden deck.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
can tell trimet is bursting at the seams a bit today but when you need to get 10% of the city to downtown all at once there’s really no one else up to the task ✊
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
When Dems push amendments like this to try to win R votes and get none while being blasted for not compromising, all we do is shift the Overton window to the right. When the caucus approves the bill anyways despite the bad amendments, it shows Rs they can concede nothing and still win.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I was just at 20th and Everett speaking with some people opposed to removing these pedestrian safety measures when I witnessed a car nearly hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Clearly we need more traffic calming, not less! Proud of the community for stepping up.
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enemy of robots @hereticalshrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
this sucks so bad & did not need to happen. really pathetic showing from salem
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Justyn @justynnewman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Man, hate to see this. I ride the Max and bus lines all the time, and it deserves more funding, not less. Without a growing Max service, we'll just see more car congestion, more money sunk into needless car infrastructure, and a worse city experience overall. Can't find parking? Fund the damn trains
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Connor he/they @gayloader.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Hey folks. We should all be OUTRAGED our state legislators did this to us. Time to call and be loud about it
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/07/2025
oregonians, call your state reps and tell them to get back to the statehouse and get their shit together
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The Street Trust @thestreettrust.org · 27/06/2025
THIS IS THE HIGHEST URGENCY - a transportation bill could pass Oregon Legislature today that funds only ODOT - no safety, no transit, no cities and counties. Last minute hearing at 3:45 today, please sign up to OPPOSE. olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/M...
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HB3402 2025 Regular Session - Oregon Legislative Information System
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