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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's very funny to me how NIMBY the Pearl is when this whole neighborhood didn't exist in 2000. If the Pearl NIMBYs were here back then and got their way, the Pearl wouldn't exist.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cry more NIMBYs. We will build housing for people who want to live in Portland, and there’s nothing you can do about it. www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2026...

oregonlive.com

Readers respond: Prevent inner eastside rezoning

Letters to the Editor can be submitted to letters@oregonian.com with full name and place of residence.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ignoring that this story isn’t even newsworthy, it’s very funny that every reaction I’ve seen to this story is agreeing with his old tweets. Even on the Portland subreddit, which is very much not an ACAB/progressive place, the reaction is basically “and he was right to say it.”

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Very happy to report that the extra lane ODOT added to 217 has fixed traffic

Photo of OR Highway 217 with traffic moving at about 10 mph

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Felt like the star of the show with how many videos and photos I’m gonna be in

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A lot of y’all were out today catching that one last ride on the full green line

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bus enjoyer @intersections.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Good to see TriMet mobilizing and educating riders about where the blame lies for these upcoming service cuts. “Funding TriMet should be a top funding priority for our region.”

From an email trimet sent riders today: Decision-makers are asking Oregonians to share how they think transportation dollars should be spent in the future. TriMet relies on state funding, and your feedback could help preserve our service for generations to come.

Now is the time to speak up. Tell them Oregon needs reliable public transit.

Take the survey

Here's some suggested copy for the blank survey portion:
Funding TriMet should be a top funding priority for our region. TriMet is essential infrastructure that connects people to jobs, school, health care, local businesses, community services and each other. For me, maintaining and investing in a strong public transit system is the #1 priority.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I understand historical preservation, but sometimes you have to accept that a building is past its time and will never be useful in the modern day. Centennial Mills was never going to be useful again, and so it sat for 20+ years, wasting space on the city’s waterfront, until it burned down.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So we wasted 20 years twiddling our thumbs wondering how to preserve an abandoned warehouse only for it to burn down.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

To be clear, there was no way the Subprime Loan Guy wasn’t gonna be an insufferable asshole.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

You mean to tell me the predatory loan guy is trying to scam us and probably still move the team even if we give him the money? Wow, that’s so uncharacteristic for that kind of guy!

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh you can actually smell it outside. That’s great.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Me when I’m done operating the MAX and I go home to play Train Sim

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courtesy appreciation account @lacroixshotgun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

periodic reminder that portland has the coolest flag and all other cities are inferior

flag of portland oregon. green background with yellow and blue stripes that form a kind of offset danish cross that has a weird little rounded diamond at the center point. confluence of the willamette and the columbia or some shit. anyway it rules

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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A denial of the master plan won’t prevent the Lloyd Center from closing, but it would delay plans for the center’s redevelopment

Finally, we want to make sure everyone is aware that there is no other plan. There is one Lloyd Center Master plan, and City Council can choose on Wednesday if they want to approve or deny it. If opponents of the redevelopment are successful, they will put the entire project in danger and the most likely outcome is that the mall closes with no plans for redevelopment at all.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

All the way up in Brush Prairie, really? They really said “come to our transit union picnic. No, you can’t take transit there.”

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They are, in a way! The signals are linked so that they cascade to the next platform for us once we leave. They’re also timed, on the mall at least, so that we land at the platform and have a full light cycle, or one minute, to service the platform.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Fun fact! If the MAX misses a signal in center city, it’ll usually take two light cycles for the train to get another signal. Each light cycle is almost exactly one minute, so that’s a two minute delay if a train misses a signal. This is why you shouldn’t hold the doors on a train.

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Saad Asad @realsaadasad.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

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Phoebe ↙↙↙ @pcberry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

they call it Greater Idaho because rn Idaho kinda sucks so adding eastern Oregon would improve it a lot

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“Downtown” vs “Central City” is a very important distinction

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I like the planters. We should do this with more bike lanes.

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Clayton @claytonwk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

From JT Flowers (Albina Vision Trust, TriMet board member) Instagram: He’s proposing to extend service cuts to August 2027 and a bunch of other good stuff!

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

First time I see a Waymo in Portland and it’s driving around a traffic filter on Flanders.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Another contingency should be that they don’t block the MAX from getting across Interstate and into Rose Quarter. Every time a game lets out the SB lanes of Interstate back up and cars end up blocking the tracks.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had the luck to be at Gateway when 124 came rolling through post-event. It was really cool to see it with all of the signatures on it.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I was right. All remaining Type 1s are tagged as ready for decommissioning. The event last Saturday really was the last time any of us would see a Type 1 on the mainline.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Buying property in Happy Valley-opoly and they’re all called The Residences at Shitty Stroad and Generic Strip Mall #57

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I wish I had kept track of the last time I operated one. They’re miserable pieces of junk to operate but part of me will still miss them.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Yep, from my estimation that’s about how much land the Lloyd Center and its parking takes up. Just looking at a satellite view shows that the main mall/parking is 6x3 city blocks. Add the bend 15th/16th does on the southeast corner and you get just under 20 blocks.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The suburbs are right there if you hate apartments so much. I’m sure you’ll be much happier living in the McMansions at Shitty Stroad in Happy Valley. Make room for those of us who actually want to live in a city.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Nobody forced these people to live in the principal city of a large metro area. They chose to live in the city, and then start complaining any time city things happen near them.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

These exact homeowners, in the same breath, will also complain about homelessness to no end.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Watching some of the testimonies from the IE4A council meeting and it’s amazing how many homeowners turn into complete crybabies when there’s a chance they might have to see *shudders* apartments in their neighborhood.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Don’t get me wrong, I have good memories of Lloyd, and I will miss what it once was, but its time has come. The mall was never going to recover to what it once was. Even if it could’ve, a mall is a terrible use for 20-ish blocks of city center real estate.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The average suburban subdivision HOA probably oversees more residences than Maywood Park’s city government does.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ignoring most of the article to say that it’s so funny that Maywood Park is an actual city with an actual mayor. The place is literally smaller than most neighborhoods in Portland.

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Bolshetrick @bolshetrick.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Crazy what Fred Durst from limp bizkit is looking like these days.

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Without getting into detail, I think the type 1s are done at this point. If you like them, I’d definitely go to the event next Saturday. I’m guessing that’ll be the last time we see one outside of the yard.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

unironically yes. the bargain hunters and bottom feeders stepping in to make investments in downtown are exactly what we need to shake up the stagnant status quo

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Now that you say it, yeah, that should’ve been obvious to me

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Regular Shadow @shadowneedshelp.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’m beginning to wonder what exactly his plan is

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