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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I prefer to take everyone at their word, to believe they are who they say they are and don’t have a secret, inner, “higher” self awaiting guidance. If someone reveals themself as my enemy I don’t try to convince them that they’re not. I work to undermine their ability to act from that position.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Portlanders, you’ve noticed the local rich shitheads dumping tons of money into our elections? Sometimes it’s because they expect their “pro-business” “law-and-order” candidates to look the other way when the do fraud and corruption and when they do crimes. theintercept.com/2026/09/23/d...

theintercept.com

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.

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Parchmentscrollinensinainciusol @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scalpers calling themselves "Small Business Owners" is fucking sickening.

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Island Press @islandpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

E-bikes give low-vision, disabled, and non-driving people the freedom cars can't. But new laws are cropping up requiring a driver's license to ride an e-bike. Anna Zivarts, author of When Driving Is Not an Option, on the importance of accessible e-mobility: buff.ly/wqd0lMf @nondriver.bsky.social

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency by Anna Zivarts. Foreword by Dani Simons. Island Press.

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unlawful whatever 🐝 @inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Portland heads up 📢 Happening now 9/20 1:25 pm 2512 NE Broadway, Portland, OR Right-wing agitators have shown up at the sports bra hours before their planned 4:00 protest and are "protesting" the bar without opposition

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here’s the full quote I provided on Friday, not Saturday, which is falsely reported in the article for some reason. Not sure why they omitted to print the second part.

"I'm not surprised the Metro Chamber is targeting me, because my office is uniquely equipped to defend popular programs like Preschool for All from their attacks and has been very successful at it. I was wondering if this PAC would ever come into campaign finance compliance or properly register the websites they post on their billboards"

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No More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 19/09/2026

Don't want to spend your life stuck in traffic congestion? Turns out, the best way to prevent traffic congestion is to stop building billions of dollars of miles of freeway and instead invest in transit.

This matters because this is an important lesson, a potential teachable moment for all of us, about how the transportation system works. Expanding highways in urban areas results in what is called “induced travel”–the greater supply of road capacity prompts people to take more and longer trips than they would otherwise. That’s why widening roads to solve congestion never works–roads, no matter how wide, fill up and become congested, like Houston’s 23-lane wide Katy Freeway which actually is slower after its most recent expansion than it was before. This is what economists now call the “fundamental law of road congestion.” And this fundamental law also works in reverse: take away some of the capacity, and as everyone of these supposed Carmaggedon’s shows, traffic evaporates. Once we understand that traffic responds to supply, we can recognize we can limit traffic by not building so much capacity.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

for an unmistakable example of the constraints on anarchists: the fascist government recently declared an italian anarchist collective "terrorists" and successfully tore down thousands of newsletters, blogs, & zines that did everything from organizing diy hrt networks to tracking surveillance >

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Small donations matter! I’m about 300 new Portland donors away from reaching the 3rd tier of Small Donor Elections which allows me to unlock more matching funds. Even $5-10 is huge! Thanks to everyone who has supported and shared our donation links 💙 secure.actblue.com/donate/angel...

secure.actblue.com

Donate to Angelita Morillo for Portland City Council in District 3!

Help give Portland the progressive leadership we deserve!

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi! I was the hacker culture and cybercrime consultant for this fantastic game, and I was *just* thinking the same thing. I answered a LOT of questions about predictive policing on the press junket. We made a great game that saw all of this coming and made it feel good to fight back.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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VeeEhn @veeehn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Around 25% of the electricity in Oregon goes directly to data centers

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VeeEhn @veeehn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These are my favorite PDX garbage trucks. DOUBLE YOUR GARBAGE BACK!

A garbage truck with "satisfaction guaranteed or double your garbage back," painted on the back.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

lathe of heaven are real ones (literally) www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...

“I just listened to the song. It’s appalling. The fact that you were able to do that is insane,” Allison, Lather of Heaven’s vocalist, told me. “The only thing smaller musicians like us have at the end of the day is recognition for the results of our work — being able to enjoy the process of creating something and putting it out into the world knowing it is distinctly a product of our own hands is essentially one of the last driving forces behind making music. It’s hard enough putting this much time and effort into the band as it is. All the members of LoH essentially tailor our lifestyles around having the time to tour, write records and record. And we do it knowing we will likely not see much money in return. The fact that someone could ruin our reputation by dropping this cringe garbage under our name is insanely disheartening and speaks volumes about distribution and streaming services that allow this to happen.”

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emeritrix @emeritrix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Portland Police have killed 18 people since 2020, which would be pretty monstrous if you or I did it. www.portland.gov/police/open-...

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Deadly Force Incidents and In-Custody Deaths Summaries

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VeeEhn @veeehn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Believing an LLM has thoughts is equivalent to believing this power outlet is experiencing emotion.

A U.S. style power outlet that could be described as having a shocked facial expression.

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amb @amb.fyi · 16/09/2026

summer 2020 the cops beat up my 64 year old dad walking away from a protest wearing a "friends of trees" hoodie. all this to say i personally have trouble getting worked up over questions of appropriate social media decorum from private citizens contemporaneously responding to cop brutality

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snuffbait mahjong @incognitosystem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

libs react like this to a single overexaggerated post threatening a group of people not under attack by any governmental branch but expect trans people to take very real threats against their livelihood every single day and not complain about it you're all beyond parody

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VeeEhn @veeehn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm a slow reader nowadays, so I'm only halfway through Ruiner. It's shaping up to be a favorite book. If you'd be interested in an indigenous led fight against extractivist greed and destruction in a world where storytelling is combat magic, check this book out!

A hand holds the book, "Ruiner," by Lara Meddersmith-Glavin. The cover is mainly darker colors, but the top left shows a golden colored hare with wings leaping across the cover.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

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joanna @nutsandgum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How moms go MAHA is the real question here, because if you know how they go MAHA you know how to deal with them. And it isn’t because doctors talked down to them. It’s the same reasons anyone gets into conspiracy theories: boredom, aimlessness, arrogance, prejudice

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

synecdochic.dreamwidth.org

Captcha Check

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 02/09/2026

NEW single up on bandcamp + youtube today. hits streamers on friday. recorded+mixed by @isobel.bsky.social thank you for your attention to this matter faithvoid.bandcamp.com

the angel lilith from evangelion but they've got a little mortarboard. congratulations lilith!

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't disagree exactly but I think the most important function of No Kings ultimately was to test the waters on Trumpian political speech suppression in large enough numbers to show the limits of their power and demonstrate that protest was still possible.

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amb @amb.fyi · 28/08/2026

Pretty disappointed to see a handful of notable Portland restaurants lend their name to the latest “Portland business chamber in sheep’s clothing” PAC. props for how breathlessly they repeat the word “progressive” in their rhetoric to justify their plan of tax cuts and more cops www.goportlandgo.org

goportlandgo.org

Go Portland Go! | Pragmatic Progressive Leadership for Portland, OR

We're building a grassroots coalition to elect pragmatic Portland leaders who pair compassion with accountability. Join us to make Portland work again.

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the conceit here is to pass off basically a Municipal Reagonomics sentiment as pragmatism. progressive pragmatism even! why i just openly identify as a democratic socialist, bc it’s important to be clear about what your program is. this shit is a tax cut for the rich and privatization program

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VeeEhn @veeehn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I just saw Coyote vs. Acme and it was really good. So many people laughing in the theater. See it with a crowd, it's fun!

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Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me · 27/08/2026

sharing for, oh, no reason.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

holy fuck i’m so glad i moved back to portland and near physical anarchist infrastructure again before the noblogs sanctions. my heart goes out to all the anarchists for whom this critical infrastructure is one of their only points of contact/means of access to the milieu. we must fight this.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I will say with love, if you cannot imagine people repurposing a mean robot nickname to dehumanize disabled people, it says more about the limits of your imagination than about what actual reality might be manifesting.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Words completely fail me when addressing the potential loss to the anarchist movement of -- as the US names it -- 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs. This must be fought aggressively and immediately.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc). This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State

Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...

Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.

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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

new gender-neutral greeting dropped

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VeeEhn @veeehn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is extremely conCERNing

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Portland Bureau of Transportation @pbotinfo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ALERT: The Blumenauer Bridge is CLOSED after a person drove a car on to the bridge and damaged fencing on the bridge. We plan to open the bridge later today, however, morning commutes may be impacted.

Road closed signs and barricades at the entrance to the Blumenauer Bridge.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I mean... the United States is what the United States does. Fuck tankies, but also the United States is actually a nation state and let's be real about what that nation state does and how it was and continues to be constructed.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

last day before trimet’s service cuts take place. it’s a good time to try to get organized, and one opportunity is to come mourn these service cuts with bus riders unite tomorrow afternoon at terry schrunk plaza at 1:00pm

In Loving Memory
TRIMET TRANSIT SYSTEM
Wear somber colors as we mourn the cuts, impacting 33 bus lines & the Green MAX.
- Sunday August 23rd, 1:00 PM
Terry Schrunk Plaza, corner of SW 3rd & Madison

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hard not to see the many articles—which center the immense human tragedy of these cuts, but never quite manage to name the electeds responsible—as intentional

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2026

every single person pushing this angle is intellectually bankrupt. The data centers being built today are for NOTHING other than AI compute, and are much, much larger and more destructive. If none of them got built, services like online banking, social media and streaming would continue to function.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The vision of Strange New Worlds is "What if there were 7 - 9 characters you enjoyed spending time with each week?" and it's a great vision.

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