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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trying to find some basic woodworking plans for a sawhorse, and the first thing this mfer does in the video is pull out two sawhorses to set his lumber on and start measuring

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Portland Marathon is on October 4th, and I'm once again putting out my yearly request to @pbotinfo.bsky.social to make the on-street parking removals permanent and actually build infrastructure for the humans that live in the neighborhood as opposed to a few dozen parking spots for cars

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please someone help ID this thrush, it’s tearing my family apart

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Carmageddon this carmageddon that, dude @pbotinfo.bsky.social can’t even keep these elevators working for more than a few months Woman in a mobility scooter was stuck up top, turning around, because no one has the brain cells to put together and put a warning sign on the other side BEFORE you go up

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They don’t like to tell guests this, but you can just take a painting from The Louvre if you ask nicely

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In January 2022, I created this website to browse Google’s Emoji Kitchen collection. I often found myself wanting access to the feature, but without an Android phone, there were no other real options* Today it gets a few million search impressions a month and sees constant activity around the world

emojikitchen.dev

Emoji Kitchen - Browse Google's unique emoji combinations

Unique illustrations of combined emoji, cooked up in Google's Emoji Kitchen, and comprehensively available on the web

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ending a week in Vienna, and of course wanted to post briefly about the urban fabric I observed Unfortunately, due to something called “work events” I didn’t get as much into the quieter corners as I’d liked I stayed near the intersection of three subway lines, multiple streetcars, and more buses

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You’re laughing? I told you I just saw some great tits while birding, and you’re laughing.

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Cowcatchers on the front of every streetcar

Advisory
GRÜNGASSE.
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Service gaps
Last updated: 08/31/2026, 6:06 PM
Due to inconsiderate parking, line 49 is experiencing service gaps. https:// www.wienerlinien.at

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Of course, I got a camera setup streaming a live feed of the fountain on the local network, setup a computer to display this out of its composite output, and now I can watch birds on the CRT TV while listening to All Classical Radio

A CRT TV showing the bird bath and a junco that was drinking water

A stack of hardware powering our home A/V setup. Includes a 4-way composite switcher, audio control center to switch between vinyl, CD/DVD, AM, FM, and a 5-disc CD/DVD changer

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The year is 2045. PBOT just finished their seventh public outreach survey about painting sharrows to a residential street that’s been in the works since 1995. I get hit while biking across a high-crash intersection. My insurance claim is denied because of a Bluesky post I made two decades ago.

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Even people running Guardians of the Rift in OSRS are saying RIP Dolly Parton 💔

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Vote for me for mayor and I’ll personally rip out every single one of these and replace them with daylit raised intersections and up zone every adjacent lot for denser housing

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Greenway intersections that have no priority bike/ped crossings have an amazing feature when a dozen+ cars use it as a cut through they just clog up the whole block waiting for cross traffic to let them out Shout out to SE Salmon and 30th, I love your pedestrian flags and missing concrete planters

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is the kind of good morning text I like to see

Text message that reads:

I road my bike to and from Revolution Hall, you would have been so proud

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Immediately posting on Nextdoor asking if anyone just heard that loud boom

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Scammer on Telegram asking if they “just saw me at the coffee shop downstairs” assumes my neighborhood has way better zoning and land use than we actually do

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nature’s water leak indicator

The water main seems to be leaking and the grass around it is the only green grass

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I just need to fill out this one survey and ODOT will finally listen. Just one more PBOT outreach session. Maybe this time things will change. This neighborhood engagement meeting will finally be the one.

Sisyphus rolling a boulder up an ouroboros

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you drive I5 anywhere near Portland, you’re gonna want to hear this 👇

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Checking in safe from being shot while biking through 4th and Market on my way to see the crow outside city hall

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What the hell is going on with the price of floss recently. Someone needs to investigate this further.

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wonder what ever became of this

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Achievement unlocked: no longer have to hump the door full force to get it to shut anymore

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This happening on the same day I get a mailer from TriMet about my reduced bus service is… 😚👌

A mailer from TriMet that my bus line is being impacted

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Unlocked the binoculars and then just spent the next five hours birding. 10/10

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"when the wife's away, you know what that means" i say to myself as i put in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 into the CD player and crank the volume wayyyyy up

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Trying to figure out how to get to a friends house without driving, and thinking I could probably find time to make a bike ride work, but the bike route looks like this

17 min by car, 1h6m by bus, 2h44m by foot, 1h7m by bike

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

out here carving [mine] <3 [my wife's initials] into wet cement at every opportunity i get

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Brooklyn Neighborhood mentioned but it’s because the city stole our waterslide

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I didn’t realize Dennis’ 7 Dees does landscaping

A bunch of trees and shrubs shaped like a duck and balls against a building

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

They have better modal filters in Wildwood than we do on neighborhood greenways

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Finally got around to replacing our bike rack, and this time I’ve rigged it to explode

Underneath our porch, where our bike rack is mounted. There is an alarm wired through the middle now

Our new bike rack. This time it’s square to prevent pipe cutter attacks

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If I say I’m scaring the ladies away, you already know I’m talking about the Painted Lady butterfly I accidentally spray while watering the garden

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Top contender for painted bike infrastructure I contemplate my own mortality in

The view at SW Harrison and SW Naito, looking east.

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Putting an "I bought this before Heemeyer went crazy" bumper sticker on my Komatsu D355A bulldozer

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Union Station, Portland, Oregon USA - 2027

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Every speed bump I bike over going uphill on a “neighborhood greenway” is an act of domestic terrorism against me personally

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Biking home from The Odyssey and my wife said “oh look, a free pile” as if we didn’t JUST watch a 3-hour long movie about this

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Yes, I actually love that the main way out of my neighborhood entails crossing oncoming traffic with a curb so shallow the tactile paving is run over to point of destruction and also people illegally turn across a double yellow on Powell

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