I had to mute weird personal attack guy after about 30s, now kinda waiting for public comms to be over 😅

my proposal, for whenever we get gutsy enough to tax the shit out of parking and get PBOT a flush budget:

5 sunday parkways a summer, and then a new event - 5 "saturday streets", in which we do the event on major arterials and not just on the neighborhood greenway back routes.

I wish every oil/logging company a very cryptid filled blood curdling encounter with the all the cryptids and spirits of the forest. You guys...oof

@drmitchpdx.bsky.social

It really is wild how much of stuff you thought had to be based in some kind of rigorous, evidence-based process ends up being just vibes all the way down.

Municipal parking minimums, aka vibes-ing your way into massive asphalt heat islands and crumbling infrastructure.

Boo keep it closed to cars it’s so pleasant

It's almost like induced demand is real or something.

Apparently, Oregon's teetering economy falling off a cliff includes a business model involving growing 94 football fields of non-crops *indoors*

Outside of a couple bright spots (OHSU bike valet my beloved) bike parking downtown seems a bit ass? Surely we can take one of the street parking spots per block and convert it to a covered rack, at least?

Press Secretary in an AOC admin to watch centrist media melt down from having to interact with him regularly. 🤪

Really though I think he does good work pulling guys online out of the manosphere grifter pipeline. Not sure most on the left would want him to run for office even 😅

Wow that's gorgeous

I think the disconnect for me is that if he TACOs and we say we're done 1) Iran and Israel continue to bomb each other 2) Iran continues to strike US assets in the Gulf 3) The Strait never fully opens / stays some level of closed.

TACO at this point is just the current status quo by another name?

The idea that pedestrians should "move rapidly" to ensure drivers don't hit them is some bottom dweller victim blaming bullshit.

I'm getting one of those installed next week! Midea EVOX G3 series. Coming in at 15k for me with the work that needs to be done removing the old gas system.

Now to start saving for some solar panels to hopefully dodge the next PGE rate hike. 😅

I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature

You should read this. It’s excellent communication & story-telling.

“I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth

From @irishtimes.com

govs should not incentivize the production of data centers. they drive up rates, are terrible land use choices and threaten community livability. they’re also a slow moving boondoggle and risk leaving ratepayers holding the bag

Gonna be a long time before I stop resenting Gov. @tinakotek.bsky.social for FUBARing Portland, Oregon's congestion pricing program. Over a decade of hard work down the toilet, while her transportation systems and budgets circle the drain.

Def one of the shittiest political choices I've witnessed.

Shout outs to Xenogears having the coolest opening cutscene of all time, and following it up with a mandatory history textbook.

we gotta be cheonggyecheong maxxing

The name’s always been a bit silly, but Sewer Socialism has been the best pathway to building power for the left in this country, and we figured it out over a century ago!

The aesthetics don’t matter. it’s time to pitch localized visions of, per Zohran, public excellence. Public housing is 1 step.

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion).

Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

I made a papercraft just for this

I have 3 dentists, 6+ clothing/thrift stores, and a car mechanic within a 5 minute walk from my house in SE

I swear the Portland subreddit is all suburbanites that live in Clackamas or something.

Raul Rivera yelling outside Mamdani presser.

Mamdani: “I want that man to be able to afford to keep living in NYC, because the day that I don't hear him yelling at me, it means he got priced out of this place.”

“We need to make this a city where it's affordable enough to yell at your politicians.”

Tired: boycotting Harry Potter because of the TERF lady

Wired: boycotting Harry Potter because the books promote slavery apologia, fat phobia, and copaganda in addition to transphobia

Inspired: Wait nah the TERF lady reason is more than enough.

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

I miss not knowing who Will Stancil is.