first soundcloud rapper president

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

“If Portland wants to continue to have this identity as a very rich cultural creative DIY landscape, our leaders need to step up and try to find a way to fund the arts better here,” Aiyana Cunningham, managing director of Artists Repertory Theatre, said.

My neighbour told me Kuwaiti air defence keeps eating his F-15s so I asked how many F-15s he had and he told me he just goes and gets another F-15 so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-15s to Kuwaiti air defence and then his daughter started crying

The options that the US and Israel have engineered for Iranians are increased repression from the Iranian state or full state collapse. Anyone who thinks liberation is on the other side of these bombs, I don’t know what to tell you.

Ricardo Levins Morales has written a lot about how even when you're voting for a socialist, even when you get to vote your values and you win, you're always choosing your opponent in negotiating. That there is no such thing as voting for someone who will uphold every virtue every time.

Bugonia, 2025 - ★★★½: https://mkck.micro.blog/2026/02/15/bugonia.html

ed balls

Frankenstein, 2025 - ★★½: https://mkck.micro.blog/2026/01/22/frankenstein.html

This has gotta be rage bait, though, right? It's too perfect to hammer at a sensitive intersection (women consuming m/m fiction) that seems to always devolve into misogyny and extremely old school homophobia.

Being shot in the face by the paramilitary secret police after dropping your kid off at school apparently is not a kitchen table issue.

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GoGo Penguin at the Aladdin. #pdx

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah but with 1/2 the fun and no hooks.

Geese "Getting Killed" while processing paperwork this morning. Some good songs & good grooves, but the singer is in a post-Byrne -Mangum -Yorke space and it's killing it for me.

What’s coming next? What color will the fire be?

It just reminds me of the dead matter on the forest floor before the fire comes through. Agatha Christie was writing country house murders into the 1960s, and just a few years later the entire world her fiction lived in was gone.

But the thing that really bothered me was the weird time thing where these are all former cold warriors in the winter of their career. Except these are people in their vigorous 60’s, not dead or in their 90s with an oxygen tube tucked behind their ears.

home with the baby so lots of overnight tv time. I tried Slow Horses but it’s another shitty Apple dad show (basically boomer dad interests + everybody gets a little vulnerable (all hugs, all lessons))

The justice system has to be a universal government system, like the post office. The same way that the post office has to keep some bush pilots, delivery boats, and horseback mail carriers on the books for the most out of the way places, justice must protect the public from people who are not safe.

SW 4th isn't just about bikes (it's a dream for buses too) It's the most complete and well-executed example of quality bike and bus infrastructure in the city.

This is such an exciting project. It’s the most complete and well-executed example of quality bike and bus infrastructure in the city and it shows what PBOT is capable of when given relative design freedom and ample funding.

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will Mamdani be the first anti-Lutheran mayor of NYC?

These fuckers are so crazy

Portland’s new single-staircase rule faces big hurdles The city now allows single-staircase buildings as tall as four stories, but a fire access rule may make most projects unbuildable, one designer warns.

The good news: Portland is opting into Oregon's optional 4-story single-stair code section.

The bad news: Portland's fire marshal has managed to insert a poison pill into what appeared to be a take-it-or-leave-it appendix text, likely making it unusable in most cases.

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As they say “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread”

Look, he did this because he only knows how to do one thing and it’s run a construction scam. Make him the Pope and he’s going to try to build a hotel on St. Peter’s Square. It’s just what he does.

I've been saying it: they're bourgeois and above all else value etiquette, etiquette is very gendered, they consider us to be very uncouth, and are embarrassed by us.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

We can do better.