Happy birthday!!!

Oh dang that is a lot. Hang in there

Some tidbits:
What do you think of mom?
How about Ms. Rosa?
How much do we trust that it only attracts shitbags?

Drosera regina - Lightspeed Magazine The men knew before she did. Before this boy, before sophomore year, before even her twelfth birthday, they had jostled her on the sidewalk and hooted from cars, searching for something just past her ...

tonight's short story club read was www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros... by @ghoulpus.bsky.social

It's got a lot going on and we had spirited discussion. I think it's a good sign for a short story when we can all say it was well-written and then argue about morality for an hour.

I figured you all wanted the photo that included the cat

A round crocheted rug with a cat on it

I learned to crochet rugs from Pendleton blanket selvages today (it was a crafting event at their store) i have approximately three small rugs now

Arg, made plans to go to a health care for all meeting around then!

Organizing Director Hire — Portland: Neighbors Welcome

sick job alert - @pnwelcome.bsky.social is hiring an organizing director. come whip all our policy nerds into shape to help pass pro-homes campaigns at the city and the state over the next year portlandneighborswelcome.org/hiring

PDX folks, is there a bike shop here that sells used/refurbished bikes and/or accepts trade-ins? Or an event where such a thing might happen? It feels like something this town should have but my search efforts aren’t turning up anything yet.

Oh hell no

I saw Lincoln’s Dreams in a used bookstore and bought it! Not even sure if time travel, but will read any Connie Willis that i have somehow missed

Two good ideas!

i'll be going back sometime if any mutuals want to coordinate!

Friday Creative Community Building: Melt the Ice Hat (Copy) — Bolt Fabric Boutique | Portland, Oregon Friday Evenings 6:00pm - 8:00pm Join us for an evening of creative community building!

#pdx crafters! Bolt fabric store/sewing studio has begun hosting a weekly Community Craft Night! I went to check it out. The space is nice: big, well lit, warm, couches, cutting tables, and some sewing machines (first come, first serve) The host is lovely. www.boltfabricboutique.com/studio-event...

Next #pdx Web Day is Sat March 7th, 12:30-5:30pm More info at reeds.website/2026/webday

It's real connection to each other and The World Wide Web.

Come play a Flash game or click around a web ring

#portland #web

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

tonight's short story club was clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/ @isabel.kim is a certified club favorite, and we had a lot to talk (argue) about.

if you read it, get back to me with whether you could follow through on the last line of the story.

Happy #DouglassDay ! I'm already transcribing with my morning coffee. I love the peek into history and that transcribing is a little bit of contributing! douglassday.org

✨ On 2/13, join us as we host Douglass Day 2026! This annual celebration honors the legacy of Frederick Douglass and brings together volunteers to transcribe Black history. Find guides to help you bring Douglass Day into your college and K12 classrooms and register via the newsletter linked below.

Water color flyer for Make a Friend (on Transit) Day made by Alfred Twu. It shows three friendly people sitting on transit chatting with each other, wearing name tags. Mini personifications of a smiling BART train (with name tag) a bus and a ferry are also on board engaged in conversation. In the lap of a person is a smiling Caltrain akin to a lap-dog, and another person has a tote bag with a picture of a BART car face on it.

Make a Friend (On Transit) Day is next Wednesday! Join the fun and help pass out name tags at @bart.gov @caltrain.com, bus hubs, and @sfbayferry.com terminals that morning. And who knows, an hour of your time might help spark a lifelong friendship. Check it out docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Whoa. I read @sarahgailey.bsky.social ‘s The Echo Wife over the last couple of weeks and it is really good. It’s also intense and i spent a lot of time yelling at the characters about their bad ideas. It is disturbing in a way where that just makes it better at what it does.

Update: Portland Housing Bureau's Unspent Funds Reach $106 Million News of the unspent money comes two months after city councilors learned the city's Rental Services Office amassed $21 million in revenue, which went unreported for months.

what on earth is going on over there
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/02...

Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel) Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)

My Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Among Others about a science fiction reading girl with fantasy problems is on sale as an ebook for $2.99 www.amazon.com/Among-Others...

today's short story club was
BECAUSE FLORA HAD EXISTED. AND I HAD LOVED HER
BY: ANNA MARTINO ( @annadixit.bsky.social ?)
samovar.strangehorizons.com/2024/10/28/b...
it was a perfect club book, because we had a lot to chew on and disagree about!
I really liked it, i had the most romantic reading

#slowBookClub resumes Tues, Feb 24, 6p Pacific everytimezone.com/s/b3e30825

​We're reading Part 1 of Abolition Geography , Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore bookshop.org/p/books/abol...

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My short story collection that includes The Pill 💊 is on sale for $5! Support an independent press and also me, your favorite unemployed author.

Amused with the lack of variety in my library checkouts:
- locked room mystery- in space
- mystery - in fantasy setting
- mystery - contemporary, main character is a book editor.

(Dead Space - Kali Wallace,
The Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison,
A Howl of Wolves - Judith Flanders)

WEB DAY! A week from Saturday, on Jan 24th, 2-5pm, Albina Library Rm 2A.

Last time, we discovered how to play ANY Flash game from our childhoods.

Then we surfed web rings, fed digital pets, and explored historic Portland data. What will we do this time? Come find out!

#pdx #portland #www #event

Join the Portland Chapter of HCAO on Saturday January 10th, at 4:30 pm at Zidell Yards for our Art Show and Silent Auction!

Step into an evening of elegance and purpose—our silent auction invites you to bid on exquisite treasures, all in support of a cause that truly matters.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

thanks to @elisebell.bsky.social for telling me about cluesbysam.com - LOGIC PUZZLES. I love this sort of thing.

(which is why someone should be paying me to write SQL)

A swatch of seafoam colored lace knitting, there’s a black yarn woven through the middle and the top. Hard to say if the lace part looks good

I have been knitting for 2.5 weeks and i am thrilled to already be knitting lace. Am i doing it correctly? Almost certainly not. It feels like progress anyway.