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Leaving the Station: TriMet Retires Its Oldest MAX Trains - Portland Mercury It’s the end of the line for TriMet’s oldest MAX trains. On Saturday, April 18, transit fans came to Holladay Park to bid farewell to one of Portland’s oldest forms of public transportation. Attendees...

On Saturday, Portlanders gathered to say "so long" to TriMet's MAX Type 1 trains which are being retired after 40 years of service and two million miles of travel. Joe Streckert was there and provides a brief history of the train that moved Portlanders for decades.

This is giving athletes point values like they’re 40K units and I would love to see if it actually works.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

All the novel writing advice I see is basically "revise your novel one million times until it is a flawless diamond" but I also read plenty of books and many of them are bad.

But I find the bad books inspiring! I, too can write underwhelming prose!

John Swartzwelder had the best answer to this question.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Five-year-old: “Dad, what’s this band called?”

“They’re called Black Sabbath.”

“What’s ’black sabbath’ mean?”

“A black sabbath is when witches have a party.”

“I want to go to a witch party!”

“You can go to one when you’re older.”

Lloyd Center Mall Announces Official Closing Date in Portland - Portland Mercury Closure of the mall arrives despite a vocal effort to "Save Lloyd" on the part of tenants and community members who’ve become regulars at the mall.

Lloyd Center has an official closing date now: August 8th. www.portlandmercury.com/culture/lloy...

I have fond memories of that place. Both my old day job and The Mercury were in that building at the same time.

I might make my own kid wait until he's at least eleven or twelve to watch that kind of stuff, though. Can't say why. Feels vaguely responsible to do?

I watched Conan the Barbarian when I was maybe seven or eight. I loved it! Even though it's rated R it's absolutely aimed at kids who think swords, beheadings, and snake wizards are cool as hell. So I'm not sure I was "too young."

As a lifelong Star Trek fan and as a guy who’s recently gotten way into 40K I feel both seen and very attacked.

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

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Tetris isn’t on this list. If your best games list doesn’t have Tetris I refuse to take it seriously.

initially i thought it extremely inappropriate for jd vance to travel to another country and try to meddle in their elections and now i think he should go stump on behalf of every right wing reactionary party in europe, give him a special budget for it, i don't care, get him on the local news

Honestly I’m really glad I decided not to go to law school.

I wouldn’t say this is a bad take, but bucatini is a better fit for carbonara than spaghetti.

Also, udon+Japanese style curry+shredded mozzarella might sound weird but it totally works.

I have indeed thought about this and I think he very well might be.

You’re right.

That might not be enough time to bury the Statue of Liberty and distribute 400 million ape costumes.

Did you know the Mercury’s monthly issues are now delivered via electric cargo trikes?

Today, we rode along with B-Line from SE Portland to downtown see the delivery of the new transportation issue.

The impression I get is that in Portland outmaneuvering and defeating those entrenched players really mattered. Federal legislation is what allowed Portland to move highway funding to other projects, but nothing would have happed at all without aggressive change in local leadership.

This isn't to say that Moses had no input. But highway projects really needed the support of local stakeholders like Portland's William Bowes and Frank Ivancie, city commissioners who were all-in on massive infrastructure projects that they saw as engines for economic development.

That's also the impression I've gotten from books by Carl Abbott and Jewel Lansing who've written histories of Portland, and the impression I've gotten when reading old Oregonian and Oregon Journal articles from the 1950s through the 1970s.

I didn't have enough space to put this in the article, but I made a point to write this without mentioning Robert Moses. He's often invoked as the big, controlling power behind the freeway plan, but historians like Ballestrem who've really looked into this put the blame much more on local planners.

The Highway That Never Was  - Portland Mercury [What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercury‘s 2026 Transportation issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if you’re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support us here.—eds.] Over fifty years ago, a freeway almost destroyed a large […]

Portland almost demolished a good chunk of Southeast for a freeway. Almost! I wrote a bit about the never-constructed Mount Hood Freeway for the @portlandmercury.com Transportation Issue.

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

If you need to distract yourself for a few hours, no better way than diving into this darkly comic, hopeful sci-fi classic, even if you could not give one iota of a shit about football:

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office