Uh, so, I’ve been trying to manage chronic illness for months and lately it has made my hours at work bizarre…which means I just clocked in to find out that we were all fired.

I’m having a rough one.

‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds Growing use of AI tech comes at expense of workers’ rights, protections and pay, report warns

State governments need to crack down on this blatant effort to expand misclassification.

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I never understood how people could believe customer service is low-skill work bc I just saw a 20-year-old fast casual manager talk a ragey old man down and it was a fucking masterclass in patience and grace

we all know I have no life, so:

I came here to also shout my strong remembrance of George of the Jungle. Haven't seen it since the year it came out, but absolutely it is lodged in my brain box for life (complimentary).

Despite mayor’s assurances, more people than ever are homeless in Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and others have said homelessness may be decreasing in Portland, despite Multnomah County data showing the opposite.

At Mayor Wilson's State of the City address Friday, he again relied on anecdote -- not data -- to prove his response to homelessness is working.

@lmonghughes.bsky.social digs into the numbers today:

Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’

Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.

I agree and also know many cis women fighting to get their insurance to cover T so...it's all bad.

Happy National Library Workers Day to all who celebrate and unhappy to those who don't!

The good part about this at PDX is that you can get a slice of pizza and a beer for under 10 bucks.

Street pricing that's enforced, baby!

Okay, speculation time: do I find spending time at the airport not super terrible because PDX kicks fucking ass and that's generally where I will spend most of it overall?

Just had the somewhat dark realization that the only movie I have ever seen that made me feel like it was normal to have a belly as a woman was Different for Girls(1996) where Kim talks about the physical changes she's experienced as a transwoman.

Widow's Plans for Her Final Years Upended as Proposed Data Center Leads to 28 Evictions in One Neighborhood (Exclusive) Residents of Meadowland Village Mobile Home Park in Kentucky, many of them elderly, disabled, retired, or on fixed incomes, are opening up to PEOPLE about being told they had roughly 90 days to vacate...

"“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”"

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Sign the Petition Release Yousof Azizi from ICE detention

Yousof Azizi, Iranian researcher, journalist, commentator and PhD candidate at @virginiatech.bsky.social with valid legal status, has been illegally detained by ICE. He was taken from in front of his home, has been denied access to a lawyer, and may be transferred to a detention center in Louisiana:

a chicken is a lady in your yard who turns weeds into chicken eggs

If this is Wilson’s passion, he could get a job with Portland Solutions and leave the job of mayoring to someone else.

For me, the mayor’s job is to effectively govern & administer the city. I’d argue he’s failing at this even on his own terms.

He made one major campaign promise & did not deliver.

Oregon law to reduce medical debt from nonprofit hospital visits is working, study finds • Oregon Capital Chronicle Researchers found Oregon has a lower rate of residents chased by debt collectors for unpaid medical bills following passage of a 2019 law.

A nearly seven-year-old state law requiring nonprofit hospitals to account for patient income and to provide financial support before collecting debts led to a significant reduction in the number of Oregonians racking up unpaid medical bills, according to a recent study.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

My last 3 doctors pulled this shit, turns out i'm insulin resistant and they should have been treating that. Instead of telling me my exhaustion was because I'm fat, not active enough, and - YUP! - wasn't effectively managing the stress of being poor and ill.

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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anybody in the LA area need a couple of absolutely gorgeous cats named, seriously, Kit and Caboodle?

i'll read any article of any length. i'll read any book. but i will not watch a youtube explainer or monologue that is longer than three minutes. write it down buddy

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Sonia girl you were right the first time

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

If you've ever enjoyed Katelyn's work, now's a cool time to help her if you can because we all know how brutal vet bills can be.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Portland-based architecture firm ZGF agreed to a $100 million contract to design the new ICE & DHS headquarters in Washington DC. Seems like a good reason to avoid doing business with them in future. meltoregon.noblogs.org/zgf-architec...