I need you to know that I choked-laughed at this.

Also, for the record: he has met me?

@genderlessrodent.bsky.social @ecosozialismus.bsky.social Any ideas would be appreciated.

I shit you not: this GIF from SpongeBob upset Brian Owendoff so much he wrote to the president of my neighborhood association and is threatening to get lawyers involved.

I’m crafting a response right now. Any fun ideas of what to include in my reply would be appreciated.

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Brian Owendoff is in my inbox again.

Housing: not a lot on the production side. He said we’re very behind on approved units, and that we need to bring down the per unit cost for new construction. He mostly focused on his frustration with high vacancies in affordable buildings, and that he meets regularly with providers on reduction

Transportation: not really. He gave the usual line about needing to end transit being a shelter on wheels, and highlighted his administration putting police on trains and buses.

- He spoke extensively about how Portland is ripe for investment, and that now is the time to put your cash in the city
- He characterized the charter reform as having given Portland a "strong mayor system" and that council's job is to legislate, his job is to run the city

4/4

- He said that suburban leaders frequently tell him that each time they come downtown, their is measurable improvement in the condition of the streets
- He said that the city fell victim to "misguided compassion" in previous admins through the distribution of harm reduction materials like tents

3/4

- He stated that Oregon will become a "flyover state" if we do not renovate the Moda Center (at first assumed this meant using PCEF dollars, but he later vacillated on sources when pressed by the moderator)
- He had a dozen metrics by which public safety in the city has approved

2/4

Some key takeaways from tonight's State of the City address by Mayor Wilson:
- Wilson shouted out every moderate member of council by name and mentioned at least one of their policy initiatives, but did not mention any peacock member

1/4

It should’ve always been automated imo. LRT was decidedly the wrong mode for the function LINK serves.

I fear if the suburbs ceased to be subsidized, a hundred million hilterites would be born. And, unfortunately, in this country: elections are won and lost on the whims who vote on whoever will give them Chevy tahoes and 4,000 homes.

Of course you would get this one right on the first try.

That’s the Art of the Deal™️.

Not from what I’ve seen, no. And honestly: I feel like that’s only to her detriment.

What are folks’ over/under on Christine Drazan loosing the Republican primary?

Like a bad penny.

I know OR-5 voters quickly corrected themselves, but letting her reach the national stage for just one term was enough to create a never-ending headache.

Yep. An out of sorts gentleman decided to have his nap on the MAX tracks outside of a platform and I could not convince him that wasn’t a good idea.

One of those times when I wish I had a TriMet radio on me.

Very rarely do I make a snarky “ugh Portland” post, but the fact we still haven’t figured out this crisis has me very perturbed.

I will say, once I reached a calltaker, it was a very streamlined intake process, which I appreciate.

I’m calling 911 in the City of Portland, which means it’s time to wait on hold for 5 minutes.

#thecitythatworks

The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...

“Since cars have killed the city, we need faster cars to escape on superhighways to suburbs that are even farther away. What an impeccable circular argument: give us more cars so that we can escape the destruction caused by cars.”

Written in 1973, when the destruction was just beginning.

Republicans called Obama a terrorist supporter for lifting a small section of sanctions in exchange for a halted nuclear program and third-party oversight

now Trump might lift every sanction in exchange for literally nothing

My grandmother literally did this to me last week. I'm currently unemployed and a student. She offered to get my Ozempic, and pay me a certain amount for every pound I lost.

This railing at Sound Transit's Star Lake Link light rail station has a perplexing railing that prevents you from accessing... another railing?

You might think it's for people w/ disabilities to hold onto, but it's 2' from the sidewalk. It's just in the middle of this planting strip, randomly.

Mind you, federal income taxes are the lowest they’ve been in generations AND we have the biggest income and wealth gap since the Napoleonic Wars AND the social safety net in America is an absolute shambles

79 degrees in Portland, the first week of April. Growing up i often had to wear a sweatshirt on the Fourth of July

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

If you have to drive to use a treadmill then your cities planning has failed you.

Spoiler: it’s the poo