Nostr notes by wet forest moon folklorist

Tomorrow in #pdx ...

2026-07-15T01:07:45Z

Tomorrow in #pdx

I’m working on an AI policy for my org that allows us to opt ...

2026-03-24T00:34:13Z

I’m working on an AI policy for my org that allows us to opt out of AI note taking and prohibits AI in our comms/storytelling. here is my list of reasons for the policy, but my board is asking me to cite sources. Can you help me with any good references you would cite for any of these? (Or an edit or restatement where I’ve gotten it wrong or inaccurate?)

*if you want to argue about why I shouldn’t have this policy kindly crawl into a hole in the ground and cover yourself with soil

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116202379796114145 I am ...

2026-03-10T04:03:15Z

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116202379796114145

I am very interested in everyone’s anti-AI bullet points! i drafted an AI policy for my org this morning and will share out our points when we get to a final version.

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if anyone is interested, here are some talking points we've put together on the CU ChatGPT deal so that we can all educate our friends, colleagues, students, staff, admin, etc. #ai https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aOel41-XD_D9DPLMJEUSia6Ej_mmXbfPcM9DG7GIDT8/edit?usp=drive_link

“🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is ...

2026-02-05T05:56:48Z

“🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.”

From project salt box on bsky

https://tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouseTracker

“You cannot measure the circumference but there are ...

2026-02-01T22:26:33Z

“You cannot measure the circumference
but there are centerpoints:
stones, and a woman washing at a ford,
the water runs red-brown from what she washes.
The mouths of caves. The mouths of bells.
The sky in winter under snowclouds
to northward, green of jade… “

“Self” by Ursula K Leguin, as printed in A Larger Reality, the companion book the Leguin retrospective exhibit at Oregon Contemporary gallery in Portland, OR this winter

awful men became billionaires through walling off portions of the ...

2026-01-11T18:32:34Z

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awful men became billionaires through walling off portions of the internet and manipulating the trapped population in any direction the money blew. this is obvious and has been reported on and exposed, and yet millions of people still sit inside those walls thinking nothing exists beyond them

a central conceit of many people trapped (without their ...

2026-01-11T18:21:42Z

a central conceit of many people trapped (without their knowledge) on FB and X etc, is a kind of flat-earther view of the perceived world beyond their own login borders, an ongoing and totalizing assumption that there is literally nothing of consequence outside their platform

and yet, for example, I have been buying and selling my shit on craiglist & irl totally without using FB marketplace this entire time

“After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas ...

2026-01-11T16:13:27Z

“After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief, and with a lot of unanswered questions”

https://southsideweekly.com/a-tragic-homecoming/

microplastics are very bad for people (and also fish and other ...

2026-01-05T05:40:07Z

microplastics are very bad for people (and also fish and other animals), car tires emit most of them, electric cars are worse

#EV #microplastics

https://www.jalopnik.com/2063020/what-happens-tire-tread-when-wears-away-harmful

a St. John’s bridge painting centered within a full facade ...

2026-01-03T23:16:21Z

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a St. John’s bridge painting centered within a full facade mosaic style mural featuring mostly regional soccer iconography

the cathartic girl solidarity concerts made her a billionaire and ...

2026-01-01T23:31:16Z

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the cathartic girl solidarity concerts made her a billionaire and for what? her own aggrandizement? the bringing of girls together to celebrate a kind of empowerment that terminates in silence as fascists smash windows and drag neighbors into concentration camps?

tough to swallow pill for swifties: taylor could (and should) ...

2026-01-01T23:24:15Z

tough to swallow pill for swifties: taylor could (and should) 100% end the trump regime with her resources and microphone, but she won’t, in part because she married an nfl player and the internal pressure of being married to a famous sportsball white guy podcaster will shut her up and render her harmless, like a million white women wives before her, strangled by hetero norms and their husbands big feelings and little comments

hope I’m wrong but

yeah everyone is immediately like ooohhh is it fun what’s it ...

2025-12-28T01:46:08Z

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yeah everyone is immediately like ooohhh is it fun what’s it like are they hot what books are you hearing about tell us more we’re jealous omg librarian party yay Jesse (npub1wsm…lwcl)

ashland car free christmas day ramble, watched an American dipper ...

2025-12-26T05:42:00Z

ashland car free christmas day ramble, watched an American dipper dive into a cascade and pop out in the pool above

hey heyyy hello fellow pocket people from all around our spinning ...

2025-12-25T04:56:38Z

hey heyyy hello fellow pocket people from all around our spinning blue space orb! we are alone together in a vast universe of stardust that defies our own ability to perceive it! but connected through invisible impulses and long cables beneath vast oceans! Im glad to be here with you alive as mammals looking at rectangles tonight! I’m sorry we all must live with so much suffering and hurting! let’s try to use our paltry privileges to help one another as best we can! I love you! hugs!🕊️

“the beloved St Johns Bridge” letterpress print by Quail Lane ...

2025-11-30T03:10:11Z

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“the beloved St Johns Bridge” letterpress print by Quail Lane Press, a woman-owned, black-owned print house in Milwaukie, Oregon

in another instance of residential St. John’s bridge ...

2025-11-28T23:46:23Z

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in another instance of residential St. John’s bridge iconography, dual st johns bridge inspired yard sculptures frame the entry of this St John’s neighborhood home

I walked by this inventive residential mural for months before ...

2025-11-28T23:39:30Z

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I walked by this inventive residential mural for months before noticing it too features the st johns bridge! the iconic bridge serving here, as it so often does, as a cathedral-esque background for dreamscapes

also, it’s #Fensterfreitag !

hard to get a good photo of this work in a glass frame under ...

2025-11-15T02:55:07Z

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hard to get a good photo of this work in a glass frame under fluorescent lights, but you get the idea. long live both the St John’s Multnomah County Health Center, and the person who memorialized it with this gorgeous needlepoint that contextualizes the medical center inside the heart of the St John’s Bridge

In this depiction, the St John’s Bridge is presented as a haven ...

2025-11-15T02:49:05Z

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In this depiction, the St John’s Bridge is presented as a haven for pets!

I’ve noticed most representations of the St John’s bridge do not include its heavy car and truck traffic, but instead extract the bridge from its automotive obligations and place it in the realm of play, fantasy, and pleasure, like we see here 🐕 🐶🐩

this is now Post One in a thread about the St Johns Bridge as ...

2025-11-09T15:45:15Z

this is now Post One in a thread about the St Johns Bridge as creative subject, pervasive and multi-scale geographic icon, emblem and weaver of disparate social identities, evocative example of how public landmarks can form community through the sheer power of good design, and ultimately, symbol of sacred human solidarity forging ahead amid chaos and crisis. in this essay I will

actual artist (not AI) created Portland frog prints & tees ...

2025-11-01T04:48:33Z

actual artist (not AI) created Portland frog prints & tees for sale 🐸 by Gwen Katz

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2019846827/hop-shirt

she pointed to a comfy chair and had me sit down, explaining ...

2025-10-26T04:44:13Z

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she pointed to a comfy chair and had me sit down, explaining she’d sewn the wall hangings, which depicted salmon being stopped by a dam and other aquatic scenes. She said “this is a room to come and relax, or to have a special conversation. a secret room” the room also had a drum and didjeridoo

this evening I visited Shirtzenpantz thriftshop in St. John’s ...

2025-10-26T04:41:09Z

this evening I visited Shirtzenpantz thriftshop in St. John’s PDX and the proprietor‘s 87 yr old grandmother invited me to see the secret room. i followed her through an antique wardrobe into a blue-lit closet she had decorated with quilted river scenes and stuffed salmon hanging from the ceiling

everyone who said bluesky would eventually turn out like twitter ...

2025-10-06T03:47:51Z

everyone who said bluesky would eventually turn out like twitter was correct apparently

well, a federal judge just tonight put a 2 week stay on the trump ...

2025-10-06T03:32:27Z

well, a federal judge just tonight put a 2 week stay on the trump regime’s attempt to deploy federalized CA and TX national guard to Portland, OR, ruling that they can’t get around her prior ruling by bringing troops in from other states

ice came running out unprovoked and slammed an 84 yr old and his ...

2025-10-05T04:01:38Z

ice came running out unprovoked and slammed an 84 yr old and his walker to the ground, cracked his 84 yr old wife’s head open with a projectile. the elderly couple lives nearby and said they finally came to the protest today because it looked so safe and mellow from their window

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/federal-agents-knock-down-elderly-couple-during-portland-protest.html

my 30 something friend said to me today that with hetero dating, ...

2025-09-29T03:03:52Z

my 30 something friend said to me today that with hetero dating, men aren’t competing with other men, they’re competing with women’s solitude

Chicago is not ok ...

2025-09-14T17:19:53Z

Chicago is not ok

https://bsky.app/profile/maggiehendricks.bsky.social/post/3lysrfgs5zc2m

well worth reading the posts of the Iowa county supervisor who ...

2025-09-14T16:20:09Z

well worth reading the posts of the Iowa county supervisor who refuses to lower the flag for Charlie Kirk. Jon Green is not afraid, but he also acknowledges that he is taking the heat in the hope that others will join him

https://bsky.app/profile/modestholdings.com/post/3lymamqb3ks2b

trying to imagine what it’s gonna be like to be alive on earth ...

2025-09-14T05:45:20Z

trying to imagine what it’s gonna be like to be alive on earth in 50 years and just getting bummed out

keep the lights on fedi, at the current rate of apocalypse some ...

2025-09-14T01:49:08Z

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keep the lights on fedi, at the current rate of apocalypse some day soon everyone will end up here

love to see mastodon still playing our small but essential role ...

2025-09-14T01:44:26Z

love to see mastodon still playing our small but essential role in the larger social media ecosystem: harboring the banned until they are reinstated and forget about us

(welcome npub14zqmdsakmf5vr9udke04w88dmyaelwc8n7cg2xlfld3ycrgf3jkq0rw9kl (npub14zq…w9kl) 💕)
https://jorts.horse/@criminalerin/115192617261080612

the German “iron front” paired working class trade unions ...

2025-09-13T20:24:08Z

the German “iron front” paired working class trade unions with liberals in a coalition that, unfortunately, ended up declining to join the far left in taking radical action against Hitler

a very cool symbol designed to cover swastikas. but how might things have gone if they listened to their 1930s antifascists and shut things down in full solidarity?

perhaps we should learn from that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Front

not saying this is some kind of perfect city, but I am saying ...

2025-09-13T15:29:02Z

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not saying this is some kind of perfect city, but I am saying that sometimes it’s good to make a change, and understand that where you live does affect how you feel and who you’re able to be. if it werent so morally & logistically fraught I’d leave the US (always wanted to) but for now Pdx is a good change for me personally

I moved from a majority MAGA small rural town in Alaska to ...

2025-09-13T15:04:25Z

I moved from a majority MAGA small rural town in Alaska to portland, or and all I have to show for it is my salvaged mental health, a sense of belonging and self worth, and the overwhelming feeling that it’s ok actually for me to be exactly who I am

in Portland I interact with a lot of people who are very different than me, I talk to lots of trans people irl not just online, and I’m constantly inspired by the creativity, quirkiness, and sense of possibility in this city

a photo I took under one of the newly replaced St. John’s ...

2025-09-13T03:20:02Z

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a photo I took under one of the newly replaced St. John’s bridge Gothic arch supports. from this spot, you feel/hear different passing motor vehicles vibrate the bridge like a stringed instrument. semis are big bass, the order of cars syncopates and strums

people still think that showing neo-fascists the respect we wish ...

2025-09-11T03:51:38Z

people still think that showing neo-fascists the respect we wish they would show us will somehow teach them to do better or compel them to stop hurting us

this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go

this St. John’s bridge mural has cut outs and backlighting so ...

2025-09-10T03:08:44Z

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this St. John’s bridge mural has cut outs and backlighting so at night the multicolored buildings painted on either side of the bridge have their lights on. I like how the artist included everything but the willamette river

i am sometimes reminded of how older generations value a long ...

2025-09-09T05:18:00Z

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i am sometimes reminded of how older generations value a long conversation between strangers in a way I’m not sure is prevalent in younger generations. an unexpected conversation can shape a whole day and shift your whole worldview, you improvise and connect and learn and grow etc

tonight I called about a used e-bike on craiglist and ended up ...

2025-09-09T04:44:29Z

tonight I called about a used e-bike on craiglist and ended up chatting with a 72 yr old German man for a good 20 minutes about how he’s selling the bike because he’s moving back to Germany, in large part because he doesn’t feel like he can get old and maintain a car free life in the US (getting too dangerous these days). this and he’s found a german town with more paper marionette artisans and he makes paper marionettes

😂

2025-09-08T02:42:24Z

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😂

is this a pattern???? leaving twitter for fedi has been my first ...

2025-09-08T02:30:48Z

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is this a pattern???? leaving twitter for fedi has been my first real foray into The Internet

what I’ve seen over the last 3 yrs is that mastodon’s ...

2025-09-08T02:27:06Z

what I’ve seen over the last 3 yrs is that mastodon’s protocolist assertion (accompanied by willful ignorance) that AT protocol Was Not Decentralized resulted in people functionally decentralizing ATproto

I met Mel the artist behind Hello Magnolia printshop (“anti ...

2025-09-07T17:37:36Z

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I met Mel the artist behind Hello Magnolia printshop (“anti capitalist, paper centric”) at the annual St. John’s art walk a few weeks ago. like me, they enjoy just walking around looking at the bridge and generally feeling creative. I bought their original Polaroid emulsion lift “bridge dyptich” after our chat, which I think captures those vibes pretty well

https://www.hellomagnoliaprintshop.com/product/original-polaroid-emulsion-artwork

Alshiref was out when I first got to his downtown shop so I ...

2025-09-07T15:53:23Z

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Alshiref was out when I first got to his downtown shop so I wandered into Kiriko shop next door which has tons of cool Japanese stuff, a line of re-tooled durable luxury clothing items using older Japanese fabrics, and apparently one custom handkerchief design for tourists honoring their Portland location which (of course) features the St John’s bridge, showing how the bridge often signifies not just love for St. John’s but also for the whole city

https://kirikomade.com

Alshiref also tried to upsell me on this limited edition (last ...

2025-09-07T03:46:15Z

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Alshiref also tried to upsell me on this limited edition (last one!) ply pannier set—st John’s bridge art collab he did with his friend. I was VERY tempted but didn’t have a rear rack on my bike at the time so couldn’t get them back to my house. They buckle together but then the handles fold up so you can easily carry them together, very functional design. I MIGHT go back and get them. I MIGHT #pdx

rode my bike 18 mi round trip to Alshiref’s downtown #pdx shop ...

2025-09-07T03:38:02Z

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rode my bike 18 mi round trip to Alshiref’s downtown #pdx shop to get the tee. he was there! and showed me how he prints his designs himself behind the counter. we fangirled hard together about the St. John’s bridge (honestly cathartic to check in with a kindred spirit on this topic). he said when people complain his print is upside down he looks down at it and exclaims NOT FOR ME! 😂 he said he’s Egyptian and so he flipped it to pick up on traditional Egyptian collar type shirt designs

this is US gas consumption per capita which provides one data ...

2025-09-06T22:56:43Z

this is US gas consumption per capita which provides one data point on what the “back to the office” push is really about

Alshiref Eskander is also the designer of the St John’s ...

2025-09-06T19:50:18Z

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Alshiref Eskander is also the designer of the St John’s neighborhood flag. you can see from their profile pic that they, like many, also personally identify with the bridge. several of my neighbors fly this flag and I am gearing up for the purchase cuz why not https://amitypdx.com/products/st-johns-flag

#pdx

St. John’s bridge merch from Alshiref Designs, an artist who ...

2025-09-06T19:42:57Z

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St. John’s bridge merch from Alshiref Designs, an artist who prints lots of Pdx bridges but like especially the St. John’s bridge

https://amitypdx.com/collections/alshiref-designs

#pdx

got this print in the mail all the way from England, thx ...

2025-09-06T02:07:35Z

got this print in the mail all the way from England, thx https://www.sonnyross.com #AI

this is my photo of a photo that is posted as a large sign in ...

2025-09-05T04:08:15Z

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this is my photo of a photo that is posted as a large sign in someone’s front yard, apparently referencing a former exhibit, it begins “I AM FROM ST JOHNS. I AM FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE CUT. THE PLACE WHERE TWO POWERFUL RIVERS
MEET BENEATH THE MAJESTIC BRIDGE THAT FRAMES ST JOHNS. THE SAME BRIDGE MY MOTHER THREATENS
TO JUMP FROM WHEN I MISBEHAVE. THE SAME POLLUTED RIVERS THAT TEMPT ME ON HOT SUMMER DAYS…” #pdx

St John’s bridge retooled as a farm implement in this community ...

2025-09-05T03:57:11Z

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St John’s bridge retooled as a farm implement in this community garden mural #pdx

worth listening to Breaking Point hosts break down Taylor ...

2025-09-04T03:29:19Z

worth listening to Breaking Point hosts break down Taylor Lorenz’s story about the billionaire super pac secretly finding Dem influencers. Krystal and Saagar make a passionate case for keeping independent media actually independent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf_X5m7u7JY

the first anthropomorphic St. John’s bridge I’ve seen is on ...

2025-09-04T03:11:30Z

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the first anthropomorphic St. John’s bridge I’ve seen is on this mural at the used clothing store Shirtzenpantz #pdx

a popular bumper sticker showing how the St. John’s bridge ...

2025-09-03T05:28:41Z

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a popular bumper sticker showing how the St. John’s bridge overlaps and possibly causes the love we feel for the St. John’s community #pdx

the St. John’s bridge appears in the logo of two different food ...

2025-09-03T05:23:09Z

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the St. John’s bridge appears in the logo of two different food cart parks, including the cathedral park food carts, whose logo captures the sight line where one main arch is framed inside the other main arch, very pleasing to the eye and arguably one of the most compelling aspects of the bridge’s design #pdx

there’s only one photo-realistic mural of the St. John’s ...

2025-09-03T05:11:39Z

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there’s only one photo-realistic mural of the St. John’s bridge (that I’ve seen) and it is at the sky high pot shop. a little hard to see in this photo but the words Sky High are placed in gothic lettering on either side of the tallest point of the bridge’s highest arch, as if that’s where the store’s products will take you. I like how this mural features a reflective pond that doesn’t exist irl, but does relate visually to other tienda style murals on the block #pdx

spotted this ancient bumper sticker on a lifeless old car, ...

2025-09-03T05:08:39Z

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spotted this ancient bumper sticker on a lifeless old car, elegant how there’s no slogan, just the St. John’s bridge #pdx

actually hadn’t noticed this mural included the st johns bridge ...

2025-09-03T05:04:00Z

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actually hadn’t noticed this mural included the st johns bridge on one corner but it’s in downtown st johns so of course it does #pdx

actually wish I took more videos to share, but since you’re ...

2025-09-01T03:24:49Z

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actually wish I took more videos to share, but since you’re listening uniphonically it will be hard for you to sense the quadraphonic experience I had

last night I happened upon a quadraphonic synthesizer performance ...

2025-09-01T03:21:40Z

last night I happened upon a quadraphonic synthesizer performance put on by a local synth collective. it was weird and cool in the way that makes you appreciate humans

for context, the labor movement in the 1880s was not only ...

2025-08-31T15:16:49Z

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for context, the labor movement in the 1880s was not only influenced by anarchists and socialists, it was starting to be multiracial and multigender as well. the famous lucy parsons was married to albert parsons, one of the haymarket organizers unjustly hung by the state

the capitalists had to commit a lot of violence and do a lot of propaganda to suppress labor back then, and they did

https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/2019/02/28/lucy-e-parsons/

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/haymarket-tragedy

Reading about May Day, the Haymarket affair, and the fiery roots ...

2025-08-31T14:44:11Z

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Reading about May Day, the Haymarket affair, and the fiery roots of Labor Day in the US is stunning: history doesn’t stop y’all, this is all still going

https://apwu.org/news/labor-history-may-day-fighting-eight-hour-day/

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2025-08-31T14:37:57Z

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day_movement

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2025-08-31T14:31:37Z

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

I’ll of course get to all the major St. John’s bridge murals, ...

2025-08-30T20:05:06Z

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I’ll of course get to all the major St. John’s bridge murals, but what about all the little DIY St. John’s bridge paintings on like peoples random porches and shit? how many neighborhoods have this level of allegiance to a local landmark? #pdx

everyone wants to paint the bridge on stuff, including ...

2025-08-30T19:32:24Z

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everyone wants to paint the bridge on stuff, including intersections, I’ve seen two different St. John’s bridge street murals so far #pdx

bought a bouquet from a fella at the St. John’s farmers market ...

2025-08-30T19:10:25Z

bought a bouquet from a fella at the St. John’s farmers market with the St. John’s bridge tattooed on his arm, and so begins what I intend to be a longer term thread of local St. John’s bridge iconography #pdx
https://alaskan.social/@seachanger/115059278350064100

the guy living in that rv informed me this building had been ...

2025-08-20T04:40:46Z

the guy living in that rv informed me this building had been leased and new owners would be painting over the facade-length Mayan-themed mural. we were indignant together which is one of the best feelings to share with a stranger on the street

idk why but I really don’t want to schedule a chat with people ...

2025-08-19T00:41:22Z

idk why but I really don’t want to schedule a chat with people by being sent an invite to their personal scheduling app

out walking in the city of roses #pdx #portland #bloomscrolling ...

2025-08-18T01:18:09Z

out walking in the city of roses #pdx #portland #bloomscrolling

the fight for the future of US cities is between the Dems and the ...

2025-08-17T22:26:58Z

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the fight for the future of US cities is between the Dems and the Dem Socialists, and despite being losers the Dems are still winning many cities, though we can actually change that

neoliberalism leads to fascism but fascism leads to socialism, the only major political ideology capable of addressing the roots of fascism. the more chaotic things get, the easier it is for *organized* people to win, so the answer right now is to be doing that organizing

listen to me we either mamdanify the nation or we keep sitting ...

2025-08-17T22:21:32Z

listen to me we either mamdanify the nation or we keep sitting here whining about how Dems suck, those are the choices

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2025-08-14T04:32:06Z

traveling 23 stops both ways on #pdx max light rail today, a new ...

2025-08-14T03:47:38Z

traveling 23 stops both ways on #pdx max light rail today, a new record for me

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2025-08-04T01:39:48Z

#silentSunday

“The arms sales in question, Sanders said in a statement, ...

2025-07-31T03:42:48Z

“The arms sales in question, Sanders said in a statement, “clearly violate” standards laid out in the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act, which require that recipients of US security assistance facilitate the delivery of US humanitarian aid and not engage in gross violations of human rights, respectively”

https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-in-a-first-majority-of-democratic

just now really hitting me that the US immediately normalized ...

2025-07-29T04:11:42Z

just now really hitting me that the US immediately normalized slow speeds for safety on e-bikes, and forced manufacturers to comply, when in fact it’s cars that kill tens of thousands of human beings every year

i mean couldn't you travel an insane amount of the country ...

2025-07-27T17:55:22Z

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i mean couldn't you travel an insane amount of the country back then through streetcars? i want to say like the entire eastern seaboard to chicago.
it's total proof social progress isn't linear

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wild how we grew up thinking streetcars were this really cool ...

2025-07-27T16:34:05Z

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wild how we grew up thinking streetcars were this really cool quirk of san francisco alone, and didn't understand what was taken from us

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i moved to portland, oregon, which is an overwhelming transition, ...

2025-07-27T15:46:58Z

i moved to portland, oregon, which is an overwhelming transition, so i'm soothing the life transition anxiety with old historical society photos from when Portland had a citywide streetcar and trolley network

https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/coll142-1-streetcars-and-trains

super inefficient at a place like an airport to try and find a ...

2025-07-23T06:04:04Z

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super inefficient at a place like an airport to try and find a rideshare among a bunch of circling cars. taxis have a good system! they’re just in a line and you take the next one! someone is standing there keeping it organized!

took a taxi instead of an Uber at the airport today. didn’t ...

2025-07-23T05:55:22Z

took a taxi instead of an Uber at the airport today. didn’t have to use my phone, no downloading, no having to meet a random car. just walked up to the taxi station and took the next taxi as god intended

what if we don’t need the apps you guys

so i joined up with a feral depaving crew ...

2025-07-22T04:52:59Z

so i joined up with a feral depaving crew

https://www.depave.org/depavecrew

humans really want to play with icebergs ...

2025-07-10T01:44:03Z

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humans really want to play with icebergs

glacier bits for our drinks ...

2025-07-10T01:37:00Z

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glacier bits for our drinks

I got out for a paddle. being on the water always makes the world ...

2025-07-09T21:42:11Z

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I got out for a paddle. being on the water always makes the world feel right again

deploying our visiting friend into the berg research zone ...

2025-07-09T19:36:33Z

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deploying our visiting friend into the berg research zone

glacial fjords are cool (actually very cold) ...

2025-07-09T19:23:40Z

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glacial fjords are cool (actually very cold)

icebergs never get boring, owing to how they are in infinite ...

2025-07-09T19:12:34Z

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icebergs never get boring, owing to how they are in infinite quantity and perpetually changing form

day tripping on the fishing boat up into Hutli land, LeConte ...

2025-07-09T18:51:26Z

day tripping on the fishing boat up into Hutli land, LeConte Glacier fjord, southern most tidewater glacier in Alaska 📍Lingít Aaní

by Aïda Amer @visuals_by_aida on insta ...

2025-07-04T05:12:39Z

by Aïda Amer

@visuals_by_aida on insta

working through the grief of trump’s fascism becoming a ...

2025-07-04T04:44:52Z

working through the grief of trump’s fascism becoming a longterm reality. it’s a scary new normal but it is what it is and it’s still our job to build what’s next, as long as it takes

begging this campaign to ship us t shirts at exorbitant prices ...

2025-06-30T00:28:50Z

begging this campaign to ship us t shirts at exorbitant prices

https://www.curbed.com/article/zohran-mamdani-campaign-logo-graphic-design.html

ive become the kind of mastodon user with 700+ day old pinned ...

2025-06-26T04:08:17Z

ive become the kind of mastodon user with 700+ day old pinned posts

i remember in the Bush II years how the omnipresent background of ...

2025-06-20T16:15:52Z

i remember in the Bush II years how the omnipresent background of war, lies, and surveillance changed the color of our ordinary living, not for everyone, but for those who noticed and cared about what was happening. 2025 is like 2003 times 1000. reality is a heavy weight to carry for those of us who are not pretending it's all fine. so often i don't feel like i'm carrying the weight of crises, but of their popular denial

one of you shared this and I downloaded and review it just to ...

2025-06-13T05:25:39Z

one of you shared this and I downloaded and review it just to feel seen

the most important political project I see right now is ...

2025-06-01T03:27:57Z

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the most important political project I see right now is articulating pro-human, pro-life on earth visions for our society. why not draw moths to the flame of those other futures