Abe 🍕

If you like boys kissing you can be a boy who kisses boys, it’s fun

How long do I get to listen to two of my roommate’s straight gal friends talk about Heated Rivalry before I suggest exogenous testosterone

Winter Olympics and baseball’s back, great sports day for those who like repetitive viewing where sometimes guys break like horses

I know nothing about Slovakian hockey guys but I like how this Cernak fellow dislikes the Tkachuks

I think a good compromise is we take out all the dams from the headwaters to Astoria & then weirdos can camp on top of the Grand Coulee Dam Ruins to shoot any sea lions that make it that far up

19 thousand signatures! They can get 19 thousand signatures but apparently not directions to the mayor’s office or the city admin.
There’s so many areas that need more energy than folks have these days & it’s such a bummer to so much wasted on incorrectly directed efforts.

Also, if someone presents a petition with 19k signatures to a body without the power to do what the signatures ask, they’ve wasted 19k ppl who care’s time at least a little bit & that of those who actively collected signatures far more.

Diversity of smart, hopefully effective tactics.

I’d have more patience for AI boosters if the Walgreens phone robot recognized the request “speak to pharmacist” in the current year. It does not.

Don’t forget the frankly bizarre homophobia!

I need Aaron to say exactly what he means by “underrepresented,” quickly & without consulting a PIO.
Something about a cop using corporate DEI language to talk about how a councilor expressed a desire to pop a cap into constituents feels like an edgy Portlandia sketch.

Trying to check stock on a controlled substance prescription as an adult is always a bummer because providers are socially trained to think you might not be supposed to have it & patients are socially trained to feel like maybe we shouldn’t have it and everyone feels weirder & worse about it

It’s cool how chain pharmacies that don’t schedule enough people to have anyone able to take a phone call now also have a robot that’ll try to help you with problems other than the one you’re actually trying to address for five minutes before you get to go on hold!

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

Sometimes I wonder how Rob Halford coming out surprised people & then I remember the multiple writers I’ve seen refer to Frankie Goes to Hollywood as apolitical. Different worlds.

Anyway time to once again point out that anti trans sports laws actually end up primarily hurting POC women at a professional level. But liberals dont seem to care about that collateral damage

Kellen earnestly was on here talking about how four is bigger than seven so let’s keep in mind the intelligence & rigor we’re up against.
Makes sense that he’s racist because he’s stupid.

What a loss for everyone in OR that this sort of reporting is no longer in OPB’s game plan

The right to kill pedestrians is very important to the Seattle Police, if anything it’s progress they’re giving civilians the same rights to unprosecutable murder as the pigs! Fuck.

Read the article & SPD didn’t even arrest the driver. You can kill someone but as long as you hang around afterwards & convince the cops you’re vewy sowwy it is not a crime.

Abe with a ball python

Abe with a ball python

Got drunk & totally surpassed my lifelong snake phobia last night

Unfortunately the cutie I was talking to works in the wilderness protection side of land use & was interested in how density helps protect wild areas by preventing suburbanization & development of currently undeveloped/wild areas. I may be cooked.

Got this problem where I go to parties at my friends’ house & chat with beautiful queer people but instead of getting anyone’s numbers I get too excited about the future SE Chavez road diet south of Powell and talk about that instead

This is my buddy’s eighth annual Hitch (2005) Day, first time making the party & watching the movie, which is a genuinely fascinating cultural artifact in a number of ways

Watching Hitch (2005) which is a movie partially about how romantic entanglement between journalists and their subjects is bad. Interesting.

Bus is 10 minutes late but at least I had time to finish my book

Rural people are a sort of Noble Savage. Distant and pure, incapable of agency, they can’t be judged or helped.

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Star Trek Deep Space Nine baseball card of Odo having sex for the first time

Probably point-of-sale system logistics problems when it’s not just space issues if I had to guess. (Makes it harder to tip out correctly if the server is different than the host/seater/coffee guy.) But starting bev service prior to seating definitely increases potential sales of high-margin product

But PFA & the Art Tax are for woke things like schools & art, not vital state functions like making freeways a little bigger, so I guess it has to work that way