Bix F.

"I hear and understand your frustration, and I have listened to residents, business owners and public safety partners about escalating drug dealing, narcotic use and sales, reports of assaults on pedestrians and cyclists, and obstacles for emergency responders in this corridor. In response, PBOT's traffic engineers and the PPB Traffic Safety Division worked together to develop a plan that recommends repositioning diverters, adding intersection signage, daylighting intersections and restoring two-way vehicular traffic while preserving safe bike and pedestrian access.

really can’t be said enough that neither this rationale nor this proposed change make any sense and there are simply no good reasons to remove diverters from any portland street

It worked for a week and then decided it wanted to be like keeping fondue between two slices of bread.

The grilled cheese continues to fail even with the previous, better cheese. I have no idea what is happening or why.

Four photos of a North American sand wasp feeding on a Rudbeckia. The wasp is about the size of a yellow jacket with a striking Escherian abdomen adorned in rippling yet neatly conjoined black and white stripes; long, angled, pale yellow legs: and eyes like large jade eggs.

First time getting decent photos of the striking and swift North American sand wasp (Bembix americana) visiting the garden. A friendly native pollinator and pest-devourer with zebra-inspired body armor and jade relics for eyes

I need to recreate the Letterboxd list I made of things in my watchlist that are 90-minutes long.

You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason

@alt-text.bsky.social

Why does it sound like someone is running a giant laminator outside.

The North Coast Express Expands Car-Free Access to the Oregon’s North Coast There’s still plenty of time for weekend beach trips. No ride? No problem. The North Coast Express, a new train route, offers a stress-free way to experience the North Coast. Family train travel to th...

Both the URL itself and the summary viewable in the @wweek.com RSS feed for this item of sponsored content refer to this as a train.

Because it’s garbage.

I don’t regularly or semi-regularly visit many subreddits but if there are rankings for subreddits where people simply do not search first r/Kobo has got to be in the top five.

One thing I find interesting about conservative masculinity is that they frame it as inner strength & physical toughness but it’s actually mostly about access to technology (trucks, guns, $) that can be used to bully & intimidate.

Lots of scared boys who want to create barriers against the world.

A bee with blue fur

A bee with blue fur

A blue bee! This is the blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa tumida.

I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.

So full of beauty.

Hey @bmj.com what’s with that social image?

Preliminary information is that the driver of a silver Ford Escape SUV was northbound on Northeast Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard when he drove up on the east sidewalk just north of Northeast Jessup Street, and struck two pedestrians. A preteen boy was nearly struck. The Ford Escape driver veered back into the northbound lanes of travel, continued north, sideswiping a Hyundai SUV stopped in the left turn lane at Northeast Ainsworth Street. The driver then went over a median north of Northeast Ainsworth Street and struck two southbound vehicles head-on, including a Buick sedan and a Toyota pickup. The Ford Escape stopped at that crash scene. One adult male pedestrian died at the scene, just north of Northeast Jarrett Street. The other adult male pedestrian was transported to the hospital with life threatening injuries. The driver of the Hyundai requested transport to the hospital by ambulance. The drivers of the Ford Escape and the Buick sedan were also transported to the hospital by ambulance with injuries that are not life-threatening. The involved driver of the Toyota pickup was not transported. Initial investigation does not suggest that these crashes were intentional. The Ford Escape driver has two prosthetic legs, but it's unclear if that was a factor in the crashes. Additional investigation is needed to determine the caused the crash and whether any laws were violated. A representative from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office responded to the scene and is assisting with the investigation. No arrests have been made and no citations issued at this point.

Really wish Portland Police were more careful in the way they write crash statements. I mean, a guy drove onto a sidewalk, hit several people, killed one of them, then kept driving, jumped a median and hit more people, but PPB can't say "whether any laws were violated"? Infuriating choice of words.

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

(IYKYK.)

Only if I can vandalize it by tacking a “GO” onto it.

There are people everywhere. Look around.

Astrology is fake, Portland civic skeeters.

And yet this is the first I’ve heard of it.

Keep bullying AI, it's working

this is somehow even more flat-out batshit than transphobic cis men’s fantasies about what happens in women’s bathrooms

(I know why it just started playing in yours.)

Someone want to tell me why “Axel F” just started playing in my mind.

The p in precious is for penis.

I’m crying.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

(OTOH, despite only having communicated by email, they seem to think my name is Brix.)

Not for nutrition, no.