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Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

12.10.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1217    πŸ” 392    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 90

In my house we debate the cap level, then add: give 'em a little trophy and special seats to the Kennedy Center or some such thing. They won the game. Golf clap.

11.10.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice to wake up in Europe and watch some baseball!

11.10.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi BlueSky! πŸ‘‹

We’re the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) at the University of Oregon, home to students and faculty dedicated to building stronger and more sustainable communities. Follow along for updates on our research, student projects, and ways we’re making an impact.

10.10.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, but "raises questions" is simply lazy.

10.10.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Update: went back to this place a week later (you don't have the best French toast & not return) only to find they had switched to a new, fall menu!

This was gone, so I went with their leek waffles with goat cheese. Definitely a top-3 waffle situation. No pic tho.

10.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

07.10.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 867    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 12

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

08.10.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 25646    πŸ” 9752    πŸ’¬ 418    πŸ“Œ 177
sign hanging on a brick building says it is "first 100% wood building."

sign hanging on a brick building says it is "first 100% wood building."

This sign, claiming this apartment building is a "100% wood building," hangs on a brick wall.

Brick. Wall.

07.10.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah. I guess the cliche is right: home is where the heart is.

05.10.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our son had a great experience interning for her foundation. I'm not sure people realize how her life's work managed to be broad, deep and LOCAL, all at the same time. Incredible human.

janegoodall.global

05.10.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't let facts get in the way of a NYT narrative!

05.10.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What? How close were you? I've only seen them scurrying away.

05.10.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's funny how hard it is to escape your roots. I get that stronger in PDX these days, after almost 30 years of not really feeling that way.

05.10.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely wild.

04.10.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I enjoy BluesSky because I liberally mute keywords and people, and follow feeds I enjoy. The result is my experience is mostly interesting and informative, with little doomerism.

I left X when really, really dark stuff started getting jammed in my feed.

So, yeah, Bluesky is good, actually.

03.10.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Impressive fellow, and an impressively written tribute.

03.10.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Literally 4-hr, 1-time gigs.

The wild part was that DOL person really thought they had found a "gotcha" on us. Never convinced her otherwise.

This was after an audit. We run an extremely clean company. Now I know that doesn't matter. They're gonna find something to fill their quotas.

02.10.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any lies are a firing offense IMHO.

Last year the DOL wasted HOURS and HOURS of my team's time arguing that we needed to HIRE photoshoot models as employees. Huh?!

We eventually agreed to pay some fine/charges of like $20 to make it go away.

I lost a lot of faith in the DOL over that.

02.10.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
photo of French toast on a plate

photo of French toast on a plate

Had the best French toast of my life today. The brioche was nice and caramelized on the edges and it came with poached peaches and a raspberry sauce.

Ditching syrup in favor of something like this from now on.

Fancy.

02.10.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Wait, what...you're a thought leader, too?

01.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

30.09.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5537    πŸ” 3473    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 87
frozen rose in pioneer courthouse square in Portland, Oregon

frozen rose in pioneer courthouse square in Portland, Oregon

I enjoyed a nice frozen rose there at 10a on a Sunday this summer.

27.09.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing metaphor!

24.09.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, I feel like we're being Truman Showed.

22.09.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That was a good read.

20.09.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Calling up your workplace to tell them that you’re a great person and an even better poster. I’m even including some examples of the posts you’ve written that made me laugh out loud.

19.09.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 372    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

18.09.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 45960    πŸ” 12560    πŸ’¬ 1750    πŸ“Œ 421

Glad you're alright.

18.09.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait. I think I voted for that... never followed up on the progress.

17.09.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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