Matthew Castillo-Kohlenberg

GoGo Penguin at the Aladdin. #pdx

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah but with 1/2 the fun and no hooks.

Geese "Getting Killed" while processing paperwork this morning. Some good songs & good grooves, but the singer is in a post-Byrne -Mangum -Yorke space and it's killing it for me.

What’s coming next? What color will the fire be?

It just reminds me of the dead matter on the forest floor before the fire comes through. Agatha Christie was writing country house murders into the 1960s, and just a few years later the entire world her fiction lived in was gone.

But the thing that really bothered me was the weird time thing where these are all former cold warriors in the winter of their career. Except these are people in their vigorous 60’s, not dead or in their 90s with an oxygen tube tucked behind their ears.

home with the baby so lots of overnight tv time. I tried Slow Horses but it’s another shitty Apple dad show (basically boomer dad interests + everybody gets a little vulnerable (all hugs, all lessons))

The justice system has to be a universal government system, like the post office. The same way that the post office has to keep some bush pilots, delivery boats, and horseback mail carriers on the books for the most out of the way places, justice must protect the public from people who are not safe.

SW 4th isn't just about bikes (it's a dream for buses too) It's the most complete and well-executed example of quality bike and bus infrastructure in the city.

This is such an exciting project. It’s the most complete and well-executed example of quality bike and bus infrastructure in the city and it shows what PBOT is capable of when given relative design freedom and ample funding.

bikeportland.org/2025/11/14/s...

will Mamdani be the first anti-Lutheran mayor of NYC?

These fuckers are so crazy

Portland’s new single-staircase rule faces big hurdles The city now allows single-staircase buildings as tall as four stories, but a fire access rule may make most projects unbuildable, one designer warns.

The good news: Portland is opting into Oregon's optional 4-story single-stair code section.

The bad news: Portland's fire marshal has managed to insert a poison pill into what appeared to be a take-it-or-leave-it appendix text, likely making it unusable in most cases.

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As they say “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread”

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

Look, he did this because he only knows how to do one thing and it’s run a construction scam. Make him the Pope and he’s going to try to build a hotel on St. Peter’s Square. It’s just what he does.

I've been saying it: they're bourgeois and above all else value etiquette, etiquette is very gendered, they consider us to be very uncouth, and are embarrassed by us.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

We can do better.

Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.

Hollywood Transit Center Project Building a better Hollywood Transit Center.

This is literally under construction right now: trimet.org/hollywood/

chat, is is good when the business people are writing despondent quasi-limericks to the central bankers?

Thank you, Chicago.

The Bourne Supremacy, 2004 - ★★★½: https://mkck.micro.blog/2025/10/24/the-bourne-supremacy.html

No, they really really suck all on their own, I promise.

I sincerely think this phenomenon is part of the Long French Revolution.

“sneaked through”—or ranked choice working as designed

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

when opponents of this project talk about “bus only” lanes obstructing access to their business they are straight up lying about trimet’s proposed design, in which “BAT” lanes can be used by both busses and right turning traffic