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This is the way.

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

*makes jerking-off motion from here to eternity*

A poster for a Cat People: an art show in Portland, Oregon. Opening event is Dec 5th from 6-8pm, and the show will be up until Dec. 25th at Sonny’s House of Tattoos and Treasures. The show features art by @ragonia and @natsandme. The poster has art of two anthropomorphic cats wearing punky people clothes.

Portlanders, come see me and my friend Naty’s art show opening on Dec. 5th: Cat People 🐈🐈‍⬛ at @sonnyshouse.bsky.social
It’s gonna be 12 new paintings of cats in costumes/outfits: mermaids, angels, jesters, goths, cowboys, and MORE!

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Methodology

That’s my fav cocktail. Enjoy!

If you are a mid-career Oregon visual artist, you need to know about the Spark Award. It’ll be opening up grant applications for 20 people in 2026, no strings attached, for $25k.

www.millerfound.org/grants/artis...

Photo of a bookshelf at the local bookstore with a sign proudly advertising the title of a new book release. The sign says “New (in all caps) Toilets of the World (underlined twice)”. Very exciting. Can’t wait to read it.

New release day at the bookstore. Exciting stuff.

You can work with this. I had a similar situation but managed to turn it around, so if I am tickled, my kid will attack the tickler while screaming, “I protect the mama!”. The dog now follows the kid’s lead too.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Flyer for STORYTELLING AGAINST HUNGER, at the Rose City Book Pub 11/10 from 4 pm - 9 pm.

PDX peeps! What are you doing next Monday? How about attending STORYTELLING AGAINST HUNGER, a 5-hour marathon of author readings & open mic fun that's a fundraiser for the @oregonfoodbank.bsky.social ????
Rose City Book Pub, 4 pm - 9pm. bit.ly/43i9s8D

large fur-clad danish arctic explorer peter freuchen and his small wife, dagmar

every year in early september i'm like "i'm gonna be a cute witch or a princess or like a sexy scarecrow or something" and every year on halloween night i'm like i want to be danish arctic explorer peter freuchen,

Also, compromise tends to be more along the lines of "I'll work with you on a thing that's important to you if you'll work with me on a thing that's important to me", not "I'll give up one of my core beliefs if you'll join my coalition".

Right?! Like what kind of monster doesn’t offer the oven fresh baked good to anyone in smell proximity?

Once I was baking muffins while a plumber was at my house. When I offered him one with some coffee I swear he cycled through several emotions and then almost cried. (He ate it but looked like he felt guilty?) 🙁

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

That side eye. Brutal.

Totally true. Even witnesses to crimes (including the literal victim) responding to investigators or on the witness stand struggle to translate their very real emotions in a way that investigators or juries can believe and not discount or ascribe alternative motivations to.

There is a similar correlation with “I don’t want to engage with this complex issue and am looking to skim over the tough parts by speaking in generalities, and I think this somehow is sufficient, adds value, and I’ve done my part” people.

Brazen daylight heist headline

Louvre heist described as "sick as hell" by authorities. "They probably get laid a ton," explained French interior ministry

"KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS You don’t need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don’t need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you’re not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you’re free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don’t sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status."

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

My suggestion is to waste a lot more time on shit that keeps you at peace and stop efficiently doing much of anything

Contact Me! — Claire Willett

Extremely specific ask!

in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!

ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in… Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

“War zone” my ass. Obviously Miller et al have never been invited to hang with the cool kids.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Finally, an outfit that would be work appropriate.

Street view photo of the corner of Powell’s Books corner sign in Portland.

A massive storefront, purveying horrible forbidden knowledge. The Portland people have far too many books in their arsenal.

War ravaged Portland