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@lester-ballard.bsky.social

I am the beast I worship

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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22.04.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 12763    πŸ” 5318    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 279

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness"

neocons: abolish ICE

david brooks: communist manifesto

Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

19.04.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4269    πŸ” 992    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 40

lol incredibly relatable

12.04.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dang stoked to listen to this!

12.04.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have also found that a lot of bike/pedestrian conflict is caused by the danger posed by cars, where cyclists are having to choose between the risk of being hit by cars or the risk of hitting a pedestrian, and so better infrastructure reduces those conflicts

12.04.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have actually done the math on this and the 250ish lbs of me + my bike going 20mph would have about the same force if I hit a pedestrian as a Honda civic going like 5 mph but also it would suck way more for me than the driver of a Honda civic and also my top speed on flat ground is ~15 mph

12.04.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty proud of the current city council making arguments like this, as someone who would be paying more taxes because of this proposed increase, I can tell you that it will not materially change my quality of life in any way and I wholeheartedly support it

10.04.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

04.04.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 40042    πŸ” 10293    πŸ’¬ 1239    πŸ“Œ 480
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Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

04.04.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 29753    πŸ” 5520    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 93
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Labor Union Rank-And-File: "NO Portland Police in the Labor Council" We, the undersigned labor union rank-and-file and union officers of NW Oregon, stand shoulder-to-shoulder with delegates opposing the Portland Police Association's (PPA) entrance into the NW Oregon La...

Keep cops out of the union movement in Portland! Union members, sign and share this petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/labor-...

27.03.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Sick

03.04.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently ODOT is immune to any sort of oversight or accountability, quite depressing!

01.04.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is so fucked

01.04.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate that republicans complained about Hillary Clinton’s email server so much (which was bad!) and then have proceeded to discuss details of active military operations over insecure means

24.03.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

24.03.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 27378    πŸ” 12625    πŸ’¬ 894    πŸ“Œ 907

America had onerous lockdowns in the same way it has a war in cars (it does not)

24.03.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot get enough of the stories of trump voters and the contrapasso they are suffering

16.03.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible

16.03.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I say this as someone who is religious enough to have learned Greek to read the New Testament in its original, the reason academics and business people are skeptical of β€œtraditional” Christian values is because they are fucking stupid

11.03.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LMAO surely it is the β€œDutch Calvinist” part of an Afrikaner that makes them preferable to an Indian programmer and not just pure racism

11.03.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who is watching Chicago PD’s secret torture site if they got everybody guarding a Tesla dealership?

11.03.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Naptime

10.03.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

10.03.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 11216    πŸ” 3466    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 42

The way I am interpreting this is drivers stopped killing themselves by being incredibly stupid, but populations whose safety depends on infrastructure are still not any safer because the infrastructure isn’t much better

07.03.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Duane Puryear holding the AIDS quilt panel he completed before his death. It reads "MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGONISED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT. I AM DEAD..."

Duane Puryear holding the AIDS quilt panel he completed before his death. It reads "MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGONISED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT. I AM DEAD..."

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

05.03.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 12212    πŸ” 3281    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 84

Listen those lyrics slapped when I was 13 and that was the only cd I owned

03.03.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, obviously many destinations are on 82nd and so for many people there will be at least some part of the trip without bike infrastructure

27.02.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You gotta wonder if the Metro Chamber even like it here, their years-long campaign about how terrible Portland is has only hurt the city

27.02.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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