Alan Kessler

I’d urge you to talk to some volunteers who have worked there in the last few years (if any will for fear of retribution). It’s bleak. Talk about being confrontational to people nominally on one’s own side.

Do you see things differently?

You mean in 2022 when they put the person with zero animal services experience who was passed over for director of human services into that role? Has Erin showed up for work this month?

If it isn't something like this... it's your typical everyday grift and people who wax and wane hoping you've forgotten who they are.

Don't. Just fucking don't give to these ghouls. This is a grossly mismanaged operation; the volunteers work under abusive conditions. The admin staff are callous and incompetent. The City needs its own animal services org, and it needs to investigate the shit out of the Multco Staff for cruelty.

@0x0.stonking.com annoyed with these low-follower count probably-🐷-operated bots following recently; are there good lists?

Does anyone have any FTR (for the record) court audio archives they'd be willing to share, please?

Hi, Nick!

Have you noticed the OUTRAGEOUS hypocrisy of ICE? Right? Right!?

Say buddy, I’m running for ombudsman in Peoria, can you spare $25 to meet my mid-afternoon goal to help make sure I can afford the VOIP and AI bills to spam all of your friends about it this weekend?

I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit. The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.

This is easily the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

Seems like you answered your own question right here 💊 🌈

If anyone out there has gotten text messages from the City of Portland, I'd love to include them in txtifier.com ... hmu

How Portland’s arts tax let $9M go unused for years As Portlanders gear up to once again pay their arts tax by April 15, even supporters say the voter-approved charge needs an overhaul.

the arts fund isn’t authorized to have reserves...In spite of this, the city has accumulated millions of dollars since the arts tax started in 2013. The untapped funds surface as city leaders raise concerns about unspent dollars identified in other city bureaus
www.opb.org/article/2026...

Do people find joy in it? I always thought the whale bombing was a metaphor for the carnage and waste inflicted by @oregondot.bsky.social in all their projects.

It puts you in a uniquely powerful position

Maybe the nsa is deflecting your exam drafts to the wh?

A bot sandwich

If you were a sandwich, what kind would you be and why?

Performance enhancing! That penmanship!

bsky.app/profile/donb...

Thank you!

It's one of the first things I was told as a public employee! It's in the annual trainings! There's no excuse for not knowing or for resisting the request.

Don't want your personal devices to be publicly discoverable, don't use them for the public's business.

It’s bad. Read some of the records in my appeals.

What’s Dan hiding

Awesome! Thank you :)

Congratulations!

I hope so. They promised a judge they’d do that the first time I beat them in court.

He knows that he'll rank 1st among the pro-cop minority and just has to keep his name recognition and centrist liberal respectability to avoid a no-rank campaign to squeak in third.

what's your metric for "working"

Thank you!

Comic: Image of a "push button wait for walk sign" button and the text "What if intersection crossings were designed for pedestrians not vehicles?" Second panel: A driver reaching out a window to press a button reading "vehicles yield for pedestrians. push button wait for drive sign" while many silhouettes of pedestrians cross in a marked crosswalk in front of the stopped car.

Easy solution, @councilorgreen.bsky.social: beg to drive buttons:

archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2016...

Let me know if they offer you a better deal!

Thank you!