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A whale carcass has washed ashore near Depoe Bay.

Wednesday is the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale.

@tinakotek.bsky.social has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

Governor. Don't let the opportunity pass you by 🐋🧨💥

what a cruel joke of a week, I am so sorry :(

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

anyways here's the platform for 2026

yes!! like the rollout of the ford model t was devastating to the horse and horse accessories industry, his carwash was built atop the rubble of a horse groomer as it were. a just transition means safety nets and retraining to be ok in the new economy, not “everyone has to ride horses forever”

it’s also just like… no one has the right for their business plan to be viable in perpetuity. there are many reasons that government *could or should* stabilize and support businesses through periods of change - many of which I find compelling wrt aapi biz on 82nd - but ”no change“ is not an option

related take here is that I’m not sure moderate dems and republicans will be thrilled with the result they get from pushing the transportation package to the 2027 long session

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

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

meme of an electoral map where every single electoral vote in the us has gone to jeb! bush. jeb is standing in front of the map with his arms spread out and an expression of rapture on his face

goblin-esque cat biting on a cable

another world is possible beeyotch

Bluesky rn

I know it’s not exactly the same but if you ever need to borrow a cat tummy for this purpose, stevie and I got u 💛

bats for BAT lanes

i GASPED i’m not even joking, this pic is stunning

Indi, a Korean American woman with brown hair with a bleached-blonde layer, in her halloween costume as a bat for BAT lanes. She’s wearing black bat ears, a cape that looks like bat wings, and is holding a sign that says “BAT access and transit”

action alert: join Bats for BAT Lanes at the next 82nd Ave meeting where we’ll be making a variety of ultrasonic vocalizations into the mic throughout the public comment period

indi in an almost unbelievably accurate emerald ash borer costume, they’ve got big bug eyes and antennae and shiny green wings

🤝 emerald ash borer

the “no take, only throw” meme, a three panel comic strip. panel 1: a dog with a frisbee in its mouth looks up pleadingly asking “Pls revoke ICE permit??” panel 2: a hand reaches into frame to take the frisbee, the dog now looks angry and says “NO policy with same or better outcome that council can actually act on rn” panel 3: the dog is extra angry and says “ONLY REVOKE ICE PERMIT”

i don't understand how dan ryan using his public sector email constituent list to tell voters not to vote for the tax levy, a clear breach of the explicit public facing/campaign dichotomy, is somehow less of a scandal than group chat text messages

like it’s so transparently just the cheapest fastest path to unlocking their enforcement abilities again. there was never even an optics argument for doing it this way if you weren’t gonna lean hard on enforcement ASAP, much less a humanitarian one

the no day shelters thing makes me so crazy bc like. even if i put myself in the shoes of someone with 0 compassion for homeless ppl who conflates feelings of discomfort with actual danger… people are still gonna be out Being Homeless At Me during the day, the time i am most likely to notice it!

an old tweet from Bird Alliance of Oregon with a picture of the coyote riding the MAX. it says “Meet Portland's most famous coyote, who boarded a Max Train from the airport in 2002! He was ultimately escorted off by security and released back into the wild, but served as inspiration for Modest Mouse's song "Coyotes." #coyoteweek“

the song is based on a real coyote who rode the MAX in 2002! the truth is out there!

If bunnies are up Lotka-Volterra model states coyote increase isn’t far behind….gotta get transit funded before that happens

also a couple years back i was riding on SE 28th and saw movement out of the corner of my eye at abt my speed… it was a coyote sprinting thru a series of front yards, he paced me for about a block, v auspicious omen

i have been seeing SO many bunnies this year!! i used to only see them in N/NE but idk if i’m just getting better at spotting them or if it’s a Peak Bunny Year, like with cicadas

this is what happens when you don’t invest in transit, people: coyotes have to walk instead of taking the MAX 😔

yup. my predictions: the latter sets off Timber Unity II and the former plunges NotMultPortland County into deep austerity like many of Oregon’s non-urban counties since the timber industry went kaput and we’re taking 80% of the tax base…. so still Timber Unity II but a few budget cycles later

What makes Oregon’s law particularly smart is that it’s flexible. Other Multnomah County cities like Gresham and Troutdale can choose whether to join or stay separate. Rural unincorporated areas get special protections if they opt out, including guaranteed service levels and voting rights on any tax increases that affect them. ORS 199.715 is designed to bring together the jurisdictions that benefit from coordination while protecting those that prefer independence.

reading more closely, seems like portland is the only one that would NEED to consolidate so this might also be about just hating the county that much lol. still wild that they‘re framing this as “so simple and flexible” bc like, who’d pay for the guaranteed service levels in rural areas?

ok progressive case for consolidation:
1: do inner eastside for all and build enough housing for one million portlanders to live comfortably and affordably
2: wait for them to move in
3: consolidate now that population in the urban core is high enough to not get rolled by fucking troutdale lol