Christen McCurdy

I’m not going to wallow in self-pity forever but I get to today. That’s the rules

excited to ask my trainer about the best exercises to do after a day of crying

thank you! it sucks but I made it through one (1) day of Staying Positive

(don’t worry, my version of staying positive still involves a lot of crying and cursing)

Dry Drinking Portland’s Booze-Free Brands Break Through

First up: this piece from Hannah Wallace profiling three entrepreneurs in the growing nonalcoholic beverage space: oregonbusiness.com/dry-drinking/

For the last week or so a crew has been slowly (but loudly) hacking away at a tree on my block. Half an hour ago it finally hit the ground and it hit so hard it made my apartment building shake. Feels a bit on the nose

I’m bad at promoting my work on here but I’m going to share several stories from myself and my team over the next week. In the meantime, if you hear about anything, hit me up

anyway, I’m out of a job as of Oct. 17. it’s not my first layoff but it’s a particular gut punch because it affects several other talented and entirely undeserving colleagues, and because I have been so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done over the last four years and change

hey anyone want to guess why I changed my profile pic so it looks more like an “adult” who is “employable”

once me and some friends were wasted at perkins on halloween and saw an old man angrily approach a couple doing a zombie hitler and eva braun costume to say “Adolf wasn’t smiling when I pulled the trigger in Berlin” which, aside from being a cool thing to say, has also always made me kind of wonder

Brené Brown does draw a distinction between what she calls embarrassment (I feel bad because I did something bad) and shame (I feel bad because I am bad) and says the former is useful and the latter is not. I can’t tell if this post acknowledges that (it’s paywalled) but I personally find it useful

Peppermint Patty, a young girl, sits at a table writing on paper, as indeed she is in each picture here. Above her, in joined up writing, we are shown what she is writing: "What I did on my Christmas vacation. I went outside and looked at the clouds.

They formed beautiful patterns with beautiful colors. I looked at them every morning and every evening.

Which is all I did on my Christmas vacation.

And what's wrong with that?"

75 years ago today, The first Peanuts comic strip was published. Peppermint Patty was such a brilliant character, and this is my favourite strip featuring her, from 28th December 1984.

1980 (the year I was born)

the extwitter mindset is ultimately about a contempt for knowledge. it was never about "science vs humanities." it is about the idea that it is worthwhile to understand the different facets of a complex system even if you cannot provide an immediately instrumental justification for doing so

Short thread about the necessity of not only remembering the past but describing it to people who weren't there to experience it. Just as younger generations condescend to older ones, older generations can lack patience and empathy when dealing with younger folks who don't know everything they know.

Like many GenXers, the whole "cultural marxism"/"woke mind virus" bullshit we're currently living through just feels like a Groundhog Day replay of the "political correctness" bullshit we lived through 30 years ago. bsky.app/profile/seth...

It really seems like the core project of the whole tech industry right now is devaluing (and monetizing the devaluation of) everything that makes us human, including the experiences of love and grief

ABOVE THE FRUITED PLAINNN

(a person in an inflatable unicorn costume to be clear)

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

I only let myself Get Into It Online About Local Media Shit once a year. Enjoy it

it’s true, public officials’ texts are neither public nor ever newsworthy www.opb.org/article/2025...

i am firmly on the prefer to read the article side of this divide tbh

In 2002 I moved into a 3-bedroom townhouse I shared with 3 other people and my share of rent was $180

I moved into my first apartment and rent was like $367/month

It’s been years since I’ve been out late enough for it to matter, but in 2000s Portland if you happened to be out after 12:30 (when most buses stopped running) on a weekend night you could literally wait for hours for a cab, and that’s if your call got through in the first place

“Are Mormons Christians” will lead to some of the wildest shit you’ve ever heard, folks sounding like the people who chased the LDS out of Nauvoo

This thread does not go where I expected it to: a beautiful and vulnerable story about the experience of being loved.

I used to get press releases from them and I swear to god my eye twitched every time they hit my inbox

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway