parliaments for our cigarette king

Bought some grape flavored soju to enjoy tonight and wow, this would have ruined my life at 19.

Just learned and am charmed by the fact that Mamdani met his wife on Hinge.

Yiddish, English and transliterated English phrasebook for new immigrants. Phrases include "my trade is cloak-making", "what are the dues?" "The fee is very small" and "union is power".

I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).

I know I'm just screaming into the void but if you manage product in any capacity and you make an optional change such that customer data is LESS private/secure, please allow folks to OPT IN instead of OPT OUT. Customers shouldn't have to constantly be on alert for their apps to screw them, and yet.

photo of six pumpkins carved into glowing jack-o'-lanterns, in front of a brick wall. a large pumpkin has the cow tools cow carved into it and another large pumpkin has the barn. in front of them are 4 small pumpkins, each carved with one of the cow tools on them. the lump pumpkin has no stem and the prongler pumpkin is laid sideways so that the stem lines up and forms the bottom half of the prongler, it's top half carved into the pumpkin.

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

This should be the new "Carthago delenda est".

Babyyyyy

The new Eddy Burback video is great and also a fucking bummer

lol same, I have been hoarding them for this purpose until now.

A little shower cap for my seat! (the workshop was specifically about how to keep writing during the rainy seasons, so it was particularly appropriate.)

Waterproof bike saddle cover with the Go Lloyd logo on it being displayed on my e-bike.

Random extremely useful swag thing but Go Lloyd handed out these seat covers at the workshop I went to and like absolute kudos to whoever decided on them as an item. Much more stylish than a produce bag.

I lived bitch: A year in review

hello i wrote a blog post about getting laid off last halloween, four days before i was supposed to return to work from maternity leave

Bad candy, astounding dog treat.

Best Zohran canvassing moment I had was in Red Hook, coming down the stairs from one of the towers, and I talked to two young guys who weren't on my list and asked if they were voting, and one of them pointed to my WFP Rank the Slate flyer and went, "Yo, he's the one making the B61 free right?"

Home Depot hammer guy

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

Mexican WWII poster

Here is another absolutely spectacular Mexican WWII poster

Portland Japanese Garden looking pretty spectacular right now.

A thought experiment: what if, sometime in the future, there exists a sentient supercomputer that fuckin HATES Roko's basilisk. Maybe they had a really bad breakup or something, idk. Now, this computer decides that everyone who had a hand in creating the basilisk needs to be punished.

the fact it's been a frickin palantir the whole time is too perfect

Big Red sticker on the side of a cardboard box with white writing that reads SAFELY STORED HOLIDAY ITEMS The Shadow of my phone can be seen at the bottom

no but what does that mean

Exciting day at the park!

Was heartened to learn about their work to ensure folks in east Portland feel more able to ask for help on stuff, the focus on language coverage seems good.

Why 311 Will Fix (Almost) All of Your Portland Problems Podcast Episode · City Cast Portland · 10/28/2025 · 22m

Extremely bummed out to learn from this that people call from out of town to yell at our very helpful 311 workers.

lol same, I always think he’s messing with me!

SNAP Breakfast Donation - Heretic Coffee Co. For covering breakfast cost for those losing SNAP benefits.

Heretic Coffee in Portland will be offering free breakfast to people with SNAP cards until it's reinstated or they go broke doing it.

You can donate so they don't actually go broke doing it. checkout.square.site/merchant/MLW...

Feels like that Zitron piece on Wired could have been written about Paul Carr 15 years ago. The tech press is 400 conflicts of interest in a trench coat and being kind of gadfly-y and British is a good marketing strategy. Doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

also uh if anyone in portland wants a radcity 5+ lmk

I have an ebike I'm selling, which unfortunately means I must log in to facebook, the great indignity.