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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 15h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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mlrphotography.bsky.social @mlrphotography.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning

Chasing waterfalls and autumn views! Who else has stood on the Benson Bridge at Multnomah Falls and felt tiny compared to this natural wonder? Highly recommend visiting the Columbia River Gorge this time of year!

#MultnomahFalls #AutumnVibes #WaterfallWednesday #RoadTrip

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah man that was real weird

ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 18h

Aaron Glenn: I regret not trying a Hail Mary at end of first half against Broncos.
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Aaron Glenn: I regret not trying a Hail Mary at end of first half against Broncos

Jets head coach Aaron Glenn's decision to stick with quarterback Justin Fields during Sunday's 13-11 loss to the Broncos in London was met with some criticism and it wasn't the only decision that led ...

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 1d

They should switch out the sky cam for a drone. I need to be even closer to the action.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 1d

The Mariners, of Seattle!

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 1d

They clearly don’t watch the Denver Broncos.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 1d

Hockey in the morning and baseball in the afternoon means I ain’t getting shit done today

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 2d

Everyone is talking about butt plug shirt guy, but don’t sleep on the super jacked dude behind him

A goomba from the Super Mario Brothers movie

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

There is a comically large steroid user sitting behind home plate in Toronto

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

Great win!

Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

In Broncos Country every game must be extremely difficult to get through and will also make you angry no matter the outcome.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

In Broncos Country every game must be extremely difficult to get through and will also make you angry no matter the outcome.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being Nik Bonitto and having to pretend to respect your teammates that play on offense.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

The best part about all of this is it’ll be over one way or another before 10am and we can go on with our lives.

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Ryan @5280orange.bsky.social · 2d

I woke up this morning and said out loud these are the games the Broncos love to lose, but I didn’t post it because I am trying to be more positive about things but that is turning out to be very difficult.