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@jakeythesnakey.bsky.social

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“We should all emulate the virtues of the rattle snake: strong communication and good follow through” PDX 13 month year evangelist Lobbyist Gym I work in politics, my views/posts are my own and do not reflect my employer’s Building Code/Housing/HVAC nerd

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · Aug 18

The end-all-be-all take on Abundance: 1/n

An Abundance movement quickly formed around the book that seemed more interested in backing the moderate establishment wing in intra-Democratic party fights than they were in the book itself. (i.e. Ritchie Torres, Matt Yglesias, etc.)

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 1h

Lmao

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 1h

This guy knows code

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2h

Storage in an apartment building for tenants. Built that way so people can lock their stuff in the cage and have it be kinda secure. I’ve lived in a few buildings that had those.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 8h

The best part about this post has been blocking everyone who calls me a scold

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 9h

Good Q! Nothing about it hit my radar so I don’t think so. Am I upset about a nothingburger? Perhaps.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

Oh for sure, I totally got that! Sorry if I implied otherwise!

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

1) I’m happy to give benefit of the doubt, for my own sanity
2) that advice about doing it from fields won’t help lol. “Yeah we sent a squad car and found two kids in bloc in the field. Found a laser pointer too.”

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve also always read that it’s super easy for ppl in the air to tell where the laser is coming from, and then send a cop there; easy to get caught. Is that right?

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

This re: the Portland/PDX community btw

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

Actually insane that a country like Canada or the Netherlands or *somebody* has not given him asylum and spirited him out of the US, since our authoritarian regime is clearly desperate to disappear and torture him for political reasons

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 12h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h

Ditto for Dorner being a Le Epic Leftist meme guy.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

we have had to endure 190 months of your fucking mayoral election, i don’t want to hear shit out of new york

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

I don’t think we should be gassing up people who live in Portland like this. You’re going to get so much bad art out of that.

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Dan @danjoncon.bsky.social · 1d

LOL the first few seconds of this are pure chaotic joy and it's perfect.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

Mfr said “trillium” :/

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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 2d

Now that I know baseball can last five hours, I am against the MLB2PDX effort

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

This city should be giving tours of the big pipe and the trillium bridge to all PPS students. “See what we can do!? Under budget and ahead of schedule!”

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

Come by Quarter World tonight if you want as ass kicking (at air hockey)

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

Shout out to Raul, hope you’re well my guy.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

Op Eds written and submitted, arguing about it on Nextdoor, friends and family voter guide distributed, parks board engaged. Hell yeah I’m voting yes!

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2d

DON'T PRINT LIES IN THE VOTERS PAMPHLET

#1. Our parks cost more because criminals who are caught engaging in graffiti vandalism are released with little punishment. Lacking harsh penalties, these released criminals simply go back to what they did before and continue to vandalize our parks and spray paint our entire city.
#2. Our Parks cost more because Multnomah County handed out over 25,000 free tents to homeless. The free-tents-for-all idea only attracted more homeless to come to Portland from other states in order to get their free tents and camp in our parks. Now we are all overwhelmed
#3. Our parks cost more because politicians refuse to enforce trespassing laws. This has made our parks a great place for homeless encampments because trespassers know it is hard for their camps to be moved.
#4. Our parks cost more because local governments (at taxpayer expense) hand out free drug paraphernalia to addicts. This makes Portland a top destination for drug addicts from other states to move here.
#5. Our parks cost more because police cannot keep our parks safe from crime and destruction because liberal politicians defunded our police.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

We owe the standards community so much

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

The response I got to this was a madness rune for me, but not nearly as bad as reading the Nextdoor discussion of if Portland should continue to fund our parks dept or not.

Vote for the parks levy y’all! The city is in a precarious place right now and we can’t afford to lose our biggest asset!

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 4d

So, should Dems have spiked COVID relief and stimulus in 2020 until after the election when they took a trifecta?

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Steve Watts @sporkyreeve.bsky.social · 2d

Dudes will be like “oh you believe in dressing up as frogs and holding dance parties? That pales in comparison to my strategy, bitching on social media”

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)