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kristen g

@nomadpdx.bsky.social

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I used to watch soccer. I have a lot of shoes. Becoming ungovernable. Caretaker to a chocolate lab and a ‘67 Mustang. she/her

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · Nov 17

I might keep a running list of things I’m throwing away to make room in the garage. The first thing out today was a 10lb. brick of clay that dried into a doorstop about 20 years ago. Time to go.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 7h

Friends. What happened to the Ninth? Did they just quit on us?

kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 8h

Incredible. 😂

kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 15h

Each one needs a grandma hug and a blankie and a cup of soup, but the soup should be made entirely of tranquilizers and anti-anxiety meds.

kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 15h

It’s either that or the occasional candy corn vampire teeth.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder if those guys have to drug test. I’ve been thinking about this since I read it. ‘Roooooiddddssss.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 15h

This is absolutely correct procedure.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 15h

October 13, 2025

I’m one of approximately 17% of the population that likes candy corn. I like the traditional orange/yellow/white. I prefer the rarer white/orange/brown. I do not want candy corn in weird pastel Easter colors or red and green for Christmas. I don’t know when or why we started doing…

October 13, 2025

I’m one of approximately 17% of the population that likes candy corn. I like the traditional orange/yellow/white. I prefer the rarer white/orange/brown. I do not want candy corn in weird pastel Easter colors or red and green for Christmas. I don’t know when or why we started doing that, but we should stop. That might be the first step toward becoming a civilized society again.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 19h

We had about four days today, yes?

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 21h

Exhibit A

youtu.be/qsrsrOB0zNQ?...

Sturgill Simpson - Call To Arms [Live on SNL]

YouTube video by Sturgill Simpson

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 22h

Continuing to serve.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

Veterans protest Guard

YouTube video by WREG News Channel 3

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 22h

This would be the part where Portland would say "you're not my mom."

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 23h

ashley

kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 23h

alright. i put the baseball on my phone.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Am I super busy today? Yes. Am I spending a lot of time looking at pictures of the Bitterroot Valley? Also yes.

Are these things related? Absolutely not.

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Jenn Chávez @jennchavez.bsky.social · 4d

With beloved Portland frogs currently winning the hearts & minds of the American public, perhaps you'd care to learn from @opb.org about their siblings & the help they get avoiding the fate of Frogger from Portland's volunteer-run frog taxi, which helps Northern red-legged frogs cross the road 🐸🚕

‘The Evergreen’: Portland’s ‘frog taxi’ helps amphibians cross the road

Teams of dedicated volunteers are on-call from late winter to early spring to help Northern red-legged frogs safely cross Highway 30 to get from Forest Park to the Harborton wetland, where they breed.

www.opb.org

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 1d

The Faroe Islands locker room was quite rightly hyped after the territory of just 55,000 people stunned the Czech Republic 2-1 🥳

It’s their third straight World Cup win, arguably the biggest in their history, and leaves the Faroes one point off a World Cup play-off spot. Truly remarkable 🇫🇴

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

made this at 5am idk

the fall i turned into a withered old crone

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

It makes me nervous to see those people in that room together. I have watched too many action movies.

kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

I need that, but as a nice wrap.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

We are not without our faults. We desperately need to do more for our unhoused neighbors. We need more support for out folks who are deep in their addictions and for those who just feel lost.

And we could do something about the gd potholes.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of places have quirky things they do. Minneapolis has that giant pencil they sharpen in someone's front yard and I dunno what that's about, but in Portland, we have one of those things every other week.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is incredibly "don't tell me what to do" and "you're not my mom" while also being "hey, let's go do this" and "don't ask me, I'm not your mom."

Everyplace else feels too buttoned-up. To constricting.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

We moved to Portland when I was ten. I was already a weirdo when I got here. I've just gotten weirder as I've met more people who don't blink when you tell them your stupid ideas.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 1d

AND THIS PART. ONLY WEIRDOS.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

Every single person I grew up with is a little bit strange - a thing I grew up believing was a compliment. To be weird was to have a crystalline sense of your own identity and resist the imposition of others, which is why half the people I went to high school with are gurus and capoeira masters.