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Ashe
@pondscum.bsky.social
· Oct 12
Portland Burrito Brigade Project
In 2016, one of the founders moved to Portland and started a second branch of the local Eugene group. It is still going once a month thanks to Ash! Portland Brigade is aiming to increase production an...
www.zeffy.com
I run Portland Burrito Brigade, every month we make a few hundred burritos for people who are homeless, food insecure or just hungry. We're volunteer managed and powered by donations. If you feel so inclined, our cost per meal is about $1, donations of any size make a big difference! bit.ly/4n05nN0
My company is really into first principles right now and when I complained to my boss about how much time we waste trying to answer problems that already have solutions, she told me that it's because not everyone has my experience and knows what I know
A great deal of AI hype is coming from con artists who understand exactly how much easier it’s going to be to use the same cons over and over once they achieve their dream of a world in which nobody understands how anything 1) works or 2) has ever worked.
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My company is really into first principles right now and when I complained to my boss about how much time we waste trying to answer problems that already have solutions, she told me that it's because not everyone has my experience and knows what I know
not clear to me that he actually is using chatgpt for parenting when his example question is "why does my kid stop dropping his pizza on the floor, and laughing"
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
not clear to me that he actually is using chatgpt for parenting when his example question is "why does my kid stop dropping his pizza on the floor, and laughing"
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imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin
I was walking down Alberta and the ACLU canvassers were saying "do you want to help us fight ICE?" to everyone walking by except for me, to me they said "do you want to defend trans rights?" Got my ass
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I was walking down Alberta and the ACLU canvassers were saying "do you want to help us fight ICE?" to everyone walking by except for me, to me they said "do you want to defend trans rights?" Got my ass
This specific part of a description from The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
"I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,"
"I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,"
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This specific part of a description from The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
"I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,"
"I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,"
trying to figure out if my coworker thinks I'm pregnant or if he keeps offering me his seat and shit because he's from the east coast and has a different set of gender norms
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
trying to figure out if my coworker thinks I'm pregnant or if he keeps offering me his seat and shit because he's from the east coast and has a different set of gender norms
idk this "war in Christmas" thing has been going on for like 20 years at this point, I think it's kind of on us to not take the bait
Another gross thing he’s done is make saying Merry Christmas into this culture war bullshit where people can use it like a slur, I’ve always said it to people because that was never a thing you couldn’t say and literally the only time I’ve felt uncomfortable saying it is when shit like this happens
Next he’ll restore daylight and blinking.
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
idk this "war in Christmas" thing has been going on for like 20 years at this point, I think it's kind of on us to not take the bait
For Bandcamp Friday please consider the debut album from Portland based indie rock band The Doubt: thedoubt.bandcamp.com/album/its-al...
it's All a Joke, by The Doubt
11 track album
thedoubt.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For Bandcamp Friday please consider the debut album from Portland based indie rock band The Doubt: thedoubt.bandcamp.com/album/its-al...
is sadie sink ever gonna wake up or
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
is sadie sink ever gonna wake up or
I'm really enjoying Sarah Marshall's podcast on the Satanic Panic but so many of the ads are for some other show about "Allison Mack's side of the NXIVM story" which seems like something no one actually needs?
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'm really enjoying Sarah Marshall's podcast on the Satanic Panic but so many of the ads are for some other show about "Allison Mack's side of the NXIVM story" which seems like something no one actually needs?
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im sorry but dungeons and dragons is not a game where you can "do anything". the game where you can do anything is freestyle roleplaying on the neopets message boards
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
im sorry but dungeons and dragons is not a game where you can "do anything". the game where you can do anything is freestyle roleplaying on the neopets message boards
viciously guarding my knitting
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
viciously guarding my knitting
I love espresso and tonic
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I love espresso and tonic
jesus does his voice always sound like this? maybe I don't like kid a afterall
thom yorke singing idioteque completely offbeat is fucking killing me. real life shreds
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
jesus does his voice always sound like this? maybe I don't like kid a afterall
pour one out for your comrades in ecommerce, we're all trying to figure out TikTok shop and what pithy copy will overcome the General State of Things and make people excited about shopping again 🫡
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
pour one out for your comrades in ecommerce, we're all trying to figure out TikTok shop and what pithy copy will overcome the General State of Things and make people excited about shopping again 🫡
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you do this for a living………think, my man. TRY TO REMEMBER!
Draw your thoughts back to 2023 and especially 2024! Focus, FOCUS!!
Draw your thoughts back to 2023 and especially 2024! Focus, FOCUS!!
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
you do this for a living………think, my man. TRY TO REMEMBER!
Draw your thoughts back to 2023 and especially 2024! Focus, FOCUS!!
Draw your thoughts back to 2023 and especially 2024! Focus, FOCUS!!
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“If I am killed / for simply living, / let death be kinder / than man.”
— Althea Davis
— Althea Davis
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“If I am killed / for simply living, / let death be kinder / than man.”
— Althea Davis
— Althea Davis
I usually try to maintain a "there but for the grace of god" attitude about health grifty cult shit but I actually hate these women
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I usually try to maintain a "there but for the grace of god" attitude about health grifty cult shit but I actually hate these women
Astro approves of the sweater I'm working on
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Astro approves of the sweater I'm working on
The Best Land Under Heaven by Michael Wallis. Really well researched book about the Donner Party in the broader context of manifest destiny that I was completely enthralled by a few years ago.
wwnorton.com/books/The-Be...
wwnorton.com/books/The-Be...
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Best Land Under Heaven by Michael Wallis. Really well researched book about the Donner Party in the broader context of manifest destiny that I was completely enthralled by a few years ago.
wwnorton.com/books/The-Be...
wwnorton.com/books/The-Be...
as far as I can tell every episode of supernatural is a monster going "but who IS the monster? me or people, who dropped a nuclear bomb 🤔" and then a woman gets murdered for her own good
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
as far as I can tell every episode of supernatural is a monster going "but who IS the monster? me or people, who dropped a nuclear bomb 🤔" and then a woman gets murdered for her own good
I need a locked account so I can go back to nonstop complaining about my job!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I need a locked account so I can go back to nonstop complaining about my job!!!!