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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · Nov 11

A half-ass intro:

Middle-aged white male Portlander who believes all human beings have intrinsic worth. ✊

You’ll see posts here about sports (soccer/baseball/derby), music (LOUD), politics, birding, dogs, the natural world, kaiju, with occasional reposts from my merch acct @calyxworks.bsky.social.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 8h

Someone do the DeBlasio/Onion headline but with Blake Treinen saying ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Closer That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 8h

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 8h

Jeff Kent slagged them as French Vanilla, which only made them more beautiful.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 9h

Fast food advertising is getting real nervous rn bc nothing looks like they say it does

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 9h

Arby's is being sued for false advertising

Lawsuit alleges:

• Ads make the sandwiches appear to have 'at least 100% more meat' than they really do

• Made the meat look like rare roast beef when it is actually 'fully cooked'

Arby's lost its motion to dismiss the case

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 9h

This is why so many catchers end up managing. Contreras might’ve been the only guy in the park who understood what was going on!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 12h

It’s Polanctober

hatin' manning @broeyramone.bsky.social · 12h

POLANCO

Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 13h

Sonic Youth - Superstar

Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 13h

This is the correct way to live

Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 13h

Then the kid at checkout asked about my Fetid shirt and was excited to check them out. And I found a quarter in the parking lot! #warravagedwinco

Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 14h

Pulled a non-janky cart at Winco, should I play the lottery?

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Matt Wastradowski @wastro.bsky.social · 15h

I'll be signing books at the festival on Sunday, December 7! I hope to see you there!

Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 17h

Save the date for 45th annual Wild Arts Festival at Wingspan Event Center in Hillsboro on December 6 & 7!

Just in time for the holidays, you can purchase nature-inspired art, meet some of your favorite authors, and find great items in the Silent Auction.

👉Tickets on sale: www.wildartsfestival.org

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 15h

Rhymes with the way Republican politicians respond to questions about the ongoing fascist program – “I’m not aware of that”. 🙃

Orlando B ✍️ @sarkastiklover.bsky.social · 15h

First of all, that's *the* thing about Rowling, what she wants to be recognised for the most, the fuck do you mean you didn't know.

Second, this "respect other opinions" argument is beyond bullshit. Human rights aren't a matter of fucking opinion!

Keira Knightley Reacts to J.K. Rowling Boycott After Joining Harry Potter Project

The actress was asked about signing onto the new full-cast Harry Potter audiobook series.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 15h

Es tut mir echt leid:

www.canofworms.com/triple-homon...

a black and white photo of a crow flying in the sky

ALT: a black and white photo of a crow flying in the sky

media.tenor.com

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 15h

boor, bore, boar usw…

Wenn eine Sprache so wie von Krähen gesammelt ist.

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 15h

Head-up Portland: ultra-MAGA and Pr*ud B*y associates will are planning a protest at David Douglas High School on Wednesday, Oct 15. They're mad some students oppose the fascist Turning Point club in their school.

Audra Ann post: Please come out this Wednesday, to support one of the bravest young men I’ve ever seen. Both he and his little sister are facing continual harassment and threats from school staff and students at David Douglas High School, in Portland Oregon... Stand for Logan. We are Charlie Kirk! Wednesday, Oct 15, 2:15pm, David Douglas High School North Building."

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 19h

I am so proud of Portland right now. I keep saying we are having a renaissance & you can really see it in so many ways.

We just hosted folks from around the country at an energy conference & they were blown away by the political culture that is growing here.

We have a chance at something great.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22h

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 17h

I LOVE hearing this.

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · 23h

People using Margaret Thatcher' 100th birthday to celebrate her death is so disappointing to me. You can celebrate her death EVERY day of the year, people!

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bettystumpy.bsky.social @bettystumpy.bsky.social · 20h

On the Media is one of the best sources for understanding what the fuck is happening in the US today.

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 3d

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20h

Just watched the new @lastweektonight.com on Bari Weiss. Well worth your time if you, like me, are a huge hater.

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

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Freshly delivered from Libby and I am EXCITED. Haven’t read this since junior high school, can’t wait to see how it stacks up against romanticized memories.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

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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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Check in on me in a week.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective spell that will make you slightly more likely to see a lovely owl silhouetted against the eventide sky.

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