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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · Jun 26

sent a little question to the ol' google machine this morning --

and the AI answer it spit back out to me was something that I wrote & published online yesterday LOL.

so if you think AI answers are reliable -

DON'T 😆

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a crowd of people

ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a crowd of people

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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 15h

I take great pleasure in knowing that you're down with Babou.

828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 15h

I don't get it, the post had nothing to do with soccer

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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 15h

a man is balancing a soccer ball on his head in a living room .

ALT: a man is balancing a soccer ball on his head in a living room .

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

I love this so much

Eleanor points out that Portland's heroes tend to be offbeat, independent creative thinkers, which explains why the city is such a ripe target; the administration is cracking down on artists, she says, "because we point out what is true." And absurd metaphors are a serious matter; when armed federal agents tackle a clarinet player in a banana costume, it draws attention to the disproportionate gap between the perceived threat and the official response. "What I love about what's happening in Portland is that we're refusing the binary of 'cower or fight," she says. “As a city of creative weirdos, we're claiming a third option: irreverence, humor, joy as resistance. And here's the thing - fascists have no counter-argument to that. They can't match wits. Theirs is not a culture of humor, because humor requires surprise and creativity, the exact opposite of control and conformity. You can't legislate against a naked bike ride or a dance party."

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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 4d

listen, I'm not saying the kit should look like a Bojangles box or a tall cold glass of Cheerwine, but what if it did? Whattyagonnadoaboutit?

Zac @zrhdesign.bsky.social · 4d

Starting to cook up the 2026 M2SFC kit with @oliveandyork.com

Anyone got ideas for a kit for us they want to share?

Here are the 2025 and 2024 kits

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 5d

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 6d

Hope you find some peace & comfort soon, my TA brethren. #YAMS

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 6d

Puts this here sound on 🔉 😎👇🏾

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9d

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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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 8d

You are correct

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 9d

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 9d

I keep telling folks that antifa is in no way an actual organization bc

1) if it was real, it’d be in PDX
2) theres no fucking way a group like that could be organized and run in secret
3) because Portland is performance art. The people that WOULD be running antifa are too busy being awesome.

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—Noem, Miller, & the rest of them are completely unprepared for the metric f*cktons of weirdness that PDX can mobilize & deploy at a moment’s notice

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—Noem, Miller, & the rest of them are completely unprepared for the metric f*cktons of weirdness that PDX can mobilize & deploy at a moment’s notice

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9d

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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 9d

OU sucks

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10d

Trump has begun dismissing federal workers, with furloughed staff at the Department of Health and Human Services now facing permanent layoffs. The cuts are hitting the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention especially hard.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 12d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 12d

Mountains are showing off this morning

828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 13d

I’d ask if this is where we are as a nation now.. but yeah, it obv is.

Instead of living a Christ-like life, we have thugs who SAY they’re Christian but acting the opposite.

Better question — is this what you Christofascists are aiming for? Does this make you smile?

Or will folks say ‘enough’?

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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828 timber @tenntimber.bsky.social · 16d

Brulee literally means burned - so it’s the one that’s carmelized on top.

They’re both delicious, just enjoy ❤️

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