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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 2h

Coulda just kept Blake Snell in...

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 4h

The state, the city, the county, the feds, the facilities, the consumers ...

What do we want? "MOVE THE HUB!"
When do we want it? "BEFORE THE QUAKE!"

Chad Lykins @chadlykins.bsky.social · 4h

This is a wicked hard problem & even the best proposals coming from the city & county are simply trying to mitigate the worst effects of a major disaster.

To really fix the problem the state needs to move the hub.

Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 5h

So I'm starting to put together my CEI Hub comments (as everyone should be doing this week) and I gotta say, even the strongest of the proposed alternatives seems really weak to me. A quick🧵 1/5
www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

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Chad Lykins @chadlykins.bsky.social · 4h

This is a wicked hard problem & even the best proposals coming from the city & county are simply trying to mitigate the worst effects of a major disaster.

To really fix the problem the state needs to move the hub.

Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 5h

So I'm starting to put together my CEI Hub comments (as everyone should be doing this week) and I gotta say, even the strongest of the proposed alternatives seems really weak to me. A quick🧵 1/5
www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub Policy Project

The project intent is to update Comprehensive Plan policies to regulate fuel facilities in the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub in Northwest Portland. It will also explore options under the zoning c...

www.portland.gov

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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 4h

The Portland frogs merit better artistic renditions than all the AI slop that’s being created about them!!!!

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 3h

I need someone to explain this to me like I have a PhD, 'cuz wut?

Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 4h

The Brewers just pulled off the most chaotic double play you'll ever see

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 5h

So I'm starting to put together my CEI Hub comments (as everyone should be doing this week) and I gotta say, even the strongest of the proposed alternatives seems really weak to me. A quick🧵 1/5
www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub Policy Project

The project intent is to update Comprehensive Plan policies to regulate fuel facilities in the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub in Northwest Portland. It will also explore options under the zoning c...

www.portland.gov

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 7h

I realized that driving through Iowa years ago. Windmills everywhere

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 9h

As many have noted on this site, we need a giant Sasquatch of Liberty on Ross Island

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 12h

Also shipping

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14h

Wut?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 16h

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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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 1d

Broom is rookie shit. I got that shit raked in like five minutes

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1d

Portland haters seething. Just too much twee

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing goggles and a white shirt is standing in front of a yellow background

ALT: a man wearing goggles and a white shirt is standing in front of a yellow background

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 1d

Fear not, Inflatable Army, a corps of Japanese Corporate Mascots is on the way to lend aid.

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 1d

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 1d

Current mood in Portland

The inflatable frog with Vietnam dog meme with helicopters

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

"Another example of the antichrist in great works of art," continued Thiel, "is the masked terrorist who, no matter how many times he is foiled, continues his schemes."

Thiel paused for effect then spoke slowly, his words carrying the weight of the world:

"Swiper, no swiping. And yet he swipes."

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 1d

Look, far be it from me to tell people not to do mind-altering substances, but uh, Peter my guy, put down the bong and lay of the acid for a while.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't realize his wife was cool as hell too. Man what a couple.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Crypto is scam.
Crypto is crime.
Crypto is corrupt.
Crypto is theft.
Crypto is harm.
Crypto is fraud.
Crypto is waste.
Crypto is pollution.
Crypto is exploitation.
Crypto is deception.
Crypto is suicide.
www.thestreet.com/crypto/busin...

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 3d

when he said everything is built out of plywood he was talking about outdoor dining structures on NW 13th. that’s what PBOT’s been trying to tell us this whole time

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