What a time to be doing this, bestie.

I'm not one to judge, though: I have bangs right now.

How do you have the emotionally resiliency to wade through comments like this at the volume you do?

Seeing even one instance of such callousness is enough to take the wind from beneath my sails for the rest of the day.

"Traffic violence is when tent on sidewalk."

Since getting a BiPAP, T’Challa has taken to sleeping on my face. This eventually knocks the mask off, and I am then forced to move him to his proper place & role: on my feet acting as a foot warmer.

Gobble gobble goose

Spooky-time Goose

Consolidation which forces Corbett, Oregon under the same banner as Portland is ridiculous. Consolidation which undermines Portland’s charter reform is bullshit.

2/2

I am in favor of Portland becoming a combined City/County, with the rest of eastern Multnomah county remaining separate.

Then, the current 12-person city council would function as a combined city council/county commission.

1/2

Is the 800,000 for the full system or the pilot project?

FF is currently only going for PCEF dollars, and has no ambitions for payroll monies. State funding would be nice, but… 😬

I think in order to have successful buses, we’re gonna need more people excited about transit. That’s gonna take a paradigm-altering project. This a very cheap win towards that

(In fairness, I think that partially illustrates just how fucking bad the SW corridor was---holy shit).

(Also: note that relative cost comparisons are made using 2025 dollars for both projects).

Modeling shows that a full-system build out with 9 vessels would have the ridership of the MAX green line at probably 1/15 or less the capital construction cost of the SW corridor and require about 1/2 the per passenger operational subsidy.

We have a lot of needs, but I never say no to good transit

Portland I get: it's City Hall. But why 4th & Madison in Seattle?

My adrenaline constantly being spiked is going to kill me. I’m holding all the stress in body. My brain fog is basically debilitating.

An important piece of context, for sure.

Ofc you’re a Leo

This is a needle that can be threaded.

POC, low-income, and marginalized people tend to sign up for military service because they left with few structural alternatives to bettering their lives, AND

Participating in and enabling a fascist takeover is wrong.

Two mutually non-exclusive truths.

That slip is a relic from the bridge’s streetcar days: its wide turning radius geometry allowed trains to continue north to lower Albina. With no interurban making this movement anymore, there’s no reason to keep it open in 2025.

I say this as the resident slip lane closing guy.

Not only are we not equipped for this, but I’m afraid we don’t know where to start. I can’t think of an example where the US has ever effective de-Nazified—maybe in Germany itself, but clearly that didn’t have as much staying power as we thought.

Reconstruction is an example of a failed attempt.