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M @321starz.bsky.social · 7h

It's just so great to tune in briefly to national news coverage of all the No Kings stuff and have people say "and here's another person in an inflatable costume" and then go into why/how it all started here.

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M @321starz.bsky.social · 7h

FWIW the whole Don't Obey Frog thing is like... that's Portland. Weird funny zany shit like that that suddenly becomes culturally significant, that's why I'm here.

I feel we lost that thread for a while, or maybe all the city's other issues masked it.

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M @321starz.bsky.social · 6d

As I understand it many of the costumes are getting donated after delivery, so at least some kind of barrier between order-er and protestor.

That said, Lippman's has 'em and has been doing a brisk business, it appears.

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M @321starz.bsky.social · 8d

24 years later the MC Paul B randomly shows up in my head.

M @321starz.bsky.social · 8d

Was I to rap, as France was to Morocco?

Was I : rap :: France : Morocco ?

M @321starz.bsky.social · 8d

Have I made a mockery of a culture like the

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M @321starz.bsky.social · 10d

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

M @321starz.bsky.social · 11d

I said consummate V's! CONSUMMATE!

M @321starz.bsky.social · 16d

Seriously, whoever the next Dem Presidential nominee ends up being, they need to hire Zohran's social media team

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M @321starz.bsky.social · 18d

Dial up ending and a government shutting down... HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 18d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

M @321starz.bsky.social · 20d

Ok lmao, lol (with respect to those who used to work there) but the Spirit Halloween occupying the very recently vacated Joann Fabric space in Tigard is peak internet meme come to life.

Like I literally did a double take to make sure it wasn't CGI, and this was AS I WAS DRIVING PAST

M @321starz.bsky.social · 21d

Was in downtown-ish PDX today and it's so fucking nice outside! What a truly terrible awful place

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𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · 26d

LOL

A representative for GWAR told The Post, "Normalizing violence? Humans don't need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."

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M @321starz.bsky.social · 26d

Reading the headline: Nelson's first "Ha"

Seeing who the author is: Nelson's second "Ha"

M @321starz.bsky.social · 26d

Jesus H Christ can RFK Jr just get a neck transplant or something, listening to that guy is the absolute worst

M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 19

"Macrohard" as "Macro-heard"

The cadence of the voice is also bad. Much like a second grader, it'll use an end-of-sentence vocal inflection. Then keep going through the end of the sentence but it sounds like. A new one started.

M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 19

YOU* cheap hacks. At least my mistakes are organic and realized.

M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 19

What's cool (awful actually) about the audio version of this article is that the AI voice consistently mixes up the pronunciation of "xAI". Sometimes it's "ex-ehh-eye", sometimes it's "z-ay".

Just hire a real fucking person cheap hacks.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · Sep 18

Elon Musk had a 1.5 hour meeting at xAI yesterday where he talked about building a competitor to Microsoft called "Macrohard," creating "Baby Grok" for kids 2-12, and using AI to quintuple X's revenue to $10B. We listened in.

After leaving Trump, he's all in on AI.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company

www.nytimes.com

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M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 19

Me too! It'll probably take a few days for the local pharmacies to catch on (as of a few minutes ago, the Walgreen's site still indicates a prescription is required for the Covid shot), but glad as well to live in OR right now.

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M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 18

Stayed up too late watching pizza dough videos again

M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 18

M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 15

I love this time of year because you can do tons of shit outside but there's this "hurry hurry!!" feeling as the light slants and the clouds roll in.

6 hours of cleaning out the garage, yard work (aka Useful Crossfit), errands. Exhausted and in pain but that vape and hot tub gonna things OK

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · Sep 13

I honestly think it's mostly just being born between 1970 and 2000. Didn't have it as a toddler but got in early enough that parsing internet bullshit quickly became second nature. I think people born outside this window are at a disadvantage in different directions with this shit

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Sep 13

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

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M @321starz.bsky.social · Sep 13

There can be only one (more set of squats)

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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