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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 6h

my longstanding theory is that gen x film execs are really bad at figuring out which IP franchises they remember from their childhood still have cultural cachet today. this is why we keep getting ghostbusters movies too

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 6h

I actually totally missed this

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 6h

praying over burgerville. the protest frog. antifa hellfire. renowned puppy killer kristi noem. these are dark days for our city but I cannot lie the content is truly incredible

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 6h

I heard 50k as an estimate for the last big one, I bet this one is bigger

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 7h

Double kaiju event chalkboard meme from pacific rim

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 11h

implies a classic joke about how human heaven is cat hell

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 12h

I promise to never let it be forgotten

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14h

how it feels to be a SE portland voter in a cracked district casting a ballot that cancels out someone in eastern oregon

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14h

folks they’re calling each other mean names on twitter . . . they’re telling you to drive out to fight them at a park in the middle of the night and, let me tell you, they’re not showing up. oh no. and then they’re looking up your court records, and what they’re finding? it’s very bad.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14h

I think you might be able to have a bike shop basically cut a fender in half and attach it on either side of the brake, going by memory of my brother having to deal with this like ten years ago

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 18h

The coming national horror is that if Portland's *truly* minimal level of protest justifies federalizing and deploying troops, they can and will be federalized and deployed anywhere the President wants and whenever he wants.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18h

My initial read on this argument: Judge Nelson is eager to disagree with his 9th Cir. colleagues that federalizing the NG is reviewable at all.

He's also eager to disagree with Judge Immergut that the Portland protests were small and under control.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18h

McArthur about the ICE protesters: "these are violent people." Says the president is entitled to say "enough is enough."

Asks for a stay pending appeal. Sits.

Argument is over.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 18h

her likely NSA suggesting a break in policy was not a credible signal to skeptical voters, regardless of what the media said about it. come on

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 1d

Secret police www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

my observation has been that bikeshare is a lot more convenient for short ebike trips, I wonder if the long trips that people do on e-bikes in pdx are just subway trips in nyc for people without cars

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

nyc also has the ebike battery fire problem which seems like a legitimately thorny policy issue

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

the panic about them has definitely made its way around the country, we had a bill in the legislature this year trying to regulate class 3+ e-bikes bikeportland.org/2025/01/14/o...

Oregon bill seeks to ban Class 3 e-bikes from sidewalks, bike lanes, and paths

Regulating by bicycle type instead of speed or behavior could have unintended consequences.

bikeportland.org

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

have posted about this before but ossé is still one of the only politicians I’ve ever seen reference the transit costs project in their public communications. I’d love to see him in congress www.axios.com/2025/10/09/z...

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve only seen one person riding an e-moto on a bike path and he was actually going annoyingly slow, enough that I ended up passing him on the biketown bike I was riding. maybe I’m just not riding in the right places but a lot of coverage of this stuff feels moral panic-y to me

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

arc or arq?

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

woah, big python news www.pythonsnacks.com/p/python-gil...

Why Python 3.14 GIL Update is Significant for Threading

The GIL isn't a bottleneck anymore - threading is truly going threaded.

www.pythonsnacks.com

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

harris probably would have done better than biden on this and it was a problem that her team couldn’t figure out how to credibly signal that to voters

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

no mention of rene gonzalez’s car. even the feds don’t buy his story on that one

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇 @bradleybondy.com · 1d

Let's review bomb bison coffee! 😜

maps.app.goo.gl/z9oZGUnG8SRv...

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 1d

didn’t check all of the cited quotes but not shocked at all that it’s a parade of local freaks

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