Justin
@justinskolnick.bsky.social
I am available to eat apple pie or pumpkin pie
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I am available to eat apple pie or pumpkin pie
If you live in Portland and want to help people stay housed, take 5min and sign this petition from the Welcome Home Coalition
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November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
If you live in Portland and want to help people stay housed, take 5min and sign this petition from the Welcome Home Coalition
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what if we just took all of Phil Knight’s money
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
what if we just took all of Phil Knight’s money
The reason they oppose taxes but have no problem doing philanthropy is simple. If we taxed them we’d probably use the money to put together a safety net that improves life for everyone whereas with philanthropy they get to decide who wins at life and who loses
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The reason they oppose taxes but have no problem doing philanthropy is simple. If we taxed them we’d probably use the money to put together a safety net that improves life for everyone whereas with philanthropy they get to decide who wins at life and who loses
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Apropos of nothing, here, in no particular order, are some things I do in exchange for money in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon:
Replace appliances and fixtures like faucets, dishwashers, microwaves, and garbage disposals
Repair/replace windows and doors
Repair rotten stuff
Baseboards etc
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Replace appliances and fixtures like faucets, dishwashers, microwaves, and garbage disposals
Repair/replace windows and doors
Repair rotten stuff
Baseboards etc
/
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Apropos of nothing, here, in no particular order, are some things I do in exchange for money in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon:
Replace appliances and fixtures like faucets, dishwashers, microwaves, and garbage disposals
Repair/replace windows and doors
Repair rotten stuff
Baseboards etc
/
Replace appliances and fixtures like faucets, dishwashers, microwaves, and garbage disposals
Repair/replace windows and doors
Repair rotten stuff
Baseboards etc
/
When I lived around the corner from a brewpub I became a regular and learned to watch for new tap heads. New tap heads meant new flavors, and I dig flavors. I remember getting that first sip of a craft ESB, thinking, that is a fucking toasted biscuit. What a rush. If only they’d made it 0.5%
Sober life’s not bad
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When I lived around the corner from a brewpub I became a regular and learned to watch for new tap heads. New tap heads meant new flavors, and I dig flavors. I remember getting that first sip of a craft ESB, thinking, that is a fucking toasted biscuit. What a rush. If only they’d made it 0.5%
Hunkered down at home in case the month, with its Scrooge-like succession of dodged bullets, has something weirder in the chamber for its final week
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Hunkered down at home in case the month, with its Scrooge-like succession of dodged bullets, has something weirder in the chamber for its final week
After half a lifetime of having to deal with smart but wildly insecure people who were confident that I thought they were stupid, the universe has brought me people who are actually stupid
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
After half a lifetime of having to deal with smart but wildly insecure people who were confident that I thought they were stupid, the universe has brought me people who are actually stupid
Significant sad Quality Time with Photoshop and Illustrator after bussing home from school, too far out to safely walk to town, while my in-town classmates were hooking up. Scored myself an ad design gig at the local paper, and then the office’s main production machine got a 28.8 modem and a website
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Significant sad Quality Time with Photoshop and Illustrator after bussing home from school, too far out to safely walk to town, while my in-town classmates were hooking up. Scored myself an ad design gig at the local paper, and then the office’s main production machine got a 28.8 modem and a website
Sober life’s not bad
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Sober life’s not bad
Quick update on this: 100% an op
It’s important to note that @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social has, for months, in official and personal communications, clearly, repeatedly, and exhaustively articulated the problems posed by the separation of powers in city government and the supremacy clause, including to members of this unhappy group
Continually impressed by this group’s principled refusal to understand government or politics
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Quick update on this: 100% an op
Gilliam & co goofing off with La Jetée still eked out something prescient (and self-referential) concerning credibility as a personal and political problem amid ecological destruction. Cole’s story doesn’t add up … until its elements are positioned to converge, and prove him credible … way too late
Maybe I’ll watch 12 Monkeys tonight
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Gilliam & co goofing off with La Jetée still eked out something prescient (and self-referential) concerning credibility as a personal and political problem amid ecological destruction. Cole’s story doesn’t add up … until its elements are positioned to converge, and prove him credible … way too late
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take jfk off the half dollar coin and put this freak on there. this is the kennedy family legacy now- stupid murderous junkie that talks like a speak and spell that fell in the tub
Every single time I read something like this, which is getting to be twice a week minimum, I think of Bill Cassidy changing his vote to “yes” because RFK jr told Cassidy they would have special biweekly phone calls.
RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC’s new guidance on vaccines and autism | CNN
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autis...
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
take jfk off the half dollar coin and put this freak on there. this is the kennedy family legacy now- stupid murderous junkie that talks like a speak and spell that fell in the tub
My name is Leo
and I’m here to say
I love labor unions
in a major way
and I’m here to say
I love labor unions
in a major way
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
My name is Leo
and I’m here to say
I love labor unions
in a major way
and I’m here to say
I love labor unions
in a major way
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I think it’s honestly disgusting and deeply unserious that the Revoke the Permit people have clipped videos of my women colleagues eating pizza at the dais as some kind of shaming tool, which is now being used by right-wing media to harass them in misogynistic ways. Congrats everyone.
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I think it’s honestly disgusting and deeply unserious that the Revoke the Permit people have clipped videos of my women colleagues eating pizza at the dais as some kind of shaming tool, which is now being used by right-wing media to harass them in misogynistic ways. Congrats everyone.
Maybe I’ll watch 12 Monkeys tonight
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Maybe I’ll watch 12 Monkeys tonight
I was going to post this in reply to a prominent and principled Portlander’s thread: one day my English teacher came to class fresh off a stultifying faculty meeting, by way of venting to us, started dropping CIA-grade tricks for swaying sentiments and whipping up emotions in small groups
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I was going to post this in reply to a prominent and principled Portlander’s thread: one day my English teacher came to class fresh off a stultifying faculty meeting, by way of venting to us, started dropping CIA-grade tricks for swaying sentiments and whipping up emotions in small groups
In college a quarter century ago a prof was still shaken by her meeting with Bill Clinton. Told me: “I’ve never met anyone with more charisma”
Turns out charisma goes a long way in politics!
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In college a quarter century ago a prof was still shaken by her meeting with Bill Clinton. Told me: “I’ve never met anyone with more charisma”
The way it goes is that it starts off with a bad feeling. The sight of people living on the street gives them the bad feeling. So they organize to get rid of these people, thinking that will take away the bad feeling. And they organize and get the people gone, and for a little while there is relief
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The way it goes is that it starts off with a bad feeling. The sight of people living on the street gives them the bad feeling. So they organize to get rid of these people, thinking that will take away the bad feeling. And they organize and get the people gone, and for a little while there is relief
I gotta stop caring about people
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I gotta stop caring about people
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he's not bright and he has no real values or politics and he's a big gigantic sucker for a handsome young man in a suit being mildly deferential to him, in the same way the old ladies at the tango class were in that video. he's gonna give zohran a hard candy out of his handbag
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
he's not bright and he has no real values or politics and he's a big gigantic sucker for a handsome young man in a suit being mildly deferential to him, in the same way the old ladies at the tango class were in that video. he's gonna give zohran a hard candy out of his handbag
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Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Linkedin suggesting I connect with someone who I barely knew ten years ago has led me down a rabbit hole of research that’s going to make something I’m writing incredibly funny
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Linkedin suggesting I connect with someone who I barely knew ten years ago has led me down a rabbit hole of research that’s going to make something I’m writing incredibly funny
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Imagine if we had smart interventions which focused on people getting into stable housing instead of either criminalizing homelessness or managing it as if it is permanent and un-reducable.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Imagine if we had smart interventions which focused on people getting into stable housing instead of either criminalizing homelessness or managing it as if it is permanent and un-reducable.