Dustin
@theunread.bsky.social
I no longer run a bookstore in Portland.
The @graywolfpress.bsky.social spring catalog: real good. www.graywolfpress.org/spring-2026-...
Spring 2026 Catalog | Graywolf Press
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December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The @graywolfpress.bsky.social spring catalog: real good. www.graywolfpress.org/spring-2026-...
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relaunching The Future Was Color as “like Heated Rivalry but written by someone who’s actually had sex”
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
relaunching The Future Was Color as “like Heated Rivalry but written by someone who’s actually had sex”
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It's a random sad Monday in Dec.; 3 of my stories were published in 2025.
#1 "Promise the Human Being" chosen by Michael C at
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social The tonal shift in the second half annoyed most of my friends, a compelling rec. Like Animorphs. CW for SA. ghostcitypress.com/prose2/2025/...
#1 "Promise the Human Being" chosen by Michael C at
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social The tonal shift in the second half annoyed most of my friends, a compelling rec. Like Animorphs. CW for SA. ghostcitypress.com/prose2/2025/...
Prose — Ghost City Press
It only took me six seconds to realize the Xanax wasn’t working. There were 44 minutes, 54 seconds left of the MRI, but I was approximately two seconds away from a panic attack. My breaths grew shallow, and my heart felt as though it might pound out of my chest. I moved my arms to the side to touch the all too close edges of the machine. Don’t open your eyes– as soon as the thought entered my mind, my eyes flung open to stare at the machine’s ceiling. It felt so close to my nose that I wondered if I had enough space to breathe.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's a random sad Monday in Dec.; 3 of my stories were published in 2025.
#1 "Promise the Human Being" chosen by Michael C at
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social The tonal shift in the second half annoyed most of my friends, a compelling rec. Like Animorphs. CW for SA. ghostcitypress.com/prose2/2025/...
#1 "Promise the Human Being" chosen by Michael C at
@ghostcitypress.bsky.social The tonal shift in the second half annoyed most of my friends, a compelling rec. Like Animorphs. CW for SA. ghostcitypress.com/prose2/2025/...
New tramp stamp just dropped
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New tramp stamp just dropped
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I know the New York Mag crosswords are not for me. I get that.
But still—The Dalton School, two tennis questions and like five fashion designers in one puzzle? Come on man.
But still—The Dalton School, two tennis questions and like five fashion designers in one puzzle? Come on man.
December 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I know the New York Mag crosswords are not for me. I get that.
But still—The Dalton School, two tennis questions and like five fashion designers in one puzzle? Come on man.
But still—The Dalton School, two tennis questions and like five fashion designers in one puzzle? Come on man.
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
The real value of these books (other than for bookstores where they make for an easy and reliable sale) is that they’re extremely non-neutral, and drive you to take a stance even as they teach you about what you might be taking a stance ON.
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The real value of these books (other than for bookstores where they make for an easy and reliable sale) is that they’re extremely non-neutral, and drive you to take a stance even as they teach you about what you might be taking a stance ON.
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If she became a champion for it we could get out there & knock doors for her instead of writing mean responses to her fundraising emails & standing in the rain to yell at her & thwarting her & the ignorant ass Senate Finance Committee in Salem. Tim Boyle is never gonna knock doors for you Tina!!!!!
Maybe Tina Kotek will finally understand that her road to re-election does not run through preschool for all www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/12...
Multnomah County Plans Major Surge in Free Preschool Enrollment Next School Year
Multnomah County expects its universal preschool program to see a significant boost in enrollment, starting next fall. On Thursday morning, the county announced plans to offer more than 7,400 Preschoo...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If she became a champion for it we could get out there & knock doors for her instead of writing mean responses to her fundraising emails & standing in the rain to yell at her & thwarting her & the ignorant ass Senate Finance Committee in Salem. Tim Boyle is never gonna knock doors for you Tina!!!!!
Still disturbed by the round pupils on these little fuckers
saving this reaction image for anything surprising this holiday season
December 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Still disturbed by the round pupils on these little fuckers
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this place being on sicko mode today, I just assumed this was Part 6
This Worm Was Chilling in a Lab for Years. Turns Out It’s a Record-Breaker gizmodo.com/this-worm-wa...
This Worm Was Chilling in a Lab for Years. Turns Out It's a Record-Breaker
His name is B, and he lives in Virginia.
gizmodo.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
this place being on sicko mode today, I just assumed this was Part 6
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the novitiate asked, "master, what is best in life?" the old man smiled, and said, "when you think somebody is coming over to your house so you clean your whole house but then they don't"
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the novitiate asked, "master, what is best in life?" the old man smiled, and said, "when you think somebody is coming over to your house so you clean your whole house but then they don't"
Tool is great because the songs are profoundly catchy and propulsive, and half of them are just about how a guy was a little rude to Maynard one time.
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Tool is great because the songs are profoundly catchy and propulsive, and half of them are just about how a guy was a little rude to Maynard one time.
John @themountaingoats.bsky.social plz consider using the Power of Song to tell Portland they should invent a job that exists here
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
John @themountaingoats.bsky.social plz consider using the Power of Song to tell Portland they should invent a job that exists here
They should invent a job that exists in Portland.
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
They should invent a job that exists in Portland.
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I saw a street fight video once that was like, AIKIDO MASTER VS. RUSSIAN STREET THUG and the aikido guy got punched really really hard one time and then he couldn't do any of his techniques and got his ass completely kicked. that is what gentle parenting feels like
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I saw a street fight video once that was like, AIKIDO MASTER VS. RUSSIAN STREET THUG and the aikido guy got punched really really hard one time and then he couldn't do any of his techniques and got his ass completely kicked. that is what gentle parenting feels like
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this post is not about penises i'm talking about an aqueduct.
alright this is the #bigpipe thread, post here about how full the big pipe is or speculate if it's going to get all the way full. all #bigpipe watchers gather round. we're at 21% as of ~1pm pacific
www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe...
alright this is the #bigpipe thread, post here about how full the big pipe is or speculate if it's going to get all the way full. all #bigpipe watchers gather round. we're at 21% as of ~1pm pacific
www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe...
Big Pipe Tracker: See how the Big Pipes prevent combined sewer overflows
Is it raining? Here you can track how the Big Pipe Project is preventing combined sewer overflows to the Willamette River, and be the first to know if a rare overflow does occur.
www.portland.gov
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
this post is not about penises i'm talking about an aqueduct.
alright this is the #bigpipe thread, post here about how full the big pipe is or speculate if it's going to get all the way full. all #bigpipe watchers gather round. we're at 21% as of ~1pm pacific
www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe...
alright this is the #bigpipe thread, post here about how full the big pipe is or speculate if it's going to get all the way full. all #bigpipe watchers gather round. we're at 21% as of ~1pm pacific
www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe...
Oh hell yeah. The latest @davidnaimon.bsky.social episode is with @jazminabarrera.bsky.social.
overcast.fm/+AABNPydE_E0
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Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords — Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so why is it likely that you haven’t read or even heard of Elena Garro before now? And ...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Oh hell yeah. The latest @davidnaimon.bsky.social episode is with @jazminabarrera.bsky.social.
overcast.fm/+AABNPydE_E0
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Normal things happening over there
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Normal things happening over there
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I stumbled across a bit of Portland's history with trans surgeries over on the Oregon Queer History Collective website. From the mid '90s until around 2003 Portland was a bit of a destination city for surgery seeking transsexuals because Meltzer had his clinic here.
www.glapn.org/6068SurgeryI...
www.glapn.org/6068SurgeryI...
Tracing Trans Surgery Through the Archives in Portland, Oregon
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December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I stumbled across a bit of Portland's history with trans surgeries over on the Oregon Queer History Collective website. From the mid '90s until around 2003 Portland was a bit of a destination city for surgery seeking transsexuals because Meltzer had his clinic here.
www.glapn.org/6068SurgeryI...
www.glapn.org/6068SurgeryI...
Man what the hell I just wanted to get a dvd of Andrei rublev in the mail to watch on my laptop that had a dvd drive
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Man what the hell I just wanted to get a dvd of Andrei rublev in the mail to watch on my laptop that had a dvd drive
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Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds. A memo Helmi Hisserich sent to city councilors says city administration viewed unspent funds as "a big PR problem."
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
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Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds
The former director of the Portland Housing Bureau says she was ousted for trying to advance City Council’s social housing policy and was unfairly blamed for revenue that went unspent prior to her app...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds. A memo Helmi Hisserich sent to city councilors says city administration viewed unspent funds as "a big PR problem."
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Calling her a stool pigeon as we make love.
“You rat fink.”
“You rat fink.”
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Calling her a stool pigeon as we make love.
“You rat fink.”
“You rat fink.”