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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Announcer saying "Kershaw means so much to this organization" Fuck that. Speak for yourself. I've been a fan since the days of Fernando. Not only does Kershaw shit the bed when it matters most in the postseason he's a dick.

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 10h

Dan Ryan wants to be sweet, remains extraordinarily salty

Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 16h

On the one hand they're destroying all trust in mass media. On the other had maybe everyone will get the hint and log the fuck off

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

Cyberlibertarianism.

He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’”
Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”

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Dr. Jennifer Krauel @freetailed.bsky.social · 1d

Please take a moment to do this, your kids will thank you

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

Plus also all the dangerous chemicals stored in the area that will turn into clouds of noxious gas. Send a letter!

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

Easy ninety second task to ask elected officials to stop expanding fossil fuel infrastructure in city limits, especially where it’s gonna liquify into the willamette river when the earthquake hits:

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

I would fuck with a place called Burger Ritual actually

Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

Killer Burger Ritual

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

Killer Burger Ritual

Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

“Praying at Burgerville,“ a new memoir from Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1d

baruch dayan emes, may his soul ascend to the heighest plane

Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1d

The King is dead

All hail the King www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

Kristi Noem Chompsky is this anything

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

You just had to get a crack in

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

No chance they’re just running an in-home preschool?

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 1d

there’s a confusion in this conversation between the political, where Trump is truly a huge departure, and the social, where he is very much a continuation of a tradition that dates back to the founding.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

One reason former Republicans have been better at opposing Trump than many progressives is because they correctly understand that the GOP’s descent into fascism represents a dramatic shift, and is therefore scarier, where the latter groups feel the need to argue it’s just a continuation of trend

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

Philly booing Ohtani cmon man. He's not a Dodger he's our national baseball Folk Hero. He is for everyone. He loves dogs and hits balls 500 ft and throws the ball 100 mph.

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 3d

Force-carbonated pickle brine

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Omelas Simulator, a city builder where your currency is misery and you have to decide between children, puppies, and kittens in various amounts.

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 4d

especially sick of people trying to use critiques of implementation to argue for repealing PFA, not improving

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Kori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 4d

Our responsibility as portlanders is to accuse our business class of being republicans. If they support the natl guard coming in, they’re republicans. If they thank Christine drazan at a homeless shelter meeting, they’re republicans

"If the Democrats had been delivering materially and emotionally for the public, there would not be a need for socialists in office," said Ms. Morillo, who was homeless for a time in college. "We would not see Zohran Mamdani succeed in New York."
In a city considered one of the most progressive in the country, the debate over just how far-left to be has amused some longtime residents.
"In Portland, our political spectrum is not Republican to Democrat," said Amy Ruiz, a local political consultant and lobbyist. "It's, 'Which shade of blue are you?'"

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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 4d

This article has a lot more important problems so I feel stupid saying this…but umm…the Mercury wrote and published the first major article about the DSA councilors back in June. Of course it isn’t the local reporting linked or mentioned here.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 5d

One Battle After Another is basically “what if Big Trouble in Little China, but Woke” and it fucking rules

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 6d

I believe you! I was told they start 10 minutes a day on chromebooks in Kindergarten, but maybe that's just some schools, or maybe it's a specialized program?

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 6d

Big Corbs on the Good Website

Corbin Smith @corbinsmith.bsky.social · 6d

HI EVERYONE! I wrote about The Materials Show, a big materials acquisition event for the Activewear Industry, and also the future of clothing in the face of IMPENDING CLIMATE AND PLASTIC CONSUMPTION APOCALYPSE for @defector.com! defector.com/the-future-o...

The Future Of The Sneaker Business First Requires A Future | Defector

PORTLAND, ORE. — Global capitalism begins with apparel. Slaves were brought to the American South from West Africa to do farm labor, and by the 19th century that largely meant cotton, a ubiquitous puf...

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 6d

Yeah we opted out of PPS in part because they do daily laptop time starting in kindergarten. It is I guess a valuable life skill to be a computer person and also I do not want that for my kids yet

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Plum Daddy K @kieffercities.com · 6d

Added to the list! Read Silent Spring for the first time earlier this year, feels like a good time to revisit the history

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🫘 👻 Spooky BEAN YEAR soup 🥣 season🎃 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 6d

But the idea that there are places anymore where we have no obligation or responsibility to consider our stewardship, meaning no wild places left, I believe has passed and we chose to stay naive and grab at a lost innocence, possibly at our peril

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