currently using my mastodon.social account for #pdx and #portland trying to find potential meatspace friends to make to follow from this account...the wonderful eccentricities of mastodon 😩
@Sir_Lord_B It's really annoying for sure 😅 I still want to set up the #OutcastCreatorsCollective server someday, a place for creators like me who are constantly banned from mainstream platforms but AREN'T nazis, but that requires a level of funding, time, and tech know-how I am unable to meet at this point in my life. We'd be fine with sex workers also as long as they're not posting actual porn to their posts, just links elsewhere with ample warning...cuz if I made it focused just on topless equality activists like me, it'd be an extremely small instance 😏
@toplesstopics "fine with sex workers" is my attitude in ABW. There are so many NSFW subreddits full of porn that ban anyone posting a valid pic or video clip that has a link to their sales site. Where do these mods think the content comes from , magic booby tree?
In ABW, if their post fits the style of ABW and the title isn't too spammy, they are encouraged to put a link to their sales in the comments - and I do this automatically if they verify.
Out-of-state urban planners showing up in Oregon and realizing that despite being 50 years behind us in terms of land use and transportation policies, housing is still twice as expensive as the Midwest. #pdx
We saw the great Shabaka Hutchings last night at the lovely Newmark Theater in downtown #PDX. As expected, the focus of the performance was his exploration of the flute, or I should say flutes, as he played a very wide variety of instruments, including several we didn't recognize. The band was excellent and did include Esperanza Spalding as hoped.
He is, of course, a genius. For my taste he's the most interesting voice in modern jazz by a wide margin. The performance was fascinating
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@BigAngBlack
Fascinating that the shooter admitted after "I don't know what went wrong with me."
Based on the description of the altercation and the Kyle Rittenhouse shirt this is a dude who has been told these protestors are a violent enemy, and he thought it was going to be so easy to walk up and become "a patriot" too by killing people. And when he didn't manage to find an excuse, he shot anyway because he was bewildered and angry.
Right wing rhetoric literally turns people into shooters.
"I don't think the Hardesty/Iannaronne/Eudaly types that have driven this city into the ditch..."
I don't think I've seen a better comment demonstrating the lack of rigor these commenters have. Between the three of them, they have 8 years of time on a 5 person #pdx city council, yet they get the blame for the state of the city.
@enobacon even if their ideas were terrible, it's absurd to suggest they were the ones driving the government. One of them never even held elected office!
Is anyone in the #pdx area interested in running real Linux (#postmarketOS) on their old phone, tablet, whatever? Do you want help installing it? Let's meet up!
@thorncoyle he seemed like a really good person. He started something great. We live near to Bob's and shop or eat there fairly often, and it was always nice to see him there
The new downtown park replacing what was Portland's O'Bryant Sq will be ringed by a 6ft fence?!
Not my idea of a public space. "Portland Clean and Safe" seems like a malign presence in this city. #pdx
I was legitimately almost killed just now by a car that sped up to pass me on the left as I was making a left turn on a greenway right in front of my house. They saw me signal and sped up so quickly that I didn’t even notice it and they almost hit me with a left hook, I think they had sped up to about 40mph based on the speed differential. This is why Portland’s neighborhood greenways don’t feel safe without traffic diverters. I’m shaking right now. #pdxbikes#pdx#BikeTooter#cycling