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Karstan

@Karstan@urbanists.social

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies-'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'" he/him (ish) Ⓥ

Free Palastine. Land Back. Black Lives Matter. Love is Love. Gender is made up.

As https://urbanists.social/@SRLevine puts it: "Favorite stars don't cost money and can make someone smile (or at least feel seen) so I use them often. I'm not being weird at you specifically, I'm being weird at everyone." Unless... 😏

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seachanger, to random
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woke up thinking it’s time to get Hollywood making big immersive iMax movies about life after a real green new deal. show us Scarlett Johansson boarding a gorgeous train in Seattle and stepping off in LA hours later! give us steamy intersectional rom coms in lush, electrified cities! I want Pedro pascal & his kid traversing an eco-utopian continent via e-bike on rails to trail corridors through vibrant towns, wild forests, and regenerative farms!

Karstan,
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@seachanger Malena chanting: "Solar punk! Solar punk!" Everying joining in "Solar punk! Solar punk!"

Karstan,
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@seachanger punk :)

Karstan,
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@seachanger PUNK!

greendesignek, to portland
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This guy is terrible for #Portland
#mayoralrace #orpol #BikeTooter #bikeportland

https://bikeportland.org/2024/02/22/mapps-to-pbot-union-gas-tax-wont-fund-bike-lanes-that-drive-everybody-crazy-384164

Karstan,
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@greendesignek i hate that he or Rene are likely going to be our next mayor. I hate it so much. I'm not sure I could stomach 4 more years of them destroying this city.

Karstan,
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@enobacon @greendesignek i dunno if voting strategy is gonna mean that much for mayor when we have such a lack of quality candidates. Plus Portland "centrists" or "moderates" (or whatever the conservatives are calling themselves these days so they don't feel bad) seem to love Gonzalez and Mapps.

Karstan,
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@enobacon @greendesignek little would please me more than for me to be wrong about the true political leanings of the average Portland voter

Karstan, to random
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My older sister, a doctor, and her middle-school aged child both have nasty cases of COVID. My sister only masks when seeing patients (not in other parts of her hospital) and my niece not at all. She's been calling me daily to complain about how unfair everything is. So far I've managed to only point out once that they probably wouldn't be sick if they wore n95s regularly.

enobacon, to random
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I'm basically stalled/stuck on the issue and haven't moved forward on any other aspect of this project. I need the source code for the controller and/or cycleAnalyst? Somewhere there's a bug in the regen current limit, and also my desired braking scheme (hold this speed) should be easily supported if it could dynamically change that speed limit parameter. Between weak braking and hamfisted control, it's not an easy bike to use. 😞 Because software.

Karstan,
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@enobacon what did GRIN say about it? Is it working as intended? Seems like they should fix it if not

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Again, corporations have essentially stopped all pretenses about caring about their employees.

a video of a woman at a computer desk with the caption: "POV Your 28 and moved for a job that fired you 3 months later."

Karstan,
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@BlackAzizAnansi The executives that are making these "strategic decisions" are the exact same ones that complain that employees aren't loyal to the company.

enobacon, to random
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Yet another "safety" project where the deadly status quo has been maintained for years while #PBOT wrings their collective hands about how to do it without impeding cars.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/02/14/city-officials-promised-improvements-to-an-east-portland-intersection-for-six-years-they-did-nothingand-a-pedestrian-was-killed-there-last-week/

Karstan,
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@enobacon The City That Works!

enobacon, (edited ) to portland
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"Gonzalez recently released a melodramatic video claiming he was "accosted" by a female fellow TriMet rider on January 27, who allegedly subjected him to “deliberate, unwanted physical contact” while also having the gall to criticize the public servant over his cruel policies. Unfortunately for him, TriMet video of the incident show he wildly exaggerated those claims, and AT MOST the woman may have brushed Gonzalez’s arm as she passed by"

https://www.portlandmercury.com/good-morning-news/2024/02/12/47030164/good-morning-news-taylor-swifts-super-bowl-win-portland-wrestler-arrested-for-murder-and-gonzalez-wildly-exaggerated-trimet-incident

Karstan,
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@enobacon gods what a tool

enobacon, to random
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Did @notjustbikes block me or why does the mastodon say "profile unavailable" for me only? 🤨

Karstan,
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@enobacon I don't follow him, but just clicked to view his profile. This seems super odd and offputting: "Do not re-post my posts (or screenshots of my posts) on other platforms. These posts are meant only for Mastodon."

Could you have maybe violated his weird rule?

enobacon, to acab
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e-mail from TriMet 😒 "Let’s make TriMet a drug-free zone"

"Senate Bill 1553-1 would make illegal drug use on transit a Class A Misdemeanor.

By making this change in the law, police would have the enforcement tools they need to help make public transit a drug-free zone and give people experiencing addiction a path to help." citation needed

Karstan,
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@enobacon 😡

Karstan,
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@enobacon We've learned absolutely nothing. See: the movement to revoke Measure 110 simply because we passed it without anywhere NEAR the funding necessary to implement it. We just keep giving the money to cops expecting things to change.

Karstan,
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@enobacon And folks will straight up do it for free! My neighbors have started piling brush and debris in the street and on the trail under the Terwilliger bridge because some poor person had the bad taste to exist in those locations. Nevermind that they're blocking the trail and road for all their other neighbors.

enobacon, to random
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Oregon's unemployment insurance system is completely trashed and could save a lot of money if they replaced most of their process with a tax form or something. All of their fraud prevention measures are redundant to tax fraud, while so much wasted time and effort makes it ineffective as a safety net. We should delete like ten social welfare programs and replace them with basic income obvs but this one is all kinds of 😒

Karstan,
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@enobacon It's SO terrible. I was unemployed for nearly 2 years awhile back and lost out on so many short term contract opportunities that had the potential to become full time employment because of their poorly thought out policies.

SRLevine, to random
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Looking for suggestions on how to word something (probably an email).

Situation: my landlord didn't renew my lease back at the start of December so it automatically went month-to-month (I should have asked for a new lease, but I was afraid the rent would jump if I did).

My lease didn't authorize pets. However it's not a strictly no pets place. There are a set of rules and a blank space for an extra deposit if you have approved ones. The rules mostly apply to dogs.

1/X

Karstan,
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@Leeisme @SRLevine second this

Karstan, to vegan
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Since 99% of the fake meats out there contain soy, wheat, corn, nuts and/or coconut oil (foods I can't have) I've been developing my own protein patties. Just something to give me a break from ALL-LEGUMES-ALL-THE-TIME. My latest version is mostly pea protein powder, tapioca flour, and chickpea/fava bean flour (along with stuff to add flavor).

But without access to a commercial pressure cooker/extruder I'm stuck on how to add texture. I tried jackfruit but it didn't play well. Thoughts?

enobacon, to random
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at 2pm on Feb 5th?

no

Groceries loaded in the yuba

Karstan,
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@enobacon Maybe it's hiding in the box of Cheerios? :)

eclectech, to photography
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Monday.

Karstan,
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@eclectech Somehow both?

MissingThePt, to random
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Photo of woman bored to death by male clubber.

Karstan,
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@MissingThePt Damn what the hell happened to Dilbert?

Karstan, to random
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I'm doing some searches for natural fiber athletic clothing (namely running shirts) and ALL the natural fiber (plant-based, I don't consider wool to be a natural fiber) clothing brands are almost exclusively for women's bodies. Not that I'm against wearing something branded for women if it fits me okay. But I'm not seeing anything that fits that bill. :/

Karstan, to random
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Just heard NPR describe Barbara Lee as "really far to the left" and then support that description by playing a sound bite of her saying "killing 25,000 civilians; it's catastrophic and it will never lead to peace". 🤦

I'd like to live in a world where "killing innocent people is wrong" isn't an extremist view.

Karstan,
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@seachanger They didn't, but I'd read that elsewhere. She's legit!

In this segment, they were distinguishing between the 3 Dem candidates: Schiff is pro-genocide (I may be paraphrasing), Porter is "in the middle", and then this bit about Lee.

Karstan,
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@TruthSandwich Ah so you're pro-genocide. Got it. Muted!

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