I am not ok with this field of cabbages

big mood instagram.com/p/CSAMMpPJAyC/…

There’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.

@Wiredforsound23 I got this as an email, but it's legit- from PublicAlerts, which I signed up for ( publicalerts.org/signup ). everbridge is what is linked in the email, and is the service for Multnomah county on PublicAlerts.

@ariaadagio I was once at a specifically queer event and there were pride stickers shaped like various sex toys and two guys were staring at one asking, “what the heck is that?”, and me, the ace, had to inform them that “that” was a butt plug

so, most people?

The whole premise of "if everyone gets vaccinated, we can avoid other measures" was that everyone got vaccinated, I'm not sure what's so confusing about this

If anyone witnessed a car hit a cyclist at the intersection of César Chávez and Clinton this morning, please let me know. And please share to other Portland people.

guy who gets really upset when you collapse their gender wave function by observing them

I wonder why they call it earthenware and not tectonic plates

when i say “i should be there in 5!” i’m almost always using the moral sense of the word ‘should’, not the like probability sense. like yeah being there in 5 minutes would be the right thing, even though it’s not going to happen

Transitioning won't solve all your problems, it can only treat or improve gender dysphoria, as well as associated depression, anxiety, dissociation, stress, poor body image, eating disorders, sexual dysfunction, social difficulties, substance abuse, self-harm, suicidality,

i'm not hangry i'm hisappointed

desktop websites should just be 3 mobile websites in a trench coat

interesting exercise for y'all cis friends:

A friend of mine is reading her first romance and described it as "fanfiction about men" and I have not been able to stop thinking about it

Interviewer: Are you good at staying calm in stressful situations?

Me: I’m not good at staying calm in relaxing situations.

I can’t tell if my new deadlift 3 rep max of 245 lbs is better or worse than my old one rep max of 265
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

since I’m 30 lbs lighter now than I was then, it’s probably better?

got shit on by a bird again on my ride to the gym

why does this keep happening

@tenderlove say what you will about the tenets of C but at least it’s an ethos

@ckwright

@ckwright yeah, i’m planning on going down two flights of stairs to use a men’s room with more than one stall, I guess

when I have a much more private bathroom, WITH A BIDET, at home

offices are dumb and wasteful

king of the silent hill

@lepht_anonym happy birthday!

as if I wasn't already stressing enough about having to go back to work in the office for no discernibly good reason, I just realized that the office has no gender neutral restrooms so now I'll be sharing a men's room with co-workers who've known me for years which feels AWKWARD

Trying to stay positive today

oh, apparently my old bench one rep max from early 2020 was 120 pounds

all those quarantine pushups (and that testosterone) worked!

despite dealing with some extremely annoying positional vertigo the past few days, i’ve managed to pound out new 3 rep maxes today at the gym- 215 squat and 120 bench
💪😤

Wacky little scoop here today: Apple’s weather app — at least on the current version of iOS — won’t show the temperature 69ºF, for *some* reason…. 🤔

theverge.com/tldr/2021/7/13…

realization:
the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in earths history

the results are in. for the record, I, too, am firmly in camp lizard. I blame Neverwinter Nights and Deekin. twitter.com/tekniklr/statu…

Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of COVID vaccine as Delta variant spreads reut.rs/2SWnETx

@maggiekarp I have never seen this happen but I have seen flies I've smooshed with my hand basically shake it off and fly away.

I’m still curious about your trash mob opinions twitter.com/tekniklr/statu…

kobolds are like ____

This feels like as good a time as any to remind everyone that 'vegan leather' plastic, which is derived from the very petrochemicals setting the ocean ablaze right now. twitter.com/QueerVegAnarch…

anyway congratulations or sorry that happened to everyone tweeting about HRT and transsexuality and lesbianism and whatever.

This beehive that replaced a statue's head

@ckwright I vaguely remember both enjoying the gameplay and being annoyed with the lore last time around, but with the remaster i’m just wholeheartedly enjoying it

@oalian75 it was remastered last year in this re-release so I sure hope so!

I only have vague recollections of playing it the first time around, but i’m loving it this time!

for some weird reason, seeing placeholder assets left in a remaster of a 2012 game is extremely relatable

(Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-reckoning)

me, living by the sword: haha this rules

me, dying by the sword: ah what the fuck

hot girl shit to me means bringing back the transatlantic accent so you can blow out a ring of cigarette smoke before saying things like “baby, you’re divine but my psychoanalyst dr. hirschfeld—he’s really very good, dr. hirschfeld—says i just haven’t got the spoons”

Missionary work is an act of violence.

Voodoo Donuts is a perfect example of Seattle/Portland things that have a punk/counter-culture facade, but are really just the same capitalist bullshit.

@legobutts I like this one a lot! amazon.com/gp/product/B08…

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler issued a state of emergency in anticipation of the Derek Chauvin verdict but not for the deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave, and now he isn't banning the sale of fireworks even though our entire state is a tinderbox that is already burning

I don't know who needs to hear this but just press escape and type :wq and hit enter

🗺 A map to commemorate the triumph, trauma, and tear gas of a year of protest in Anarchist Jurisdiction Portland™, from May 2020 to May 2021.

🏴 Download the full resolution (or the coloring page!?) for free here: grafera.zone/pdx/ ⚠️ 44MB

Tag yourself (allegedly).

@iaman same! I know Biden promised it, but i’m too jaded to trust political promises

looks like you can more easily change gender markers without doctor hurdles NOW, but the ‘X’ it’s still in the works

travel.state.gov/content/travel…

happy pride, y’all! by the end of the year, U.S. Passports will allow ‘X’ gender markers and allow change of gender markers without the previously required strangely invasive medical documentation

19thnews.org/2021/06/u-s-to…

The “Keep _______ Weird” crowd needs to learn that the way a place gets weird is by having cheap housing so people can work part time or not at all and still make rent

I keep hearing “but if companies raise their employee wages, how will they make up that money loss?”. Hmm gee I don’t know, maybe they just don’t! Maybe corporations could just earn slightly less money and CEOs can deal with not buying extra yachts. 🤷🏼

230 pm | The Portland Airport has officially reached 113°F, which breaks the all-time hottest temperature on record of 112°F set yesterday June 27th 2021. #pdxtst #orwx #wawx

honestly, the weirdest things about this hot weather to me are:
1. how incredibly lucky I am, that despite not having AC it's really just a mild inconvenience for me
2. how weird it is to pick up any object in my apartment and notice how WARM it is to the touch

our infrastructure is either going to melt from the heat or crumble from encroaching seas, but the only government response is shit like forming committees to explore negotiations considering a targeted reduction of certain emissions in road vehicles by 2050.

8 PM is gonna slap, tho

a good way to appreciate how comparatively cool my 93ºF apartment is, is to step into the currently 106ºF outdoors (at quarter past noon) for a minute.

coming back inside feels so much better than it did before!

what's most wild about the heat wave in Portland is Saturday was the highest temperature ever recorded in the city, on any day in the past 80 years. Then the next day was several degrees even hotter. And today is a couple degrees hotter still.

Me five minutes after literally any social interaction.

@meowludo agreed! as far as I can tell, the hottest it’s ever been in Portland’s recorded history is 107°? and the estimates just keep getting worse?

hardly anyone here even has air conditioning, some summers it barely gets over 90°

💜🎉👍🚿💪 twitter.com/bukemochi/stat…

if people wrote about other topics like they write about trans people, it would be like "Jennifer was born at 4pm, which she refers to as the "afternoon," an abstract concept that describes the time of day that is neither morning nor evening."

oh, nothing much, just preemptively putting my testosterone supply in a cooler so it hopefully survives this weekend in my no air conditioning apartment

seriously, I know that some people think that we need more than a hyphen, but we don't, we have context for that.

smart quotes, en-dashes, em-dashes:
here to fuck up your shit in the dumbest and most pointless ways possible

@oalian75 and the way that Mass Effect Legendary Edition remembered all sorts of tiny interactions between games (not just the big plot points) was really great and I very much want to reply the Dragon Age games with that

You don’t get to have abs and be happy. This isn’t Disney World, this is real life and it’s bad.