Alana of the Greene

Hey, fun news! We can go back to ignoring the failing bridges and URMs across the city. Now the only reason to fix these is that they're unsafe every day.

Short answer I guess would be mission creep. Like the state leg, the Metro Charter used to have a really limited scope and the Council role aligned with that, but like the leg, it's completely outdated for its current mandate.

Regular Council members are considered part-time. Council Pres is the only 'full-time' job.

I tell people this all the time! as you cross the physical threshold, your brain recognizes it as an ontological threshold and flushes its cache. it's okay!

(the article has some good strategies for how to overcome the "doorway effect." I separately came up with two of them on my own, not to brag.)

Some dickhead had better not try to paint this great messed up old door in an even older wall or I am going over there with some people I know, and I am not kidding.

A THREAD, which I have decided to call 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'

You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.

Let's hope the Council kills that in its cradle. At least the gas tax puts some of the funding onus on those responsible for the costs. The household tax would be just another subsidy for drivers relying the most on urban residents least likely to use a car.

Now that is the face of someone who would skin 101 dalmations to make a coat.

I really thought it would be Greenland that put NATO against the US; Turkey out of left field.

WW3 really gonna be US-Israel-Russia v. NATO-China.

I want outta this funhouse.

Here's at least one. Let's hope it catches on. He's not a f'ing king!

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I feel like I'm the only who's seeing the 'become Sec of DHS March 31st' and thinking he has to be confirmed by the Senate first. He doesn't just become the Secretary.

Dems better be ready with the ample incredible Mullin content to drop at those hearings.

Maternal grandmother in a Christmas portrait.

Paternal grandmother from a fashion ad shoot.

And grandpas had game: look at the fierce, intelligent, total Betties they scored.

Maternal: WW2 Navy vet, NASA engineer specializing in time motion studies
Paternal: Korea Army vet, prominent businessman in Dallas (apparel manufacturing)

No, they should channel their anger into getting challengers lined up to primary incumbents who refuse to fight like our futures aren’t on the line.

The building should never have been built, never blocked the sight of Mt Hood emerging from the pass on Barnes Rd/Burnside, and I think if the current Council had been sitting then, it wouldn't have.

Or at least we would have gotten housing instead.

She was handed such an incredible opportunity by the Feds to be a leader for our values, and fumbled completely.

The number of unforced errors by Kotek is just amazing. She could have coasted to re-election by supporting our most popular programs and altogether ignoring the bad faith right in the state, but she has had terminal centrist brain and it's killing her support across the board.

I'm with you. It's though, because I knew what it was, but my grandmother got her PhD there, and I would follow her anywhere. But it's also no surprise that I keep running into friends I went to A&M with years later in Portland, OR.

If you're a smart GM, you ride or die with Stafford until the wheels come off, then you draft his replacement with the high pick (and replace McVay at the same time if you're feeling especially spicy).

Quantifying the Cost of Sprawl In infrastructure, service delivery and tax receipts.

ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social

The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.

*laughs in "years of Benghazi hearings"*

Seriously bad. The bill with its amendments would transfer almost all state multimodal funding to highways. Submit your testimony and kill it.

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"And our governments are very much the same."💥

this is obviously an extreme one but man I can't even count the number of times I've woken up to some horrific breaking news this year

I have nothing meaningful to contribute about international relations but I can talk about nihilism a little. Nihilism is a poison we must reject and refuse with our whole hearts.

More than a century ago Nietzsche taught us what our weapon against nihilism has to be: affirmation.

Pretty sure starting wars without congressional approval is illegal. Maybe we could impeach the guy?

Then prosecute and impoverish, just as a treat.

Based on personal and professional experience, Mullen is legit. Seriously good on process improvement for bureaucratic systems, a default collaborator but with vision, and a genuinely kind guy.

A poll showing the Democrats are viewed as elitist by 43% of people while Republicans are viewed as elitist by 60%. It also shows that only 31% of people view Dems as tough, and 56% view Republicans as tough. 60% of people view Republicans as extreme and only 42% view Dems as extreme.

A lot of obvious stuff in this poll (people want Dems to act with more conviction and stop tearing their ACLs trying to reach across the aisle), but the thing I learned is that Republicans are viewed as the elitist ones now! Run with that! Usain Bolt with that shit!

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.