Jennifer
@jenwith1n.bsky.social
Urban planner, chronically & mysteriously ill, ✡️, plant lady, dog mom
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As a councilor who’s gotten lots of death threats, these particular protestors are annoying but mostly harmless.
To me the line gets crossed when they try to break into offices where my staff are (which happened) bc I want my team to be safe at work. Threats to them are a no go, I love those people
To me the line gets crossed when they try to break into offices where my staff are (which happened) bc I want my team to be safe at work. Threats to them are a no go, I love those people
I'm sure Portland's elected leaders have reasons to be worried. I get death threats for writing about politics in this city, they surely must. But the incident described was:
1. Not in any way violent or dangerous
2. Smith's desire to escalate by openly carrying a gun is horribly irresponsible
1. Not in any way violent or dangerous
2. Smith's desire to escalate by openly carrying a gun is horribly irresponsible
February 20, 2026 at 4:00 AM
As a councilor who’s gotten lots of death threats, these particular protestors are annoying but mostly harmless.
To me the line gets crossed when they try to break into offices where my staff are (which happened) bc I want my team to be safe at work. Threats to them are a no go, I love those people
To me the line gets crossed when they try to break into offices where my staff are (which happened) bc I want my team to be safe at work. Threats to them are a no go, I love those people
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this is exactly the wrong way to think about owning and carrying a firearm. i cannot overemphasize how irresponsible Councilor Smith's logic is here. Openly carrying a weapon you know nothing about is just BEGGING to have that weapon taken off your body and used against you.
February 20, 2026 at 3:19 AM
this is exactly the wrong way to think about owning and carrying a firearm. i cannot overemphasize how irresponsible Councilor Smith's logic is here. Openly carrying a weapon you know nothing about is just BEGGING to have that weapon taken off your body and used against you.
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Like 1) there is no real-world movement that is 100% immune to all types of bigotry
and
2) if you’re either ignoring white supremacist posts by people flying your colors or nodding along, you can’t expect the people being targeted by the white supremacist rhetoric to trust you
and
2) if you’re either ignoring white supremacist posts by people flying your colors or nodding along, you can’t expect the people being targeted by the white supremacist rhetoric to trust you
February 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Like 1) there is no real-world movement that is 100% immune to all types of bigotry
and
2) if you’re either ignoring white supremacist posts by people flying your colors or nodding along, you can’t expect the people being targeted by the white supremacist rhetoric to trust you
and
2) if you’re either ignoring white supremacist posts by people flying your colors or nodding along, you can’t expect the people being targeted by the white supremacist rhetoric to trust you
Our first adolescent manners training class (humans only) was tonight and we learned Gerald’s classmates will be a chihuahua, a border collie, and a super mutt (30% pit bull). The chaos will be off the charts lol
February 19, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Our first adolescent manners training class (humans only) was tonight and we learned Gerald’s classmates will be a chihuahua, a border collie, and a super mutt (30% pit bull). The chaos will be off the charts lol
Nigel Barker is traaaaaaaaaaaaaash
February 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Nigel Barker is traaaaaaaaaaaaaash
Anyone have doggy daycares they like in Portland? I work from home but my new pup definitely needs playtime with other dogs.
February 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Anyone have doggy daycares they like in Portland? I work from home but my new pup definitely needs playtime with other dogs.
Give him the gold!
February 18, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Give him the gold!
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Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
During the pandemic I was really excited about all the tech that suddenly made remote work, meetings, and organizing more possible. It enabled accommodations disabled folks had been asking for forever. But people with power didn’t like it and now we have to pretend it doesn’t exist.
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 4:24 AM
During the pandemic I was really excited about all the tech that suddenly made remote work, meetings, and organizing more possible. It enabled accommodations disabled folks had been asking for forever. But people with power didn’t like it and now we have to pretend it doesn’t exist.
I’m trying to learn about dog training but also talking like a preschool teacher to dogs always works. He was trying to play bite me and I put my hands up and said “I’m not interested in that right now” and he stopped. Barking at the neighbors? I said, “Hey Ger, remember how we love our neighbors
February 18, 2026 at 2:37 AM
I’m trying to learn about dog training but also talking like a preschool teacher to dogs always works. He was trying to play bite me and I put my hands up and said “I’m not interested in that right now” and he stopped. Barking at the neighbors? I said, “Hey Ger, remember how we love our neighbors
The guy who taught drivers ed where I lived (not in like 1 school - everywhere) was named Bob. He didn’t believe women could drive and made most of my friends drive him around to run errands. But our first day I yelled at him when he told me to beep at a squirrel so he never pulled shit with me.
okay one of my best friends just told me her driver's ed teacher was named
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
February 18, 2026 at 1:37 AM
The guy who taught drivers ed where I lived (not in like 1 school - everywhere) was named Bob. He didn’t believe women could drive and made most of my friends drive him around to run errands. But our first day I yelled at him when he told me to beep at a squirrel so he never pulled shit with me.
Th NYTimes has done infinite stories about GLP-1s without a single mention that THERE HAS BEEN NO RESEARCH ON HOW THEY IMPACT PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY IF DISORDERED EATING but no sure it’s really important how mean other fatties will be if you lose weight.
This is indistinguishable from right-wing anti-SJW agitprop
Confessions of a Former Body Positivity Influencer
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Th NYTimes has done infinite stories about GLP-1s without a single mention that THERE HAS BEEN NO RESEARCH ON HOW THEY IMPACT PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY IF DISORDERED EATING but no sure it’s really important how mean other fatties will be if you lose weight.
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Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism.
It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.
It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism.
It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.
It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.
One of my coworkers uses the paid version of Claude and told me to use Claude for a basic task the other day. It couldn’t so he asked the paid version “can the free version do this” and it said yes. I had to show him that it couldn’t. These fucking things are not worth the energy they take!
You don't have to give up your normative analysis, but I really do encourage people who have 2022 or 2023-era ChatGPT as their mental model of what AI is to ask Claude Code or whatever to do some complex tasks for them, or talk to people who already do
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 AM
One of my coworkers uses the paid version of Claude and told me to use Claude for a basic task the other day. It couldn’t so he asked the paid version “can the free version do this” and it said yes. I had to show him that it couldn’t. These fucking things are not worth the energy they take!
Real conversation between me and my husband about a bed for our dog for next to my desk:
“I wonder if we could get him a bed that was like a couch cushion.”
“That’s why I was looking at ottomans on Article!”
“No like a bed we could put on the floor.”
“I wonder if we could get him a bed that was like a couch cushion.”
“That’s why I was looking at ottomans on Article!”
“No like a bed we could put on the floor.”
February 17, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Real conversation between me and my husband about a bed for our dog for next to my desk:
“I wonder if we could get him a bed that was like a couch cushion.”
“That’s why I was looking at ottomans on Article!”
“No like a bed we could put on the floor.”
“I wonder if we could get him a bed that was like a couch cushion.”
“That’s why I was looking at ottomans on Article!”
“No like a bed we could put on the floor.”
Last week I binged the podcast “the curse of americas next top model” and it is absolutely worth listening to because “Tyra is very weird and also a monster” was a big takeaway for me.
In addition to be a true villain, Tyra Banks is WEIRD. When I interviewed her years ago, she stopped me in the middle of the convo for having “beautiful Native American features.”
Like????? Girl, I know my ancestors through and through on both side and they were NIGGAS. Fuck outta here.
Like????? Girl, I know my ancestors through and through on both side and they were NIGGAS. Fuck outta here.
February 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Last week I binged the podcast “the curse of americas next top model” and it is absolutely worth listening to because “Tyra is very weird and also a monster” was a big takeaway for me.
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ACTION ALERT:
As Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing and Development, I need your help to restore $10 million in eviction prevention funding.
Learn more and email your legislators here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-10-million-for-eviction-prevention/
As Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing and Development, I need your help to restore $10 million in eviction prevention funding.
Learn more and email your legislators here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-10-million-for-eviction-prevention/
February 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
ACTION ALERT:
As Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing and Development, I need your help to restore $10 million in eviction prevention funding.
Learn more and email your legislators here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-10-million-for-eviction-prevention/
As Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing and Development, I need your help to restore $10 million in eviction prevention funding.
Learn more and email your legislators here:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/restore-10-million-for-eviction-prevention/
I don’t have an overly rosy view of Portland and I think the regional job news is bad. But I have a hard time looking at the Metro Chamber report without thinking of the reputational damage they’ve done to the city.
February 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I don’t have an overly rosy view of Portland and I think the regional job news is bad. But I have a hard time looking at the Metro Chamber report without thinking of the reputational damage they’ve done to the city.
I don’t believe in best in history but here are some of my favorites:
I mostly gave more than I got
Tried not to watch the ticking clock
Like
Always a bridesmaid
Never an astronaut!
-Dessa
I mostly gave more than I got
Tried not to watch the ticking clock
Like
Always a bridesmaid
Never an astronaut!
-Dessa
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I don’t believe in best in history but here are some of my favorites:
I mostly gave more than I got
Tried not to watch the ticking clock
Like
Always a bridesmaid
Never an astronaut!
-Dessa
I mostly gave more than I got
Tried not to watch the ticking clock
Like
Always a bridesmaid
Never an astronaut!
-Dessa
Now that lobster Nazi is back in the discourse, here is my reminder that if you show up demanding people to not only forgive but politically support someone who hasn’t repaired the damage they’ve done, you’re communicating that you are not safe to be around.
February 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Now that lobster Nazi is back in the discourse, here is my reminder that if you show up demanding people to not only forgive but politically support someone who hasn’t repaired the damage they’ve done, you’re communicating that you are not safe to be around.
Having spent a lot of time around rich people I’ve concluded that having that much money can melt your brain multiple ways, but a fundamental one is that to justify being so rich many convince themselves that some innate characteristic made them rich rather than luck and exploitation of others.
Swear to god, so many of these uber rich guys who keep trying to intellectualize and sanitize white supremacy really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They constantly say word salad-y nonsense like this that would cause them to fail a fourth grade US history test.
This odious white supremacist needs to learn some history.
Not so long ago, it was common to see "Irish need not apply" in job listings in the United States. You know, the same type of pernicious prejudice that Elon exhibits regularly.
Not so long ago, it was common to see "Irish need not apply" in job listings in the United States. You know, the same type of pernicious prejudice that Elon exhibits regularly.
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Having spent a lot of time around rich people I’ve concluded that having that much money can melt your brain multiple ways, but a fundamental one is that to justify being so rich many convince themselves that some innate characteristic made them rich rather than luck and exploitation of others.
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I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
February 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
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Take a tour of the new cycle parking below Berlin's Potsdamer Platz.
Designed for utility, sport, electric and cargo bikes, it enables a smooth transition to public transport, while taking a disused and uncomfortable private retail corridor and reimagining it as a safe and inviting community space.
Designed for utility, sport, electric and cargo bikes, it enables a smooth transition to public transport, while taking a disused and uncomfortable private retail corridor and reimagining it as a safe and inviting community space.
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Take a tour of the new cycle parking below Berlin's Potsdamer Platz.
Designed for utility, sport, electric and cargo bikes, it enables a smooth transition to public transport, while taking a disused and uncomfortable private retail corridor and reimagining it as a safe and inviting community space.
Designed for utility, sport, electric and cargo bikes, it enables a smooth transition to public transport, while taking a disused and uncomfortable private retail corridor and reimagining it as a safe and inviting community space.
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valentine's day coming up tomorrow, please use these responsibly
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 PM
valentine's day coming up tomorrow, please use these responsibly
Training my dog not to bark at people outside the window the normal way, by petting him and calmly saying we love our neighbors because they’re good boys and girls.
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Training my dog not to bark at people outside the window the normal way, by petting him and calmly saying we love our neighbors because they’re good boys and girls.