Alana of the Greene
@alanaofthegreene.bsky.social
Portland lesbian, book addict, housing nerd, parks & nature bureaucrat; drinks wine with cats and does witchcraft for the government.
Shared liberation is the only way forward.
Shared liberation is the only way forward.
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“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
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Welcome Online User
You came across a social media post you know for sure is wrong.
You have two paths before you, ignoring it and moving on with your life
Or to make correcting it your entire personality for the next 3 hours.
Welcome to the Terminally Online
You came across a social media post you know for sure is wrong.
You have two paths before you, ignoring it and moving on with your life
Or to make correcting it your entire personality for the next 3 hours.
Welcome to the Terminally Online
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Welcome Online User
You came across a social media post you know for sure is wrong.
You have two paths before you, ignoring it and moving on with your life
Or to make correcting it your entire personality for the next 3 hours.
Welcome to the Terminally Online
You came across a social media post you know for sure is wrong.
You have two paths before you, ignoring it and moving on with your life
Or to make correcting it your entire personality for the next 3 hours.
Welcome to the Terminally Online
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This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
Good. Kill it with fire.
"Two Portland city councilors are pushing a resolution to reform the city’s design review process and perhaps provide a temporary exemption for housing proposals."
Major reform could be coming to Portland's design review system.
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Good. Kill it with fire.
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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
April 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
LET'S F'ING GOOOOOO!!!!
Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces her campaign for U.S. Senate for Texas with an ad that uses Trump’s own words against her.
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
LET'S F'ING GOOOOOO!!!!
The PDX Big Pipe is cool, and it's double cool that there's a tracker.
Like the live feed of Metro's South Transfer Station, civil infrastructure is just neat and we should celebrate it.
Like the live feed of Metro's South Transfer Station, civil infrastructure is just neat and we should celebrate it.
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The PDX Big Pipe is cool, and it's double cool that there's a tracker.
Like the live feed of Metro's South Transfer Station, civil infrastructure is just neat and we should celebrate it.
Like the live feed of Metro's South Transfer Station, civil infrastructure is just neat and we should celebrate it.
First, they wanted to go back to the 40s, pre-Civil Rights.
Next, they wanted to go back to the 1890s, pre-Progressive Era.
Now, it's pretty clear they've wanted to go back to the 1840s, pre-Emancipation.
They want feudalism and slavery. Call it what it is.
Next, they wanted to go back to the 1890s, pre-Progressive Era.
Now, it's pretty clear they've wanted to go back to the 1840s, pre-Emancipation.
They want feudalism and slavery. Call it what it is.
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
First, they wanted to go back to the 40s, pre-Civil Rights.
Next, they wanted to go back to the 1890s, pre-Progressive Era.
Now, it's pretty clear they've wanted to go back to the 1840s, pre-Emancipation.
They want feudalism and slavery. Call it what it is.
Next, they wanted to go back to the 1890s, pre-Progressive Era.
Now, it's pretty clear they've wanted to go back to the 1840s, pre-Emancipation.
They want feudalism and slavery. Call it what it is.
Just a little Saturday morning joy.
December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Just a little Saturday morning joy.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
When this is over, everyone who contributed to this cruel institution...
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When this is over, everyone who contributed to this cruel institution...
Today's economy is just feudalism. A few feudal lords rent-seeking on peasant labor and living. A peasant behind a computer is still a peasant if their value accrues to the boss.
Grind for what? Another country manor for milord? Another estate for them to capture even more labor value? F that.
Grind for what? Another country manor for milord? Another estate for them to capture even more labor value? F that.
To me the whole "grindset" shit was the biggest scam ever. They convinced a generation of dolts that breaking your back working 12 hours a day for meager pay or "exposure" was the path to greatness and the rest of us old motherfuckers lived it and learned it wasn't true we just didn't post about it
I shouldn’t have to kill myself to make someone else a ton of money. Fuck hustle culture.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today's economy is just feudalism. A few feudal lords rent-seeking on peasant labor and living. A peasant behind a computer is still a peasant if their value accrues to the boss.
Grind for what? Another country manor for milord? Another estate for them to capture even more labor value? F that.
Grind for what? Another country manor for milord? Another estate for them to capture even more labor value? F that.
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reiterating to whomever wants to be president: I will buy a bag of ballroom rubble like it's pieces of the Berlin Wall
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
reiterating to whomever wants to be president: I will buy a bag of ballroom rubble like it's pieces of the Berlin Wall
This. For one, I want to see the present occupant impeached, tried, convicted, stripped of his assets, and left in penury and disgrace as a lesson for the future. And he's going to deny that to all of us by dying before the midterms. And we'll all be left with poverty and destruction.
I think that I am most enraged by the fact that the architects of the coming collapse have successfully fucked around, and have left the finding out to subsequent generations.
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This. For one, I want to see the present occupant impeached, tried, convicted, stripped of his assets, and left in penury and disgrace as a lesson for the future. And he's going to deny that to all of us by dying before the midterms. And we'll all be left with poverty and destruction.
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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It's striking how some members of the administration want to create a worse, poorer, American ethnostate and think they need an authoritarian kleptocracy to do that and some members of the administration want an authoritarian kleptocracy and think they need white supremacists to do that.
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's striking how some members of the administration want to create a worse, poorer, American ethnostate and think they need an authoritarian kleptocracy to do that and some members of the administration want an authoritarian kleptocracy and think they need white supremacists to do that.
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
Boy, no way an unstable gov't buying a stake in an international conglomerate could go wrong, huh?
The case could have geopolitical implications since the U.S. government is Intel's largest shareholder.
Taiwanese authorities raid Intel exec’s home, seize his computers
The case could have geopolitical implications since the U.S. government is Intel's largest shareholder.
www.oregonlive.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Boy, no way an unstable gov't buying a stake in an international conglomerate could go wrong, huh?
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Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
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The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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It blows my mind every time we take the train to Seattle that it's less stressful, takes less time, and, if you include parking when you get there, cheaper than driving. And yet, it runs like twice a day and subject to the vicissitudes of freight trains. It's good but could be amazing.
the fact that amtrak cascades hit another ridership record in FY25 despite shutting down for two weeks and spending half the year running smaller trains with higher prices bc of the horizon recall is another sign that the demand for rail in the pnw is genuinely insatiable
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It blows my mind every time we take the train to Seattle that it's less stressful, takes less time, and, if you include parking when you get there, cheaper than driving. And yet, it runs like twice a day and subject to the vicissitudes of freight trains. It's good but could be amazing.
Well, this is a fun thread.
Mine: ebikes and trains good. More ebikes and trains please.
And one should never have to wait more than 5 minutes for the next train or be more than 5 minutes away from a destination when disembarking.
Mine: ebikes and trains good. More ebikes and trains please.
And one should never have to wait more than 5 minutes for the next train or be more than 5 minutes away from a destination when disembarking.
What's your transportation urbanism opinion that you think would make other transportation urbanists mad at you?
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Well, this is a fun thread.
Mine: ebikes and trains good. More ebikes and trains please.
And one should never have to wait more than 5 minutes for the next train or be more than 5 minutes away from a destination when disembarking.
Mine: ebikes and trains good. More ebikes and trains please.
And one should never have to wait more than 5 minutes for the next train or be more than 5 minutes away from a destination when disembarking.
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Here's that PSA that the President wants to punish by death
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here's that PSA that the President wants to punish by death
I've long said that one of the principal drawbacks of the Internet is the ability of the village idiots to find one another.
It's easy to control one with social disapprobation ("No, Tom. That's stupid."), but when there's a whole world of idiots to enable their worst impulses, we all suffer.
It's easy to control one with social disapprobation ("No, Tom. That's stupid."), but when there's a whole world of idiots to enable their worst impulses, we all suffer.
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I've long said that one of the principal drawbacks of the Internet is the ability of the village idiots to find one another.
It's easy to control one with social disapprobation ("No, Tom. That's stupid."), but when there's a whole world of idiots to enable their worst impulses, we all suffer.
It's easy to control one with social disapprobation ("No, Tom. That's stupid."), but when there's a whole world of idiots to enable their worst impulses, we all suffer.