katie
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The problem with the Torment Nexus is that it wasn’t optimized for user experience. Average daily users experience a ratio of roughly 70% torment vs non-torment in the nexus. The changes we’re implementing should reduce that to a staggering 60% torment. Our goal is 50/50 torment/non-torment by 2028.
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The problem with the Torment Nexus is that it wasn’t optimized for user experience. Average daily users experience a ratio of roughly 70% torment vs non-torment in the nexus. The changes we’re implementing should reduce that to a staggering 60% torment. Our goal is 50/50 torment/non-torment by 2028.
this is incredibly accurate
I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison
Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
this is incredibly accurate
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Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy
October 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy
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i don't have any chuds in my contacts
If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.
October 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
i don't have any chuds in my contacts
This is shameful.
Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.
What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is shameful.
checking out the destruction from all the war outside (aka crows and squirrels digging in the powdery mildew-infested garden)
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
checking out the destruction from all the war outside (aka crows and squirrels digging in the powdery mildew-infested garden)
many of these flowers were obviously brought from people's gardens and I'm feeling very emotional about that
A couple hundred people are present including city councilors Kanal, Green, and Morillo. Dozens of flowers have been laid in front of the facility.
A few agents poked out behind the fence.
A few agents poked out behind the fence.
September 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
many of these flowers were obviously brought from people's gardens and I'm feeling very emotional about that
To be clear, all the saber rattling is probably retaliation for this
Portland threatens to evict Ice from Oregon facility over permit violations
Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land-use permit to detain people overnight
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
To be clear, all the saber rattling is probably retaliation for this
phew phew phew
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
phew phew phew
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what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
Jesus Christ
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Jesus Christ
I still regularly have this theme song stuck in my head
I skeet for those who remember Kids Incorporated.
July 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I still regularly have this theme song stuck in my head
the only film that matters
July 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
the only film that matters
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The real reason we can’t have a viable resistance is because a lot of you are just mean.
You don’t have a politic , you want control and want to punish people
So you have no ability to conceive actual infrastructure outside of checking someone’s deservingness
You don’t have a politic , you want control and want to punish people
So you have no ability to conceive actual infrastructure outside of checking someone’s deservingness
July 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The real reason we can’t have a viable resistance is because a lot of you are just mean.
You don’t have a politic , you want control and want to punish people
So you have no ability to conceive actual infrastructure outside of checking someone’s deservingness
You don’t have a politic , you want control and want to punish people
So you have no ability to conceive actual infrastructure outside of checking someone’s deservingness
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There's no path out of the crisis that comes from shrinking the circle of who deserves public services, or narrowing the aperature of human dignity. We are invariably in this together.
July 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
There's no path out of the crisis that comes from shrinking the circle of who deserves public services, or narrowing the aperature of human dignity. We are invariably in this together.
We don't leave people behind.
July 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We don't leave people behind.
Anyone who makes these statements is using the fascists' framing for how we treat human beings and thus complicit in fascism. Also these self-righteous liberals wouldn't last a minute living in "red states", much less organizing to make them better places to live. Grow the fuck up.
“Red states don’t care about blue states” “Texas voted for this” Hey did you know millions of different people live in states and they’re all individuals who each have their own differing views and actions
July 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Anyone who makes these statements is using the fascists' framing for how we treat human beings and thus complicit in fascism. Also these self-righteous liberals wouldn't last a minute living in "red states", much less organizing to make them better places to live. Grow the fuck up.
lmao
rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)
July 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
lmao
Trans women deserve to be respected and treated as human beings in their own right. But cis women who support this shit also need to realize that they're next. They'll drive ALL OF US out of spaces they don't want us in.
July 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Trans women deserve to be respected and treated as human beings in their own right. But cis women who support this shit also need to realize that they're next. They'll drive ALL OF US out of spaces they don't want us in.
The rage I feel at people using feminism and civil rights progress TO TARGET WOMEN is incalculable. Anyone capitulating to this kind of shit is capitulating to Nazis.
BREAKING
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
July 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The rage I feel at people using feminism and civil rights progress TO TARGET WOMEN is incalculable. Anyone capitulating to this kind of shit is capitulating to Nazis.
glad I live in the godless part of Oregon simply so I don't have to smell this garbage
Here he is, folks. The President of the United States selling his new men’s cologne for $199 and women’s perfume for $249.
July 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
glad I live in the godless part of Oregon simply so I don't have to smell this garbage
this is some Philip K Dick shit, Jesus
June 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
this is some Philip K Dick shit, Jesus
incredible
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
incredible
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at least toby keith is dead this time
June 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
at least toby keith is dead this time