Barry Cochran
@barrycochran.bsky.social
Barry Cochran is a fourth-generation educator, exploring, meditating, bicycling, writing and adventuring in Portland, Oregon. ALL EM-DASHES ARE COMPOSED AND WRITTEN BY ME, A HUMAN BEING.
One thing Portlanders like is lining up. This is the line outside the opening of the renovated Portland Art Museum because another thing Portlanders like is anything free.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
One thing Portlanders like is lining up. This is the line outside the opening of the renovated Portland Art Museum because another thing Portlanders like is anything free.
Here's my #WarRavagedPortland photo. I could have posted something objectively stunning, as many are doing: the sunrise from my commute yesterday morning, for example. But this one is just simple and clumsy street beauty—
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Here's my #WarRavagedPortland photo. I could have posted something objectively stunning, as many are doing: the sunrise from my commute yesterday morning, for example. But this one is just simple and clumsy street beauty—
Sadly relevant again.
September 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sadly relevant again.
I've rarely seen a quiet Portland city councilor in my time in this town, and @candaceavalos.bsky.social thankfully isn't one!
August 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I've rarely seen a quiet Portland city councilor in my time in this town, and @candaceavalos.bsky.social thankfully isn't one!
This headline is itself a contextually helpful reminder that humans like those presumably writing at the
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
August 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This headline is itself a contextually helpful reminder that humans like those presumably writing at the
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
@oregonian.com are fully capable of writing formulaic exposition that includes counterfactual hallucinations.
Union Station, Portland, Oregon #TransitTuesday
July 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Union Station, Portland, Oregon #TransitTuesday
16 bus to Union Station #TransitTuesday
July 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
16 bus to Union Station #TransitTuesday
Post a book you love from the 1970s.
July 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Post a book you love from the 1970s.
If this year's are to be the last American fireworks, we had a good finale in Portland, Oregon
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
If this year's are to be the last American fireworks, we had a good finale in Portland, Oregon
Seems timely for a reminder that Portland, Oregon successfully kept an objectionable person out of office through a ranked-choice voting campaign not to rank Rene Gonzalez.
June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Seems timely for a reminder that Portland, Oregon successfully kept an objectionable person out of office through a ranked-choice voting campaign not to rank Rene Gonzalez.
Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
June 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
Scenes from Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
June 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Scenes from Portland, Oregon #nokings #nokingsday
Turns out Trump is as dumb as a racist caricature from a 1940s comic
April 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Turns out Trump is as dumb as a racist caricature from a 1940s comic
Out here in 2025 dealing with all these robots
March 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Out here in 2025 dealing with all these robots
Portland, Oregon: How many times have the world's injustices brought us to these very same blocks?
February 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Portland, Oregon: How many times have the world's injustices brought us to these very same blocks?
Clueless media: "IDK, maybe he just had a question."
January 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Clueless media: "IDK, maybe he just had a question."
Peter Iredale on the Oregon Coast
November 24, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Peter Iredale on the Oregon Coast
If you see this, post a concert photo you took
November 11, 2024 at 3:48 AM
If you see this, post a concert photo you took
