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Bix F.
@bixfrankonis.bsky.social
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That dog is hit again.
That slow.dog is hit again.
With his see-through skin.
The kind of skin you can see through.
He’s shot again.
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After last week’s appearance of ICE in NoPo, looks like parents are asking for folks to start being present for school pickups.

James John Elementary: 3:15-3:30pm

Roosevelt High: 3:30pm

Clarendon Regional Early Learning: 1:40-2:30pm

Cesar Chavez: 3:00pm

Astor: 3:15pm

#PDX
Instagram post from lombardhousebeer: “We need you all! This map shows every school in NoPo that has requested parents to stand watch at school pickup. If you have time, please consider being present, not only to keep an eye out for ICE, but to show our kids love and that we will always protect them at school. We cannot let them make our schools unsafe. Stand up and protect our kids. IT'S TIME!!!!”
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: Your first look at @hassan.senate.gov’s new speechwriter.
A drawing of Superman antagonist Bizarro, who talks in nonsensical opposites.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Mamdani-style sign (orange serif with red drop shadow, orange handwriting, orange sans-serif) but the text reads DEFEAT FROM VICTORY
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Wtf.

And in all this time, @schumer.senate.gov hasn’t been able to do his job and get just one Dem vote to flip.
We've been waiting for close to two hours so far, and we expect to be waiting a bit longer. The last senator left to vote, John Cornyn of Texas, is on his way back to the Capitol from Dulles International Airport. 24 minutes ago Robert Jimison Congressional reporter
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Panel 1: A hand hovers between two buttons, one reading Primary Schumer, the other Abolish the Senate. Panel 2: a white guy in red with a white glove mops the sweat from his brow.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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But, even before it won a stay on those rulings through an appeal to the Supreme Court on Friday night, the Trump administration balked at reimbursing states for the initial round of SNAP payments. Wisconsin, for example, loaded benefits onto cards for 700,000 residents, but after the U.S. Treasury froze its reimbursements to the state, it anticipates running out of money by Monday, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration warned in a lengthy statement on Sunday.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Added another new homepage testimonial up top, from pre-school.
Testimonials • "Good company" (Children's House of Montessori) • "Unsubtle and not brilliant" (Dominque Nahas) • "Quick wit" (Rolling Stone) • "Punk" (Bruce Sterling) • "No one" (Dave Winer) • "Internet pioneer" (Jonah Seiger) • "Punctuation-enhanced" (David Weinberger) • "Must-read" (The Oregonian) • "Cottage-industry" (Christian Crumlish) • "Sissy" (Anonymous PR flack) • "True independent" (David Perlmutter) • "Twitchy, unreliable-looking" (Joss Whedon)
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Mamdani sign branding with orange text, red drop shadow, and blue background but reading FROGS FOR Together Strong
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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www.opb.org/article/2025...
Trump's administration told the Supreme Court that the fast-acting states were "trying to seize what they could of the agency's finite set of remaining funds, before any appeal could even be filed, and to the detriment of other States' allotments." "Once those billions are out the door, there is no ready mechanism for the government to recover those funds," Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the court filing.
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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It’s the beginning of the end, finally. 🎉
• No blowing of debris from one property into an adjacent property, or into the public right of way (this is already in effect). • Beginning January 2026, gas-powered leaf blowers may only be used in October, November, and December. • Beginning January 2028, gas-powered leaf blowers may not be used at any time.
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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@oregonzoo.bsky.social
A polar bear sits in her outdoor habitat, head turned to look our way, behind several spherical ice treats and a multi-layer, multi-color, multi-flavor ice cake which reads HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY NORA!
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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(I made this black and white because sad, but since it’s also her looking off toward her future, you can have a color one, too.)
View of a polar bear exiting the doorway into her den, facing her future somewhere off to the right, the top of her multi-color birthday ice cake seen at bottom.
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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At some point I will have the wherewithal to cull through my 400 photos from today but here’s probably the last photo of Nora I will ever take, since I doubt I’ll get back to @oregonzoo.bsky.social before she departs for @henryvilaszoo.bsky.social in Wisconsin. #PDX #Portland #Oregon #PolarBear
Black and white view of a polar bear exiting the doorway into her den, facing her future somewhere off to the right, the top of her birthday ice cake seen at bottom.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Cc: @oregonzoo.bsky.social #PDX #PolarBear
A male zookeeper in a knit polar bear hat sits on a bucket and feeds a polar bear through the grating of a training wall. The bear is partially stained red from food coloring in her birthday ice cake.
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I’m risking nervous collapse from autistic burnout @oregonzoo.bsky.social but… #PDX #Oregon #PolarBear
Looking out at a polar bear with multi-layer, multi-color ice cake reading HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY NORA.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Today’s windy day brought to you by the bus shelter in #StJohns where @trimet.org still has not replaced the windows. #PDX
The view from within a blue metal frame bus shelter that provides no shelter.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The movie poster for A Serious Man, but the "goose chasing guy" font makes it An Unserious Man, and the man standing atop a roof with his hands on his hips has Dan Ryan's face.
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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The new Democratic mission statement: Making the improbable possible.
New York Times headline: MAMDANI SEALS VICTORY IN IMPROBABLE RUN
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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*nods*
NOVEMBER 4, 2019 "Are there any circumstances in which autism could be consid-ered, not merely an acceptable difference, but a superpower?" asks Joanne Limburg in The Guardian. (Limburg received a diagnosis in midlife, as I did.). No, there are not. There are trade-offs for every "benefit" I've ever found in being autistic, and if I could wave a magic wand and be rid of it, I very well might.
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This wasn’t me but I bet Billy Travers spoke for a lot of people.
PERFECT TOMMY: They all have the same first name. John, John, John, John, John. BILLY TRAVERS: Somebody's playing games here. It's statistically impossible. NEW JERSEY: Nahhh... no, no, wait a minute... November 1, uh... October... thirty days have September, April, June, and November, when the list is done, all the rest have thirty-one. October 31st. Uh， Halloween……・・ (snaps fingers) Oh! Don't you get it? Orson Welles! BILLY TRAVERS: You mean the guy from the old wine commercials. NEW JERSEY: Halloween. 1938. The "War of the Worlds." That fake radio news broadcast that got everybody scared, thinking that real live Martians.…. were landing in Grover's Mill... New Jersey.. when it all just turned out to be a hoax. PERFECT TOMMY: So?
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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(Never forget…) #Grimm
Renard: Well, whichever way you look at it, it’s still cannibalism. Wu: Uh, I think it’s pronounced, “capitalism”. —Grimm, “Organ Grinder”
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Not a bug.
Reply context We're testing a small change to how the "Reply" button works on top-level posts: instead of jumping straight into the composer, it now takes you to the full thread first. We think this will encourage people to read before replying — a simple way to reduce context collapse and redundant replies.
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Movie poster for A Serious Man except the goose chasing guy don’t makes it An Unserious Man and the man standing on the roof of a house with his hands on his hips has Dan Ryan’s face.
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Lol, and then a text this morning. One single day before November. ODHS notifying #SNAP folks has not gone great.
iOS notifications. The middle one reads: 64702 5m ago SNAP food benefits are paused starting Nov. 1 because the federal government is closed. Benefits will start again when the government reopens or approves... (The other two are a reminder to scoop the litter and health alert to take my meds.)
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Lol, the bureau that parroted Andy Ngo’s claim of cement milkshakes after getting hit with coconut flakes? Sure, Jan.
The federal government's missive is the latest in their pledge to launch a "full investigation" into the Portland Police Bureau, which it claims engages in "viewpoint discrimination" by supporting left-wing protesters at the expense of counterprotesters and right-wing media.
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM