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dan.isnot.cool
Dan Manchester
@dan.isnot.cool
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Web maker, poet, sober person, & type 1 diabetic in sunny Portland, Oregon, USA. Jabbering on CSS, JS, a11y, cardigans, line breaks, moss, & cartoon physics. http://pronoun.is/he
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thorbenson.bsky.social
It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
dan.isnot.cool
Just had to go into the client Slack channel and break out the best gif I've ever made for the first time in a good long while.
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
dan.isnot.cool
It’s very telling and deeply unnerving how much backsliding on employee welfare reforms have been happening this year with no pretense for them other than “we don’t wanna/it’ll make us more money so fuck it”
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
This is one of my favorite comics stores in the entire country, and due to the pandemic and some other issues, it is asking for a bit of help. I hope you go look and spread the word, donate a little bit (or a lot) if you can.

I'm going to donate some in the morning, hope you will consider it, too.
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
dan.isnot.cool
Last week I interviewed for a position that I was told would have two tech interviews (in addition to the quick tech screening test I’d already done) plus three culture interviews. The level of relief when they emailed to say they don’t like me enough for all that noise. My god.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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requiemarm.bsky.social
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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jazmineduke.bsky.social
Big day for people who care about other people
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
dan.isnot.cool
Believe it. We don’t need that transphobic asshole anywhere near our ballots.
zachsilberberg.bsky.social zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 26d
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
dan.isnot.cool
Only one measure on our ballot this election but there were still so many people dropping off ballots at the library with me this morning. It was great to see.
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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doomscroling.bsky.social
Heretic Coffee in Portland, Oregon has announced that starting Nov 1st they will provide breakfast to those in the community who will be facing hunger due to SNAP benefits not being sent out in November.

"we know it’s not much, but we’ll do our best to keep you fed" - Heretic Coffee

#Pinks
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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datadrivenmd.social
"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
October 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
dan.isnot.cool
I’m currently packing for a quick trip to RI mainly to attend my grandmother’s 100th birthday party and I can’t stop thinking how that is just a bananas long time to be alive. For real, it’s just a stupid long time to be doing the dumb shit we all have to do every day, day after day.
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Good Place: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.
October 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
dan.isnot.cool
I really love my city.
oregonian.com The Oregonian @oregonian.com · Oct 11
Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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harpua.bsky.social
Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
dan.isnot.cool
I really can’t stress enough how bizarre it is living in a boringly normal, unquestionably safe city and hearing it described like this by the president and his minions every day. The absolute cognitive dissonance at play is mind boggling.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 8
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
dan.isnot.cool
Genuine question:

Has Trump ever been to Portland?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 8
Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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jhance.bsky.social
Ok, this is just funny.

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Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 6
Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
American abstract expressionist painters Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan, 1957 #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring three sitting white women facing forwards in an interior space under an abstract painting, the central figure has her arms around the others, all are smiling or laughing,
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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tiny.baby
just saw a video about how harmful it is to put shoes on babies because their feet are still developing and wearing shoes regularly can make them grow wrong. and i thought damn. have i been reading too much into that hemingway story
October 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM