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Plum Daddy K
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North Portland Jew with a bunch of feelings and opinions



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Elect a Republican DA, get Republican policies. From www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...?
Nathan Vasquez, the district attorney of Multnomah County, which includes parts of Portland, dropped the charges against Mr. Sortor but planned to take two left-wing demonstrators he scuffled with to trial. Mr. Vasquez said police did have probable cause to arrest Mr. Sortor. The influencer was engaged in “what I think most people would consider antagonistic behavior,” Mr. Vasquez said. “The hard part is that obnoxious behavior doesn’t amount to you getting to punch him in the face.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Poem written in response to Cricket
Bluey in the genocide We watch the cricket episode, All laconic drawls and summer Games, a dedicated pup learning To play while his father is away. His name is Rusty, he's a star At bat. My son laps it up, as do I Until the end; the scene shifts And there is the distant dad In combat fatigues, and I learn Even in this cartoon world There is a desert full of dogs Soldiers and guns, and somewhere Out of frame, Arabs being put down. Omar Sakr
October 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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If you see this picture post a random image from your device.
The side of a truck. The logo reads "BROSCO" in all caps. Beneath it, a short URL. Brosco.com It is the co for bros
September 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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My ideal garden delivers a fresh Greek salad every two to three days. We’re getting close here
Two cucumbers and eight tomatoes of four different types, arrayed on a butcher block countertop.
August 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Fucking barnburner from John Ganz, endless amounts of "hell yeah, brother" to this whole post. Humanity hive rise up
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Eric. It’s figurative language. Do sinister interests lurk behind the vulgar positivism of the center right? Yes, absolutely, but I think this vulgar positivism itself is the problem, the way it has made people talk about their “priors” instead of their beliefs. It inserts a dead and dulling corporate language that kills any thought or imagination. It turns people away from politics or towards the part of politics that’s exciting: populist demagogery and conspiracy-mongering, you know, fun stuff. It constantly forecloses interesting public debates about values and moral problems by pointing to data, which, by the way, they often aren’t even very transparent about. It’s a
August 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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First time I have caught google’s search AI lying to me, with a helpful Wikipedia summary illustrating its mistake directly below.
A screenshot of a Google search, with the AI overview providing inaccurate information that is contradicted by the Wikipedia summary directly below.
August 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Add to this that it rules how outspoken they are in defense of the work they're doing on our behalf.

Morillo especially is just an incredibly effective communicator
Councilors Kanal, Avalos, Koyama Lane and Morillo stand by the chat and its contents. “I am not ashamed of the hard work we had to do to deliver real wins for our communities,” Avalos says, adding that “holding the Police Bureau to a high standard isn’t personal—it’s our responsibility.” Kanal says the responsibility of the new council is to “challenge traditional power structures, including the fossil fuel industry and police, that haven’t always served all Portlanders. That means asking tough questions at times—and expecting accountability.” Morillo says her top aims are “making a Portland that’s affordable for working-class people, and protecting the human rights of immigrants and other groups being targeted by Trump,” and “if it takes a group chat to deliver those priorities, that’s fine with me.” Koyama Lane says, “What is revealed in these chats is simply the work of humans transforming Portland City Hall on behalf of the community in real time.”
August 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Garden is mostly doing well after two weeks with a house sitter but the tomatoes have lost their fucking minds
An unkempt thicket of tomatoes, poorly supported and overgrown. A cucumber in the background and some carrot shoots in the foreground are utterly dwarfed
July 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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kicked off the return to PDX by hitting 1k miles on the Dadwagon
A rad power bikes HUD, the odometer in the top left reads 1,000 lifetime miles. There’s also a green child’s helmet in the milk crate on the front
July 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Generally get a lot from Kathryn Jezer-Morton's parenting columns but this little aside about American consumer culture is another level of excellence. From www.thecut.com/article/broo...
I think we can all agree that there are too many kinds of everything. The natural mechanisms of capitalism have been allowed to churn too long and too hot, and now innovation has turned in on itself and most of what we’re sold is repackaged versions of existing trash, in quantities we can’t keep up with, tariffs be damned. In the context of the consumer marketplace, Americans are like Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, overwhelmed and unable to manage the churn of new on top of new. Big-box grocery stores have become grotesque. Target is a sick carnival of pre-landfill trash. The wall of sunscreen options at Walgreens will paralyze you if you pause for more than ten seconds to take in the specs.
July 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Hudson news could never, PDX forever
An airport bookshelf prominently displaying The Dispossessed and Parable of the Sower, among other title
June 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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This has been a major issue with mastodon for me
A single panel from a classic marvel comic with doctor doom playing a giant cornucopia-esque horn. The word “Toot” is above the horn’s bell. Doom is saying “fool! Doom Toot’s as he pleases” I edited out the word “doctor” to make it a better mastodon joke
January 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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No one else does it like Roth. defector.com/the-future-i...
A screenshot of text that reads "LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there's simultaneously too much in it and not enough of it. Everyone I spoke to about the Consumer Electronics Show before I went to it earlier this month kept describing it in terms that involved wetness in some way. I took this as a warning, which I believe was the spirit in which it was intended, but I felt prepared for it. Your classically damp commercial experiences have a sort of terroir to them, a signature that marks a confluence of circumstances and time- and place-specific appetites; I have carried with me for decades the peculiar smell, less that of cigarette smoke than cigarette smoke in hair, that I remember from a baseball card show at a Ramada Inn that I attended as a kid. Only that particular strain of that particular kind of commerce, at that moment, gave off that specific distress signal. It was the smell of a living thing, and the dampness in the (again, quite damp) room was in part because that thing was breathing, heavily."
January 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Probably 2.5 miles? Circled area at bottom of map is the lumber store in that last video
A map screenshot of Topanga Canyon, with Topanga Lumber and the Theatricum Botanicum circled in red
January 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Driving southbound from Topanga Lumber on 27, taken at 11:22 this morning. Pictures and video coming from tcep.org/emergencysta... or TCEPs social feeds
January 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I guess I can start threading these... TCEP-sourced video from 11 am, .1 miles below Jalan Jalan. Burning on both sides of 27.
January 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Gonna keep cross-posting Palisade Fire videos/pics as it gets closer to Topanga. TCEP now has it just about through the s curves.
A two-lane highway with a telephone pole on the left side in the foreground. The hills in the background are all on fire, the sky is obscured by smoke.
January 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Some footage taken from @kcfaul on twitter, shot about 1000 ft towards the coast from Topanga Lumber.
January 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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The Feed Bin was one of my very favorite places for my whole childhood. Wylie's Bait is pretty much where I fell in love with fishing. All these spots (except maybe Rosenthal's) were landmarks and pillars of the community. Fucked up about this.
Exterior shot of Wylie's Bait Shop on the Pacific Coast Highway. Single story brown shack shaded by a large palm tree, bright yellow sign in front. A brown and green hill looms in the background
January 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The fucking feed bin is gone
January 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Via I think @topangalocal.bsky.social 's IG live and also a group text, here's video of PCH from just before Topanga Canyon Blvd to past the remains of cholada. Two parts. Lot of my childhood burned down.
January 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Periodic reminder that Oprah's real name is Orpah
A screenshot from wikipedia that reads "Oprah Gail Winfrey (/ˈoʊprə/; born Orpah Gail Winfrey;[a] January 29, 1954), known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey "
January 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Portland under Keith Wilson (tone: derogatory)
Leonard Nimoy, Marge and maggie simpson, and the monorail salesmen stand at a microphone stand. Homer and bart simpson loom cheerfully from the monorail car behind them.
November 21, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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Portland Under Keith Wilson (tone: complementary)
The classic city of the future meme, lush, green, manicured but not overtly so. Lots of sky buses, woman walking a dog that may be a robot, big windows.
November 21, 2024 at 3:58 AM