@ratchetwrench.bsky.social
I live in Portland, Oregon and I work in a grocery store. Lifelong biker 🚲 - I still haven't driven a car. header by www.yuumeiart.com
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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This is absolutely. batshit. insane.
And one of the most beautifully terrifying things I've ever watched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZv...
And one of the most beautifully terrifying things I've ever watched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZv...
I Skied Down Mount Everest (world first, no oxygen)
YouTube video by Red Bull
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This is absolutely. batshit. insane.
And one of the most beautifully terrifying things I've ever watched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZv...
And one of the most beautifully terrifying things I've ever watched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZv...
Same!
it is ~astonishing~ how much I don't want to climb Everest.
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Same!
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This is just extremely nice, and I am glad it exists.
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is just extremely nice, and I am glad it exists.
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This effort is more important than every AI data center set to suck the life out of your community.
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This effort is more important than every AI data center set to suck the life out of your community.
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Omg everything is so stupid.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Omg everything is so stupid.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
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Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
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See, rich people are capable of doing amazing things that benefit society as a whole! Wealth of knowledge is something everyone should have access to, and it's beautiful to see someone committing to that simply because they can.
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
See, rich people are capable of doing amazing things that benefit society as a whole! Wealth of knowledge is something everyone should have access to, and it's beautiful to see someone committing to that simply because they can.
"This isn’t how it usually works when a smoothly running country elects to retire some portion of its currency." 1/
I still can’t believe the U.S. stopped making pennies with just…no plan. NO PLAN!!!!!! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"This isn’t how it usually works when a smoothly running country elects to retire some portion of its currency." 1/
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“ABC11 spoke with Lori Lober, a study participant. Initially, she was given a grim prognosis, with median survival rate of less than 2 to 3% for five years. However, the trial at Duke Health gave her new hope. She has remained disease-free for 24 years.”
I could cry.
I could cry.
Duke Health researchers announces breakthrough in breast cancer vaccine trial
A small group of women with advanced breast cancer participated in a trial where they received a vaccine, and all are alive today.
abc11.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“ABC11 spoke with Lori Lober, a study participant. Initially, she was given a grim prognosis, with median survival rate of less than 2 to 3% for five years. However, the trial at Duke Health gave her new hope. She has remained disease-free for 24 years.”
I could cry.
I could cry.
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I think we need to be careful with conflating "leans Democratic" with "not racist" Maine has a long legacy of racism. So does Oregon which is a blue state. Oregon was literally conceived as a white supremacist fever dream. And the KKK ruled Indiana for a period.
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I think we need to be careful with conflating "leans Democratic" with "not racist" Maine has a long legacy of racism. So does Oregon which is a blue state. Oregon was literally conceived as a white supremacist fever dream. And the KKK ruled Indiana for a period.
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i need all my transit-heads and city-planning-heads to go take this survey the city is doing about fixing the dangerous streets near my house and encourage them to just ludicrously maximize pedestrian and bike safety to the brutal ruinous detriment of cars
portland.gov/StarkWashington
portland.gov/StarkWashington
SE Stark & Washington Street Safety Project
Safety upgrades on SE Stark and Washington (92nd to 108th) by the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). Safer lane configuration, parking, signals, crossings, and more. Project elements, map, time...
portland.gov
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
i need all my transit-heads and city-planning-heads to go take this survey the city is doing about fixing the dangerous streets near my house and encourage them to just ludicrously maximize pedestrian and bike safety to the brutal ruinous detriment of cars
portland.gov/StarkWashington
portland.gov/StarkWashington
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Some cool box sets from the library of America. On sale. Go get yourself some Le Guin. Or Vonnegut. Or Chandler.
Boxed Sets – Library of America
www.loa.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Some cool box sets from the library of America. On sale. Go get yourself some Le Guin. Or Vonnegut. Or Chandler.
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What a shitty thing to do to perfectly innocent authors. “Look! Your book is on Epstein’s reading list!”
Jesus Christ, are you trying to ruin reading for everyone? Aren’t we all suffering through enough right now?
Jesus Christ, are you trying to ruin reading for everyone? Aren’t we all suffering through enough right now?
Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s wide-ranging Amazon picks
Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s wide-ranging Amazon picks
Epstein’s reading list: Emails reveal pedophile’s wide-ranging Amazon picks
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
What a shitty thing to do to perfectly innocent authors. “Look! Your book is on Epstein’s reading list!”
Jesus Christ, are you trying to ruin reading for everyone? Aren’t we all suffering through enough right now?
Jesus Christ, are you trying to ruin reading for everyone? Aren’t we all suffering through enough right now?
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It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
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I noticed a book a some time ago.
The cover had art of a woman and a dragon sitting at the side of a lake—but in the reflection in the water, the woman is a demon.
I want to read it, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the book!
If anyone happens to know what it is, please say!
The cover had art of a woman and a dragon sitting at the side of a lake—but in the reflection in the water, the woman is a demon.
I want to read it, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the book!
If anyone happens to know what it is, please say!
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I noticed a book a some time ago.
The cover had art of a woman and a dragon sitting at the side of a lake—but in the reflection in the water, the woman is a demon.
I want to read it, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the book!
If anyone happens to know what it is, please say!
The cover had art of a woman and a dragon sitting at the side of a lake—but in the reflection in the water, the woman is a demon.
I want to read it, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the book!
If anyone happens to know what it is, please say!
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Hello Mr. Insurance Company I would like to purchase a comprehensive health insurance plan for 1 dollar. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Hello Mr. Insurance Company I would like to purchase a comprehensive health insurance plan for 1 dollar. Thank you for your attention to this matter!