Majority of TriMet Board Members Don't Ride Public Transit https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/08/01/47334749/majority-of-trimet-board-members-dont-ride-public-transit
Still kinda reeling from the discovery that Abus, the company that makes locks and helmets, is operated by a misogynistic christian cult. “Shaped by christian principles” seems to hide a whole lot of bigotry every time.
I hope Kryptonite don’t have dark secrets, who else will I buy bike locks from if they do 😬
@flexghost those fuckers invaded pdx again and again for years, each time with the help of the cops, each time crossing state lines while articulating intent to do assaults, & each time doing assaults.
Little wonder they’re totally shocked at finally facing any consequences.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/112881091314909792
TIL that Christoper Robin, the kid whose teddy bear inspired the Winnie the Pooh stories, was credited with killing 28 Wehrmacht soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Robin_Milne
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eex0ej/til_that_christoper_robin_the_kid_whose_teddy/
when i was young i felt early that if success or money came my way it would be due to luck or advantage, not hard work. other friends who were artists expressed frustrations that seemed confusing to me. now i get that they were trying to build careers. which was smarter than me, but maybe accidentally less perceptive.
Near my body water comes flowing
(Translated by Hiroaki Sato)
Photo Journalist Pete Souza was suspended from X (#Twitter) today for posting a photograph of former President Trump that was published by the Associated Press. The photograph showed Trump's seemingly undamaged ear.
This man has twice worked in the White House as the official photographers of both Ronald Reagan and Barrack Obama. He is a respected professional photojournalist.
Edit: fix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Souza
#politics #uspol #journalism #Press #photojournalism #Trump #elonmusk
My little goblin. #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfInfoSec #Nibbler #clingasaur #SideQuest #ZoomIn
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/david-harvey-the-anti-capitalist-chronicles-socialism-freedom
Marx also pointed out that freedom is a double-edged sword. Laborers in a capitalist society, he says, are free in a double sense. They can freely offer their labor power to whomsoever they want in the labor market. They can offer it on whatever conditions of contract they can freely negotiate.
But they are at the same time un-free, because they have been “freed” from any control over or access to the means of production. They have, therefore, to surrender their labor power to the capitalist in order to live.
Pretty neat! If you're on mastodon.social (or another server running the latest in-development version of Mastodon), you can go to the Explore page eg. https://mastodon.social/explore/links and view posts that discuss trending news articles (see the "X posts" below the headline link).
maybe I’m being unnecessarily pessimistic, but this framing seems like cope! https://www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-2668691343/
The Italian Renaissance style former Wylie Department Store on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Built in 1889, it was designed by John Hutchison, with details drawn by his assistants Andrew Black and Charles Rennie MacKintosh. MacKintosh may have been responsible for some of the ornate internal plaster column capitals on the ground and first floors. These were still present until at least 2012, and may still be in place.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh
thursday 6/20 @ Swan Dive in PDX - Dubais (UK), Dragging an Ox thru Water, West Valley Wolfpack Band, DJs Allison & Molly Wolfe, + visuals by Weird Fiction https://gath.io/CJ25eGDgmieFTGngxoSLO
@CJ25eGDgmieFTGngxoSLO
#pdx #portland #pdxmusic #swandive #dubais #dragginganox #westvalleywolfpackband #allisonwolfe #mollywolfe #weirdfiction
Adobe is facing backlash after the company's updated terms of use allow its machine learning tools to view and use customers' content to develop future Adobe products. https://www.pcmag.com/news/adobe-sparks-backlash-over-ai-terms-that-let-it-access-view-your-content