RE: https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken/117339685282101084

Surrendering to a massive scofflaw-as-a-service attack.

A friend's beloved Bullit cargo bike's been stolen here in PDX. Last spotted around SE 42nd and Woodstock. @ me if you see it. The fellow rolling the bike here may be the thief. Reward offered.

I took my bike on Sandy Boulevard for 2 miles NE bound this morning. First time I've been there early enough to risk that car traffic would be light enough. It was fun & fast!

Tech is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.

with apologies to joyce

because the folks who never got it

who loved "don't build the torment nexus" for the nexus

are systematically destroying the future

and thus destroying sf

so someone needs to finish the job and reinvent the future

somewhere out there is a fan gaining success in another genre

a young verhoeven who gets it

and wants to twist it

because it isn't good enough

maybe we need a greta gerwig

someone who loves it enough to kill it

or maybe what "liking" a genre means to them

a guy who, god help me, got very close to getting it was seth macfarlane

who came this close to the best deconstruction and reassembly of #startrek since #galaxyquest

but still believed in the male hero's journey

so he failed because he didn't question

there's another, similar guy who's slightly better at it

vince gilligan made #plur1bus my prior favorite hatewatch

these guys don't know how to
subvert a trope in sf

or invent one

they just treat them straight

and you wonder if they even like the stuff

now i'm thinking graham yost should just stay away from sf

or find himself a good partner for it

because i can't believe the guy who is responsible for #theamericans and #justified allowed #silo

but it is my favorite hatewatch

so there's that

#silo could have been brilliant if yost had said, we're gonna #bsg this bitch and write a show about cults because we're in an age of cults just as bsg was about terror during the war on terror

but he lacked vision or courage or both

Fred Lambert @ Electrek has performed a valuable service: matching local news crash reports with NHTSA data to partially recover crash narratives Tesla has redacted.

Tesla's slopware may be killing lots of people.

https://electrek.co/2026/09/01/tesla-autopilot-fsd-crashes-hidden-data/

The jokes could be fish-out-of-water, but the humor mainly revolved around the greed of others—audience standins!—with respect to the Clampetts and the Clampetts were portrayed with self-effacing dignity.

Now, I wasn't a musical
kid. I mostly saw Dolly on talk shows: Dinah, Carson, etc. /

What does Dolly mean to me? Well, first I have to write about the Beverly Hillbillies.

One of the conditions that Flatt and Scruggs had before they did the theme for the show is that the humor should never really punch down on the Clampetts or "country people." /

LOGIC IS THE RHYTHM OF YOUR KATRA

Today's out-of-state selections

thinking seriously of creating an Expired in PDX account to post pictures of expired plates in motion

Rule of three don't fail us now

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/12/lindsey-graham-key-ally-of-donald-trump-has-died-after-sudden-illness-his-office-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RE: https://mastodon.social/@karabaic/116879366865972486

I am particularly proud of this comment: 'Review staff shared that they appreciated seeing cited research in your proposal, and described the approach as: “A great event series that engages new and existing riders.” Well done!'

Who has 2 thumbs and has gone 2 for 2 in successfully getting grants for community bicycle stuff?

and they talk with their fins