greendesignek

greendesignek, 21 days ago to random

I think that Biden has an even bigger problem than the fact that he keeps giving taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel to kill Palestinian kids: it's the recognition by many people that the reason for doing so is to appease the #oligarchy actually in charge of our country. That #billionaires , not city leadership, are directing police to suppress free speech. That's not #democracy. #Gaza

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

greendesignek, 6 months ago to random

Social media hasn't been this lit since Rush Limbaugh died. #warcriminal #kissinger

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/henry-kissingers-indifference-worlds-most-helpless-people/676177/

greendesignek, 8 months ago to portland

More garbage from #Portland City Hall, this time they are actually reversing progress on a bike lane in downtown #PDX, presumably because business owners don't like it. I don't like traffic fatalities more, does that count for anything? #BikeTooter

https://bikeportland.org/2023/09/18/portland-transportation-director-readies-plan-to-remove-key-downtown-protected-bike-lane-379505

greendesignek, 4 months ago to Alaska

It's really starting to feel like the only safe Boeing planes are those built before 1997:

#boeing #Alaska #airlines

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-not-spirit-mis-installed-piece-that-blew-off-alaska-max-9-jet/

greendesignek, 8 months ago to workersrights

Hell yeah, I'm loving this season of Real World: Labor Unions 🥳 #uawstrike #SAGAFTRAStrong #wgaproud #labor #prounion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/15/uaw-strike-updates/

greendesignek, 9 months ago to random

Dear Corporation That Almost Definitely Started a Fire That Destroyed a Historic Town & Killed Over 100 People: "it's the firefighters' fault" isn't the winning narrative you think it is.
#lahaina #climateresilience

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hawaii-power-utility-takes-responsibility-fire-maui-faults-102621518

greendesignek, 1 month ago to random

Breaking news, cis white male Boomer is angry that not everyone thinks he's making great points so he takes his toys and goes home after being held accountable for his BS, playing into racist white nationalist talking points along the way. Good riddance. #npr

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245283076/npr-editor-uri-berliner-resigns-ceo-katherine-maher

greendesignek, 2 months ago to climate

It is baffling that Democratic leadership has not yet gotten the message. Either Biden can go down in history as a 2-term President who was pro-union, fought #climatechange, & had record job growth... Or, he can be a 1-term Pres remembered for kowtowing to a murderous lunatic who runs a country with less than .03% of our population. #stopfundingisrael #gaza #Palestine

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wisconsin-democrats-biden-gaza-uninstructed_n_660d7d84e4b083254eaa91ca

greendesignek, 8 months ago to portland

It's both a challenging & an exciting time to be living in #Portland. I have been around long enough to watch the motto "The City That Works" erode from reality to a sad joke, but I'm jazzed that we chose to totally overhaul our local government. This is what healthy societies do when stuff is broken - they try something to fix it. Good reading from WWeek:

https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/09/13/the-political-machines-that-for-decades-dominated-portland-elections-must-start-from-scratch/

greendesignek, 7 months ago to random

This is a real WTF moment and also maybe how zombie movies start? 😳

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/10/23/portland-plane-diverted-engine/

greendesignek, 9 months ago to cycling

The existential crisis of living on the planet Earth in the year 2023 is already a lot to handle, but combine that with being a bike enthusiast & the grief that each cyclist carries with them every day, & it's like walking around in a weighted suit. RIP Mark. #BikeTooter #ItsTheCarsStupid #TrafficFatalities

https://bikeportland.org/2023/08/07/manager-of-mt-hood-skibowl-killed-while-bicycling-down-timberline-hwy-377924

greendesignek, 4 months ago to random

Oh, HELL no

#boeing #Capitalism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/08/boeing-737-max-inspections-begin/

greendesignek, 4 months ago to portland

15 deg F in Lair Hill with strong winds & snow all morning. Per my neighbor, a tree fell down across Naito Pkwy earlier & our lights flickered but we've still got power.

#pdxtst #portland #winterstorm #snowmageddon

greendesignek, 4 months ago to pdx

I love trees but this is some serious BS & I think I would sue the city. The article makes false equivalence between 1 large tree on private property while the "tree spokesperson" claims that trees save lives. Well sure some do but only in the public sphere & this one almost TOOK lives. A ridiculous policy.
#pdx #portland #pdxtst

https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/01/24/the-city-denied-a-portland-familys-request-to-chop-down-a-douglas-fir-last-week-the-tree-slammed-into-their-home/

greendesignek, 3 months ago to random

It just never ceases to amaze me how bad drivers have gotten in the past few years. We have one car, which I drive as if I'm a grandma riding my bike - aka the speed limit & head on a swivel - because other drivers have gotten so terrible. Does #carbrain cause dementia? Is it all the California drivers? Did everyone just decide that rules don't apply to them anymore? Is it the fentanyl? What is going on? #carssuck

greendesignek, 9 months ago to portland

A banger from Willamette Week about the bleak commercial real estate outlook in #portland. It just seems like we've reached peak Idiocracy if we've got all these buildings with all this unused space at a time when we also have more homelessness & a bigger #housingcrisis than ever before, so can we just... put people... in those buildings? We can do hard things!

https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/08/16/empty-and-unwanted-the-iconic-buildings-of-portlands-skyline-are-in-trouble/

greendesignek, 5 months ago to random

Wow do I feel this: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/01/america-failed-parents-rich-countries-raising-kids/677023/

#childcare

greendesignek, 9 months ago to portland

Heads up #Portland, the NWS Pdx has issued a #FireWeatherWatch starting Saturday afternoon & a Major Heat Risk Alert for the week beginning Sunday, August 13. #redflagalert

greendesignek, 4 months ago to cycling

I love a good bike list 😍 🚲

Also, LOL at our 3.5 bike shops / 100k people.

#BikeTooter #portland

https://listwithclever.com/research/most-bike-friendly-cities-us/#ranking-50

greendesignek, 30 days ago to pdx

Love some actual good news! #pdx #cider #portlandcidercompany

"Portland Cider Company’s Original Gold Cider received the best-in-class trophy at the International Brewing and Cider Awards yesterday in London. This is the first time in the competition’s 136-year history that a U.S. cidery has won."

https://www.wweek.com/drink/2024/05/02/portland-cider-co-founder-speechless-at-award/

greendesignek, 7 months ago to ebikes

It's raining e-bike articles! #ebikes #BikeTooter

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/reasons-to-get-e-bike-emissions-climate-change-benefits/675716/?gift=0y-opnoTKZWjK7d_E4NerVwJUAxsA0-o7IHYiQEv8yI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

greendesignek, 4 months ago to portland

When this is all over, out of all the calamities Portlanders have seen in the past few years, I think this week will still stand alone in terms of damage and injury. Everything I've seen, all of your posts, my neighbors in brief frigid conversations... We're a hardy people but this is too much. #pdxtst #portland

https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2024/01/falling-trees-caught-on-camera-around-portland-area-as-ice-storm-causes-havoc.html

enobacon, 1 month ago to portland

“For years, advocates have been sounding the alarm on the worsening epidemic of traffic violence in our community and proposing solutions which have been ignored by the City Council,” Sarah Iannarone, executive director of nonprofit The Street Trust, said in a press release. “Of course the problem continues to worsen.”

#Portland #VisionZero #Vision60or70something

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/04/18/47145013/despite-record-high-traffic-crash-deaths-pbot-leaders-say-vision-zero-is-working

greendesignek, 3 months ago to portland

This guy is terrible for #Portland
#mayoralrace #orpol #BikeTooter #bikeportland

https://bikeportland.org/2024/02/22/mapps-to-pbot-union-gas-tax-wont-fund-bike-lanes-that-drive-everybody-crazy-384164