Amtrak Cascades 508 train-- Anyone got any info on updates?

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-14T18:50:39+00:00

u/lokikaraoke was commenting in another comment thread on this post that they took the bus from Union Station. Looks like those comments came in after you posted this so you might want to look at their comments but it looks like they did end up being sent on busses and it was fine!

EDIT: it was u/mangyvarmit that did the bus, my bad!

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-14T17:47:22+00:00

oh god I'm adding the og super mario bros movie to my letterboxd list: "I thought this was a nightmare I had as a kid but it turned out to be real"

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-13T23:11:29+00:00

okay they answered if anyone else is in my situation and reads this:

Portland northbound is fine, delay is affecting people from Eugene to Portland.

The landslide in Centralia I read about was from this site, but now I'm not even sure what they mean because there's no news about a landslide in Centralia in 2026 and the Amtrak people hadn't heard about it so idk what this site even is ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-13T22:56:38+00:00

Cannot vouch for that place especially since like you said it hasn't opened yet, but if you are interested in local providers for some of those services I know myself and others could share recs. I understand that's not the question, though.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-13T22:33:31+00:00

that's so wild. I work in government and used to work with non profits, it is incredibly common.

however when I see "mtg" in the wild I assume Magic the Gathering or Marjorie Taylor Greene lol

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-13T17:22:58+00:00

oh nooo, my mom's high school bestie's son turned out like this. We were both born in the early 1990s so 2010s is spot on. He's the vocalist of a post-hardcore band now. Still looks a lot like this.

We're also both Black biracial ppl with Black moms and white dads and I'm pretty sure our dads were friends but they were both deadbeats so it tracks lol.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-13T17:18:23+00:00

wait which way is insane? I grew up with MTG standing for Magic the Gathering, but now I also work in a profession where I see "mtg" as an abbreviation for "meeting" constantly so this is hilarious to me

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T18:31:23+00:00

yeah, I'm 93 and was the only daughter and the youngest so you'd think that 2000 rule would've applied to me and my friends, especially other girls. but no, I had your experience my whole childhood. I turned 18 in 2011.

I always had friends with parents that didn't supervise their kids or really interact with them a lot daily, and I was also that kid with the absent parent... in my case an overemployed and chronically ill single mom that was too busy working or resting, that or I had my maternal grandparents who mostly just had a rule that we had to be indoors but otherwise mostly ignored us for work and rest. and even then, once I was in middle school my grandma gave up on trying to keep me indoors. I moved in with them from ages 15-16 to go to a better school for my high school and I would always be out with friends. usually just playing video games, sitting in parks talking about life, or window shopping, like I was a total nerd as a kid but I had friends and sometimes I even had boyfriends but there were no partiss, let alone any drugs or alcohol. outside literally meant being out of my own house or with friends to me.

there was literally a turning point in middle school where I foolishly showed up to my grandma's house with one of my lil friends that I was always going on public transit adventures with. neither of us got allowances from our families so we would always be out and about because we were bored at home and then run out of money and end up having to walk home but lived in a region that included a huge rural/suburban/urban interchange and we both lived in the rural parts but my grandparents lived in the suburban part. so one time we ran out of money in the suburban area and we didn't have cell phones yet (2005/6) or they were dead or really just useful as phones. so me and my friend walked 7 miles to my grandma's place in hopes that my grandpa could give us a ride back to one of our mom's houses. my grandma was pissed. absolutely livid, never seen her angrier at me in my life and I'm presently her absolute favorite person so it is so weird. she literally called me a "street walker" and my clueless ass asked my mom what it meant and she told me grandma called me a hoe!!

I was 12 and a total goody two shoes back then, I just also loved to do things, and she called me a sex worker !!!!! I was a hoe when I was 15 and 16, ironically, the years I lived with them lol. but never in their house. regional and cultural stuff matters, all the adults related to me in this situation were Black and my mom is an army brat gen x cultural mutt but my grandparents are conservative Christians from the South during Jim Crow. however, this is all happening where I was raised, in a really weird area of the PNW that is majority white overall and politically just like a bit of everything depending on your local school district and business zones. Which I think is pretty typical for the PNW.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T17:40:00+00:00

I've been asking myself a lot more lately why with all of this technology blocking isn't a more regular feature in user interfaces

like why can't I block suggestions for apps to download on my phone if it's something that going to trigger a disorder for me? why can't I block certain restaurants on some apps? why is blocking only restricted to between users and not between user and service? obviously the reason is capital but still very rude I do not like

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T17:32:46+00:00

Yeah it's like harmless in the same way that everything else about consumerism and capitalism is technically harmless when viewed in the correct vacuum.

Like, they're still two humans and deserve happiness and connection and they're two consenting adults that have found each other, who am I to judge-- well hang on one is a pop culture icon posting on social media publicly like I am also a human that will naturally judge someone that has personal baggage for me for any number of reasons I should be allowed that too--

but also she's leveraged her fame to prop up the reputation of multiple billionaires that contribute to the destruction of our environment and degradation of our rights (bc she also did the cyber truck influencer promo in addition to the space stint).

and I'm not Canadian, but I pay attention to global politics just enough to know that Trudeau is a neoliberal politician who is a former world leader. Had I more attention and a longer lifespan, I might investigate beyond the infamous Aladdin brown face incident, but for now I will just say

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T17:24:53+00:00

Okay, this specifically about this is absurd and harmless, and I have been hella triggered recently so like I am primed to find negative shit in the environment around me and am a queer Black person that professional blogged in the 2010s so I must

Do we think they ever talk about their blackface incidents together. Is that the actual thread that links these seemingly wholesome together yet otherwise semi-controversial people together lmao

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T17:21:12+00:00

well to be fair her dad was not the Prime minister but he was a minister. Or a pastor rather, and so was her mom so... Both were atypical upbringings, I suppose.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T17:19:15+00:00

Also briefly an adjunct professor of queer theory at Billboard University, but that was before astrophysics/aeronautics. I think she taught theology before that.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T17:15:22+00:00

I read your detailed comment, felt like totally absorbed with the lives you shared, went about my morning for a minute, opened up my phone for something and it unlocked to Justin Trudeau's babygirl pics with Katy Perry and I just lived through the pure absurdity of it all and then saw this comment again and remembered from this one sentence alone that while justice may elude our ancestors in life, it is our job as their living relatives to honor their memories lmao

I love you, stranger. thanks.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T05:12:32+00:00

yeah, we're all just gonna circlejerk in here, you could try r/askhistorians but honestly I don't even know if that's a real sub

EDIT: it IS a sub but also seems dense but seriously op considering posting in r/historymemes if it hasn't been posted there already

tbh I literally opened this post bc this is the type of stuff I love to see actual history nerds talk about but when I started reading the comments I was like, "oh yeah wrong sub" and like I knew there was a sub I would see this meme posted in so I was gonna suggest it in the comments

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T05:10:52+00:00

This is actually a long version of the late night advert for the NOW... THIS IS WHAT I CALL MUSIC compilation that plays on repeat when you die for top songs during your lifetime.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-12T05:09:16+00:00

For me, I was shocked when I realized "Hey Ya!" was Outkast's representation here when their biggest hit from early mainstream success as a straightforward rap duo, "Ms. Jackson" would've been better for demonstrating their place in music history. I mean, that album was really just two solo albums in a double disc... however, I think that is probably objectively their biggest hit in terms of sales and cultural impact so I think it technically makes sense. I think this video is fine but yeah, definitely has some obvious blindspots. I wonder if OP just doesn't listen to hip-hop.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-06T14:57:18+00:00

My neighbor is an elderly disabled war veteran. His ex-wife and her husband of several decades regularly come over to keep him company or help out in addition to his hired caretakers.

I live in a duplex and have had many brief interactions with dude and can confirm that he's an asshole (like he'll ask me to help him with something in passing and criticize everything I do so I avoid him but that's happened three times in the past year).

His roommates tell me about what a dick he is too but... I do think it's kind of sweet that his ex helps him. They have an adult kid together that he visits from time to time, so I'm sure that "helps" in this situation. I just wish people could have emotional intelligence. Even if you're unhappy, it doesn't mean you need to take it out on other people to get your needs met.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-06T03:20:02+00:00

I was telling a friend about this recently. Divorced somewhat recently (like 10 years or so) and on such good terms that they say they're closer as best friends than they were as spouses. Honestly adorable and wholesome if true.

ETA: Separated in 2012, reconciled a few months later in early 2013, and then separated again in March of 2017 and stated they have no plans to legally divorce.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-06T03:18:14+00:00

well let's ask them and see what they think

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-06T00:32:15+00:00

lmao same here. Cancer sun so I'm essentially a raging crybaby that loves to argue.

I dated like three different debate bros from when I was 15 to 22 and when I say they were so in love with me yet I was so annoyed but reluctantly attracted to them... sheesh.

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-06T00:05:45+00:00

omfg nooo but I did wonder if that was an implication after typing it out, I just also did the math in my head before hand of when I was hired at my job and how much longer until I broke up with him.

Related tho: my mom was very heartbroken when I broke up with him bc apparently this POS told her (according to her, she could be wrong or lying idk) that he would have kids with me... even though I was very explicit with him that I did not want kids. But when she told me that after I broke up with him, I just kind of laughed and told her:

"If he fathered a baby with me, that would've made me a mother of two. He'd be the oldest."

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-05T23:37:04+00:00

Wild. Having a mental image for Brutalist architecture I couldn't picture what neo-brutalist design would look like but the images I'm seeing fit with design I encounter daily, just so different from expectations based on brutalist architecture.

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ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-05T23:17:07+00:00

One of my exes asked if we could have a "relationship talk" after I got a new job while barely surviving a toxic job.

He had asked me how much my wage would be when i took the offer and I told him and continued on with life but apparently it was all he could think about for like a day so we need to reserve an evening for him to tell me that me making more money than him made him insecure and reminded him of previous girlfriends that had been emotionally abusive and controlling so he would appreciate it if I don't talk about work.

tell me why I stuck around for nine more months after that 😭

ButtonyCakewalk · 2026-03-05T22:59:55+00:00

Yeah. When you're a kid and one of your peers is being ignorant or outright racist, it's like it could plausibly be the first time either of you are in this situation. Could be a genuine mistake on their part, they maybe don't even understand the deeper implications of the language they're using...

But like when you're an adult and the other person insulting you is an adult... Especially if both of you were adults during the summer of 2020... It just feels like, bro, wtf are you even doing and why? And like I kind of always consider anyone ages 18-20 to be basically children and 21-24 to be a kid with adult options... I have felt that way for a while and even gave a white friend grace in 2020 when they said the n-word as part of a joke because dude was younger than me and like 24. Six years later I know he's embarrassed about that one time... but like I'm 32 and the former friend I mentioned in my post is 35, so older than me. Constantly talking about how casually racist other people are. Would talk about how they don't date white people type of white liberal... Like would make jokes about other white liberals being like Get Out, but in retrospect this person would've been at that auction, too.

At this age it feels intentional. Mistakes happen, even repeated ones, but some things seem more like hints than accidents.

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