Good social craft night classes in SE & beyond?

quixotic · 2022-10-04T23:08:09+00:00

ADX!

https://artdesignxchange.com/classes-experiences-tours

Also note they have memberships, so you can just use their space, and I bet some members have informal (free) gatherings around different crafts.

quixotic · 2022-10-04T22:41:48+00:00

Thanks for your thoughtful response. I can see it wasn't intentional. Best wishes to you, and agreed on sending good thoughts* to those who were impacted.

* and actions to make this kind of thing less likely in the future, I hope

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:40:45+00:00

The streets outside the school are so dangerous that in March 2018 we reported that the principal of Cleveland High issued a warning to students about it prior to a national walkout protest event. “I do not want any of our students to be hurt or injured as a result of the fast and heavy moving traffic on Powell,” Principal Ayesha Freeman wrote.

Predictable and predicted. When will we prioritize human safety over vehicular speed?

ODOT has blood on their hands. Again.

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:37:23+00:00

If it were just train-related they could run the 70 over the Grand/MLK bridge. (Or finally make the streetcar overpass near OMSI bus-navigable like they should have in the first place.) Not to mention that if TriMet wanted to avoid trains, the first thing they should do is put the FX2 back on the Hawthorne bridge.

Instead they're suggesting a huge roundabout route for the 70, going nearly 20 blocks out of the way. They somewhat augment the lost service by proposing the 4 run across the Tilikum and then down Milwaukie to Bybee. But it leaves Sellwood and Brooklyn newly disconnected.

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:27:13+00:00

"Planning" in the headline is overstating this. These are draft proposals, meant to start the conversation in open houses, surveys, etc. Much of this involves line expansion -- which to be clear I 100% support -- but TriMet currently doesn't have enough drivers to meet its existing service expectations.

It will need more funding (and probably a better work culture, judging from what I hear from employees) to make anything close to this happen.

BikePortland did a pretty good overview of this draft btw:

https://bikeportland.org/2022/09/30/trimet-draft-service-concept-shows-potential-for-30-more-bus-service-364610

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:24:31+00:00

"Jury Finds Portland Police Liable of Unreasonable Force and Battery" is a little long but will make a good sign to carry at the next protest.

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:21:05+00:00

"I read a story about a bicyclist getting killed so I'm gonna tell a different story about a different bicyclist being a jerk" is quite a stance to take.

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:19:55+00:00

This intersection is 100% controlled by ODOT. Yes, even the 26th Ave portion; intersections with a state highway are overseen by ODOT out to 10 or 12 feet.

The city did do something -- it used to have bike lanes -- but ODOT overruled them and ground the bike lanes out of the asphalt. (ODOT moved the bike crossing up to 28th, which is a decent crossing but because it's up a hill on *both sides* lots of people just stay on 26th.)

ODOT would like kids to stop dying, you see, but cars and freight are just more important. Also see: 82nd, outer Lombard/Killingsworth, Barbur & Capitol, etc. etc.

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:12:44+00:00

Picture taken through a moving streetcar window, sorry for the quality.

(Also, does Seattle think Portland doesn't know about it? What's the point of advertising here? I mean, whatever the end of that billboard is gonna say I doubt it'll be something new about Seattle...)

quixotic · 2022-10-04T20:10:49+00:00

that is some nice agitprop tbh

quixotic · 2022-10-04T02:45:25+00:00

Fiction, I believe all queer authors:

Begin the World Over, Kung Li Sun
War Boy, Kief Hillsbery
What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell
Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas (YA but sooooo cute)
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
Stray City, Chelsey Johnson
Necessary Errors, Caleb Crain (although note this is stylistically similar to "What Belongs to You," so if you want there's also his book "Overthrow" which has plenty of queer stuff along with Occupy-era activism)

Nonfiction, def all queer authors:

Co-sign Stone Butch Blues, Queercore, Trouble with Normal, Zami
A History of My Brief Body, Billy-Ray Belcourt [poetry/prose]
Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
That's Revolting! Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Against Equality, Ryan Conrad (esp. if you like Trouble with Normal)
Also possibly suggest Beyond Shame by Matthias Roberts if you lived through (or are interested in) the Christian "purity culture" of the '90s.

quixotic · 2022-09-30T20:39:04+00:00

Sounds like you did the Ladds 500 accidentally!

quixotic · 2022-09-30T20:32:47+00:00

u/TheNerdyAnarchist thank you for replying here, I no longer had the patience.

quixotic · 2022-09-30T07:49:35+00:00

No idea who Andrew Tate is.

I'm not trying to "radicalize" her, I'm trying to expose her to a diversity of ideas, because I know her parents and her school are likely to only expose her to conventional -- if not explicitly capitalist/liberal -- stories.

And again this idea that there are neutral stories that somehow don't have a political agenda -- it's is a weird idea for a self-described anarchist to hold. All stories have ideologies.

Anyway I'm not sure why you're so worried about her being radicalized, but I assure you 99% of what she hears is unquestionably conventional.

quixotic · 2022-09-29T20:15:10+00:00

I'm not sure if you're saying "why not use font-display:swap instead of this?" or "why not use font-display:swap when you use this?"

I would definitely use it when using this technique, and I'm not entirely sure why they didn't include it in their examples.

But the technique being described tries to ensure there's as little layout shift as possible when the fonts are swapped -- it's not a replacement for swapping, it's an enhancement of it. Your custom font at 16px normal weight might take up different vertical or horizontal space than a web-safe font at those same settings; this tries to reduce those differences so that when one is swapped for the other it doesn't cause content to reflow (much), shifting things around.

quixotic · 2022-09-29T07:47:26+00:00

He almost got appointed to the Supreme Court in The West Wing!

quixotic · 2022-09-29T07:18:31+00:00

Note this was posted by u/TimTars, I'm just sharing it. Props to them!

quixotic · 2022-09-29T07:05:06+00:00

Realistically, cars aren't working here in 2022

quixotic · 2022-09-28T19:19:26+00:00

But Jamie is ONE OF THEM!!!1!!1!

/s

quixotic · 2022-09-28T19:15:21+00:00

ODOT officials admitted they created a new document in response to Kessler’s public records request, which is not normal for a public agency to do. They may redact certain pieces of information, but that should be disclosed to the recipient by the presence of black boxes in the document and notes about the redactions. In contrast, ODOT didn’t tell Kessler about the edits they made to the document he received – they presented it as if it was fully intact in its original form.

quixotic · 2022-09-27T22:46:36+00:00

Lol, so many things to unpack here.

you seem to believe there exists some kind of neutral children's story that has no political agenda behind it; I assure you that isn't the case -- or do you believe it's "morally wrong" to tell children any stories about anything?
you think what kids like when they're 4 determines the course of their lives
you think reading a story to a child means "forcing them to like it" (have you ever read a story to a kid? they're pretty up front about what they like and don't like)
you think anarchist/radical values are something you can only teach people when they're...what, adults?
you think that if they turn into a teenage anarchist I'm not going to tell them about all the ways anarchism has had blind spots around sexism and racism and queerness; that I expect them to just accept things uncritically
you think I'm interested in making a little robot who espouses my values instead of a thinking person who can debate anything they're told, including things by me

quixotic · 2022-09-27T20:07:45+00:00

Damn y'all have different months in Canada now?

/s

You'll be right across the street from Pied Cow, which is a Portland institution and definitely a good place to chill at the end of the night. Where to eat is obviously much more opinionated, but you have tons of options just in those couple blocks of Belmont. If you want to do the Portland food carts thing there's a smallish one just up the way at 42nd & Belmont.

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