Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&date=2024-02-10
No point getting into a twist until the Supreme Court rules on the case out of Grants Pass.
It would be nice to break up camps full of drugs, stolen cars, and stolen bikes, based not on the premise of homelessness, but on the basis of "this bullshit is illegal".
I was driving on 5 and saw a camp on fire today. Not a good look
Oh, yeah, that happens ALL THE TIME.
Was it under a bridge or an overpass?
"Oh shit, it's illegal now to camp on the sidewalk under the overpass? I am so...just SO incredibly sorry and embarrassed, please forgive us. C'mon kids, go get in the Tesla, we'll just go back to West Linn and have a campout in the back yard."