Todd Anderson

@pdxbrocialite portland would never

San Francisco going absolutely feral for the new Taco Bell Cantina speaks to the profound collapse in taste among city-dwellers over the past 10 years. Pathetic.

@SPNick1971 @joesimonssays Agreed! It's like calling pizza "za"; nope!

@joesimonssays It’s been a tough schedule to start and team is way more competitive, so I feel great. 45 win season coming. On a side note, whenever I hear someone refer to our team as the “Zers” it makes me cringe. Please stop.

Ok, Blazers Beauties: 10 games in your Zers are 5-5, how we feeling out there? #RCWrapUp

@basketghoul have you heard the Todd Snider song "DB Cooper"? Might be good background music as you create your next Blazers #1 Banger!

@nub Well at least some pandemics in human history have been credibly traced to laboratories; accidents happen! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

There's zero evidence that covid 19 is the result of gain of function research. There's zero evidence that covid 19 existed in a lab for it to leak out of. There's zero evidence that covid 19 is a bioweapon. Every other pandemic in human history has been zoonosis.

Up until the recent DoE report, the FBI has been the only govt agency to say it's a lab leak. Importantly, the FBI has no evidence. None whatsoever! Their assessment is just based purely on vibes coming from China.

@GuloThoughts Not quite a wetland, but a lovely walk on boards in Portland's Leach Botanical Garden.

Since this post seems to be bringing all of my fellow wetland fans out of the woodwork, please share your wetland crush and/or favorite boardwalk, I absolutely want to know

@cd0yl3 Triple rhubarb

turns out three men talking at the same time is my least favorite sound

@angus_with @chr1sa @COVID19Tracking I think you need to revisit the colors the plot legend; France & Germany are barely visible amongst the group of countries near 0 deaths/day.

Today's Covid19 new cases and deaths stats from @COVID19Tracking The US, Brazil and India are all around 1k deaths/day now, with the US falling and India rising. New cases in the US are still falling and the 7-day average is now below 50k/day

@lymanstoneky I too would like to see a table comparing rapid test sensitivity / specificity, as I found this argument for daily quick-turnaround testing quite compelling: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

"Rapid tests catch people with enough viral load to be contagious" At the time of the test! But if their viral load rises the next day, they'd have gotten a negative test. That seems bad.

Does anybody have a good source on the accuracy of the currently-being-used generation of "rapid" tests? Have heard of US medical providers discouraging people from getting rapid tests due to concerns about accuracy.

This line is so boring and forever-taking... but the comfortable ambiance makes it all worthwhile!

@cd0yl3 Solid novel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broth…

my boyfriend just called the brothers karamazov “the brothers k”. okay now i get to call it “fifty shades of g”

@nevolution @ThoughtBow @vgr Kevlar (anti-ballistic) / copper (anti-viral) woven beer koozie?

@todicus @ThoughtBow @vgr Tacticoolzies

@ThoughtBow @vgr Tacticozy

@vgr How about domestic cozy + light prepper = cozy tacticool?

@ctrlhpdx Website seems to be down. Longer version of URL works though: pdxhackerspace.org

We're in full swing producing shields and other PPE. Yesterday we donated 50+ to medical professionals in OR and CA, and a team at PSU is evaluating a new laser cut model. If your org needs face shields or other PPE, please contact us through our web site. pdxhs.org

@Ernie19861 @johnrobb @willchamberlain This is plotting the number of TESTS by country, not the number of cases

@johnrobb @willchamberlain That’s expected because there’s more testing. Note however the mortality rate is flat and decreasing.

Today's test chart. US still zooming. More, faster, easier. #buytimefortests Take measures now to slow the growth of the pandemic so tests can have an effect when they arrive. Update S. Korea, their still zooming too.

Dreams can come true

@TheMicromuseums @inaturalist And most likely the only marine creature which continues to accelerate after leaving the water!

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a flying squid?! The lesser flying squid is the only mollusk that can fly. Okay, more like glide in the air... (Thanks to the citizen scientists at @inaturalist for this photo.)

#thoughtfluencer bubble-meld request: @dexguff please book this business card guru on your show youtu.be/4YBxeDN4tbk

@BrainGrone Great photo! The polygonal specular highlight on the eye caught my... eye. Artifact or related to hex packing of ommatidia?

@DannaStaaf @BrainGrone Maybe a Caribbean reef squid? I guess they are fairly shallow.