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New post: 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Is It Like A Pair Of Comfy Shoes? https://www.transportevolved.com/2026/10/27/2027-chevrolet-bolt-ev-is-it-like-a-pair-of-comfy-shoes/

For the past 14 months, Bryan Vance has tracked the prices of 20 common grocery staples, aggregating them into a newsletter called Stumptown Savings. Spurred by rising costs and his own layoff, the Google sheet where he tracks items is now 5,500 lines long. Every month he adds 400 points of data.

Apparently Kid: "Apparently... I don't watch the news, but I did a promo for Firefox..." (about 28 seconds in) #TBTL @lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social

Some cars fit like your favorite pair of shoes. 👟⚡ We've driven Chevy Bolt EVs for nearly a decade; GM has brought the Bolt back. Is the 2027 Bolt EV still the same comfy fit? Full review Tuesday 27 Oct, 6 a.m. Pacific. Teaser: https://youtube.com/shorts/oWpM4rdR4tM

Local governments across Oregon appear sharply divided on what amounts to a statewide data center moratorium.

Almost five years in, the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts is challenging performing arts center norms — and it’s paying off. Could the young venue’s strategy serve as a case study for other struggling arts centers?

InsideEVs: Seattle Is Installing Hundreds Of Curbside EV Chargers #EVCharging #EVChargingInfrastructure #Seattle

🗣️ KIRR-i-bas #TBTL

Eleven rural hospitals in Oregon — many of them struggling financially — are teaming up in a new state-approved network, allowing them to pool their purchasing power and create an economy of scale on par with larger hospitals.

I could see this as a topic for #TBTL or #SpotlessPod 😅

For those running pfSense+ (and possibly pfSense CE), updates to the PHP packages are starting to roll out, along with the CA cert updates. forum.netgate.com/topic/201559... #pfSense

I remember all of the anger and bluster when Kim Kardashian was the Not My Job guest on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! back in June 2015. #TBTL

Calibri is a sans-serif font, but Cambria is a serif font. No-frills sans-serif font would be more like Helvetica 🙃 #TBTL

Same as it ever was...

New post: Musk Helped EVs. Now He’s Helping Attack Democracy https://www.transportevolved.com/2026/10/20/musk-helped-evs-now-hes-helping-attack-democracy/

I've been purchasing DVDs or Blu-Rays for various TV series and movies that I'm really into so that I could (eventually) create "personal backups" and make them available via my media library so that I can avoid/cut streaming services. #TBTL

I think the phrase "Honking on my bobo" came up during Thursday's Live Wire show and, as a TBTL Ten, all I could think of was something like blasting away on a saxophone on the Bobo (aka Luke) doll 😂 #TBTL #LiveWireRadio

First time implementing warnings.warn() to deprecate function in Python. Before folks yell at me, I know about PEP 702, but I still need to support Python 3.12. I'm really glad that pytest has deprecated_call() to check that a function/method is flagging that warning correctly. #Python

NPR: Noah Adams, longtime host of NPR's All Things Considered, has died www.npr.org/2026/10/18/n... Photo of a card from a pack of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! playing cards. #NPR

Photos from Thursday's Live Wire Radio at the Alberta Rose Theatre with Joey Clift, Brittany Carney, Chuck Klosterman and musical guest Ages and Ages. #LiveWireRadio #Portland #PDX

It's Saturday and that means TEN! 📺 Is retro the future of EV design? Paris goes retro, the Trump administration tries to un-approve a wind farm that's already built, and Rivian goes Ghostbusters. 👻 https://youtu.be/NRn__ZjFEwc

re: songs that have strings of fa-fas: Psycho Killer >>>>>>> Fa-Fa And that's coming from a Guster-head 😂 #TalkingHeads #Guster

Nine years for a car that can drive upside down. 🙃 Come back when you've figured out how to make things affordable. 😉 (Starting with charging: if you don't drive a Tesla, Supercharging averages ~63¢/kWh unless you pay a monthly fee.)

Solar panels are bringing idle cranberry bogs back to life

New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Sam Roberts and Gaby Moreno New York Times obituary writer Sam Roberts (Are The Dead Yet?: the Art of the Obit) discusses the no... Episode Download

“Our most sensitive personal information is not an asset to be bought and sold, especially during a fire sale after bankruptcy,” EFF's @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @kqednews.kqed.org.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, influenza rates are still low right now but are beginning to trend upward, with the highest activity on the West Coast.

One of the words for today's NYT Strands ties in with something from yesterday's #TBTL 😂

There's a Kankakee, Illinois. You get to hear it said on WBEZ 🙃 #TBTL

#Slopic

It's been a while since I've heard someone tell Mo Rocca that it's supposed to be "Lightning" Fill In The Blank 😂 #WaitWaitDontTellMe

It may be mere coincidence and there are only two data points thus far, but it's funny that both times Katie Nolan has been a panelist on Wait Wait, there has been a guest host 🤔 Tom Papa guest hosted (I was at that taping 🙃) on Katie's debut. #WaitWaitDontTellMe

New post: TEN 602 | BMW iX4, ’27 Pebble Flow, World’s Tallest Wind Turbine! https://www.transportevolved.com/2026/10/10/ten-602-bmw-ix4-27-pebble-flow-worlds-tallest-wind-turbine/

Once you see this move by David Byrne during "Life During Wartime" for Stop Making Sense Live, it'll probably never un-see it but in a good way.

Oof... Bootstrap v6 is a pretty darn major break from v5. I don't think I'm going to be migrating any of my sites to it anytime soon. This might just be enough for me to consider looking at something else, just like the major breaking changes between major versions of Materialize CSS. 😑

Sen. Ron Wyden is seeking a privacy review report about the HIDTA license plate program.

> “I’m blessed to meet a lot of people who really enjoy my show. I have yet to meet a single person who tunes in just to find out who wins,” Sagal said, with apologies to superfan Linh Pham, who created and maintains a rigorous stats page for the program. Apology accepted, @petersagal.bsky.social 😂

Well, I just had a 8.2 on the flinching-while-listening-to-TBTL-Richter scale today. #TBTL

My "I don't know or care what I want for lunch because I feel kinda burned out" lunch: Toasted bagel, butter and a bit of Vegemite

New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Susan Orlean and David Ramirez Acclaimed writer Susan Orlean (The New Yorker) reflects on her storied career through the lens of he... Episode Download

Real wasabi is common in Japan but has long been a luxury in the U.S. It has to be served soon after preparation and doesn’t grow easily outside its native ecosystems. But a farm on the Oregon Coast may be changing that.

New post: The 2027 Pebble Flow: Is This The Future Of Travel Trailers? https://www.transportevolved.com/2026/10/08/the-2027-pebble-flow-is-this-the-future-of-travel-trailers/

Just got my TBTL-a-Thon gifts today, including the full set of TBTL Inside Baseball cards. #TBTL

New post: EV Fast Charging Prices Have Soared Since 2022. Here’s Why https://www.transportevolved.com/2026/10/06/ev-fast-charging-prices-have-soared-since-2022-heres-why/

Layoffs at a statewide immigrant rights nonprofit raise questions about how the group will continue to run an ICE reporting hotline and other services that assist people facing deportation.

Pinball machines used to be outlawed because they looked too much like gambling.

Inconsistent mail delivery in Astoria has attracted the attention of Oregon’s U.S. senators, especially as midterm elections near.

Disappointed in the mention of Omarchy in this week's Explaining Computer Linux update video without touching on the forking problematic and fashy creator and the sloppiness of it all.

Puyallup Tribe member Shawn Reynolds' twin sons, Nakotah and Dakotah, wore T-shirts, shorts, beaded headbands, and matching stoles. They have autism, which means wearing all the customary regalia — and much of the powwow environment itself — can be overstimulating for them.

Since Bluesky still doesn't have content warnings while Mastodon does: Spoilerful thoughts from the #JetLagTheGame Japanorama finale that was shown in the theaters tonight