Connor Anderson

@connorwa

Public sector IT manager & union thug in #PDX. SF Writer. Trying to imagine the best possible future with the lowest possible body count. Dog dad to @leo-bernadoodle.bsky.social He/him #YNWA

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Connor Anderson@connorwa· 25d

Seattle ANTIFA, represent

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jun 25

every hometown's got an ominous megastructure. what's yours?

An enormous gold-painted half dome looms over an industrial site, railroad tracks and a green field.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jun 24

Trying to do the thing again because this book held me up by making my cry on walks during COVID. Shout out to @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social

The cover of "This is How You Lose the Time War," by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone depicts a pixelated cardinal and blue jay.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jun 23

I knew about all these actions individually, but the generational connections blew my mind. The fact that Kermit Roosevelt Jr. was involved in the Mossadegh overthrow… Anyway, Ta-Nahesi Coates’ new article is vital reading. archive.ph/2026.06.20-1...

Much as broadcast news in the ’60s made it hard for Southern white supremacists to hide their brutality, social media has made it impossible for Israel, and thus the American empire, to hide its own.

The tradition is literally generational. In 1893, John Watson Foster helped overthrow the queen of Hawaii. Sixty years later, Foster’s grandsons, Allen and John Dulles, took up the trade. As heads of the CIA and the State Department, respectively, they engaged Kermit Roosevelt Jr. to overthrow Mossadegh. Roosevelt was himself a scion of the imperial spirit—his grandfather was Theodore Roosevelt, who championed the annexation of the Philippines. The subsequent events are a dizzying whirlwind of horse trading and violence: In 1963 the CIA backs a coup d’etat by the Iraqi Ba’ath Party, which Saddam Hussein would eventually lead.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jun 23

@leo-bernadoodle.bsky.social Says Hi!

A gray and white bernadoodle is trotting down a forest path towards you with his tongue out and looking for shenanigans.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jun 11

Yes, and (like so)

A bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson that has been repurposed by artist Kara Walker. Jackson and his horse have been cut into pieces – “butchered”, in the words of co-curator Hamza Walker, into shank and round and rump – and then put back together to form a disjointed monster.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jun 6

Worker’s Renaissance Faire at City Hall ahead of the Portland Rose Parade. We have songs, crafts and a pony!

A sign reads, No workers no renaissance. It is decorated in cavorting animals in the style of Mideval manuscript marginalia

Connor Anderson@connorwa· May 19

New art on the wall courtesy of @piaguerra.bsky.social Thanks for shipping twice!

Photo of an art print entitled “On the day that it happens.” It consists of eighteen ink drawn panels of various people reacting to a particular news event.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· May 13

Connor Anderson@connorwa· May 6

Tapping the sign again *sigh*

Black text, "be curious not judgmental - Ted Lasso" on a white background with stylized image of Ted Lasso's hair, eyebrows and mustache.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Apr 12

Dog chased a critter into the pond. Turned around to get out, had a vine around his neck. I was otherwise occupied and didn’t notice he’d gone. Found him struggling with his head just above the water. We both got cut up pretty bad getting him loose. Very scary. He never went near the bank again.

A pond with reeds and blackberries in the foreground and pine trees on hectare bank.

A black lab/husky dog and a small poodle sniffing in the berm of a pond. Trees and bushes in the background

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Apr 7

Best Star Trek crew; wrong answers only

The space marines assemble in the movie, Aliens

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Mar 26

Troy Parrot penalty in Portland, OR #Ireland

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Mar 26

This #cf97 Maiden-inspired banger from the early 2000's ?

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Mar 25

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy ☘️

Republic of Ireland striker Troy Parrot toe pokes the ball past the Hungary goalkeeper to secure Ireland's place in the 2026 World Cup Qualifying Playoffs.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Mar 19

Wait, you're telling us that local business leaders have been *lying to us* about the "doom loop?" What possible incentive would they have to do that? 🤑

Screenshot of Brookings Metro Monitor 2025 results for Portland from 2014-2024. Graphs show that change in productivity is +20.9%, change in average wage +19.3%, change in standard of living is +25.5%, change in jobs is +12.4%, change in gross metropolitan product is +35.9%, change in jobs at young firms is +13.6%, change in employment rate is +5.3%, change in median earnings is +27.8%, and change in relative poverty rate is -2.1%

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Feb 17

A still from the David Lynch movie "Dune" showing the actor/singer Sting clothed only in an eagle-motif bikini. His skin is oiled and shiny.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Feb 17

Walt Disney trigonometry tutorial with Donald Duck and Jiminy Cricket on one of these.

A 16mm movie projector with mounted reels of the kind used in school rooms.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Feb 12

Breathtaking Fool's Spring walk with @leo-bernadoodle.bsky.social this morning.

A street view of bare, winter trees looking east at sunrise. The sun is painting the clouds in hues of orange, pink, rose and blue.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Feb 5

Watching Zohran work is like when Micheal Jordan first came into the league. Incredible skill set. Game changing. Every kid wants to be like him.

Screenshot of Xitter quote post by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His reply is the "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You KNow Just Made A Great Point." meme over the original post by Polymarket that announces: "After months of planning, we're excited to announce 'The Polymarket' is coming to New York City. New York's first free grocery store.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Feb 4

Mine is a dipshit who thinks he has a job, who occasionally picks fights with God.

A gray and white bernadoodle bounding through forest underbrush with a large stick in its mouth. It’s fluffy tail and ears are flying.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jan 30

What Americans can learn from this external perspective is not a list of policy prescriptions, but a reframing of the problem itself. The Kill Line exposes how deeply American culture has internalized the idea that survival must be earned continuously, without interruption. It reveals how quickly empathy collapses once someone falls out of productivity. It shows how social trust erodes when people know that one misstep can erase decades of effort.

Perhaps most importantly, it highlights how invisible this precarity has become to those living inside it. When instability is normalized, it no longer registers as a design flaw; it feels like the weather. But to outside observers, the design is obvious. A society that cannot absorb ordinary human misfortune is not merely unequal; it is brittle and weak. And brittle systems do not fail gradually. They fail suddenly.

The Kill Line is not a prophecy of American collapse. It is a mirror. It reflects how the U.S. now appears to many watching from abroad: wealthy, innovative, and powerful, yet strangely indifferent to the survivability of everyday life. If Americans are willing to take this external critique seriously, it could open space for a deeper conversation about what it means to design a society that allows people to navigate ordinary life events without crossing a lethal kill line.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jan 29

The astronaut "always has been" meme. Astronaut 1, looking at the Earth says, "Wait, electoral power resides in community organizations and not in party structures?" Astronaut 2, behind holding a gun, says, "Always has."

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jan 27

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jan 26

@leo-bernadoodle.bsky.social comin atcha

A withe and gray bernadoodle wearing an orange jacket is bounding through a snowy forest. He looks absolutely exstatic.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Jan 11

Formative experience in my youth was my grandfather as he was in his last daysopening up about the horrors he experienced in early 1942 on a “minesweeper” (converted trawler) trying to stop U boats from sinking anything the saw right off the Eastern Seaboard. RIP John Connor Driscoll, Nazi Hunter

Black and white photo of a young girl in a dress sitting next to a tall man with black hair wearing a USN Seabee Petty Officer Second Class dress jacket.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Dec 26

Mission accomplished! First draft of The Porcupine Transfer done. Huge thanks to @cariluna.bsky.social and my writing partners for all the support and feedback. Now to polish and start shopping it! Let’s go!

A laptop open to a document editor with tropical plants and the ocean in the background. Most of the text is out of focus, but the words in capital letters, THE END are readable.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Dec 25

Instead of staying in rainy Portland and moping alone with @leo-bernadoodle.bsky.social, I treated myself to the holidays in Guadeloupe. Wrote 3750 words today, some sort of PR at least for 2025. And that was after a solid hang à la plage. Merry Christmas Eve to me.

A head and shoulders photo of a white man with water and wind swept hair standing on a beach. The beach stretches to a large, green headland and the ocean.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Dec 24

Suck it all you Connor-come-latelies. Shout out to my mom for keeping our ancestors names alive.

Graph labeled, The median living male named Connor was born around 2006 and ranges from 12 to 26 years old.
Line graph shows a minimal tail from 1912 to about 1987 where it trends rapidly upward, peaking about 2004 before trending lower and dropping dramatically around 2016.

Connor Anderson@connorwa· Dec 24

Folks I need you to know that my hotel in Guadeloupe has a resident cat concierge named Tiger. He’s the most enormous tabby I’ve ever seen. He even came to my room to check if I had everything I needed. FIVE STARS.