Jeffrey Hayes

@pharaohbender27.bsky.social

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Archivist in Portland, Oregon. Fan of LoadingReadyRun. He/Him

The poster's results for the britmonkey.com 2020s political spectrum test. The results are: 75% Woke to 25% Chud; 38% Techbro to 62% Neo-Luddite; 48% Hopepilled to 52% Doomer; 77% Davos to 23% Dubai. Per the site, the poster is closest to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
View of Vortex Meadow in Milo McIver State Park near Estacada, Oregon. A grassy meadow, with many white daisies visible in center background, surrounded in the background by a mix of coniferous and deciduous trees. Taken on a sunny morning, but there are some thin white clouds in the sky. (Image slightly cropped from original) Fun historical fact: The reason this is called Vortex Meadow is because this park was the site of the Vortex I music festival in August 1970, which Oregon Governor Tom McCall's administration backed as a means of potentially distracting counterculture youth from violently confronting attendees of the American Legion convention being held in Portland. More information at: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/vortex_i/
A California Sister (Adelphja bredowil, a black butterfly with white and orange markings) on a plant. Taken on Fire Lane 15 in Forest Park in Portland, Oregon. (Image cropped from original)
View of the Lily Pond at the Tualatin Hills Nature Park in Beaverton, Oregon. There are many green lily pads visible in the middle of the photograph; there are trees and other green plants visible elsewhere in the photograph.
White sign with "Fighting together for a better world" written on it in black, blue, and red ink. The words "together" and "world" are underlined. Taken with poster's android phone.
View of the path just above Middle North Falls in Silver Falls State Farm, with the river visible at right. There are a mixture of coniferous and deciduous trees throughout the image. Taken while the sun was shining.
View of Double Falls at Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. There is a tall waterfall at center, with a smaller upper waterfall visible in the upper background. (Image cropped and auto-color corrected from original)
A white trillium in sunlight. (Image cropped from original)
View towards Mt. St. Helens from Rocky Butte Natural Area in Portland, Oregon. The mountain, covered in snow, is visible in the far background. The I-205 bridge over the Columbia River is visible in the middle ground, while there is a mix of deciduous and confierous trees in the foreground. The sky is mostly clear with some thin haze and clouds. (Image cropped and auto-color corrected from original).
View of thousands of demonstrators at the No Kings demonstration in Portland, Oregon, marching on NW Naito Parkway and on the on-ramp to the Steel Bridge. Cherry trees in bloom are visible at bottom and left. Some demonstrators also visible on the Burnside Bridge at left background. Taken from the Steel Bridge. (Image cropped and auto-corrected from original, and demonstrators slightly blurred to protect identities.)
View of the sky. Thick white-to-dark gray clouds at left; lighter gray/white clouds in the distance at lower right. Center and upper right are blue sky at evening. Image cropped from original.
View of branches of a blossoming cherry tree at left, and in the background at center and right is the Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Sky has a thin cloud layer with streaks of blue in it.
A Heros War ad that shows the . . . protagonist? at the top inside a small barrel floating above a woman sleeping in the field. Below him are water and laval, locked in place with pullkeys (because this is a pullkey puzzle). But there's also a pullkey sticking out of the woman's throat and an indication that her throat is filled with gold.
Marchers heading towards Portland's ICE facility. Taken while the poster was looping back to Elizabeth Carruthers park to show how many marchers there still were behind the poster. Image cropped and blurred from original.
A group of several hundred protesters gathered in front of the Battleship Oregon Memorial in Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon, viewed from as distance as the poster was walking over to join them. Photo cropped and slightly blurred from the original.
Cranberry sauce in a ceramic dish, photographed from above.
A man in a green inflatable frog costume speaking in front of the Battleship Oregon Memorial in Portland, Oregon. He holds a sign that reads, "Frogs together strong" that depicts two frogs holding hands. Another man, not wearing a costume, is visible at lower right. Image cropped from original.
A part of the linked article that reads: In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to no want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
Photograph of the poster wearing glasses with "tortoise" frames.
View towards the Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon, from Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Hundreds or perhaps thousands of people are visible walking across to join the demonstration.
A field with pumpkins, mostly orange, but some white and green as well. In the middle and further distance are Canada geese in flight. Photo cropped from the original.
Passage from Adam Gopnik's review of Timothy Ryback's book in the New Yorker, "The Forgotten History of Hitler's Establishment Enablers," March 18, 2024. The passage reads: "Ryback, focussing on the self-entrapped German conservatives, generally avoids the question that seems most obvious to a contemporary reader: Why was a coalition between the moderate-left Social Democrats and the conservative but far from Nazified Catholic Centrists never even seriously attempted? Given that Hitler had repeatedly vowed to use the democratic process in order to destroy democracy, why did the people committed to democracy let him do it? Many historians have jousted with this question, but perhaps the most piercing account remains an early one, written less than a decade after the war by the émigré German scholar Lewis Edinger, who had known the leaders of the Social Democrats well and consulted them directly—the ones who had survived, that is—for his study. His conclusion was that they simply “trusted that constitutional processes and the return of reason and fair play would assure the survival of the Weimar Republic and its chief supporters.” The Social Democratic leadership had become a gerontocracy, out of touch with the generational changes beneath them. The top Social Democratic leaders were, on average, two decades older than their Nazi counterparts."
A bee on small, light pink/purple flowers. Taken on the Bay Loop Trail at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge at Leadbetter Point, Washington. Image cropped from the original.
View of the jetty lagoon leading to Swash Lake and surrounding marshland. Coniferous trees are visible in the background and right; there are also short deciduous trees at right, and a larger coniferous tree at left. Taken from the Swash Lake Bridge at Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon.
A small insect with red compound eyes on a clump of light small light pink/purple flowers. Taken on the beach near Lot A at Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon. Image cropped from original.
Screenshot of an piece published on The Atlantic on July 17, 2024, written by Graeme Wood. The title reads, "The Case for Calming Down: America's political-violence problem is overblown."
Demonstrators marching on SE Grand Avenue in Portland, Oregon, taken from the Morrison Bridge on-ramp. Image cropped from original and figures in the lower half of the image blurred to protect marchers' identities.
Self-portrait of the poster, standing in a wooded area on the summit of Dog Mountain. The poster is facing to the right, and has his right hand on his hip. (Fun behind-the-scenes: I'm just looking at foliage; looking through a clear area wouldn't have made for a good angle. I used the 10-second delay on my camera and balanced it on a large tree branch to get this shot; I'm slightly embarassed to admit it took more than a dozen tries to get this shot.)
View through a clearing of oak trees across the Columbia River to the Oregon side. There are low clouds that partially obscire the peaks of mountains on the Oregon side. Taken in the early section of the trail up Dog Mountain.
The Bybee-Howell house, a white, two-story residence built in the 1850s on Sauvie Island, Oregon. Taken on a clear sunny day.
View upstream the Tualatin River in Oregon on a clear, sunny day. Both banks of the river are heavily forested. The bow of a red kayak is visible in the lower foreground.
A small clearing along a forested dirt trail with at least two tall, thin Oregon white oak trees at right and in the background. It is a sunny clear afternoon. Taken at Tualatin Hills Nature Park in Beaverton, Oregon.
A daisy with two aphids on the disc florets (i.e. the yellow center part). Taken at Powell Butte Park in Portland, Oregon, and cropped from original.
Passage from Adam Gopnik's review of Timothy Ryback's book in the New Yorker, "The Forgotten History of Hitler's Establishment Enablers," March 18, 2024. The passage reads: "Ryback, focussing on the self-entrapped German conservatives, generally avoids the question that seems most obvious to a contemporary reader: Why was a coalition between the moderate-left Social Democrats and the conservative but far from Nazified Catholic Centrists never even seriously attempted? Given that Hitler had repeatedly vowed to use the democratic process in order to destroy democracy, why did the people committed to democracy let him do it? Many historians have jousted with this question, but perhaps the most piercing account remains an early one, written less than a decade after the war by the émigré German scholar Lewis Edinger, who had known the leaders of the Social Democrats well and consulted them directly—the ones who had survived, that is—for his study. His conclusion was that they simply “trusted that constitutional processes and the return of reason and fair play would assure the survival of the Weimar Republic and its chief supporters.” The Social Democratic leadership had become a gerontocracy, out of touch with the generational changes beneath them. The top Social Democratic leaders were, on average, two decades older than their Nazi counterparts."
An NBC article with the paragraph, "According to his public schedule, since his inauguration Trump has taken the PDB 14 times, or on average less than once a week, which is less often than his recent predecessors - including himself during his first term. An analysis of their public schedules during that same timeframe - from their inauguration through May during their first year in office - shows that former President Joe Biden received 90 PDBs; Trump received 55; and former President Barack Obama received 63." The part "which is less often than his recent predecessors - including himself during his first term" has been highlighted to make a point.
A bee in an orange California poppy. Taken by the Sandy River Delta parking lot. Cropped from the original.
Image of a cell in an Excel spreadsheet with the text "3-Jan" written inside. Excel automatically changed "1-3" to this.
Bright magenta-colored rhododendron flowers at Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden in Portland, Oregon.
Two vertical black bars with sideways text from bottom to top that reads, "No Glyph." Context: I had to zoom in several times to see the text within these bars.
Photograph of the poster sitting on his balcony, with the outer wall of the building and his windows behind him. Poster is wearing a burgundy polo shirt and dark blue slacks.
A body of water at the Smith and Bybee Wetlands in Portland, Oregon. There is red algae covering the water in the foreground.
View up the start of the Linnton Trail in Forest Park, Portland, Oregon. There are deciduous trees on other side of the trail; some conifer trees are faintly visible through their leaves.
A blue Tumbuk2 messenger bag with green trim. On the front flap are, left to right, the sticker of Hootie the owl sculpture from Road Quest; the Orbiting Underground Moonbase enamel pin; and the "Tugger Nuts Down Under" enamel pin, which is a goat using a hangglider.
Photograph of the poster sitting on his balcony, with the outer wall of the building and his windows behind him. Poster is wearing a burgundy polo shirt and dark blue slacks.
Two small grayish-blue butterflies on the trail. Cropped version of original image.
View of Wahkeena Falls from below.
Cardboard sign with "Down with Trump!!!" written in blue ink, flanked by two downward arrows in red ink.
View of a massive crowd of demonstrators marching across Morrison Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Photograph has been partially blurred in Photoshop to obscure faces.
A cardboard sign with writing in purple, orange, green, red, and blue that reads, "No sign is big enough to list all the reasons why I'm here."
The Slants (an Asian American dance rock group performing on a balcony. Beneath them is a banner reading "Happy Lunar New Year!"
A blurb from the site "What the Fuck Just Happened Today?" saying that Trump and his press secretary made repeated claims that the U.S. spent $50 million in sending condoms to Gaza.
A screenshot of an online Fortune article with the title, "PR experts say Elon Musk's handling of the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was a masterclass"
A page in a lined notebook, with the following written in pencil in the poster's handwriting: "December 31, 2024 ≈21.50 @ Home I will wait until a few days from now before doing a full update, a decision I am glad I made because hoo boy am I inebriated right now. 2024 was overall a good year for me personally. But I'd be lying if I said it was a good one for the world. I will not pretend that 2025 will be a good year for the world; I only pray that it won't be apocalyptic."
An envelope addressed to the address for LoadingReadyRun's Mail Time. The poster's hand is strategically holding the envelope at the upper left corner in order to obscure the return address.
The back of an SUV with a spare tire cover that is yellow, with two green University of Oregon "O" logos at top, with a green cresent at the bottom, forming a smiley face. The license plate has been blacked out.
A screenshot of PharaohBender27's Twitch recap. The top channels watched were LoadingReadyRun, EscherichiaCole, Sparklykiss, desertbus, and BraveNewFaves. The top categories were "Just Chatting," Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, Minecraft, and Warhammer.
A top-down shot of a ceramic bowl, filled with dressing consisting of chopped up bread, apple, onion, celery, and celery leaves.
A ceramic serving dish on top of a kitchen counter, containing freshly-made cranberry sauce