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tangledbank.bsky.social
Northwest Oregon and generally west of the Rocky Mountains, nomadic vandweller when I can, learning for joy, queer, dogs, bugs, plants, vertebrates, geology, climate, soil, sky, weather. Degrees in Horticulture, Soil, and Entomology And bikes always bike
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I’ve had at least two Ruby crowned kinglets visiting my suet feeders all winter. I make my own “suet” blocks with coconut oil, peanut butter as a base, then sunflower seeds, mealworm, whatever I’ve got, mixed in.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump's funding cuts are putting Oregonians in the literal line of fire. Wildfire prevention and mitigation groups across the West are having to lay off staff and close doors just ahead of fire season, all so Republicans can give another tax handout to Elon Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

@jeff-merkley.bsky.social Obviously we should not be cutting aid to poor people. Keep and expand Medicaid and Food stamps (now called SNAP).

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’m still digesting the ideas in this paper but they ring true. From the abstract: “The neologism ‘necrosecurity’ describes the cultural idea that mass death among less grievable subjects plays an essential role in maintaining social welfare and public order.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Basically, a geopolitical enemy state found a couple of corrupt businessmen in danger of going to prison, and freed both on the condition they wreck the United States.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

This is one reason why I choose organic vegetables. So that farm workers don’t have to be drenched in insecticides, herbicides etc.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"We are all one—and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way." — Bayard Rustin [If the recognition of Bayard Rustin's contributions had been what it should have been, in the 1960's, I don't think we'd be in near as much of the shit we're still in right now, in this country.]

submitted 385 days ago • 2 comments

I love Dan

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

The trump administration is a chaos monkey.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Did u know?If you learn the names of the small souls you share your outside space with,you're no longer strangers.A life with a name becomes a member of your wild family..After all,aren't we all distant cousins? Meet the beautiful bronze Garden Chafer with its jazz hand antennae & floofy bum. 🪲🌍🌿🌱

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again. There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire! orwh.od.nih.gov

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

One of my roles at Arizona State University is building the Social Insect Biodiversity Repository. My intention with this collection is to provide a taxonomic reference for the ants of southwestern U.S.A. and northwestern Mexico. ecdysis.org/collections/...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

submitted 32 days ago • 632 comments

RFK Jr even getting a hearing for this job is failed state shit

submitted 33 days ago • 312 comments

This is not legal.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

submitted 31 days ago • 793 comments

Those roles have been inadequately supported for a long time and it will get dramatically worse now.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The trump administration are careless and chaotic.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Identify and eliminate all references to climate change. That will not work well for infrastructure. This administration will cause unutterable harm.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The union representing thousands of janitors said ICE went to multiple downtown San Francisco offices but that building security kept them from entering, KTVU reports. “Union president Olga Miranda said the janitors were relieved that someone spoke up for them.” www.ktvu.com/news/ice-age...

submitted 34 days ago • 63 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

@jeffmerkiey.bsky.social @ronwyden.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I believe the Democrats can change and improve as a whole, but apparently we need to light a fire under their asses. And yes, some Democrats, including my own rep, Elizabeth Warren, are doing their jobs right now. We need way more of them to do their jobs.

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Exactly and I’m very much the latter. I want the Democrats to come out swinging because it makes it a lot easier for me to convince people to vote for them (as I do, in every election).

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Thank you @jeffmerkiey.bsky.social and @wyden.senate.gov Bowing to a bully encourages them. You have to say NO and you have my support in that.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The Siletz people are my neighbors. I appreciate them working to bring back see otters to the Oregon coast. More sea otters means fewer sea urchins eating kelp means healthier kelp beds means more fish!!!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Dustin Mulvany would be good to work with.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Robert F. Kenney got into Harvard by submitting an application that was a single page long and consisted entirely of his name. Here's why it's time to end DEI.

submitted 33 days ago • 79 comments

Do Americans have "car brain"? Survey says yes! Excited to share my new paper on #WindshieldBias #CarBrain #PublicHealthCrisis findingspress.org/article/1229...

submitted 179 days ago • 5 comments