A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers. "Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns." It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...

10 years ago my mum and dad found a stray kitten on the property who eventually went to live with my cousin. This photo of Archie feels like a Christmas Card

Can you see the scorpionfish? (hint: eyes to the left, caudal fin to the right) They are tremendously camouflaged and I generally miss them, but this one shot in front of me, dropped onto some coral, and then stayed motionless. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans

Stoplight Parrotfish, just a ridiculously beautiful animal. #scuba #diving #oceans 🦑

Trump Has Violated A 32-Year-Old Military Policy In A "Humiliating And Painful" Move Never Seen Before www.buzzfeed.com/lev... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Green sea turtle, Bonaire. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans

Foureye Butterfly Fish, Salt Pier, Bonaire. Lots of these little dudes at just about every dive site on the island. #scuba #diving #oceans

Hovering above a porcupine fish. #scuba #diving

Midnight parrotfish at Candyland on Bonaire. At least 3 feet long. It was an astounding animal. #scuba #diving #oceans

Sunset on Bonaire after a day of diving. #scuba

These tomato pickers earn 86 cents per 25 lb bucket. On an average day a worker fills around 170 buckets --or more than 4000 pounds of tomatoes picked by hand. The fruit is picked green so it ripens red by the time it reaches your store. #WeFeedYou

This will kill people. Some of us have physical bodies that need HRT to live. Trans people’s blood is on the hands of these supposed Christians. This is a declaration of intent to do harm to patients. Somebody needs to sue these genocidal maniacs.

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Senate Democrats are about to learn about the ineligible in-group

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Happy Caturday from Io and Miska. #catsofbluesky

Not the best photo but this is one of the biggest wolffish I've seen while diving in the Pacific Northwest. It wasn't swimming, just hanging out and being very mellow. 🦑

Oh. My. God. What a day in the Puget Sound. 73 Endangered Southern Resident Orcas swam past Point Robinson Lighthouse on Vashon Island. Here is one breaching with a salmon in its mouth. 🦑

Scientists discover 14 strange new species hidden in the deep sea | ScienceDaily 🧪🦑🌎

Hours of darkness today.

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today. It's resegregation in real time.

Lewis' moon snail (Euspira lewisii), Sund Rock, Hood Canal WA. Named after Meriweather Lewis, who collected shells at the moht of the Columbia River 1804-1806. 🦑

Pulling this out from the camera roll for the day that is in it!

Annual cost of SNAP: $113B Annual revenue lost through billionaire tax evasion: $163B GOP: The only solution to our debt crisis is cutting $113B in food benefits. Also here’s $4T more in tax cuts for billionaires

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

Nothing like waking up in the morning & being reminded that your country hates you & everyone in your community.

In Texas, Judges Can Now Refuse To Officiate Gay Weddings. The Warning Signs Have Been There For Years. transitics.substack.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Governor Kotek Declares Food Emergency, Directs $5 Million to Food Banks, and Calls Oregonians to Action as Federal Shutdown Cuts Off SNAP Benefits https://loom.ly/8q3c0Rw

Join the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition this Saturday, Nov 1, 4–6pm for a virtual Migra Watch / ICE Watch training. Learn how to safely identify & respond to ICE activity, & get plugged into the rapid response network. No experience needed — just heart. RSVP: tinyurl.com/pirc-mw-11-1

Emerald Ash Borer University returns with free fall webinars on invasive species and forest health! Sessions cover a range of topics, from pest monitoring to plant and tree management strategies. Full schedule & registration: www.emeraldashborer.info/eab-u #EAB #InvasiveSpecies #Entomology 🧪🌍🍁

Bonus #SeaSlugDay post: Nembrotha kubaryana, which is probably my favourite nudibranch. Pic from Lembeh. #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🌿

Isabella Tiger Moth larva rescued from a walking path today. They've finished feeding for the season & are wandering in search of a sheltered spot to overwinter before pupating in spring. Antifreeze proteins protect their cells in freezing weather. #invertebrates #insects #entomology #Lepidoptera

Freaking huge good news Congrats to Oregon on paying for good lawyers lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

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PIRC is Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition, BTW. They are also holding 'Migra Watch' trainings for what to do when ICE shows up.

Good News Alert: 🌊🌲Yesterday, Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social signed Executive Order 25-26 to prioritize and increase the pace and scale of adoption of climate resilient strategies into existing state programs to deliver benefits for communities and ecosystems. #climatechange #oregon #climate

Continued overfishing of mackerel means the situation "could move to a zero-catch scenario in the coming years", warns the Pelagic Advisory Council Without drastic action to end overfishing, our seas will soon be empty of life 🐟🌊 https://bit.ly/47o7HIc

Full double rainbow on a wet day.

Io is a ridiculous cat. 🐈 #catsofbluesky

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right, and laughter becomes a weapon.” — Albert Camus

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Portland Waterfront is jammed for the #NoKings protest. Shout out to the Unpresidented Brass Band --you can break their clarinets but not their spirit. #Oregon #FrogStrong @wyden.senate.gov

Emergency rally against Fenway Health's capitulation to Trump today at 4:00. The institutions that are supposed to protect us cannot toss aside Transgender people to protect LGB people. We are all in this together.

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.