Witnessing generationally significant flood disasters in the Pacific Northwest reaffirms why I’m so passionate about watershed restoration projects. I’ve been fortunate to be a part of archaeological studies for several projects throughout the PNW.

I’m a year sober today and it’s one of the best gifts I’ve given myself.

I’m sure others have written about this, but I’m hardly on social media. Removal of federal student loan eligibility for nursing programs is terrible and it won’t end there. It signals a clear attack on professions dominated by people the administration sees as useless. Arts & Sciences are next.

As the holidays approach, a friendly reminder that drunk driving is some real loser shit.

i can smell a brick of chat gpt text from a mile off. my geiger counter starts clicking the second a screenshot enters my bubble. i am not going to read a thing that some loser did not even bother to write

“Terminator: Dark Fate” answers the question, “what if a movie in the Terminator saga could pass The Bechdel Test?”

"What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness — or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair. Metal, one fan told me, is 'a strange road to joy.'" This is so lovely, @btoastie.bsky.social:

Fun fact: archaeologists often think of time vertically, as in the past is ‘down’ and the future is ‘up’. 🤣🤣🤣

The entire country right now:

We already see literally this *exact* same claim from adults engaged in pseudoarchaeological content - that humans could not have [done whatever they're focusing on]. I worry about how difficult education on the past will become as kids who believe this begin to take notice of adults in popular 1/

No one is better at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than Chuck Schumer.

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Another gorgeous fall day in Portland

Every year when the PNW begins The Long Dark, I think, how much daylight are they actually saving?

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

“I could smell the onions and mustard”

Today was an absolute stunner in Portland

Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives 🏺

"By mid-October, a few dozen salmon had swum roughly 30 miles through Upper Klamath Lake and reached tributaries of the Klamath ... One year after the last of the dams came down, salmon are spreading throughout the uppermost reaches of the river." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

yup, that's me. i bet you're wondering how i got myself into this situation

If you are an SAA member who may be unable to attend the Annual Meeting due to transportation, lodging, and/or other expenses, consider applying for the Deborah L. Nichols Meeting Access Grant. The application will close on November 15th at 3pm. Information here: saa.org/career-pract...

Official anthropology ruling: you can use kinship terms in extended ways including for people who have no ties of marriage or ancestry. Real humans know this and do it. Some humans do it a lot more than others.

Think actions like the destruction of the East Wing shouldn't happen? We have ONE cultural resource law to keep fed gov in check, & there's a hearing in the senate Wednesday. Call members on the natural resources committee & voice your support for Section 106! preservationaction.org/106-hearing-...

as we reach the SNAP cliff just a gentle reminder to do-gooders that the most efficient use of resources is to contribute to organizations that are already established. unless nothing exists in your area (and it likely does whether you know it) now is probably not the time to stand something up

Worth noting that the White House, the Supreme Court, the Capitol, & related grounds are all exempt from the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. So there is no formal review process for this kind of thing.

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

if the federal government truly cared about public safety in Portland, they would help us shut down the CEI hub which threatens to cause the biggest industrial disaster in US history. submit your comments by Friday. actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-safer-portland-stop-the-cei-hub-time-bomb

"We need both individual and systems change to solve the problem." I feel discouraged when I hear folks downplay the role of personal choices in taking action. Policy change is important but very slow. Why not both? Many people could CHOOSE to reduce car trips TODAY. Motornormativity holds us back.

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society… ..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I love this piece and glad this part was noted: "The question of who wins or who loses in Triangle Posting Politics is divorced from material conditions, justice, or the common good."

Sometimes the birds fly in front of this giant mountain and it looks like it should be fake but actually it’s just the wildlife refuge 45 minutes from your house.

Get in, loser. We’re wearing our egos like loose-fitting garments.

Extremely powerful rally happening at City Hall right now. @councilorgreen.bsky.social and dozens of US military veterans are denouncing illegal actions of the Trump Administration and encouraging National Guardsmen to refuse to follow illegal orders.

The forecast worsened enough for me to cancel my bikepacking trip planned this weekend, so I took a slow morning to make biscuit sandwiches instead

Imagine sending an airborne division after this guy

Statement on American Cultural Resource Management Companies and Saudi Arabia

How much do YOU know about "war ravaged" Portland? 🙋 Let's find out in this week's super sassy trivia quiz, POP QUIZ PDX! (See how well YOU score! 🤓)

are you crapping my fucking ass www.fs.usda.gov/r06/siuslaw

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having a kid makes me care way more about basic urban infrastructure *and also* suddenly unable to attend the meetings where i could tell the city i'd like bike lanes and sidewalks so my kid does not die. oh well i'm sure the boomers who get to attend have my interests at heart

I am filled with so much love and gratitude that I cannot grieve. Dr. Goodall worked tirelessly in her gentle, hopeful way for a better world for all life on Earth. She has laid down her field notebook for the last time; now it is for us to fill with wonder, joy, and connection, into infinity.

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

That's me! Oct 14th we'll be talking about all sorts of far-right pseudoarchaeological things. Join us! 🏺

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!