My friend Jon Nelson sat down with Portland's byproxy—one of my favorite new punk bands of 2026

byproxy are a great group of people and one hell of a band. Had a blast with this interview, check it out!

Hell yeah! Fuck cancer.

Been a bit since I’ve done a garden update. Figs coming in strong. Dogwood, Columbine and Aronia in bloom. #zone8b 🌱

This is insane. The same state that has Prop 65 cancer warnings on many products is blasting burned forests with Round Up to get slightly faster timber harvests.

Wishing a very happy 80th birthday to the genius filth maestro himself, John Waters! 💋 🎞️ 💜🦩Which of his perverse cinematic pleasures will you be enjoying today? You can watch our edition of MULTIPLE MANIACS on the Criterion Channel alongside Waters’ fabulous episode of ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING!

I don't normally post more than one #BirdOfTheDay photo, but I saw this at my feeder just this morning and I thought I'd share. For the #FeederFriends theme (birds you might see at your feeder), Mr. Purple Finch and Mr. American Goldfinch are exchanging some "friendly" words. #birds #photography

Not sure if any of you gardeners save your own seed 🌱? We do, we made a seed cleaner/sorter to assist. Maybe it would be interesting to see it working... £1.67 to make. (we're from Yorkshire) a spare piece of greenhouse glass and some Beech from tables that a local restaurant was throwing out.

Literary Arts is seeking two event interns! This paid internship, starting in May 2026, primarily takes place in the evenings at our bookstore located at 716 SE Grand Avenue. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply! Info: lit-arts.org/pwinternship #pdx #pdxinternship

It's going to be a wild summer.

Extraordinary obituary of one of the PNW players (along with Fred Beckey, of course, and his twin brother Lou) who put U.S. mountaineering on the map—Seattle native "Big Jim" Whittaker, the first American to summit Everest. What a life. www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/apr/08/...

These are the first images of earth released by @nasa from the Artemis II mission. The images were taken by astronaut commander Reid Wiseman inside the Orion capsule on Friday, April 3, 2026. 📸: NASA via AP #nasa #earth #artemisII #spacetravel #spaceexploration #orioncapsule #theoregonian

A Pin Lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. The little stalks are about 1cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Apparently the Amityville "franchise" has around 60 movies in it because the name is in the public domain. I'm tempted to watch all of them. What is Amityville Death Toilet? Or Job Interview?

As sad as I am to see the center close, these shops moving to Pioneer is pretty awesome for downtown and that mall.

Downy woodpecker with ruffled red head patch 🪶

NO KINGS PDX events Saturday 3/28 March starts 10AM from Oregon Convention Center to main gathering at Oregon Battleship in Waterfront Park at 12. Then loop around PDX. The whole day needs many volunteer bike corkers to protect people along the route. DM Mark on our Slack to see how you can help.

As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Cinnamon teals and why invasive species are genuinely catastrophic and not just a social construct

Super duper happy we just handed this guy $600 million in tax payer dollars.

Look at this beauty! Tawny Mining Bee / Andrena fulva I photographed her over the weekend in a small village green on the edge of Oxford. Last year we had quite a few of them nesting in our garden lawn🪴

Add your voice: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home... You can't simply replant a forest and restore what was removed. You can have new trees, but the biodiversity will forever be changed. We have so few of these spaces left and need to save them.

Comments due today (March 23 by midnight). Please speak for the trees! #OldGrowth #Oregon My comment is on my wordpress. Feel free to use any of it for your comment. birdsmatter.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/o...

Posting a couple of my videos at the request of @amyb8888.bsky.social because I am very susceptible to peer pressure. This is about how birds are the cure for the male loneliness epidemic

You can see these bills explode over the last few years across the US.

Fertilizer price and availability is going to be a problem for at least this northern growing season. For personal gardeners, you can make your own really easily with comfrey (but other plants work too). Warning: after 5-6 weeks in a bucket is stinks like no other. 🌱#zone8b

I think I found the worst cyber truck, right here in Portland. @niedermeyer.online

Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

You know these men are bad at trails and the outdoors because anyone with any training knows you don’t leave people alone in the outdoors, ever. That is how people die.

Happy Irish Man Theme Song Day 🍀

This made me cry. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, hopeful, a lot.

Just a friendly reminder to support and appreciate your local library ghost.

Another really good bit of news for downtown: the owners of Luc Lac have bought the historic Mikado building, one block away from the existing restaurant. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

BREAKING NEWS: We just won a court order requiring the Trump administration to restore billions in funding for disaster mitigation projects – including in Medford, Grants Pass, and Clatsop County. #orpol #breakingnews

I believe it was @golikehellmachine.com who first observed here that if he ever had his shirt off in front of a tattooist while getting his other work done, they would have noticed his Nazi tattoo & engaged him forcefully on the question of why he had it, & whether he wanted to be rid of it

Mini pals from Mendocino, CA #FungiFriends

I've driven up and down Cermak road in Chicago so many times and I knew that it was named after a former mayor but I didn't know that that mayor, Anton Cermak was SHOT by an ASSASSIN who was trying to KILL FDR, but a woman standing next to the gunman grabbed his arm and he shot Cermak instead.

Uprising

C'mon Bruce, kick its ass. Fuck cancer.

Yesterday I wrote a short piece about the radical joy in Alysa Liu's gold-medal-winning skate and Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show and how art and joy is a threat to authoritarians. It's resonated with a lot of folks, maybe also with you. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

If you want to visit Portland, timing it to catch a show in Pioneer Square is well worth it.

The lineup is out for this summer's concerts on Pioneer Courthouse Square www.instagram.com/p/DVG_ejNCTxD/

A Hillsboro data center operated by social media company TikTok, for example, is saving $5.6 million this year through Oregon's enterprise zone program even though it has just 11 local employees. That works out to more than $500,000 in tax breaks for each worker. www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...

This is insane. We can’t even fund baseline transportation needs but can afford these tax breaks for unpopular tech?!

An Oregon State University forest scientist emerita called the proposal "insanity," saying these carbon-storing forests are among the most effective in the world at fighting climate change.

*TRUMP’S GLOBAL TARIFFS STRUCK DOWN BY US SUPREME COURT

This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

Pacific Rim 2, it didn't need to be good, but they made giant robots fighting kaiju boring

Going to put the Iron Maiden scene on repeat

this finale was the hardest I have laughed in years