Anonymous artists are secretly filling Portland’s cracked sidewalks with mosaic art - oregonlive.com share.google/Tc13snLhAjbu...

Hey everyone, I'm boosting a gofundme for Santiago, a Denver-area juvenile whose older siblings were grabbed at their immigration court hearing and deported. Santiago needs both legal assistance and also help just surviving. www.gofundme.com/f/santiagos-...

"Mohamed, a rising star with immense talent across the speculative genres, may be an author you are discovering today." Waaaaa thank you @raforall.bsky.social !! For the kind words and for including the (hem hem multiple award-winning) NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US!

Feel like winning yourself some personalized limited-edition Wm. Gibson while helping Locus continue to do its wholly admirable and increasingly essential thing for sf and fantasy? Step right up!

CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

The Moon Waited Too Billie Rae Busby 2025

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has declared a drought emergency in three central and eastern Oregon counties after an abnormally dry and warm winter brings concern of water availability. www.klcc.org/environment/...

Ok, so, clever lawyer people, if we get DJT's presidential pardons of ghastly people erased, would that mostly just make presidential pardons flippable for the rest of all time? @kenwhite.bsky.social @courtneymilan.com @gregdoucette.bsky.social et al

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

ICYMI: "Paper Graveyards" (2021) is a generously illustrated training manual for reading images, discussing work by Félix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204604...

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

Assistant Bird Bander is needed immediately for Erie Bird Observatory. Please share with anyone you know! www.eriebirdobservatory.org/join-our-team #ornithology #birds #conservation #jobs

Yeaaaah, let me know when one of the "AI" companies is owned by a glorious workers' collective

In case you wondered, although Salem is the capital of Oregon, Portland is a much more useful location, much more accessible, and a better place for regional efforts. Nobody in their right mind goes to Salem unless lobbying or attending Willamette U. Another terrible federal plan.

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Improve your day. Read Side Quested.

You can’t really learn much if you’re having AI generate your homework, your papers, and everything else you need to complete a class, but for some reason universities keep shoving AI into the learning environment on the assumption that it’s an improvement.

It is worth mentioning also that the Trump administration has gutted NASA, including many of the people responsible for doing public outreach and making cool graphics. If it seems to you like there's less of that this time around, it's related. Meanwhile, there are fewer media orgs to cover.

Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation. #scienceatrisk #BioScience #oup #AIBS academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Britons. Really. Clearly no cultural heritage support.

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Backup Daughter borrowed an old pickup to do errands, and took her teen along. Teen: mom, I can't get my window open, there's no button BD: ... have you heard the expression, "roll down a window"? Teen: ... yes? BD: You can figure this out, I have faith in you. Teen: MOOOOOMMMMMM

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Comics Adventure will offer free comics at its new Oregon City location on May 2.

Here we go again. FEDERAL AGENCIES NEED TO BE HEADQUARTERED IN DC _BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE FEDERAL POLICY IS MADE_. Yes, the lands are not in DC. Congress & ALL other agencies are. Save the research sites too. FIRE & WATER MATTER. Source: AP News share.google/T4tfh9029ztK...

#Irony IRS tells some employees to file amended tax returns after miscalculation on overtime wages | Federal News Network share.google/IItfOeVd5yYP...

Re mobility assistance, it looks like you can get access to a track chair if you are a veteran. Track chairs have traction that wheelchairs don't, and are motorized. Lots of sources for them for vets. You don't have to be a vet to use David's Chair, at a handful of free sites. davidschair.org

Low-key big news via @bmietana.bsky.social: Judge rejects Johnson Amendment settlement, keeping ban on pastors endorsing candidates —> religionnews.com/2026/03/31/b...

"(The judge) also wrote that there was a simple solution for churches that wanted to avoid being penalized for endorsing candidates: 'Put differently, if the plaintiffs here gave up their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, none of the harms they allege could occur.'"

A bunch of legal podcasts and analyses will be discussing today's SCOTUS decision with lawyers who are neither queer nor trans, so if you want to talk to an attorney who (1) is actually trans, and (2) experienced conversion therapy, hit me up. [email protected].

Goodnight from Ellie Bracken, praying for kind angels to watch her walk home from shelf-stacking shift. Goodnight from PC Danning, bemused at being called out to reports that a silver-suited spaceman is bothering the all-night Phoenix garage at Bickbury again. Goodnight from Hookland.

The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them. A fascinating, complex view.

Hey gang, from today until April 30th, Juniper Books is gonna be donating a portion of sales of the fancy Sworn Soldier editions to Trans Lifeline!

To trans Illinoisans across our state, I don’t just see you, I will always work to protect you and fight alongside you for your right to joyfully exist. In Illinois, you belong here. #TDOV

Don't forget to draw a crab tomorrow!

On Trans Day of Visibility, read something free by me: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cons... "There’s dysphoria, and then there’s turning into a mid-size city."

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

Last fall Kaitlyn was diagnosed with a particularly nasty & debilitating form of ALS & needs our support with costs of care for herself & her elderly mom, for whom she has been the primary caregiver for years. It would be really meaningful if we could get her fundraiser to $25K today.

This is a desperate last-ditch effort by a failing president to suppress votes because his agenda of pardoning pedophiles and ripping away health care is about to lose him the midterms. My message to Trump is this: if you come for Oregon’s vote-by-mail, you’ll have hell to pay.

GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Jane Ward Tost was a trailblazer in natural sciences – until history forgot her share.google/eU4zaeqmlviu...

da trans agenda (1/2)

A lot of great options here, including a couple of Escape Pod stories!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

NOW IS THE TIME FOR GIANT BUGGES WE HAVE THE OXYGEN WE CAN REBUILD THEM

Come along to the book launch for our edited volume on ‘Military Humanitarianism’ at 5.30pm on 17th June in the Old Fire Station (Silver St.) in Bristol! Please spread the word! For more details and to sign up for tickets, see the eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/military-h...