Lovely end to the day with a local extinct volcano inside the city donning a small cloud hat. This is Mount Tabor. And Mount Hood in the distance all done up in alpen glow! #Oregon #MountHood #Volcanos #Forest #Trees #Sunset #Clouds #AlpenGlow #PDX #Goodnight

A muse!

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

#WaterfallWednesday already? Ok! Here's a seasonal named falls, Hemlock Creek Falls from one of the only viewpoints that look directly at it from across a valley. It's flow is already drawing down, but still impressive to see! #Hiking #PNW #Nature #Forest

Calling all comic book readers. My new book WICKERSON: Tales from the Grove is now on Kickstarter. 🤘https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dereklaufman/wickerson-tales-from-the-grove?ref=3f145c

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"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey #PDX. Here comes the #FullMoon! I think any moon is a super moon! #PNW #🌕 #Stunday Thar she blows! Huh! The phone shot actually did ok! #📷 🧪 🔭 #Antares

Back it today. www.kickstarter.com/projects/der...

This is very good news. Donald Trump had no right to put his name on the Kennedy Center, and no reason other than his fragile ego.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Y’all done pushed @dereklowe.bsky.social over the edge! He’s fed up! www.science.org/content/blog...

The best way to fight against AI industry projects is put your money into human made things. Like I dunno… support indie comic creators who put out professional quality books? Totally not biased in anyway suggestion. 👀 😁

Remember, the first victim of Scream 3 was Courtney Cox's hair.

This not often visited waterfall was a spectacular surprise! It drops 113 feet (34m) into this gorgeous natural amphitheater! It's an old developed site, but an unsigned trail along a very popular forest road. #WaterfallWednesday #Hiking #Nature #📷 #Forest #Green #Spring

Check out the trailer for my new book! Hats off to the super talented team at Mesa Game Lab’s who put this trailer together for WICKERSON: Tales from the Grove. If you need a trailer hit them up, you won’t be disappointed! www.kickstarter.com/projects/der...

We have an ID thanks to @raisedbyvoles.bsky.social ! It's not a hawk at all, but a Peregrine Falcon!

This is what it looks like to have a small hawk mad at you! 😠 I snapped a couple photos and left it alone to keep from stressing it further. Later I tried to ID it with no luck. This is high above the upper #LewisRiver in #WashingtonState. #Hawk #Unvitation #Hiking #📷 #Birds #Wildlife

WICKERSON is live! Please SHARE, comment and like for the sake of the dumb algorithm nonsense!🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/der...

Looks like a scene from primordial Earth!

A #Stunday view for you from a #ColumbiaGorge hike in 2017 to Hardy Ridge high above the river! #Wildflowers in abundance under a beautiful blue sky that day! #Hiking #Bloomscrolling #BearGrass #Flox #Paintbrush #EastCoastKin #📷 #PNW

2nd beetle bag commission finished!!! #leather #leatherwork #leathercraft #craft #craftsky #handmade #commission

The Earth–Mars–Moon mosaic I made a few days ago, now formatted as a mobile phone wallpaper.

It's Friday! Find YOUR Spark!

McGovern: Can you explain what is happening with the Iran war powers resolution that was scheduled to be voted on this evening? Are we not voting on it because the American people are sick and tired of this illegal war that is costing tens of billions of dollars?

In case you need any more motivation to hold the most corrupt "president" in U.S. history accountable. #Register&VOTE 🌊

If I ever write Batman I'm going to establish that during all his endless hours of training in martial arts he always had a television in the background playing Golden Girls reruns and now he can quote every episode by heart and if a criminal says, "Estelle Getty was the best" he'll let them go.

In 46 years, even the landslide and blast zone are home to vigorous life. Herds of mountain goats, on the craters' grassy slopes. Wildflowers covering the nearby blast zone. And small trees working their way in. I've been visiting since 1992, it's amazing! #📷 #Hiking #MtStHelens #Goats #Flowers #🌲

Mount St. Helens famously erupted in 46 years ago and reshaped the South Cascades. ⁠ 46 years is a long time for humans, but geologically it’s only a moment. Do you have a favorite Mount St. Helens fact or memory?⁠ ⁠ 📸 Photo by Lauren Dawkins⁠

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

NASA scientists saw a particular radio burst from the sun in August 2025, there was nothing unusual about it. But the radio burst kept going. Typically they last a few hours to days. By the time it was over, the radio burst had lasted 19 days. Far exceeding the previous record of five days.

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” Emma Goldman, who died on this day in 1940

For #WaterfallWednesday I've dug up a photo of one of the falls along the 'waterfall corridor' in The #ColumbiaRiverGorge on the #Oregon side. Horsetail Falls! It really is a drive up view. This visit was in late Winter of 2014 while showing friends the sights. 👀 #EastCoastKin #Moss #Nature

#ThickTrunkTuesday... I think it should be Thursday, because of matching THs! Be that as it may. Here's a tenacious tree growing over a cliff! You go tree! #Hiking #📷 #EastCoastKin #Oregon #Forest #Trees #Nature

Chloe Cole will be going to the University of Washington campus on Wednesday to spread transphobic hate with turning point two days after a trans woman was murdered on campus.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

25 years ago today Douglas Noel Adams passed away in Santa Barbara California. On every May 11th since Jess and I have gone to the pub at noon and ordered six pints in remembrance. We're getting ready to head out again this morning. Peanuts for salt and protein. We know where our towels are.

A sense of scale. ⛴️⛰️ #Stunday #ColumbiaRiverGorge #Oregon #Hiking #Scape #LandscapePhotography

Today was a great conditioning and pack shakedown hike! Went to a peak in the #ColumbiaRiverGorge in #Oregon The vistas and #wildflowers were in fine #Spring form! #Bloomscrolling #Hiking #PNW

NVM, just me or doing cryptid stuff

Gemini North image of Arp 78, also known as NGC 772. Interactions with its companion galaxy NGC 770 (out of frame) left NGC 772's bottom arm elongated and asymmetrical. Credit: International Gemini Observatory, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA Source

"Hail Hydra"

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Did you know McDonald’s advertising budget is larger than NASA’s astrophysics budget? You don’t go into science for the money. We went into it for the stories. patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/why-we...

It's #WaterfallWednesday! Here's one from Sunday's long hike. It's name is Silver Star Falls, and is really hard to see because it's deep inside a canyon, and seasonal! This view is from a lesser used trail high above it, so the perspective is a bit skewed. Enjoy! #Hiking #Waterfall #PNW #📷