This is a fascinating video about a major discovery. Scientists have found an organelle in an algae species which can fix nitrogen. Our entire civilization is based on fertilizer which provides the nitrogen for crops to grow in mass quantities but fertilizer requires a huge amount of fossil […]

Trump has fired all the commissioners of the bipartisan Elections Assistance Commission (EAC). The EAC was set up to after the 2000 election to chiefly to administer the HAVA funds. Today it publishes standards for voting equipment and a manages standard form people can send to their state for […]

RE: https://pdx.social/@portlandmercury/116761323286714059 I listened to a dozen tracks and whew, she would be ten times more popular if she’d work with a DJ on some EDM remixes. All of her songs are desperately crying out for a big techno beat.

That German penalty was so soft, I would rest my sleepy head on it. 😡#gervcuw

How a cofounder of Airbnb is helping the Trump admin replace vote.gov and passports.gov with infrastructure completely under the control of the Prez. https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its Seems bad.

Happy Pride Month, and ride on!

Extremely important game for the Thorns. Utah is 1 and we are 2, tied in points. #baonpdx

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/116148395277319079 Today is now 90 days since the war with Iran started, which is the upper limit allowed for troop deployment without congressional approval according to the laws we used to follow. They should be headed home now, or a vote today in congress […]

I’m not sure if she’s lost a bit of speed or what but Sophia Wilson just isn’t close to the goal threat she was two years ago. #baonpdx

Without Moultrie the Thorns looked pretty uninspiring. That’s two points dropped that should have been easy. #baonpdx

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-QdJNoIRpRoawpFw-gNd_OQ%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0 It’s hard to believe this isn’t downstream from DOGEing all of our global health aid and efforts.

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@weirdestate/116572249516179917 There is a lot to uncover here, including a chainsaw in the kitchen, sword of Damocles style…

Kansas City is an awful mess. This game could end 7-0. #rctid

When we bought our house in 2016, it had a boring yard with lawn and zero wildlife. Four years ago I had it all ripped out, now it looks great and is full of critters. The investment paid off. 😊

Learn how and fixed three breaks in our drip irrigation lines. Nice to feel handy occasionally. 😂💪

Absolutely perfect day for mountain biking in the PNW #BikeTooter

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

I was trying to tell a friend how thorny an issue e-bikes are for cities trying to regulate them and spent the whole day writing this blog post explaining all the ins-and-outs and what-have-yous involved in e-bike regulation […]

Bluesky is really struggling today, very unreliable all morning. Must be a pretty big DoS attack.

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my USA is dying

Without Velde the Timbers would be lost. Da Costa is still not productive. Frustrating. #rctid

The first half of Anaconda w/ Jack Black is truly hilarious and well done. Then a paint by numbers action movie subplot starts up and ruins the fun. 🐍 #netflix

Rewatching The IT Crowd is painful. Moss is still hilarious but Roy’s lines too often feel like punching down, nevermind Matt Berry’s character where every line is a lawsuit, post-MeToo.

I took a video using my phone, but it never stopped the podcast from playing that I was listening to, so now my video has the soundtrack of the podcast I was listening to. Seems like a bug.

Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbT1yJYyAjM Why don’t more symphony orchestras have a speedbag in the percussion section???

Having bad allergies? Don't buy the overpriced name brand stuff. Generic Claritin (loratadine) is typically <$10 for a bottle of 100 at any US grocery store but often stashed behind the counter. Ask the pharmacist for generic options.

A rant about electric bicycles: * For e-bikes to be viable car replacements they need cargo-carrying and hill-climb capacity. The practicality test for an e-bike is to carry four bags of grocieries, or a child. * The 250W and 20km/h limit for unlicensed bicycles is *far* too low. Human […]

RE: https://pdx.social/@portlandmercury/116285925178231801 Looking forward to this show!

It helps, when playing with 10, to play against a very bad team. #baonpdx

If you want to know how the Timbers and the Thorns are going, note that Thorns jerseys are more expensive than Timbers jerseys right now. #baonpdx #rctid

I had no idea the Axe and Rose was so dang cool. They’ve got an entire clubhouse for members! #baonpdx

I got a big compost bin a few years ago and when I set it up, I added some dirt and ensured there were a few worms in it. Today I pulled out some compost soil and there were tons of worms in the soil now. Happy to see them flourishing. 🪱

Ride with GPS has a new game mode which looks interesting but it seems like the game elements are manually curated and they only exist in central Portland. 😭

Reminder: you should probably check your HVAC air filter. Don’t be a big dummy like me.

Whew, “Strip Law” is terrible, just not funny, too many jokes laughing at characters rather than with them.

U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared on a panel together at the 62nd Munich Security Conference along with Matthew Whittaker, United States ambassador to NATO. They talked about complicated issues of foreign policy and geo-diplomacy for an hour or so and it was […]

Europe is building out a new payment system, to break their dependence on Visa/MC and American control. https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

@andersem looks like your stalker is back? https://mastodon.social/@michael_andersen

At the Apple shareholder meeting they are electing 8 new board members. The youngest candidate is 64. The oldest is 77 and retired from Northrop 15 years ago. Ok boomer? https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2026/Proxy_Statement_2026.pdf (page 27 here)

Save you a click: nothing big. https://pdx.social/@portlandmercury/115828516682757678

Holy cow, a new Boards of Canada album just dropped!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7cVCFUqE8

I said it years ago and nothing has changed my mind so far: Bluesky will wind up exactly like Twitter (right wing, billionaire controlled), because it is not meaningfully different from Twitter.

Democracy shouldn’t end at the login screen. Mastodon is the only major social network that answers to you. As a nonprofit, we’re building a digital commons where transparency, trust, and your participation shape the future. Help us keep the Fediverse […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A 🧵about a few clocks. My grand-uncle collected clocks and had a few dozen, many of which have percolated throughout the family over the years. My parent’s house is a cacophony of ticking.

It's just such very bad news. "It marks the biggest shift to the right since the end of Chile's military dictatorship in 1990. Kast has openly praised Chile's former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet.” "He has pledged a border wall on Chile's porous frontier with Peru and Bolivia […]

Worst Christmas 🎄 Apple Music playlist] [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/worst-christmas/pl.u-110oBtYJGlj

36 years ago today, I lived in Calgary. My daughter was 2, with every bit of potential to do whatever she wanted with her life. My partner was a woman working in a non-traditional job -- one which occasionally found her pissing off some misogynist wingnut […] [Original post on thecanadian.social]