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What if we thought of journalism as community service?

@terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.

A thousand thanks to the Portland Fire EMTs who showed up at our tiny floating home this morning to lift my ailing self from the floor after a silly fall.

Unilever: Stop silencing Ben & Jerry’s ice cream NOW! When we sold Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever in 2000, the corporation set up an independent board so Ben & Jerry’s could continue its political statements and social justice work without corporate i...

Please join me in signing this petition to stop silencing Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream!
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“The Feast of All Saints or All Hallows: which is also Samhain, the pagan Celtic New Year festival when stored fruits and crops were blessed and the dead remembered.”

- November 1st introduction, The Perpetual Almanack of Folklore, by Charles Kightly

2025 Fall Colors Tracker – Portland Japanese Garden Witness the fleeting beauty of autumn at Portland Japanese Garden. Join as a member for endless visits this season, or reserve your single-day admission.

Portland Japanese Garden
Fall Color Tracker

note seasonal Tuesday openings!

japanesegarden.org/fall-colors-...

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

from Inversnaid (final stanza) by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Let Ibraheem Live

I don’t know Ibraheem, but I know Ibraheem and all children deserve to live in safety and with dignity. Ibraheem is one of the 2.38 million Palestinian children who have the right to a future. #letchildrenlive

Dutch late night TV has its take

So many great discoveries by women buried by chicken-shit men.

… And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

'It felt like tentacles': the women who accuse Trump of sexual misconduct Allegations against president span decades, with Amy Dorris at least the 26th woman to come forward

“In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, she has alleged that Trump accosted her outside the bathroom of his VIP box at the US Open tennis tournament in New York in 1997.”

Want a campsite on short notice? Search for a horse campsite While most Oregon campgrounds get booked months in advance, the Oregon Department of Forestry wants people to know there’s a trick to finding one on short notice.

www.opb.org/article/2025...

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson The Nineteenth Amendment | Journey to American Democracy

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution became law 105 years ago today — women got the vote.
Here's historian Heather Cox Richardson's short video on the 19th Amendment:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj1U...

PETITION: Fund the Institute Of Museum and Library Services Congress is deciding right now how much funding IMLS will receive—and your voice matters

Congress is deciding right now how much funding IMLS will receive—and your voice matters. Join me and thousands of other Americans calling on our elected officials to fully fund IMLS and protect the programs that empower millions every day. bit.ly/4m7g8h9 via @everylibrary.bsky.social‬

Rooted in Plum Village and the Earth Holder Community, the Beloved Community Care-Taking Council offers resources and a network of Circles forming around the world to support mindful action for social justice.

www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...

A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

This new reporting further proves Meta is a company that is morally and ethically off the rails. Mark Zuckerberg rushed an unsafe chatbot to a mass market just to keep up with the competition, consequences for its users be damned.

What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexual assault. Then the world moved on, and left her behind.

This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers.

What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"On this day in 1914, the first units of the British Expeditionary Force were sent across to France to reinforce the left wing of the French army."

– A Poem a Day, edited by Karen McCosker and Nicholas Albery, entry for August 7th

Parting in Wartime

How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache goodbye –
And now we three in Euston waiting-room.

Frances Cornford (1886-1960)

Poster for Hiroshima Day - A white paper crane, symbolizing peace, carrying a green olive branch in its beak, flies over the outline of Japan. In front of a blue background, the words 'Hiroshima Day August 6th' are written in white.

August 6 marks the 80th anniversary of #Hiroshima
and August 9 of #Nagasaki 🇯🇵

More info ➡️ betterworld.info/Hiroshima
Join the conversation and 📣 share widely!

We honor the legacy of the #Hibakusha and fight for a #NuclearBan ☮️

#Hiroshima80 #Nagasaki80 #NuclearWeapons #TPNW

Give to FCNL Help us lobby Congress for a more peaceful world this year.

I just donated to @fcnl to support peace, justice, and an earth restored. Would you join me? act.fcnl.org/donate/suppo...

#EarthOvershootDay has come earlier each year it’s been calculated.

Can we start doing better already?

“… the most brutal reprisals were taken against the plotters, who are held to have belatedly redeemed the honor of the Prussian aristocracy.”
from The Oxford Companion to the Year

“On this day in 1944 officers of the Wehrmacht attempted to overthrow the Nazi regime and assassinate Adolf Hitler; but the briefcase containing Claus von Stauffenberg’s bomb was moved before detonation, so that Hitler survived. The officers’ attempted coup was soon reversed….

Promotional poster for Episode #5 of the podcast “Future Knowledge,” titled “Averting the Digital Dark Age.” The design features a retro-futuristic aesthetic with grainy textures and a collage of images, including three speakers: Ian Milligan, Brewster Kahle, and Takara Small. Their photos appear above bold text reading “FUTURE KNOWLEDGE.” In the background are stylized digital and classical elements like a vintage computer labeled “NEW,” the Space Needle, a Roman statue, and abstract shapes.

In the latest episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, historian IAN MILLIGAN discusses his book AVERTING THE DIGITAL DARK AGE with Internet Archive founder BREWSTER KAHLE. Moderated by TAKARA SMALL

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
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My linocut showing 3 fireflies in green grass against a dark blue starry sky. Each firefly has orange on its upper body and its lower body is surrounded by a globe of light to show it is glowing, printed in glow in the dark ink.

July 5 - 6 is World Firefly Day! Like a lot of insects fireflies are threatened by our actions. 🧪🐡Check out fireflyersinternational.net to find out how you can help gather data on these magical animals & help scientists track their populations.

My #linocut print shows 3 fireflies (Photinus pyralis,

I am glad I found the time to read this piece this morning!
I recommend it.

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/were-at-war-...

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops…and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Very lucky to enjoy the excellent show by Elvis Costello and the Impostors with Charlie Sexton, at Portland’s Keller Auditorium, on Friday, June 13th!

Farewell, YES! and many, many thanks!