Go Dig a Hole

I rode my bike 36 miles and saw so many people of all ages and activities enjoying the day. It was really cool to see so many folks savoring the day

A photo of the Willamette River and the forested hills southwest of Portland, Oregon’s south waterfront. The view is from the westbound side of the Sellwood Bridge, looking north. Fall foliage dots the landscape of tall evergreen trees.

A wide angle photo showing the sun shining through tall oak and Douglas fir trees

A photo showing sunlight streaming through bright yellow fall leaves and shining on the damp pavement of a path through a historic cemetery.

Today was an absolute stunner in Portland

A photo showing a tap handle for Athletic Brewing nonalcoholic IPA and a stack of plastic stadium cups inside Portland Timbers’ Providence Park

A photo showing a plastic stadium cup full of nonalcoholic beer in Portland’s Providence Park

Agreed. I like how many breweries are doing hop water, which makes a ton of business sense. I guess I get why more brewers aren’t doing na, but I’d love to see more options. Kinda related: I’d love to see more na on tap. Enjoying some Athletic at the Timbers match

Deschutes really is a cut above the rest in the na game

I wonder if you could talk a local bottle shop into stocking it through their distributors. I’m also picky about IPAs and don’t love most of the NA IPAs out there. Fieldwork also does some great NAs if they distribute to you

They also have an na IPA that’s pretty good

A photo of a can of nonalcoholic Pilsner from Burial brewing Company

A photo of a can of nonalcoholic Pilsner from Burial brewing Company

This na Pilsner from Burial is pretty great

Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives
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A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back

"By mid-October, a few dozen salmon had swum roughly 30 miles through Upper Klamath Lake and reached tributaries of the Klamath ... One year after the last of the dams came down, salmon are spreading throughout the uppermost reaches of the river."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

Scimitar cat attacking a hominid, artist's impression. The scimitar cat (Homotherium sp.) was a member of the sabre-toothed cat family (Machairodontinae) which lived throughout Africa, Eurasia and North America between 3 million to 10,000 years ago. Its prey included hominids such as Australopithecus africanus (shown here).

yup, that's me. i bet you're wondering how i got myself into this situation

If you are an SAA member who may be unable to attend the Annual Meeting due to transportation, lodging, and/or other expenses, consider applying for the Deborah L. Nichols Meeting Access Grant.

The application will close on November 15th at 3pm.

Information here: saa.org/career-pract...

Official anthropology ruling: you can use kinship terms in extended ways including for people who have no ties of marriage or ancestry. Real humans know this and do it. Some humans do it a lot more than others.

I hope it's helpful! Yes to both, and the approach you mentioned earlier about waiting a while before extending your generosity is something I've also worked on in therapy. It feels selfish! But it makes a lot of sense in that it exposes people who would otherwise take advantage of generosity.

This really resonates with me. I've struggled with that as well, especially the tension over personal boundaries. The book, Running on Empty, by Christine Musello, helped me understand a lot of my own patterns of behavior WRT self-abandonment and sacrificing my boundaries. It might help you too

Think actions like the destruction of the East Wing shouldn't happen? We have ONE cultural resource law to keep fed gov in check, & there's a hearing in the senate Wednesday. Call members on the natural resources committee & voice your support for Section 106! preservationaction.org/106-hearing-...

as we reach the SNAP cliff just a gentle reminder to do-gooders that the most efficient use of resources is to contribute to organizations that are already established. unless nothing exists in your area (and it likely does whether you know it) now is probably not the time to stand something up

Sexy “can you substitute cloves for allspice in a pie filling?”

I love their na Black Butte Porter! I made a chili with some in it that turned out great.

“I’ve got a pumpkin you can carve”

I had the same feeling about going to Bend, where visiting breweries used to be a highlight of my trips there. It’s funny that the health foods grocery store out in the burbs has the best range of na options I’ve seen around here

The first thing that came to my mind when seeing this was how fixated N*zis were on ancient civilizations because it allowed them to develop a mythology that legitimized their worldviews

The symbolism is way too on the nose

Worth noting that the White House, the Supreme Court, the Capitol, & related grounds are all exempt from the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. So there is no formal review process for this kind of thing.

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

That looks amazing 🤩

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Write it on your mirror or something: Most People Do Not Want This

That’s interesting! There are also some unincorporated Multnomah County addresses on the west side of the county along Skyline that make me wonder how that came about

I am so proud of Portland right now. I keep saying we are having a renaissance & you can really see it in so many ways.

We just hosted folks from around the country at an energy conference & they were blown away by the political culture that is growing here.

We have a chance at something great.