SiriN
@mizsiri.bsky.social
PNW Science educator focused on watersheds, ecosystems and communities. Oly, WA
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@emry-dinman.bsky.social includes this 1914 activist billboard from Rockford, Illinois that highlights ideas from the economist Henry George:
"The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people." (photo via NY Public Library)
"The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people." (photo via NY Public Library)
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
@emry-dinman.bsky.social includes this 1914 activist billboard from Rockford, Illinois that highlights ideas from the economist Henry George:
"The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people." (photo via NY Public Library)
"The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people." (photo via NY Public Library)
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
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I will similarly oppose any war in Venezuela. I refuse to put the lives of servicemembers at further risk, and I refuse to saddle our children with yet another costly war for no good reason.
My full statement ⬇️
My full statement ⬇️
Senator Murray Responds to Trump’s Illegal Military Operation, Address to the Nation - Senator Patty Murray
Senator Murray: “It is outrageous for a President who is tanking our economy here at home to suggest that the American taxpayer spend a fortune to ‘run’ another country while doing nothing to make lif...
www.murray.senate.gov
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I will similarly oppose any war in Venezuela. I refuse to put the lives of servicemembers at further risk, and I refuse to saddle our children with yet another costly war for no good reason.
My full statement ⬇️
My full statement ⬇️
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Belle: hey
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Belle: hey
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
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My sister has started asking my three-year-old niece the name of each piece of art she produces, and today's was A SPIDER WHO CRAWLS JUST LIKE A WOMAN
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My sister has started asking my three-year-old niece the name of each piece of art she produces, and today's was A SPIDER WHO CRAWLS JUST LIKE A WOMAN
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THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
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Skagit County has issued a GO NOW evacuation order for all residents in the 100-year flood plain. Find out if your home is affected: www.skagitcounty.net/Maps/iMap/?m...
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Skagit County has issued a GO NOW evacuation order for all residents in the 100-year flood plain. Find out if your home is affected: www.skagitcounty.net/Maps/iMap/?m...
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Family Thanksgiving sing-along time.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Family Thanksgiving sing-along time.
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Despite progress in understanding & TEK research, white people’s conservation values remain:
1. Indigenous people (& hunting) ARE part of pristine ecosystems; reminder Yellowstone natl Park still lacks the Shoshone.
2. Grey whale pop. size is strong & 1-10 killed annually is nothing.
1. Indigenous people (& hunting) ARE part of pristine ecosystems; reminder Yellowstone natl Park still lacks the Shoshone.
2. Grey whale pop. size is strong & 1-10 killed annually is nothing.
The Makah Tribe has the right to hunt whales by treaty (the only tribe in the lower 48). But they have been waiting on a government permit to exercise that right for TWO DECADES.
Makah Tribe’s treaty-protected whaling rights remain blocked more than two decades later - ICT
Federal officials have not responded to the October deadline for the tribe’s permit for a traditional summer/fall subsistence hunt of eastern North Pacific gray whales, covered by the Makahs’ 10-year…
ictnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Despite progress in understanding & TEK research, white people’s conservation values remain:
1. Indigenous people (& hunting) ARE part of pristine ecosystems; reminder Yellowstone natl Park still lacks the Shoshone.
2. Grey whale pop. size is strong & 1-10 killed annually is nothing.
1. Indigenous people (& hunting) ARE part of pristine ecosystems; reminder Yellowstone natl Park still lacks the Shoshone.
2. Grey whale pop. size is strong & 1-10 killed annually is nothing.
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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
I celebrated my birthday by watching harbor seals chase a giant school of herring around Discovery Bay.
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I celebrated my birthday by watching harbor seals chase a giant school of herring around Discovery Bay.
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Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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What usually gets lost in the focus on what an evil racist James Watson was is just how colossal of a dumbass he was and just how far he set the field back.
But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.
But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
What usually gets lost in the focus on what an evil racist James Watson was is just how colossal of a dumbass he was and just how far he set the field back.
But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.
But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Seeing Tech/Business folks lean into eugenics, phrenology, & other stupid ideas. It shows the lack of training they are getting in regards to genetics/evolution, stats, ethics, & history of science.
They have locked down a good # of craven assholes.
1-Point for you there, I guess. #Calipers
They have locked down a good # of craven assholes.
1-Point for you there, I guess. #Calipers
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Seeing Tech/Business folks lean into eugenics, phrenology, & other stupid ideas. It shows the lack of training they are getting in regards to genetics/evolution, stats, ethics, & history of science.
They have locked down a good # of craven assholes.
1-Point for you there, I guess. #Calipers
They have locked down a good # of craven assholes.
1-Point for you there, I guess. #Calipers
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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"The past often gets presented to us as odorless. But that overlooks the huge roll smell likely played in many historical realities..." 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out
How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?
www.scientificamerican.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"The past often gets presented to us as odorless. But that overlooks the huge roll smell likely played in many historical realities..." 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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Peeking in at juveniles in the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) breeding program at Friday Harbor Labs was just overwhelmingly hopeful. These little guys can grow to 3ft across.
>90% of sunflower stars along N. America's west coast were killed by sea star wasting disease in 2013-14.
>90% of sunflower stars along N. America's west coast were killed by sea star wasting disease in 2013-14.
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Peeking in at juveniles in the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) breeding program at Friday Harbor Labs was just overwhelmingly hopeful. These little guys can grow to 3ft across.
>90% of sunflower stars along N. America's west coast were killed by sea star wasting disease in 2013-14.
>90% of sunflower stars along N. America's west coast were killed by sea star wasting disease in 2013-14.
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.