Turquoise Laksa
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scones & macarons
photography & watercolor
wild critters, flowers & bugs
reader
library defender
Library Assistant
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Tom Stahl, with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said hatchboxes can be useful tools in the attempt to restore salmon to local waterways.
Oregon fisheries try old technology to boost salmon returns
After a sudden drop in returning salmon on the Coquille River, a new Oregon law allows old-fashioned hatchboxes to return.
www.opb.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Tom Stahl, with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said hatchboxes can be useful tools in the attempt to restore salmon to local waterways.
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Despite conflicting opinions, evidence shows that listening to audiobooks has similar cognitive benefits to reading books.
Listen Up! How Audiobooks Work Alongside the Printed Page Promoting Literacy and Accessibility
Despite conflicting opinions, evidence shows that listening to audiobooks has similar cognitive benefits to reading books.
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Despite conflicting opinions, evidence shows that listening to audiobooks has similar cognitive benefits to reading books.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild
1) Townsend’s chipmunks
2) Black bear
3) Tarantula
4) Spinning dolphins
5) Mountain Beaver
1) Townsend’s chipmunks
2) Black bear
3) Tarantula
4) Spinning dolphins
5) Mountain Beaver
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild
1) Townsend’s chipmunks
2) Black bear
3) Tarantula
4) Spinning dolphins
5) Mountain Beaver
1) Townsend’s chipmunks
2) Black bear
3) Tarantula
4) Spinning dolphins
5) Mountain Beaver
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Practicing radical honesty this year 🙏
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Practicing radical honesty this year 🙏
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If Dems want to help dig us out of this mess (it sure seems like the Surrender Dems don't), they must make themselves into an anti-corruption party. Stop trading in stocks, overturn Citizens United, boot corporate Dems, embrace the country's appetite for populism and put people above corporations.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If Dems want to help dig us out of this mess (it sure seems like the Surrender Dems don't), they must make themselves into an anti-corruption party. Stop trading in stocks, overturn Citizens United, boot corporate Dems, embrace the country's appetite for populism and put people above corporations.
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it requires time and effort and money to coordinate ILL requests, to pack books and ship them, and to process and keep track of loans.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
it requires time and effort and money to coordinate ILL requests, to pack books and ship them, and to process and keep track of loans.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
and it requires mutual trust.
ILL is such an extraordinary example of the goodness of mutuality that I remain a little astonished that it exists.
Did he cackle gleefully as he said it?
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett tells Fox Business that the impact of the government shutdown is far worse than expected.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Did he cackle gleefully as he said it?
I’ve been saying this to myself and people in my sphere. They keep handing wads of cash to a certain person, why not feed people?
Maybe I'm a big dumb dingus but I've never understood why, even for purely selfish reasons, none of these mega-billionaires spend the gigantic sums of money they spaff on space shit or AI on world hunger. Surely, even for an amoral cunt, being the guy who did that would trump building some rockets.
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I’ve been saying this to myself and people in my sphere. They keep handing wads of cash to a certain person, why not feed people?
October reading summary from StoryGraph
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
October reading summary from StoryGraph
“Quite an unexpected turn of events”
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“Quite an unexpected turn of events”
Three:
Network Effect by Martha Wells @marthawells.com
The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo
Kent State by Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social
Network Effect by Martha Wells @marthawells.com
The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo
Kent State by Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social
Be honest. How many books are you in the middle of reading right now?
October 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Three:
Network Effect by Martha Wells @marthawells.com
The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo
Kent State by Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social
Network Effect by Martha Wells @marthawells.com
The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo
Kent State by Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social
I’m going to say about 7 million people funded these protests- with their time, their bodies, their energy, their supplies, and their transportation costs
Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m going to say about 7 million people funded these protests- with their time, their bodies, their energy, their supplies, and their transportation costs
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Thinking of this tonight. Worth watching to the end.
The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Thinking of this tonight. Worth watching to the end.
I keep saying and thinking what Cheryl did here, only not nearly as well
I keep thinking that it would be much more effective and legal to stem the demand for drugs.
In fact, the US is not exercising its right of self-defense.
There has been no armed attack nor threat of an imminent armed attack on the US. Drug smuggling doesn't count.
And so far, USG has not sent an Article 51 letter to UNSC.
(Also, deadly flow of drugs to US ain't coming from these boats.)
There has been no armed attack nor threat of an imminent armed attack on the US. Drug smuggling doesn't count.
And so far, USG has not sent an Article 51 letter to UNSC.
(Also, deadly flow of drugs to US ain't coming from these boats.)
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I keep saying and thinking what Cheryl did here, only not nearly as well
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“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?
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How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment
Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.
www.cnbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...
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UPDATED: One woman has been found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, where another two people remain unaccounted for, after a devastating storm battered Western Alaska over the weekend.
Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska
Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.
www.adn.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
UPDATED: One woman has been found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, where another two people remain unaccounted for, after a devastating storm battered Western Alaska over the weekend.
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Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day! We have plenty of materials to help you celebrate, including this collection put together by our librarians! Link in bio.
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day! We have plenty of materials to help you celebrate, including this collection put together by our librarians! Link in bio.
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Dystopian fiction is NOT A HOW TO GUIDE.
October 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Dystopian fiction is NOT A HOW TO GUIDE.
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She didn't like that one, and she said as much. Rather than pitch a fit and say no one should read the book, kiddo shut it off and picked up the next one.
IF ONLY GROWN ASS ADULTS COULD.
IF ONLY GROWN ASS ADULTS COULD.
October 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
She didn't like that one, and she said as much. Rather than pitch a fit and say no one should read the book, kiddo shut it off and picked up the next one.
IF ONLY GROWN ASS ADULTS COULD.
IF ONLY GROWN ASS ADULTS COULD.
Is that me ⬇️ ?
I am An Old.
(I read way faster than people speak, so I'm almost always going to prefer text over video. I can also read without disturbing anyone nearby without requiring headphones)
(I read way faster than people speak, so I'm almost always going to prefer text over video. I can also read without disturbing anyone nearby without requiring headphones)
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Is that me ⬇️ ?
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This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma.
This government is committing war crimes.
This government is committing war crimes.
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma.
This government is committing war crimes.
This government is committing war crimes.
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Kind of wild, given all the things it does, that we call the thing we’re holding right now a phone. Could call it a flashlight or a newspaper an encyclopedia or a porn machine, but no: a phone. Also if you call me I will hurl this thing across the room before I pick up. But: phone.
September 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Kind of wild, given all the things it does, that we call the thing we’re holding right now a phone. Could call it a flashlight or a newspaper an encyclopedia or a porn machine, but no: a phone. Also if you call me I will hurl this thing across the room before I pick up. But: phone.
Yellowjacket that I relocated from the bathroom to outdoors, after it hitched a ride on my phone while it was in the windowsill.
#invertebrates 🐝
#invertebrates 🐝
September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Yellowjacket that I relocated from the bathroom to outdoors, after it hitched a ride on my phone while it was in the windowsill.
#invertebrates 🐝
#invertebrates 🐝