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shelnut.bsky.social
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I believe everything is interconnected, I know about, and help people with, psychological trauma and I love nature, and drumming and creating things.
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shelnut.bsky.social
Very good points.
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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trecpdx.bsky.social
High noise exposure is correlated to lower income neighborhoods, with high-traffic roadways as the largest contributor to urban noise in Portland.
Heat map showing urban noise levels
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
shelnut.bsky.social
Wow.
Good night!
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
It begins:
In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Spotify. He writes: "First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die." That could serve as a model for Trumpism too. Trump promised vengeance and cookies to his base, promised he could deliver whatever the hell Make America Great Again meant, even while he failed to deliver much besides corruption and destruction. He got a lot of business leaders on board with the usual Republican incentives of tax cuts and deregulation. Now the USA is a platform he's downgrading as he, yes, per Doctorow claws back all the value for himself – quite literally with his utterly corrupt side deals, including the self-dealing with Qatar, the Trump family cryptocurrency scams, the extortion of the news media and law firms for tens of millions of dollars, and most recently and outrageously, his demand that the US Justice Department hand over over $230 million to him for compensation for prosecuting him for crimes we know were real and he continues to lie about. Final-stage enshittification because the most powerful and wealthy country in the world is in crucial respects being run for the benefit of one man. That includes the fact that the obsequious Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has largely shut down the business of Congress for months in order to protect Trump from whatever's in the Epstein files...
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM