Beth Duckles
@bduckles.bsky.social
open science, writing, mixed methods, fiber arts and tea. Portland, OR (she, her)
A helpful website with facts, sources and webcams to decide: isportlandburning.com For those of us who live here and are treated to regular questions about how things are going, this is lovely.
Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
isportlandburning.com
In very October news, my friend is putting out her adorable Ghost and Cat cartoon. Check out the spoopy cuteness: bsky.app/profile/ghos...
bsky.app
It’s so easy to be an artist. You just do it. That, of course, is why it’s so hard to be an artist. You just have to do it. People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist. my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history
Olivia Gaines, Author@ogaines.com · last yr.
Greetings from "war ravaged Portland" where there's a really rad new hyper-local news site called East Portland Voice.
@eastportlandvoice.bsky.social · last yr.In response to President Trump's declaration to send troops to Portland, Governor Tina Kotek held a joint press conference yesterday in downtown Portland along with law enforcement representatives and local, county, regional, and state elected officials. www.eastportlandvoice.org/kotek-to-tru...
They’re bringing back Reading Rainbow, hosted by Mychal the Librarian. [youtube.com]
Reading Rainbow🌈 | Official Trailer 🎬 | Educational Videos for Kids |@Kidzuko
🎶 Take a look, it’s in a book 🎶 After nearly 20 years… Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course… new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈✨ #FollowTheRainbow For all the latest upload
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This essay is sweet, inspiring and lovely. "Make little guys in the lineage of our ancestors, who stuck their hands into a pile of mud and made a little guy. " (ht @joshmillard.bsky.social) stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Little Guys
A Love Letters Feature by Shing Yin Khor - September 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
Laura's email newsletter is the BEST way to get into the halloween mindset! Highly recommend!
Laura Eek!! Hall@lauraehall.bsky.social · last yr.There's 50 days til Halloween... which means it's a great time to sign up for my completely free newsletter, 31 Days of Halloween. I send a themed email each day of October and then it returns to the crypt for another year. Let's get spooky! Sign up here: buttondown.email/31daysofhalloween
This is a neat online tool that allows you to move countries around and see how big things are in comparison. Calling all map nerds. thetruesize.com#?borders=1~!...
Compare Countries With This Simple Tool
Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great t...
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Today is the day to talk about using and valuing renewable resources during our Everyday Flourishing workshop. It'll be a fun time, 12 noon PST for an hour. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Everyday Flourishing: Renewable Resources. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Everyday Flourishing: Renewable Resources. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us02web.zoom.us
This project is tracking the impact of federal cuts and is a great example of the importance of open data. theimpactproject.org
Home - The Impact Project
The Impact Project collects, synthesizes, and shares data from current and archived government databases, research organizations, and public reporting, to show how policy, funding, and workforce initi...
theimpactproject.org
Just saw the news that Rep. Grijalva died, he was such a good man. Kind and warm, thoughtful about progressive issues. He will be missed. www.npr.org/2025/03/13/g...
Democratic Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona dies at 77
Democratic U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona, who championed environmental protection during his 12 terms in Congress, died Thursday of complications from cancer treatments, his office said.
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Perhaps you too would like to watch a bald eagle sitting on her nest in a snowstorm: www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nf...
Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1
YouTube video by FOBBV CAM
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How in the hell have I not heard of this before. "10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority: A resource for Open Source Leaders" eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... #eResearchNZ
10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority
eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io
Here's a fun new game that's a new take on a laddergram. raddle.quest
RADDLE
The daily word transformation game
raddle.quest
🌿 Our next Everyday Flourishing workshop is Monday, 3/10 at noon PST! This time, we’re talking about Obtaining a Yield—how we nourish ourselves and receive what we actually want in life. www.everydayflourishing.org
Everyday Flourishing – Everyday Permaculture
everydayflourishing.org
I wrote about sunshine during the winter. On rereading beloved children's books, finding abundance, putting it up the hill and stacking delights It also features one of my favorite children's book: Frederick. bethduckles.substack.com/p/sunshine-i...
Sunshine in the Winter
On rereading beloved children's books, finding abundance, putting it up the hill and stacking delights
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Pleased to share this report I contributed to on Red Teaming in the Public Interest with Data & Society and the AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance. We did interviews with folks across the generative AI ecosystem. datasociety.net/library/red-... #generativeai #llms #aiethics #aisafety #redteaming
Red-Teaming in the Public Interest
This report offers a vision for red-teaming in the public interest: a process that goes beyond system-centric testing of already built systems to consider the full range of ways the public can be invo...
datasociety.net
Today, Data.gov shows 306,503 open data sets. Harvard Library now has ~311,000 datasets, which they say is a “complete archive of federal public datasets linked”: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02... A reminder that #OpenGov & data is about all of the USA & for all of us, not any administration.
Lots of great material in here about creating a Library of Things. I'm always appreciative of these places in our community - in particular, I love having the Lents Tool Library in my neighborhood. www.shareable.net/library-of-t...
Library of Things Toolkit
A comprehensive guide to starting (and growing) a sharing hub in your community Table of Contents Introduction Section 1: Getting started Section 2:
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Thinking about how we conserve and pay attention to our energy during these wild times. 🌿 I'll be doing the second Flourishing workshop on Monday 2/10 at noon. You're welcome to join. Sign up: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Resource: www.everydayflourishing.org/02-Energy.html
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Everyday Flourishing - Catch and Store Energy . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Everyday Flourishing - Catch and Store Energy . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us02web.zoom.us
This book is 🔥
The Trandalorian@charliejaneanders.com · 2y agoICYMI my book about keeping yourself together during hard times by writing stories, NEVER SAY YOU CAN'T SURVIVE, is now a paperback. Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/neve... Or you can get it signed/personalized here: greenapplebooks.com/book/9781250...
I chipped my tooth and the camellia tree has a blossom. A meditation on the current circumstances of the world, observation and the poem Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte. bethduckles.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything is Waiting for You
I chipped my front tooth this weekend.
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*sniff sniff* It's so nice to see them bringing back the songs from my youth. Now everyone will know the joy of singing about @$$holes. Brings a tear to yer eye. 😂🥲 latenighter.com/news/denis-l...
Denis Leary Updates His 1993 Hit 'A**hole' With Jimmy Fallon - LateNighter
Denis Leary has updated his hit song about insufferable jerks—with help from Jimmy Fallon.
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Do you need a spinning online wheel that has meeting icebreakers? Of course you do: wheelofnames.com/a84-suw
Wheel of Names
Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.
wheelofnames.com