Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Nancy Bee
@tangledbank.bsky.social
Northwest Oregon and generally west of the Rocky Mountains, nomadic vandweller when I can, learning for joy, queer, dogs, bugs, plants, vertebrates, geology, climate, soil, sky, weather. Degrees in Horticulture, Soil, and Entomology And bikes always bike
Exactly what offends me so deeply about the collection and sale of personal information about me. I am not for sale!!! @lalevasseur.bsky.social “Central to this must also be acknowledging the immorality of personal data as a market/good.”
Lisa LeVasseur@lalevasseur.bsky.social · 2d agoLove this framing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social data politics doesn’t happen without data economics. Central to this must also be acknowledging the immorality of personal data as a market/good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
@moiradonegan.bsky.social notes "“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children."
Oregon has dropped parking minimums. There is a 13 story apartment complex going in downtown with no parking lot and all my lefty friends are losing their minds about parking.
Tara Goddard@drtaragoddard.com · 7mo agoThanks @nerd4cities.bsky.social for featuring my work in this episode! I'm happy to talk any time about how car brain plays out when drivers interact with bicyclists (I did my dissertation on it!), and also power, masculinity, status - my favorite topics 😁🤓
Dorothy Parker lives!
Plague Poems@plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5d agoThe smoke pains you; the lettuce isn’t safe; this heat harms, too; a mask will chafe; your friend has a bug; “no fucks to give;” reign of a thug; keep trying to live. * A compendium of the 333rd week of plague poems… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/p...
At this point in 2026 Bordeaux, France has experienced more days above 40°C (104°F) than it had in the years from 1920 to 2025, and while it would be wrong to say that this is the end of the world, it certainly suggests that the world as we knew it has already ended.
I would enjoy this a lot. I need this. It’s too easy to just run around my hampster wheel- lots of activity but going nowhere.
Martha Crawford@whatashrinkthinks.com · 5d agoOur Depth and Mysticism reading group will be diving into to Quaker writings starting 8/27! The intersection of mysticism and social justice is a holy spot. New members welcome! We meet bi-weekly and the group is offered by donation:
Our Depth and Mysticism reading group will be diving into to Quaker writings starting 8/27! The intersection of mysticism and social justice is a holy spot. New members welcome! We meet bi-weekly and the group is offered by donation:
Depth & Mysticism Study Group — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
a bimonthly facilitated reading and discussion group
whatashrinkthinks.com
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
It’s been 17 years since the federal minimum wage last increased to $7.25. In Oregon, gas prices have gone up 93%, utility costs 81% and housing prices 107% in that time. Oregon has increased the minimum wage and met the moment, but the country hasn't. The American people can’t wait any longer.
“Democrats seize “. I really dislike this framing by NPR. I’d rather they focus on the content rather the dem/ repub sports team rivalry thing
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“People don't like the secrecy surrounding the projects or the prospect of air, noise, water and light pollution. They fear electric bills going up, wells going dry and losing open space, farmland or forest.”
Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli
I grew up in apartheid S Africa, where muzzling of speech and encroachment on academic freedom were the norm. I came to the USA to pursue a career in science. I never thought that at this stage of my career, I would ever experience my youth again. #StandUpForScience #ADA #ADA2026
What the heck is going on when the leadership of the American Diabetes Association is afraid to hear that the current administration is harming diabetes research. The ADA doesn’t seem to be here on bluesky. Perhaps they are over on the bird site stewing in toxic sludge.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w agoThe American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.
The reason we produce so many private jets and not enough healthcare is that ultra-wealthy people have taken over our economy and democracy. @jasonhickel.bsky.social says taxing the rich is about taking that power back, so we can make more democratic decisions about the future we want to build.
“Imagined rhetorical excesses” is exactly right. I don’t know how much the NYT pumped that stuff up, and how much is the author being new to the idea.
Josef Uyeda@pseudacris.bsky.social · 2w agoThe NY Times favorite industry: making a movement's imagined rhetorical excesses more narratively focal than the modest clearly beneficial shift it is successfully pushing for. Now for native plant gardening!
"Scientific systems rarely collapse through a single dramatic event. They decline incrementally: one technician dismissed, one laboratory left unrepaired, one instrument taken out of service, one young scientist deciding to build a career elsewhere." physicsworld.com/a/letter-fro... ⚛️🧪
Letter from Argentina: 'an empty desk and an idle electron microscope signal the erosion of the country's science' – Physics World
Faramarz S Gard laments the decline of Argentine science
physicsworld.com
Looking northish across the pumice towards Mono Lake. The Mono Craters (rhyolite domes and coulees) are behind me. I just really liked the perspective here with the scattered and stunted Jeffry pines receding into the distance. Also, I like the color palette of greys and blues and greens.
Just saying, the natural history journal Banisteria only charges $50 for a manuscript if not a member of the VA Natural History Society (free if member!) and doesn't allow AI: virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/publication-.... Yes I'm shilling for it, I'm the Secretary of the Society.
Publication Guidelines – Virginia Natural History Society
virginianaturalhistorysociety.com
People are being murdered in our streets, we’re sending American lives over to another endless war and the President still can’t accept that he lost the election in 2020. We’re in a constitutional crisis.
I am a bit obsessed with acorn ants. They occur in the PNW. Finding them will probably be a matter of luck rather than searching. I’m not sure I see many old acorn shells on the ground around here.
Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 3w agoAcorn ants, Temnothorax curvispinosus, in an old acorn in Illinois. They need an acorn in a particular stage of decay, usually a year old and already hollowed out. If you're looking for acorn ants, you won't find them in the fresh ones.
