These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
Tim
@thedieselat91.bsky.social
Contrarian. Defiant. Neurodivergent. I’m even contrary with the contrarians. Big truck style backpacker. Sometime mathematician. “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” -William James.
This is it. Will they outnumber us or will we outnumber them? Teach your children well.
The worst decision humans ever made was to separate ourselves from nature
The Trump administration announced that power plants built exclusively to serve data centers (ones that never connect to the public grid) are now exempt from the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program.
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No surprise. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Bags in vehicle of man fatally shot by ICE did not contain drugs, Texas DA says
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 51-year-old father of three, was killed by ICE during a traffic stop in Texas in early July. A family attorney said a substance alleged to be drugs was salt to combat the hea...
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Libre Office is the way Microsoft Word was 20 years ago, with icons on the tool bar and more. Also, Word kept resetting my keyboard to UK settings when all I wanted was UK grammar/spell check. Libre doesn't lose the plot and keeps them separate. So far, I am really happy having dumped Micro Office.
Your bucket list trails won't hike themselves. Pick one. Book it. Go. The rest is just procrastination with good intentions. #hiking #trail #hikinglife #trailnotesdaily
"We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric, racial prejudice, and violence and for a renewed commitment to recognizing the inherent dignity of every person as a child of God." #PrayForAmerica www.usccb.org/news/2026/ac...
“Acts That Diminish or Disregard the Dignity of Any Person or Group of People Should Never Be Normalized in Our Society,” Say Bishop Garcia and Bishop Cahill
In light of several recent immigration enforcement encounters resulting in the loss of life, Bishop Garcia and Bishop Cahill issued the following pastoral re...
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THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
She had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health," and that "he was abusive in their relationship." So they knew they were sending a crazy violent man with a gun out to fill their jail quota.
Killer ICE agent's ex-wife throws him under the bus: 'Not going to lie for him'
The ex-wife of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot 26-year-old Colombian man Joan Sebastian Guerrero came forward to the Portland Press Herald to reveal her story about him ...
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This is a great essay! And I wrote DATA EMPIRE precisely because I was so frustrated with everything described here. PS: My editor at Harper sent me a copy of @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com’s Muskism and I loved it.
Adam Riggio@adamriggio.bsky.social · 3w agoA beautiful & insightful essay from @quinnslobodian.com about the political structure of the modern tech economy. Ordinary people have both less & more power than we often believe www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...
Taco Bell heard "explosive diarrhea" and was like, "Yeah, must've been us"
every movie at Cannes that goes into 95 minutes gets the audience booing and storming the projection booth
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/w.... It was a great honor to meet Greybeard while I was hiking in Vermont this summer. #hiking#aging#thruhiking
At 91, He’s Hiking the Appalachian Trail. Again.
Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders once set the record as the oldest person to complete the roughly 2,190-mile trail. Now, he’s back for his title.
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The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.
A diarrhea parasite outbreak is what happens when you put a diarrhea parasite in charge of the Dept of Health and Human Services.
Always has been. 💯 It is not about ability. It’s about allocation. 🛑
