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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 53m

And they chirp like squirrels.

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 5h

What a perfect spot!! Gorgeous. I'm heading up this week for a little road trip and hike, north Cascades, maybe up towards Mt. Baker. First snow dropping lower this weekend, so it won't last long.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 7h

It’s larch season in the Cascades. Rereading “The Larch: A Love Story” originally published in the Orion September/October 2012 edition.

An open Orion magazine, full color picture of green conifers and one covered in gold needles—a larch.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 7h

That did it!! Summoned it from the ether like. All heat. And there it is, a poem made real. It's magic, word casting.

#poetry

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Spent the morning reading and then went back to a poem first put on paper last winter. Left it because it wasn't standing up. Then, like magic, it's here today, ringing save one word just off key. When a poem is done, I swear it rings like a bell. I can hear it. Wordsmithing is the strangest thing.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 9h

My stated reason for going on corporate sabbatical for a year was to make space for a career pivot, finish a manuscript, and yes, all true...

But mostly it was to have more time to read and plant things.

So now I'll need to find a livelihood that allows for reading, writing and trees. Have skills

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Truly people, I can't keep up with the sheer number of fantastic books recommended here. It's bonkers, so many great reads.

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 10h

We know how to fix this.
"The causes...are the continuing destruction of habitats caused by agricultural intensification and land abandonment, draining wetlands, overgrazing by livestock, and the use of fertilisers and pesticides including neonicotinoids" and habitat fragmentation.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 15h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 12, 2025 ~ The end of bees.

"Fifteen species of bumblebee, which play a crucial role in pollinating peas, beans, peanuts and clover ... are now classified as threatened."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 10h

It's us, it's always been us. The best news is the inverse is the solution, it's us. We can actually structure ourselves to repair the harm, we can make space, stop the many layers of destruction, and end up in a better place for ourselves (and everything else).

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report

Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts

www.theguardian.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 10h

This. The man is just a walking void...

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov Best get a hand on your State patrol. They should be protecting your citizens, not forming baton walls and adding to the thuggery.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Been at a meeting all day strategizing how we continue to serve seniors and at need adults and provide Meals on Wheels in our county in the face of federal funding cuts... Come home to feeds full of absolute thuggery from ICE/CBP, violently snatching people, including teenage girls--it has to stop.

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure how you fire someone in error. This was clearly planned and they are walking back due to public outcry.

Just when you think things can’t get worse, they do.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

So important. They fired people working on Ebola in Africa tonight. The people who track and investigate and report on disease outbreaks. The CDC prior to the first Trump administration was the global gold standard... but the ideologues can't stand it.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

More serious cuts to the CDC tonigh. The West Coast Health Alliance in partnership with the labs at University of Washington and Stanford along with our biotech hubs will need to recreate a monitoring network and testing capacity.

Lizard Of Oz @lizardofoz316.bsky.social · 1d

This is a hair on fire situation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

E-bikes are so good.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 3d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

denvergov.org

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

At least they're being more open about her minder role these days?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

There is much serious news, but there is also this from @pbsnews.org. A discussion with British author Ian McEwan on his book "What We Can Know". www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Ian McEwan's 'What We Can Know' depicts life in a world ravaged by climate change

Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on earth. That world is explored in Ian McEwan's new novel, “What We Can Know...

www.pbs.org

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

What in holy hell is this??????

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

I just love all this. We love our democracy and we love our towns. And we can play. It's so good.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way!!

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a choice.

Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 2d

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” apnews.com/article/nobe...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...

apnews.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Friday.... This weekend I learned that we have tufted puffins here in the Puget Sound. Link comes complete with puffin sounds (and we all need that).

Starts about a minute in here: www.kuow.org/stories/satu...

Saturday Special: Meet the researchers trying to help the northwest’s puffins bounce back, and remembering Dr. Quintard Taylor

Today, we’re bringing you the best from our KUOW Newsroom… Sometimes a species becomes so rare that you may not know it still exists - like puffins in the northwest. Catch up with the researchers try...

www.kuow.org

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 3d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 3d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Truth in this. But can you see it? Each city in it's nature, in it's colors? Bring your thing, amplify, be the technicolor and ridicule these people into oblivion. Deny them their new civil war. Demand our peace.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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