Kludge Crick
@kludgecreek.bsky.social
An ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole.
Botany Bread Bees Banjos
USA PNW
Every organism is weird but some are even weirder. Hyperparasitoids! Organelles!
Fuck *rump, Bibi, Putin, tyrants and their mouthpieces
Botany Bread Bees Banjos
USA PNW
Every organism is weird but some are even weirder. Hyperparasitoids! Organelles!
Fuck *rump, Bibi, Putin, tyrants and their mouthpieces
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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If you happen to be in the Salem, OR area on the evening of February 4, come to this event where you can hear @leahsottile.bsky.social read from her most recent book and chat with me about the history of religion, the far right, and conspiracy theories in the Pacific Northwest!
January 28, 2026 at 9:50 PM
If you happen to be in the Salem, OR area on the evening of February 4, come to this event where you can hear @leahsottile.bsky.social read from her most recent book and chat with me about the history of religion, the far right, and conspiracy theories in the Pacific Northwest!
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New enamel pins will drop on my site this Friday 1/30 @ 10 am PST! 💕
🔗 here to preview all the new designs: shop.fossilforager.art
Reshares appreciated to get the word out! #sciart
🔗 here to preview all the new designs: shop.fossilforager.art
Reshares appreciated to get the word out! #sciart
January 28, 2026 at 8:33 PM
New enamel pins will drop on my site this Friday 1/30 @ 10 am PST! 💕
🔗 here to preview all the new designs: shop.fossilforager.art
Reshares appreciated to get the word out! #sciart
🔗 here to preview all the new designs: shop.fossilforager.art
Reshares appreciated to get the word out! #sciart
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Greg Bovino is leaving to spend more time brutalizing his family.
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Greg Bovino is leaving to spend more time brutalizing his family.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
devastating
signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
January 26, 2026 at 3:06 AM
devastating
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12 / 23 Below shows us imaging through the medullary spots of Prototaxites, revealing the dense and interconnected branching of tubes that go down to one micron in diameter!
January 21, 2026 at 7:39 PM
12 / 23 Below shows us imaging through the medullary spots of Prototaxites, revealing the dense and interconnected branching of tubes that go down to one micron in diameter!
awesome
1 / 23 Prototaxites is known from some very large fossils, including columns over 8m tall. These fossils date from the end of the Silurian to the Late Devonian (425–365 million years ago). This makes Prototaxites the largest organism on the Earth’s surface before the appearance of tall trees.
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 PM
awesome
We certainly do not celebrate spurge-laurel in these parts…
Today is Primidi the 1st of Pluviôse in the year 234.
Pluviôse is the month of rain.
Today we celebrate spurge-laurel.#JacobinDay
More information on spurge-laurel
Pluviôse is the month of rain.
Today we celebrate spurge-laurel.#JacobinDay
More information on spurge-laurel
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
We certainly do not celebrate spurge-laurel in these parts…
Cotlar does it again. Thanks!
Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
January 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Cotlar does it again. Thanks!
Breaking Up Christmas, by Benton Flippen
from the album Fiddler's Dream
bentonflippen.bandcamp.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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There's a tax protest at the capitol in Salem, OR tomorrow that appears to be organized by a former Proud Boy/Patriot Prayer leader who's called herself a "white pride" advocate. The stage on which the event will happen is owned by a Proud Boy who is also the vice-chair of the Clackamas County GOP.
January 3, 2026 at 12:09 AM
There's a tax protest at the capitol in Salem, OR tomorrow that appears to be organized by a former Proud Boy/Patriot Prayer leader who's called herself a "white pride" advocate. The stage on which the event will happen is owned by a Proud Boy who is also the vice-chair of the Clackamas County GOP.
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how many squid facts you knew
- if you offered others squid facts
- how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact
January 2, 2026 at 10:07 PM
well dang or uh, duh
December 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
well dang or uh, duh
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In Ukraine, spiders are Christmas guests of honor.
Straw ornaments called павуки hang from the ceiling, spinning gently on horsehair threads—absorbing bad energy until Epiphany.
Kill a spider? Misfortune.
One sits beside you? Good news coming.
Photo: open source
Straw ornaments called павуки hang from the ceiling, spinning gently on horsehair threads—absorbing bad energy until Epiphany.
Kill a spider? Misfortune.
One sits beside you? Good news coming.
Photo: open source
December 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
In Ukraine, spiders are Christmas guests of honor.
Straw ornaments called павуки hang from the ceiling, spinning gently on horsehair threads—absorbing bad energy until Epiphany.
Kill a spider? Misfortune.
One sits beside you? Good news coming.
Photo: open source
Straw ornaments called павуки hang from the ceiling, spinning gently on horsehair threads—absorbing bad energy until Epiphany.
Kill a spider? Misfortune.
One sits beside you? Good news coming.
Photo: open source
Whuuuuuuut
Happy Winter Solstice!
Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025).
You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!
Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025).
You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Whuuuuuuut
Spent the moment of maximum tilt away from the sun on the porch with hot coffee and my sweetheart listening to Great Horned Owls talking. Eventually, a distant rooster, civil dawn. Sunrise soon.
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Spent the moment of maximum tilt away from the sun on the porch with hot coffee and my sweetheart listening to Great Horned Owls talking. Eventually, a distant rooster, civil dawn. Sunrise soon.
Love all these words and pictures: alot like home. In grad school I took a visiting Scot horticulture prof on a dripping misty field trip to see some US PNW native mountain plant diversity. Between cold May showers and hail he said it was much like home.
& corvid hour in a keen wind they understand, that suits gather-&-break decisionmaking; floodpools silver flatly & you send a wobbling block of pheasants cloking into the youngwood; fields away village christmas lights pop on gradually, begin their night-time jitters
December 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Love all these words and pictures: alot like home. In grad school I took a visiting Scot horticulture prof on a dripping misty field trip to see some US PNW native mountain plant diversity. Between cold May showers and hail he said it was much like home.
Last couple rain events…
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Last couple rain events…
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& corvid hour in a keen wind they understand, that suits gather-&-break decisionmaking; floodpools silver flatly & you send a wobbling block of pheasants cloking into the youngwood; fields away village christmas lights pop on gradually, begin their night-time jitters
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
& corvid hour in a keen wind they understand, that suits gather-&-break decisionmaking; floodpools silver flatly & you send a wobbling block of pheasants cloking into the youngwood; fields away village christmas lights pop on gradually, begin their night-time jitters
Yeah that tracks
Taken together, August through November of this year was the record warmest on average across the Northwest in more than 130 years of record keeping, federal and regional scientists report: oregoncapitalchronicle.com?p=19404
Northwest just finished warmest fall on record, scientists report • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The region is experiencing unusually warm and dry conditions, scientists find, and snowpack is at record lows for this time of year.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yeah that tracks
Hope OPB management gets a clue.
Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social shares her story for our “what our audience doesn’t know” series.
"Realizing how OPB inequitably values our colleagues has hurt morale across the entire organization."
-Alex Zielinski, OPB reporter/producer
"Realizing how OPB inequitably values our colleagues has hurt morale across the entire organization."
-Alex Zielinski, OPB reporter/producer
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Hope OPB management gets a clue.
wow
Best thread today...
just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
wow
Georgia still showing the way.
Grandma Nino, the one whom young men shielded on a famous video from the November 2024 crackdowns, still protests, on Day 377 of #GeorgiaProtests
Our elderly generation not living to see a free Georgia after all they’ve been through is one of my biggest fears and regrets.
Our elderly generation not living to see a free Georgia after all they’ve been through is one of my biggest fears and regrets.
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Georgia still showing the way.
Here is a creek in the Oregon Cascades.
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here is a creek in the Oregon Cascades.