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Libbey White
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Software developer working in conservation.
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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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He played this song at an event I was at this past fall and I was floored. Out of body experience.

This is my favorite vid of it, vocals start at 2:45, and the two guys in the background to the very left are worth watching on the rewind.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=eK3R...
Charles Yang Medley - LIVE from 33 West
YouTube video by 33 WEST
m.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Got to learn about hair ice today, beautiful stuff.
December 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business
Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Great Columbia Crossing success (10k road race across the epic Astoria-Megler Bridge)
October 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Got to watch some exciting spider mating
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Thank you, Jane Goodall, for showing us a way.
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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So exhausting..
September 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Can't go on like this
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I was looking at the Icelandic Film Centre's (through which all government funding for Icelandic film & TV goes) website and I LOVE that they ask film makers to please think about the Bechdel test before applying for funding for their projects and then proceed to explain what it is.
September 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Rebecca Solnit on power: "Propping up fossil fuel is like propping up white supremacy: the future of the USA is a nonwhite majority, and the future of the human race is renewable energy."
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-future-i...
The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution
I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Keeping the old spirits up
September 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Interesting interpretation of the history of societal collapses. Tl;dr they’re caused by rich people

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Sometimes I think about leaving Portland. Then I bring home some feminist theory with the groceries.
August 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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All of this is deeply right and sensible.

www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...
“Politics Is Conflictual”
“Massive changes often unfold on large time scales,” philosopher Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò told The Drift in 2022.
www.thedriftmag.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
These mean Portland streets
July 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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We won’t forget. Those harming our communities will be held accountable. We’ll keep fighting for civil rights and the dignity of all.
July 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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July 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Last week in computering: I took down a site by typing Ctrl+a instead of Shift+a. Not even mad, just amazed.
July 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Those of us who work in the civil justice system learn that major losses are inevitable. Today’s SCOTUS rulings are profound losses. But that is not the end for those of us on the side of people. We continue to stand and we do not surrender, even if fascism has infected the Supreme Court.
June 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM