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
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
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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.
Uh, since it's now the "holiday season" or Christmas and such, in all its consumerist glory, here's a little taste of the consequences of capitalism...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RP0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RP0...
1913 Massacre
YouTube video by Woody Guthrie - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Uh, since it's now the "holiday season" or Christmas and such, in all its consumerist glory, here's a little taste of the consequences of capitalism...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RP0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RP0...
More reason to love @katebeaton.bsky.social right here
I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
More reason to love @katebeaton.bsky.social right here
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I guess I should lay out some prior assumptions. It's 2025, and there are a few consultant-class habits that I simply have No Fucking Patience For any longer.
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I guess I should lay out some prior assumptions. It's 2025, and there are a few consultant-class habits that I simply have No Fucking Patience For any longer.
Yes it’s important that we make life difficult for marginalized people in far more structured ways
The ex-prosecutor also said this:
“I have a lot of close contacts in law enforcement, and almost to a person, none of them support these actions. As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded…it’s upsetting.”
“I have a lot of close contacts in law enforcement, and almost to a person, none of them support these actions. As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded…it’s upsetting.”
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Yes it’s important that we make life difficult for marginalized people in far more structured ways
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Finally at #CIAC2025!
In a workshop all about how we figure out which squid populations are different species, esp. in challenging situations like the deep sea or when species are moving around with climate change.
I am also answering the important question, how would a squid shake its ass???
In a workshop all about how we figure out which squid populations are different species, esp. in challenging situations like the deep sea or when species are moving around with climate change.
I am also answering the important question, how would a squid shake its ass???
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Finally at #CIAC2025!
In a workshop all about how we figure out which squid populations are different species, esp. in challenging situations like the deep sea or when species are moving around with climate change.
I am also answering the important question, how would a squid shake its ass???
In a workshop all about how we figure out which squid populations are different species, esp. in challenging situations like the deep sea or when species are moving around with climate change.
I am also answering the important question, how would a squid shake its ass???
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Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: New exhibit honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, homelessness in Corvallis, the 'emergency' World Naked Bike Ride and more.
Find a vendor in your neighborhood: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Find a vendor in your neighborhood: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
October 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: New exhibit honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, homelessness in Corvallis, the 'emergency' World Naked Bike Ride and more.
Find a vendor in your neighborhood: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
Find a vendor in your neighborhood: streetroots.org/vendors#locate
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I love Portland Frog and the AMPHIFA movement so I made some protest art to go along with the movement. No AI was used to illustrate the frog - I drew it myself. Feel free to use this image - just don’t claim it as your own or sell it.
October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I love Portland Frog and the AMPHIFA movement so I made some protest art to go along with the movement. No AI was used to illustrate the frog - I drew it myself. Feel free to use this image - just don’t claim it as your own or sell it.
cool
From our rare books collection we have this illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, also known as the vampire squid from hell. In an order of its own, we don't really think the vampiric moniker is fair either as they actually feed on detritus and not blood #EYAMonsters
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
cool