S.A.L.2020

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

Portland, OR was overcast May18,1980 but Mount St. Helens black mushroom cloud was visible above the clouds. The wind was blowing east so we didn't get ash that day, but the next eruption covered Portland. The 3rd eruption July 22:

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@covie_93 It's remarkable how uninformed RFK Jr is.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That bag of cheap wild bird seed is mostly food your birds are going to throw on the ground, where mice will eat it.

The big reddish round grain in most budget seed mixes is milo, also called sorghum. It's cheap, it's heavy, and it fills the bag. Most songbirds, the chickadees, cardinals, finches, nuthatches that people actually want to see, largely ignore it or toss it aside in search of better seeds.

The leftovers pile up under the feeder, absorb moisture, and can sprout in spring. More importantly, spilled seed is one of the main reasons feeders attract rodents.

A lot of inexpensive blends are mostly low-value filler. So that $15 bag may contain far less bird food than you think.

The easiest fix is to buy straight black-oil sunflower seed. It attracts the widest variety of birds, produces much less wasted seed, and gives you more food that birds actually want. Add white proso millet in a separate ground feeder if you'd like to attract doves and native sparrows.

Read the ingredients on the back of the bag. If milo, wheat, or oats are near the top, keep looking.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@HowardMortman 😭 I love this family.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@Mollyploofkins Time to bring in the experts. Stock it with 300 million Reticulated Hillstream Loaches, algae-eaters.
Oops, I mean 300 BILLION.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

I'd like to hear the opinion of an antiquities expert. On Antiques Roadshow they emphasize keeping the original patina. This is literally gilding the lily. He'll want to gild the Statue of Liberty next.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

We just want to afford gas, groceries, housing and health care.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@Mollyploofkins Melania tweeted a photo of herself, Trump & a baby who was orphaned after his parents were murdered in El Paso mass shooting. They didn't visit survivors at the hospital & had the baby brought back to use as a prop.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@binaryoversc As a freshman in 2015, Rasmussen pitched the first perfect game in Oregon State history, striking out a career-best 10, to beat Washington State.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@giveashitnature Be aware there's a Pacific NW native plant that looks similar. Vanilla Leaf - Achlys triphylla. Don't pull it up.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@Mollyploofkins @JoeHeim

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

After the dams came down on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe didn't wait for nature to fix itself.

For decades, four hydroelectric dams turned a living river into stagnant reservoirs. They blocked salmon and steelhead from 400 miles of spawning grounds, fueled toxic algae blooms, and raised water temperatures past what the fish could survive.

When the last dam came down in late 2024, the river ran free again. But the exposed reservoir beds, 2,200 acres of bare sediment, were unstable and wide open to invasive species.

So the Yurok Tribe got to work. Along a 38-mile stretch, tribal crews hand-sowed billions of native plant seeds, planted 76,000 trees and shrubs, and seeded 28,000 acorns.

Nearly 100 native plant species. All by hand. All from seeds collected locally and grown out specifically for the restoration.

It's already working. Salmon are spawning in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in over a century. Lupines and willows are stabilizing the banks. The river is breathing again.

The Klamath is now the largest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, and the people doing the heaviest lifting are the ones who have lived along that river for thousands of years.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@700dreqnit The gravel rattling around in her voice is annoying.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

Today’s political palate cleanser is pretty darn funny. I’m definitely using this one.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

FARMS FEED US - DATA CENTERS BLEED US - Shalersville, Oh Protest 5/29/26

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

Pay attention Hillsboro! You need to do this!

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A small town in Oregon is celebrating after officially stopping a large data center from being built in their community.

The La Pine City Council voted unanimously to reject the proposed project.

The proposal called for a massive 20-megawatt data center, which raised concerns among residents about energy use, water consumption, noise, and whether the project would truly benefit the community.

BlackRock and Palantir frequently appeared in local community discussions, even though the data center was being built by Boxminer.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@Mollyploofkins Total dumb shit.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@BeaverBaseball Strange that Ducks and Beavs are in the same regional.
NCAA broke up all the other in-state rivals into different regionals: Oklahoma & OK St, Texas & Texas A&M, UCLA & USC etc.

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@Rainmaker1973 Laika Studios' new movie, Wildwood, opens at theaters Oct 23. It looks amazing.
https://t.co/mX4HdyXkfH

[S.A.L.2020 @ORslh]

@maddenifico Artist: Jesse Duquette