The #fire is burning very steady now. I brought my big #WhiteSage #SmudgeStick - it's more like a baton - to honour the ancestors fire
The #fire is burning very steady now. I brought my big #WhiteSage #SmudgeStick - it's more like a baton - to honour the ancestors fire
Media coverage of the Lake Forest Park MayDay protests. I’d said I was pretty sure my belated photo count was low, probably quite low, because they always are - and it was. This is like 3% of LFP’s population and a big deal.
From: @www.shorelineareanews.com
https://www.shorelineareanews.com/2025/05/400-protest-in-lake-forest-park-on-may.html
Beau working with Tyler, from #Esquimalt #FirstNation - crafting the maple branches for day 2 of men's group healing event. These will be used to mount the salmon we will be cooking over the fire this morning.
Beau & I are heading out to meet Tyler soon to build fire, butterfly & mount the salmon & other related preparation work.
It's a gorgeous day in Esquimalt & #Songhees territories. Sunny & warm morning!
still over 100 today at #lynnwood #TeslaTakedown but more would’ve been nice. Assholes still overwhelmed by supporters but the assholes did seem emboldened. keep the numbers up team, we need them - find your local, fill the ranks!
I found a good way to loosen some of that confusion of self is to seek out your spirit animal. Decisions and direction seem to make more sense and you can find some patterns. At the very least you will find plenty to think about. Might help you find your path.
The Next Cascadia Subduction Earthquake
"the next great Cascadia subduction zone earthquake could cause up to 2 m of sudden coastal subsidence, dramatically raising sea level, expanding floodplains, and increasing the flood risk to local communities."
#Cascadia
#Subduction
#Earthquake
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424659122#executive-summary-abstract
KNKX have sent out a statement just now asking everyone to contact their representatives to tell them to protect public media funding.
KUOW's statement on Trump's illegal refusal to spend Congressionally-authorised Public Media funds:
https://www.kuow.org/stories/statement-trump-executive-order-public-media
April's #BGStats #BoardGames 25 plays of 22 games. I finally got round to playing #PowerGrid - it was interesting, would certainly play again. The #Tablescope app for scoring #Cascadia quickly was probably my fave discovery of the month though!
oh never said - nearly 100% support from passers-by. literally only one (1) trump supporter making himself known in a passing car - at least, that I saw and heard.
i’m bad at crowd size counting but counting from a couple of successive photos i feel safe with a low count of 225ish
but historically i always, _always_ undercount from photos so typically that’d mean more in real life
unfortunately that can be anything between 10% more and twice as many soooooooo
real hard to get a clear shot of the other side of the highway but this was the least obstructed
"'The Big One' could rock the Pacific Northwest and fuel sea-level rise and massive flooding" by @LiveScience - The #Cascadia Subduction Zone off OR & WA coast has been raising land roughly at pace with sea level rise as it accumulates pressure toward its next M9 quake, estimated within 200 years but can't rule out today. When the quake occurs, coastal lands will suddenly subside (sink) ~2m/7ft then start the process over. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-big-one-could-rock-the-pacific-northwest-and-fuel-sea-level-rise-and-massive-flooding #earthquake #geology #PNW
Happy to see a tiny spike in activity and interest in our humble little #BellinghamWA Mastodon instance due to this weekend's illustrious LinuxFest Northwest conference.
#SubduedExcitement #Cascadia #LFNW #LFNW2025 @lfnw #linux #PNW
Happy international #CorvidsDay.
Here's two of the resident #ravens at #NIWRA in #Errington on #VancouverIsland in #BritishColumbia #Canada.
The white raven isn't albino - it has blue eyes.
Hard to show the scale of this old growth beauty from this shot. It takes about 4 humans, holding hands, to hug the whole trunk of this ancient yellow cedar tree.
Click on photo to see full frame.