Square photo of a chapstick hanging from a string on a bare wall
On the back of the photo, young me wrote, "Desolate chapstick"
Going through old photos
Last week, I was fired in retaliation for confronting DOGE staff in 2025. Today, I launch my campaign for U.S. Congress in Marylandβs 6th district.
Marylanders show enormous bravery in defense of our communities. #MD06 deserves a Rep as brave as its residents.
secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi...
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."
Ancient black and white Macintosh game called Elevator Espionage. There are seven elevators going up and down and you have to climb up the floors without getting hit by one.
The screeching noise emitted if an elevator hit you was reason enough to walk away from computers altogether, yet I kept playing.
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...
Hand-painted sign that says "Crows against murder"
Taken yesterday in the Cully neighborhood of Portland, OR
Wispy white strands of ice coming from the end of a stick. They really look like hair.
More wispy hair ice, this time on a stick on the ground. It forms in strands that curl over elegantly.
Hair ice with a bit of sun on it.
Hair ice curling on the end of stick in a way that makes it look a bit like a wire whisk.
Got to learn about hair ice today, beautiful stuff.
Perhaps also turkey tail mushrooms (though I probably would have just said bracket fungi) on a tree in NE Portland
Just walked past this!
Plus a great inside joke with the "and then she stepped on the ball" line: reelmemorable.com/2016/07/04/w...
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 βbiggest waves of censorshipβ on its platforms in years.
Sunset in Mt Tabor park, overlooking Portland, OR. Green lawn in foreground, many trees with fall colors and some evergreens, with reservoir reflection in the middle.
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...
Wow, that light/dark divide!
On a bridge in Hartford, Connecticut, there's a statue of people, including a woman who is holding a baby up in the air. In this picture from earlier today, a rainbow lines up with the baby.
B, E, F, G
Four happy finishers of the 10k run/walk across the Astoria-Megler bridge
The Oregon end of the 4.1 mile-long Astoria-Megler Bridge
Line of people waiting to board school bus shuttles, about 6:45 AM
Sign in tall grass that reads: GOATS AT WORK
Great Columbia Crossing success (10k road race across the epic Astoria-Megler Bridge)
Smaller male orb weaver spider reaching cautiously out to large female, both hanging upside down.
Got to watch some exciting spider mating
Jane Goodall, with binoculars, in forest.
Thank you, Jane Goodall, for showing us a way.
So exhausting..
Can't go on like this
Screenshot from the Icelandic Film Centre's website explaining the Bechdel test.
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.
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...
Sleeping sea lions squished together
Boat in harbor, reflection on water, gull flying
The tiniest birthday cake (size of a quarter)
Inside a decommissioned power house, one turbine and a ceiling crane visible
Keeping the old spirits up
Interesting interpretation of the history of societal collapses. Tl;dr theyβre caused by rich people
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bag of groceries on the counter with a copy of The Politics of Reality by Marilyn Frye on top
Sometimes I think about leaving Portland. Then I bring home some feminist theory with the groceries.
Speaking of lovable frog things, in case you're not already familiar: turndecassette.itch.io/rainy-summer...
All of this is deeply right and sensible.
www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...
Tiny green turtle toy on a large stone
A chaotic mix of toys, including a truck, scooter, cars, Cookie Monster, and Troll dolls
Someone posted a Walt Whitman excerpt: "This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school, or church, or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."
A swath of lovely daisies
These mean Portland streets
We wonβt forget. Those harming our communities will be held accountable. Weβll keep fighting for civil rights and the dignity of all.
