ICE agents spotted in downtown Eugene 11am

Psylocibin retreat featuring a tour of Downtown Eugene sued | 'A dissatisfied customer has sued Oregon-based Mandala Journey Work LLC for failing to provide a peaceful four-day experience at a "tranquil" home with strolls in the forest'

Members of a worldbuilding sub liked the Hanlonism poster from my solarpunk-adjacent hard sci-fi project, so here it is

What are your favorite Octavia Butler stories which you see solarpunk elements?

SIGN YOUR STRIKE CARD | The General Strike

SIGN YOUR STRIKE CARD | The General Strike

So Google is bending over for the traitor in chief with Gulf of Mexico name change

During the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, some sources describe a light coming out of the dome of the Hagia Sophia. Some interpreted this as the Holy Spirit abandoning the city. Modern historians speculate it may have been atmospheric electricity like St. Elmo's Fire.

Time Capsule: Ward Cunningham's Wiki Wiki Web | "…came up with the name WikiWikiWeb because he remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee who told him to take the Wiki Wiki Shuttle…between the airport's terminals."

Two Great Lights | 'These heavenly bodies are not given proper names but are simply the “greater” and “lesser” lights, probably to avoid confusing them with the pagan gods Shamash and Yarih, whose names are similar to the Hebrew terms for the sun and the moon.'

Ron Wyden’s staff confirms reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states

Using Microalgae to Convert Brewery Carbon Gas Emissions into Valuable Bioproducts (Silkina et al., 2024)

Is orgasm the best feeling a human can get, or doing drugs beat it?

"Then they issued us company-approved laptops: terribly-slow iBook G4s complete with…spy software pre-installed... [We] didn’t even have administrator access on them. The clock was set to the Eastern time zone; I needed an IT department person to change it to show me California time."

Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

“But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting… by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs … but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major …”

'Groundless claims': Mike Lindell [the MyPillow guy] ordered to pay Smartmatic over $50K for 'frivolous' lawsuit

Introducing Apocalypse Socialism: A New Chapter in Revolutionary Thought

This is a great idea but not nurtured, can I help?

Trump Just Broke the Law. Blatantly. And He Might Get Away With It. How is this not a major political scandal already? Hello, Democrats?

Forms of Mini-Publics: An introduction to deliberative innovations in democratic practice - newDemocracy Foundation

Tina Kotek Oregon Values

Punk tomatoes are gonna destroy the superyacht in my front yard.

Before the term "mini-publics" arose, Tom Atlee coined a term which is very analogous, "citizen deliberative councils" in his 2004 book, The Tao of Democracy.

January 23 - Grade Lee Boggs

Devo on SNL (1979) - “I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction)”