Notices by wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)

Canada Goose on a pole, which you don’t see everyday, and the St Johns bridge

I’m working on an AI policy for my org that allows us to opt out of AI note taking and prohibits AI in our comms/storytelling. here is my list of reasons for the policy, but my board is asking me to cite sources. Can you help me with any good references you would cite for any of these? (Or an edit or restatement where I’ve gotten it wrong or inaccurate?)

*if you want to argue about why I shouldn’t have this policy kindly crawl into a hole in the ground and cover yourself with soil

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116202379796114145

I am very interested in everyone’s anti-AI bullet points! i drafted an AI policy for my org this morning and will share out our points when we get to a final version.

honestly we didn’t need an app for everything in 2010 and we don’t need AI for everything now. all we have ever needed was to tax the rich and take care of people

the freight train cut through north Portland

actual artist (not AI) created Portland frog prints & tees for sale 🐸 by Gwen Katz

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2019846827/hop-shirt

“I'm thinking of you
Decorated with flowers
I'm thinking of you
Without the sound of engines”
https://bolha.one/@joaonaweb/115367435831977090

#silentsunday in #warravagedportland

everyone who said bluesky would eventually turn out like twitter was correct apparently

ice came running out unprovoked and slammed an 84 yr old and his walker to the ground, cracked his 84 yr old wife’s head open with a projectile. the elderly couple lives nearby and said they finally came to the protest today because it looked so safe and mellow from their window

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/federal-agents-knock-down-elderly-couple-during-portland-protest.html

pocket friends are fun because you formed genuine warm feelings for them just from sitting my yourself and tapping on glass in order to translate abstract notions into communicable pixels

good Sunday read. we should be talking more about women, trad wives, and fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/fascism-women-homemaker-trad-wife

“When interviewed, Scholtz-Klink insisted to Koonz that she and her female colleagues had nothing to do with concentration camps, genocide or political doctrine – that they barely even knew about those things. Instead, Scholtz-Klink made domestic and reproductive duty feel prestigious, rather than peremptory, helping “the Nazi party make ordinary women feel valued in a way that other women in more liberal parties didn’t”, Koonz says.”

repeat after me ”the fascists are not my audience, they will act in bad faith no matter what I say, no amount of moral capitulation or pandering will ever cause them to respect me”

I moved from a majority MAGA small rural town in Alaska to portland, or and all I have to show for it is my salvaged mental health, a sense of belonging and self worth, and the overwhelming feeling that it’s ok actually for me to be exactly who I am

in Portland I interact with a lot of people who are very different than me, I talk to lots of trans people irl not just online, and I’m constantly inspired by the creativity, quirkiness, and sense of possibility in this city

not saying this is some kind of perfect city, but I am saying that sometimes it’s good to make a change, and understand that where you live does affect how you feel and who you’re able to be. if it werent so morally & logistically fraught I’d leave the US (always wanted to) but for now Pdx is a good change for me personally

well worth reading the posts of the Iowa county supervisor who refuses to lower the flag for Charlie Kirk. Jon Green is not afraid, but he also acknowledges that he is taking the heat in the hope that others will join him

https://bsky.app/profile/modestholdings.com/post/3lymamqb3ks2b

idk who needs to hear this but this bike is massively on sale

https://surlybikes.com/products/skid-loader-bathwater-gray

people still think that showing neo-fascists the respect we wish they would show us will somehow teach them to do better or compel them to stop hurting us

this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go

Putting this on the hash tag AI feed 🤗