Notices by Sara (sarae@ecoevo.social), page 2

@msbellows if it's got a rear rack, you might want to use a milk crate under that and then the handlebars should hold the front end up ok

or an actual repair stand

like, that's the best way to do it but I've never actually owned one myself so I know a lot of work-arounds involving pilfered dairy containers and swearing 🤣

@cvvhrn @ai6yr in the 70s men dressed as though they wanted women to find them attractive

today they run around in basketball shorts and complain about our lack of enthusiasm

#SilentSunday

hey #Oregon

if you're #voting this weekend, remember to go drop your ballot off -- all USPS mail is now being routed through a sorting center in Portland and that may mean your vote doesn't get counted if you put it in the mailbox this late in the game!

find your closest drop box with this tool:

https://sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/drop-box-locator.aspx

I'm sorry but if Democrats can't get organized enough to get at least one candidate on the gubernatorial ballot this fall

that is a crushing indictment of their incompetence, selfishness, and failures of leadership

and the voters should give them no concessions until they get their act together

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/california-democrats-republicans-governor

hey folks, since measles is going around, I asked my doctor to check and make sure I'm immune

good news: I am immune to measles!

what I'm NOT immune to is Hepatitis B

if you're middle aged, get your immunity checked, this is the second time I've lost immunity to something I was vaccinated for as a kid

@cvvhrn @ai6yr our children will be dealing with the consequences of 20th center nuclear experimentation basically forever

the last thing we need is more of that

@cvvhrn @ai6yr actually, my sister in law was on a team that did the math

not only can we do it with renewables we can do it without utility-scale renewables

yeah I cried a lot

let me go find the paper

I think at this point we should all agree that the Butlerian Jihad IS about Judith Butler

we're going to need inspirational philosophers if we want to win the robot war and restore human dignity

and honestly most dudes in philosophy are turning out to be perverts

tonight's sewing project is a case for a new speaker -- I've been wanting one for the office and they finally came on sale at Costco, but no traveling case

entirely scrap, salvaged, or thrifted materials

I'm pleased with how it turned out

yes that's Pendleton, I redid a chair in this fabric so long ago the chair hydraulics wore out, but I've still got some little off cuts down in the basement

never doubt that people can grow

on the phone with my formerly Libertarian brother yesterday, he told me a story about going to small claims court with one of his wife's post-docs, a Pakistani woman, to make sure she was treated fairly there

and described it as "using my white male privilege for good"

something he would neither have done nor articulated 20 years ago

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

me too, medical clinic sign

me too

@thomasfuchs not as helpful as "only people I follow can reply"

thirteen hours of German public broadcasting train videos

you might need this

I mean I do

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLovlAKbQVz6DoWH3TuN06TWGA5VTbZ6nR&si=KpiFliSeY_dlQ6CO

storm front is coming in and the little sheltered cove at Port Orford is basically one big whitecap #ORwx

@skinnylatte uh, the links you've posted are about amanitas

if there's something else that's an issue, can you share where you're seeing that?

@skinnylatte I have to wonder if one of the issues is that there are suddenly a lot of AI mushroom guides out there

because while it's pretty easy to confuse some edible east Asian mushrooms with some not-edible Pacific US mushrooms

that's not what seems to be the issue in the cases I've read about lately

it is really NOT easy to confuse amanitas with anything else

absent serious misinformation

@skinnylatte and thinking about it, I do see more amanitas the last couple of years

but almost exclusively in town, in landscaped areas, lawns, etc

I think some of the big commercial growers of nursery plants on the west coast are infected and carrying spores around, and that they're also maybe moving on commercial landscaping equipment

I really like train videos, maybe you do too

this one has some depths I wasn't expecting, including a Vietnamese vet the age of my elders who fought in his country who talks about how he's ridden this train to recover the bodies of people lost during the war 💔

anyhow, good stuff

https://youtu.be/mzSxHe-hRho