A medium-close portrait of John Waters sitting with his arms crossed in front of a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. He wears a blazer featuring a vibrant green and white botanical leaf print, layered over a black turtleneck.

Wishing a very happy 80th birthday to the genius filth maestro himself, John Waters! 💋 🎞️ 💜🦩Which of his perverse cinematic pleasures will you be enjoying today? You can watch our edition of MULTIPLE MANIACS on the Criterion Channel alongside Waters’ fabulous episode of ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING!

A brownish-pinkish songbird (male purple finch) is on an upper perch of a tubular birdfeeder, leaning down and to the right toward a yellow and black songbird (male american goldfinch) who is on a lower perch and is looking up at the other bird. Both birds have their beaks open as they exchange "pleasantries" with each other.

I don't normally post more than one #BirdOfTheDay photo, but I saw this at my feeder just this morning and I thought I'd share. For the #FeederFriends theme (birds you might see at your feeder), Mr. Purple Finch and Mr. American Goldfinch are exchanging some "friendly" words.

#birds #photography

Not sure if any of you gardeners save your own seed 🌱? We do, we made a seed cleaner/sorter to assist.

Maybe it would be interesting to see it working...

£1.67 to make. (we're from Yorkshire) a spare piece of greenhouse glass and some Beech from tables that a local restaurant was throwing out.

Literary Arts is seeking two event interns! This paid internship, starting in May 2026, primarily takes place in the evenings at our bookstore located at 716 SE Grand Avenue. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply! Info: lit-arts.org/pwinternship
#pdx #pdxinternship

If that ever gets built, I can’t wait to see it covered in graffiti.

Map of watershed basins in the Western United States. Basins are color-coded to show SNOTEL estimates of snow-water equivalency compared to the median from 1991-2020 as of April 8 2026. Nearly all the colors are red (<50%; Covering AZ, NM, CO, NZ, Northern CA, WA, and most of WY)), with some orange (50-69%) and yellow (70-89%). in the Northern regions (Montana, Idaho, and parts of Washington)

It's going to be a wild summer.

We all need a mulch fairy in our lives.

Famed mountaineer Jim Whittaker, first American atop Mount Everest, dies at 97 | Cascadia Daily News Longtime Port Townsend resident inspired generations of alpinists, defined an active NW outdoor lifestyle

Extraordinary obituary of one of the PNW players (along with Fred Beckey, of course, and his twin brother Lou) who put U.S. mountaineering on the map—Seattle native "Big Jim" Whittaker, the first American to summit Everest.

What a life. www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/apr/08/...

These are the first images of earth released by @nasa from the Artemis II mission. The images were taken by astronaut commander Reid Wiseman inside the Orion capsule on Friday, April 3, 2026.

📸: NASA via AP

#nasa #earth #artemisII #spacetravel #spaceexploration #orioncapsule #theoregonian

Photo of a lichen with a powdery green body growing over soil (soil not visible under lichen). From the green surface grow several dozen thin greenish stalks with tiny pom pom tops. The photo background is blue sky.

A Pin Lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. The little stalks are about 1cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

The Correct Order To Watch The Amityville Horror Movies - SlashFilm There are a lot of Amityville Horror movies. Like, a lot. So here are all of the Amityville movies in order (until they make more, which they will).

Apparently the Amityville "franchise" has around 60 movies in it because the name is in the public domain. I'm tempted to watch all of them.

What is Amityville Death Toilet? Or Job Interview?

As sad as I am to see the center close, these shops moving to Pioneer is pretty awesome for downtown and that mall.

A black and white woodpecker displays a ruffled red patch at the back of its head.

Downy woodpecker with ruffled red head patch 🪶

NO KINGS PDX events Saturday 3/28

March starts 10AM from Oregon Convention Center to main gathering at Oregon Battleship in Waterfront Park at 12. Then loop around PDX.

The whole day needs many volunteer bike corkers to protect people along the route.

DM Mark on our Slack to see how you can help.

As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Cinnamon teals and why invasive species are genuinely catastrophic and not just a social construct

Ugh. I have plenty of highly productive Himalayan blackberry in the alley behind my house. Clear use and destructive invasive.

Super duper happy we just handed this guy $600 million in tax payer dollars.

Look at this beauty!

Tawny Mining Bee / Andrena fulva

I photographed her over the weekend in a small village green on the edge of Oxford. Last year we had quite a few of them nesting in our garden lawn🪴

Add your voice: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

You can't simply replant a forest and restore what was removed. You can have new trees, but the biodiversity will forever be changed. We have so few of these spaces left and need to save them.

Comments due today (March 23 by midnight).

Please speak for the trees! #OldGrowth #Oregon

My comment is on my wordpress. Feel free to use any of it for your comment.
birdsmatter.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/o...

Godzilla water skis in a Snickers commercial but don’t recall surfing ever.

Thanks for the tip. I think I have one in the garage. Will be doing this for sure.

Posting a couple of my videos at the request of @amyb8888.bsky.social because I am very susceptible to peer pressure.

This is about how birds are the cure for the male loneliness epidemic

Haven't heard of that one, I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

They are tenacious plants! I fully cut mine back 2-3 times a year before they go to seed. Also like to spread if left alone.

You can see these bills explode over the last few years across the US.

Moe and Barney Simpsons meme where Moe throws Barney out to have him reappear behind Moe, but with Trump as Moe and Barney as the teleporting FEMA official.

this one?

★ How to Make Banana Peel Fertiliser (A Complete Step by Step Guide) YouTube video by Project Diaries

Banana peels are great too, but won't have nitrogen in the mix, which may be perfect for your needs depending on time of the season and soil make up.

Amazing Way to Use NETTLES to Improve Seedling Success YouTube video by Huw Richards

Stinging nettle is another option, and great plant to grow in general for lots of uses.