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River Kanning

@riverk.bsky.social

654 followers 992 following 249 posts

Writer, learner, teacher, raconteur

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quince season! Most people eat this stuff as membrillo, but I haven’t perfected that yet, and the family likes it better as sauce or fruit leather anyway

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Can’t wait for this guy to pop up again in the Alan Ritchson episode of Finding Your Roots

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Things feel grim, so here’s a very large, thousand-year-old tree with me standing next to it for scale

A huge, somewhat scraggly, thousand-year-old Sitka Spruce, in bright sunshine against a blue sky, with an adult human standing at the roots for scale. “The tree is the World’s Largest Spruce with a circumference of 58 feet, 11 inches, diameter of 18 feet, 9 inches and 191 feet tall for a total of 922 AFA points.”

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A rainbow foil sticker with a cartoon frog saying WOW!

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The mainstream position

Hand-lettered sign with the words “reform, retrain” crossed out, reading ABOLISH ICE

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

A stroll through the gloaming

City park reservoir reflecting clouds and streetlights just after dusk

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The perfect cookbook author’s name does not exis—

The Vegan Athlete’s Cookbook by Anita Bean

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Anybody else love the Duck Duck Go browser just for the flames animation when you clear all open browser tabs?

screenshot of the wall of flame that devours all your open browser tabs when you click Close Tabs and Clear Data in the Duck Duck Go browser

screenshot 2 of the wall of flame that devours all your open browser tabs when you click Close Tabs and Clear Data in the Duck Duck Go browser

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I’ve been reading After Jesus Before Christianity by Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, and Hal Taussig, and those early students of Jesus understood what they were doing very differently than later Christians, and even from one another. But they pretty much all hated the Roman Empire.

Book cover for After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

New dumb watch arrived — bonus: it doesn’t track my movements like a narc!

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Taking a breath

Twin rocks viewed from Rockaway Beach, Oregon. Clouds scraping the top of the big sky in late afternoon sun.

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

CoreCivic, the company running these detention centers, has had a very good year so far; too bad they are profiting off human misery. The two peaks in the box at the right of the chart are November 2024 and March 2025. Source: ir.corecivic.com/stock-inform...

Stock chart for CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) showing a large increase in stock price starting in November 2024, when the presidential elections were held.

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Two images from a recent jaunt to the Oregon coast: a thousand(ish) year old cedar tree and Zoltar, the animatronic fortune-teller.

A thousand-ish year old cedar tree at Rockaway Beach, Oregon

Zoltar fortune-telling machine featuring an animatronic guy with a piercing gaze in a turban, beard, and satiny shirt.

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Strongly considered taking a note from this guy

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Please include pictures of the rocks. Signed, person who also loves to find nice rocks.

Tide pool, Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon. Lots of cool rocks.

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hands Off rally/march in PDX had a huge turnout today, with a strong feeling of camaraderie and support for one another. We were walking the middle of the pack, and people were still spilling out of the plaza onto the street when we turned onto Morrison Bridge.

View of the crowd from Morrison Bridge at Hands Off PDX

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

How your email finds me

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

lil something for tomorrow

flyer image with skull illustration. Text reads: Buy Nothing Day, 2/28/2025. Starve the Beast. Take back your time, money, and attention.

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A very talented fiber artist, Lori Patterson, created this Middle Passage mitten pattern to celebrate #BlackHistory and now you can get it here: knitty.com/ISSUEw24/PAT...

Two knitted mittens. “This project is more than just a knitting pattern. It is a reminder to all of us to examine our place in history and to make strides for a better future.”

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

You had to be there :D

Silhouettes of sleep-deprived people waiting for the sun to come up on a cold Massachusetts beach in late October

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River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Currently reading On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Graphic Edition, written by Timothy Snyder and illustrated by Nora Krug. It reads like an illustrated manuscript, which I guess it literally is, and Krug’s art helps make the text more meditative, something to linger over.

Book cover of the graphic edition of On Tyranny

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