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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 New article with @areidross.bsky.social and @thienkim.bsky.social ! On the politics of hydrosocial imaginaries and modernist visions of water management. Nice summary by Alexander here.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Come build out a map with me this weekend! Part of the Risk/Reward Festival June 11-14. All installations are live one hour before mainstage performances. 6:30pm on Friday and Saturday, 1pm and 6:30pm on Sunday.

Dark colored flyer with five photo vignettes of different artists from different shows mid-performance. Text reads: Risk/Reward Festival, June 11-14, 2026. Four days. Fifteen artists. Countless discoveries. Risk/Reward is Portland's "speed dating for performance" - five short performances, bold installations, and one full-length solo work, all under one roof. Mainstage artists: Vlada Kremenovic, Marisa Conroy & Olivia Bratko, KG Galbreath, Kye Grant, Sky Poole - Strange Enough Dance. Installation artists: Jennifer Wright, PDX-BER Moves Carla Mann & Suzanne Chi, Thien-Kim Bui & Sumi Wu. Special presentation: Sarah K. Finn, The Right Thing To Be Doing, full-length solo work Thursday 6/11 at 7:30 pm and Sunday 6/14 at 2:00pm. At PICA, 15 NE Hancock St. Portland, Oregon 97212. Tickets and info at risk-reward.org. Presented by Risk/Reward.

Three large 3-D raised relief topographic map sculptures cut from cardboard sit in raised platforms in a warehouse space.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sea lions are such scofflaws.

A screenshot of a story about Columbia River sea lions with the text "Sea lions keep gorging on endangered salmon despite 2018 law. One Democrat said red tape may be hampering efforts to protect salmon" and a photo of a sea lion snacking on salmon.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I've spent the past few months thinking with so many people's beautiful work, and I'm honored to share it more widely.

A poster with details for an art exhibition called "Cut / Paste". It runs from June 2 - October 31, 2025 in the Geography Department on the fourth floor of Cramer Hall at Portland State University. The opening reception was on Wednesday, June 4 from 4:30 - 6:30 pm. The poster also lists the names of 22 artists, and shows three map collages.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

WIP for upcoming map collage workshop

There are two city maps with various city blocks and other features partially cut out, a utility knife, a highlighter, and a pile of paper scraps on a white work surface.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Sometimes our government’s racism looks like incompetence and indifference. Because a federal clerk filed a treaty map under the wrong letter, Yakama Nation lost over 90,000 acres to Washington State. Now, the tribe wants it back. grist.org/indigenous/s...

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A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state

More than 170 years later, the Yakama are still trying to get their land back.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

"to listen for the creek when it is covered by concrete necessitates that we reach beyond thinking of a creek as something which exists in and of itself, in isolation." Appreciate this challenge.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Pushing the limits of this Basque cheesecake recipe by just doing everything wrong, let's see how idiot-proof this thing is.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Love to see it, and would love to know more about why only 225 of 375 acres were transferred.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I have been witnessing how restorative justice is being taught and talked about at the K-8 grade level. It's been a messy and difficult process. @nbedera.bsky.social articulates the pitfalls I've observed.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”

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Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem

For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…

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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)

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Feminism, Proto-Blogs, and Chaco Canyon: Lucy Lippard’s Life in Art

YouTube video by Hyperallergic

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

two kids, one pushing a bike, on a woonerf in Haarlem. grown ups sitting at a bar.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As I say over and over again, dams were designed for the climate of the past. Yet there are over 3,000 new large dams in the works globally. With increasingly severe droughts and floods, we need to pivot completely to other renewable sources of power.

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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It’s NEPA. He’s talking about a court finding that CEQ’s regs for NEPA were never actually regs but only guidances, non-mandatory. Guess what the entire architecture of mitigation in all federal programs rests on? 1979 CEQ regulations, now possibly just guidance. 1/2

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

19 days until December 1. Do you have your advent calendar yet?? Get a fact about frogs every day and support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social! I'm packing orders tonight, so order now and I'll get yours to the post office tomorrow! Get one at Squidfacts.net

Sarah holds up a calendar covered in iridescent silver/rainbow stickers. The top says "Frog Facts" and there are 7 frogs and toads on the calendar including a bullfrog, wood frog, and suriname toad in the water, a poison dart frog and leopard frog on land, and two kinds of tree frogs in the tree.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

This whole thread is worth reading, this bit in particular. In my limited understanding, Korematsu v. United States and Ex parte Endo didn't really resolve the constitutionality of exclusion/incarceration (this should never have been a question). Ganbatte.

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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

“It’s hard to believe in them, the beautiful colors of extinction. But these are the colors.”

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

It's been a year and 6,500 miles since I was hit by a car.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Mistook an unripe persimmon for a ripe one, a good reminder to moving more carefully leads to more sweetness.

A hand holding a ripe persimmon, an unripe persimmon, and a pair of red-handled clippers.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

I don't want an electric car or truck, I want more state and federal investment in bike lanes, public transportation networks and e-bike susbsidies so I don't have to own a car

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Feels pretty awesome to watch a dam come down and a river come back.

A person wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a yellow shirt smiles at a camera. Behind them, a reservoir is slowly draining and construction vehicles are working.

A small river winds through an area that was previously the bottom of a reservoir. There is new plant growth and lots of rock and sediment.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Folks should be careful about conjuring standards that determine whether someone is deserving of police violence. It's enough to say that the people protesting a genocide should not be harmed.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Labor is labor is labor. And all work deserves dignity. This includes the work of the caregiver, the accountant, the cashier, the janitor, and yes, the artist. Art underpins the most valuable industries in our economy. Of COURSE artists deserve fair compensation for their labor.

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julia ferraioli @juliaferraioli.com · 05/03/2024

This is bad. Even setting apart problems that this poses on reproducibility and verifiability in #research, the disappearance of #OpenAccess publications is especially troubling, as it breaches the social contract of openness. www.nature.com/artic...

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More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet

Nature - An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Read this very carefully, pls.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

The best repair manuals, Mattern argues, present repair as social, embodied, intuitive, & accessible. "What if we extend these principles to civic systems and public spaces?...Is repair about reclaiming a past or building a future? Is it about conserving the status quo or inciting systemic change?"

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, remember: -There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman. -There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist. We're not gatekeeping being a woman in science today, or ever. We're learning, respecting, supporting, and celebrating. 🧪

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road." - Rebecca Solnit www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco

I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Finally back to riding my bike twelve weeks after being hit by a car, and I wasn't ready for all of these emotions.

A photo of a road intersection. There is a pole with two signs on the pedestrian island. One sign demonstrates how bicycles should cross. The other sign reads "No turn on red"

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 24/01/2024

Deserts are naturally occurring. This, on the other hand, is a 100 percent man-made famine www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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Journalism's 'Private Investment Era' | On the Media | WNYC Studios

How hedge funds and private equity firms took over local news.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

"Activate yourself as a literary citizen" is maybe the best *writing* advice but also some of the best general advice I've ever received. Be active, be present, be nice, be yourself -- and that's a whole life, right there.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Let's hear it for elaborate embroidery.

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thien-kim @thienkim.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Citation as both signpost and invitation to engage and collaborate has been one of the most important things I've learned/am learning. This is an excellent collection of sources I hold dear.

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