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Another thing that keeps showing up w the Salem witch trials:
you keep running into folks who talk about how "yeah they were super bad & I would know, I'm descended from executed witches."
you keep running into folks who talk about how "yeah they were super bad & I would know, I'm descended from executed witches."
The funny thing is those communities weren't that big. People who are descended from accused witches
are ALSO descended from the people who executed them. Almost always. It's just math.
But ain't nobody out there claiming *that* heritage!
are ALSO descended from the people who executed them. Almost always. It's just math.
But ain't nobody out there claiming *that* heritage!
There's no "the Salem witch trials were super messed up & I would know, my own ancestors let themselves get caught up in mass hysteria and we've lived with that disgrace for 300+ years."
h/t to @ccjones13 and all of the other historians I'm about to pester
high-key dying to know what the Wampanoag, Narragansetts, & Abenaki-speaking neighbors further north made of the English dealing w their "oh no the people who lived here first are fighting back" anxiety by
*checks notes*
murdering some of their own colonymates
*checks notes*
murdering some of their own colonymates
kind of obsessed over how one of the final straws before the witch hunts was Salem village getting a new minister
a slaveowner from Barbados
exactly the kind of person you want in charge of community conflict management
a slaveowner from Barbados
exactly the kind of person you want in charge of community conflict management
In reference to a certain presidential candidate who says "you can tell I'm Native because I have high cheekbones"
#1, first of all that's phrenology 🙄
#2, the poppin' cheekbones in old-timey photographs of Native people are largely thanks to s t a r v a t i o n
#1, first of all that's phrenology 🙄
#2, the poppin' cheekbones in old-timey photographs of Native people are largely thanks to s t a r v a t i o n
see also: I have big ol' cheekbones and zero Native ancestry (h/t My Big Fat Mormon Family for the very thorough documentation). Cheekbones mean nothing about having Indigenous roots, never mind actually having tribal citizenship or being part of the community.
It's really gross that US culture translated visible symptoms of starvation into "looking Native" y'all
we need to go to our room a moment & think about what we've done here
we need to go to our room a moment & think about what we've done here
Fact: only 25% of lion hunts are successful. There's a whole bunch of you and only one of him. Get your shit together, Republicans.
*background: congressional Republicans fear backing the impeachment because "we don't want to be the lone zebra cut out of the herd."
ngl though it's nice for this party of self-proclaimed mavericks to finally admit they're just a spooked herd out loud
we already knew but hey, this is growth
we already knew but hey, this is growth
this is probably a good time to remind everyone I made a living for years trekking around muddy farms & constantly jumping hotels, had to fit weeks' worth of clothes in a carry-on so they couldn't get lost in the airport, and you still had to look professional at all times
if I were a foodie this is when I'd yell about how y'all are spoiled & take clean clothes for granted
but instead of trying to make my laundry fetish universal, I'm using it as a teaching moment about how some people are absurdly attached to certain routine household chores
but instead of trying to make my laundry fetish universal, I'm using it as a teaching moment about how some people are absurdly attached to certain routine household chores
me: imagine being that attached to laundry
them: THAT'S LUDICROUS
me: yes
them: THAT'S LUDICROUS
me: yes
in response to the replies YES I am writing this book, right now, for real
no idea yet what the title will be or when it'll be done, other than "aiming for post-2020 election release probably"
no idea yet what the title will be or when it'll be done, other than "aiming for post-2020 election release probably"
kinda want to make a parody chapter where I talk about doing laundry the same way foodies talk about cooking but idk if the publisher would go for that
love to boil giant kettles of water and washboard my one change of clothes in homemade caustic soap, then wring it through the mangle and hang it to dry & pick up soot & pigeon poop from the horribly polluted air outside my Hell's Kitchen tenement JUST LIKE GREAT-GRANDMA USED TO
and now for something completely different
If you're a Uighur in China, "family farming" means the government farms your family for organs & calls the farm a school
If you're a Uighur in China, "family farming" means the government farms your family for organs & calls the farm a school
If you'd like to know more about the international black market organ trade, which is totally a thing, the wikipedia article's a pretty good place to start.
Had been hearing bits & pieces that didn't quite add up. This China news actually explains a lot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_tra…
Had been hearing bits & pieces that didn't quite add up. This China news actually explains a lot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_tra…
like. I wish I could be shocked about this, but harvesting people for their organs is kind of the logical endpoint for technologically advanced societies with flimsy human rights protections
so
so
Update: have met the organizers (at least the site runners), they seem well-meaning, took the critique well, & are super super young.
This leaves even more questions about how this conference was organized. That's not about the site staff, who are doing great work.
This leaves even more questions about how this conference was organized. That's not about the site staff, who are doing great work.
I had planned to stay the whole two days but will be heading home this afternoon.
Back to Fayetteville's delicious, delicious GenX water
Back to Fayetteville's delicious, delicious GenX water
I've got way better things to do than golf-clap for billionaire spox whose big world-changing idea is I should be at peace with drinking Europe's hazardous waste because that's somehow "populist."
This article is so important if you're interested in figuring out & doing something about religious power politics. h/t @C_Stroop.
cstroop.com/2017/06/07/whe…
cstroop.com/2017/06/07/whe…
"[T]he Democratic Party should give up on “faith outreach” (read: pandering to conservative Christians). This strategy has resulted in no tangible gains and indeed accomplishes nothing except to put abortion rights at risk of even further erosion."
"Please, DNC, just stop trying to reach white Evangelicals. Seriously, stop it; you’re embarrassing yourself. The small percentage of those white Evangelicals you can reach are voting for Democrats already."
I tell y'all there's nothing like a conference with a panel on "should we just let ecofascists run the show on climate change? they have so much ENERGY"
that's all-white 🙃
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that's all-white 🙃
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European ecofascists are making a lot of noise about how the earth needs tightly sealed borders, behind which are well-maintained white people, to survive.
That's SUPER FUNNY, because my hometown is a dumping ground for Dutch toxic waste.
pfasproject.com/2019/02/01/che…
That's SUPER FUNNY, because my hometown is a dumping ground for Dutch toxic waste.
pfasproject.com/2019/02/01/che…
European econationalists' perfect clean white utopia is built on poisoning the rest of the world.
I've personally been exposed to a lot of PFAS because of it.
So, yeah. They can all go choke on a bag of limp white dicks.
I've personally been exposed to a lot of PFAS because of it.
So, yeah. They can all go choke on a bag of limp white dicks.
OK SO
1) Yes I think it's alarming that 25%ish of folks claim to not know that cows have to have been pregnant & given birth to give milk
2) but not for "kids these days don't know farming" reasons
3) it's alarming for basic sex ed reasons
1) Yes I think it's alarming that 25%ish of folks claim to not know that cows have to have been pregnant & given birth to give milk
2) but not for "kids these days don't know farming" reasons
3) it's alarming for basic sex ed reasons
It's really popular in the agricultural community to whine & complain about how people don't know where their food comes from.
I break with the community on that, because I think it's ridiculous to expect people to be super savvy about jobs they don't do.
I break with the community on that, because I think it's ridiculous to expect people to be super savvy about jobs they don't do.
For a good time, ask a farmer where their labor comes from. THEY HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
I think ... that's a lot worse than non-farmers not knowing their way around a cow.
I think ... that's a lot worse than non-farmers not knowing their way around a cow.
the Wolverine claws are because
1) he's a lover not a fighter
2) he really likes to do that milk tread thing
3) but with his claws out, bc cat
this ... is the "yay here come the pets" response
1) he's a lover not a fighter
2) he really likes to do that milk tread thing
3) but with his claws out, bc cat
this ... is the "yay here come the pets" response
he really REALLY likes to sit on you & slowly knead your neck with the claws out while purring loudly
his previous owner, a sociologist, said "he loves without empathy" and I think about that a lot
his previous owner, a sociologist, said "he loves without empathy" and I think about that a lot
he wants more pets
I said "bruh you got retweeted by @SwiftOnSecurity, is that not enough for you"
but he is a cat and cares not for worldly acclamation
I said "bruh you got retweeted by @SwiftOnSecurity, is that not enough for you"
but he is a cat and cares not for worldly acclamation
There's lots of interesting stuff in here, but the thing that's the most fun to me is that the guy doing this fake crop science
came from a family that has a 2,000-acre ranch in Kansas.
I've said it for years: landlord bullshit & tech bullshit are just not that different.
came from a family that has a 2,000-acre ranch in Kansas.
I've said it for years: landlord bullshit & tech bullshit are just not that different.
who better to build technofeudalism than the feudalists amirite
"There was only one place Harper wanted to go to architecture school: MIT. He applied & was rejected, but that did not deter him. He went to see the dean of MIT’s architecture program with his acceptance letters from other schools and asked her to reconsider."
#1, WHO DOES THAT
#1, WHO DOES THAT
Great new article from @JessTiaFu on student loan debt forgiveness for farmers, and why it's a mistake.
(hint: student debt's bad for EVERYONE, not just farmers, and special carve-outs for farmers are a time-tested way to get the landowning class to ignore very real problems.)
(hint: student debt's bad for EVERYONE, not just farmers, and special carve-outs for farmers are a time-tested way to get the landowning class to ignore very real problems.)
featuring salty quotes from YOURS TRULY
Article is here: newfoodeconomy.org/young-farmer-s…
Question: did anybody else do dinner groups in college or was that … a BYU thing
At the beginning of every semester we'd just go around the apt complex looking for 9 other people to do a dinner group with, everyone took a weeknight on a 2-week rotation
At the beginning of every semester we'd just go around the apt complex looking for 9 other people to do a dinner group with, everyone took a weeknight on a 2-week rotation
Yes this was absolutely covert dating behavior but even if you didn't get to make out, you still got food, it's a 100% win
The ONLY bad thing about marrying @RobTaber was nobody wants married people in their dinner group
good-bye, only having to cook twice a month
good-bye, only having to cook twice a month
Ok kiddos let's do this. Time to talk about my pretty-minimal-but-still-REALLY-WEIRD brushes with the MIT Media Lab.
Two things happened.
One, I applied for a job there about 2 years ago.
Second, around that time I went to the Atlantic Ag Tech panel, featuring some MIT Media Lab folks.
One, I applied for a job there about 2 years ago.
Second, around that time I went to the Atlantic Ag Tech panel, featuring some MIT Media Lab folks.
Around two years ago the MIT Media Lab announced a job posting. It was a WILD AND CRAZY job posting because they're a WILD AND CRAZY lab!
The lead-up to the #FayTrump rally was chaotic.
First it was going to be in a hangar at the airport. Then, apparently, that space was too big. So they moved it to what we thought was the Crown Coliseum.
Then it turned out to be one of the smaller rooms at the Crown complex.
First it was going to be in a hangar at the airport. Then, apparently, that space was too big. So they moved it to what we thought was the Crown Coliseum.
Then it turned out to be one of the smaller rooms at the Crown complex.
For the record, the 2016 Trump rally in Fayetteville was in a pretty full Coliseum.
But this time they sent the whole crew down here- Trump, VP, the RNC chair, and WH chief of staff TO A GERRYMANDERED DISTRICT THEY WON HANDS-DOWN IN 2016
& couldn't get close to 2016 numbers.
But this time they sent the whole crew down here- Trump, VP, the RNC chair, and WH chief of staff TO A GERRYMANDERED DISTRICT THEY WON HANDS-DOWN IN 2016
& couldn't get close to 2016 numbers.
They need the event pics to have a nice plump standing-room-only look. But they had to switch to a series of smaller spaces to get it. The setup to this rally here on the ground was so chaotic bc the venue kept changing.
The replies to this are fascinating. She's not wrong- land/farms/ranches are a defensive investment to conserve money you already have. Stocks are an *aggressive* investment to grow $ (in the long term obvs).
She's absolutely right- the way to actually *make* money in the food business is do value-added processing (meat processing, milling, brewing, etc).
And if you can't DIY that, you can buy a piece of the companies that do & make a proportional return.
And if you can't DIY that, you can buy a piece of the companies that do & make a proportional return.
And yet look at the angry replies from folks in the ag industry insisting she's wrong. The amount of extremely confident business illiteracy is ... really something.
This whole article is majestic. Fuck the entire nonprofit-industrial complex.
"Those of us who do want a better world often find our efforts stymied by projects claiming to be progressive. The single most important legacy of the War on Poverty is the creation of a massive nonprofit industry in poor, rural areas like Appalachia."
They tell us … to be nice to our politicians and oligarchs so that they’ll give us nice things in return, to work out and eat right so we might deserve those nice things. Meanwhile, infrastructure continues to crumble and working people struggle to put food on the table."
URGENT: anyone in North Carolina who can canvass over the weekend, please hit me up in the replies!
We have a PERFECT STORM of need for canvassers ASAP. #ncpol #nc09
We have a PERFECT STORM of need for canvassers ASAP. #ncpol #nc09
Thanks to Dorian we have emergency voting hours tomorrow. It's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to have maximum canvassing coverage during the time! For reasons I'll explain in this thread
1. NC lets you do one-stop voting (can register & vote at the same time) during early vote, but NOT on election day.
AKA for students, new move-ins, & others who aren't already registered, it's too late to vote on election day already. But they CAN do early voting.
AKA for students, new move-ins, & others who aren't already registered, it's too late to vote on election day already. But they CAN do early voting.
Yes! There used to be a genre of farm equipment where instead of hooking plows/planters/etc to a tractor & driving it across a field, you hooked it to a cable & winch and dragged it across the field that way.
The main way I'd run into it was with, basically, locomotive engines (h/t @PatrickHerd). This was really popular for a while in clayey areas like England, NZ, & the Netherlands bc it didn't pack down the soil like early steam tractors did.
YouTube has also blessed us with people doing it with small motor winches & a walking plow
Hey everyone! The Provosts' farm is moving forward- this summer they had some legal breakthroughs, got accepted to a local business accelerator in New Orleans, and were featured in the #1619 project!
The business accelerator is a big deal, as it'll let them rebuild their farm independent from the cane mills and banks that have been using shady maneuvers to shut down their farm & claim their land.
They've hit the original fundraising goal, and are in a stretch goal to fund the next steps of converting their business to an independent model.
anyway now that I've tweeted about the limitations of ~sustainable commerce~ in the face of climate change
here's some stuff about sourcing rainforest-friendly coffee from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, & Amazon basin in general
IT'S HARD bc the supply chains aren't too well developed.
here's some stuff about sourcing rainforest-friendly coffee from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, & Amazon basin in general
IT'S HARD bc the supply chains aren't too well developed.
According to the @RnfrstAlliance, about 1/3 of the world's Rainforest Alliance certified coffee comes from Brazil
but good luck actually trying to buy it?
but good luck actually trying to buy it?
Coffee is mostly bought & sold as a bulk commodity, and branded at the roaster/retailer level rather than by its origin.
Specialty coffees that ARE marketed by origin, still don't seem to use rainforest-friendly certifications much in that marketing.
Specialty coffees that ARE marketed by origin, still don't seem to use rainforest-friendly certifications much in that marketing.
I'd add for those not familiar with ag, that the farmers/ranchers vs processors, "us vs them" narrative
often gives the impression that the farmers/ranchers are innocent.
This is misleading, & that misdirection is much of the point of the "farmers vs processors" narrative.
often gives the impression that the farmers/ranchers are innocent.
This is misleading, & that misdirection is much of the point of the "farmers vs processors" narrative.
The antagonism between processors and farmers/ranchers isn't a "good vs bad" conflict.
It's just an "extraction by capitalism vs extraction by good old-fashioned feudalism" conflict.
It's just an "extraction by capitalism vs extraction by good old-fashioned feudalism" conflict.
During the land-rush phase of both Brazil & the US's colonization, a whole bunch of families grabbed a lot of land and set to work monetizing it through ag and ranching. Yep, even the good ol' days had lots of absentee landowners.
*Especially* the good ol' days.
*Especially* the good ol' days.
