CedarTea

Lefty critter living in a windy rural Ontario town on the shores of Lake Huron. Settler on Treaty 45-1/2 lands. Love to talk labour and ecology. Hell yeah punk DIY culture.

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2026-02-10 21:49:34 UTC

I'm occasionally accused of trying to convert people to anarchism, but really what I want most of all is for people to plant native plants and listen to Willi Carlisle. That's the better world that I believe is possible.

2026-01-27 17:49:05 UTC

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"The greatest conjuring trick in the world no longer enchants us.
We are certain that communities of joy will emerge from our struggle here and now.
And for the first time life will triumph over death."
-Bonanno, Armed Joy

2026-01-27 14:56:41 UTC

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Also, people talk about all the infighting and cat-herding behaviour on the left in the context of it being this huge impediment to movement. But it's also a strength in that you can't control it top-down like you can with liberal or right wing groups. You don't have to pacify 10 leaders, you have to pacify 10 million people. There's no "marching orders".
It was something that was learned in the fallout of the New Left era and COINTELPRO and I think it's often overlooked.

2026-01-27 03:07:08 UTC

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Based on past patterns, they're hoping that people are going to take a partial victory. They'll wait it out long enough to demobilize resistance and then unleash them again.

2026-01-26 19:02:58 UTC

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I believe this particular murderer was a CBP agent, who has presumably spent the better part of a decade killing migrants at the southern border under bipartisan consensus

2026-01-26 17:10:33 UTC

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Surely this individual Cartesian actors would pursue their rational self interest, and over time, arrive at TRUTH. Praise be the new god!
But of course, it all breaks down for similar reasons. People actually aren't that, and trying to derive human behaviour from Newtonian mechanics is a very silly thing to do. You aren't really a rational mind-soul existing atemporally floating in a Cartesian vacuum of free space, and neither is your neighbour.
Act like a damn human, you are one.

2026-01-26 17:05:34 UTC

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They stretched these understandings out into the social sphere. Markets are not just a chosen way to distribute labour and material goods, they are a fundamental fabric guided by immutable scientific laws. A scientific god with invisible hands guides these markets toward TRUTH and harmonious functioning. This idealism was true of speech as well, of course. The invisible hand of the marketplace of ideas, guiding it toward an optimal outcome and the TRUE IDEAS.

2026-01-26 17:00:44 UTC

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The liberal tradition around the marketplace of ideas has common origins to their ideas around markets in general. The founding philosophies came about as these Europeans were eschewing the bible and the crown as the source of truth in the world. This was contemporary to the enlightenment scientific revolution. They were very excited about the unveiling of the universe through Newtonian mechanics, etc., as new frontiers to replace god and the king.

2026-01-26 16:52:17 UTC

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"Psssst hey kid, you wanna buy some opinions on the tax code?"

2026-01-26 16:51:17 UTC

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"I'll trade you one well thought out policy about sanitation system upgrades for six fleeting notions about the moon landing"

2026-01-26 16:27:23 UTC

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"But I lowered the price and took out a full page ad! Why are you not being a rational actor and purchasing my clearly more efficient idea product?"

2026-01-26 15:47:40 UTC

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We don't exist in a marketplace of ideas. We exist in communities of people who have ideas. Those are fundamentally different things.

2026-01-26 15:39:29 UTC

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Deradicalization is possible but difficult. It requires way more work than slinging around slogans. You will get precisely zero dopamine hits from it. If you ever feel a dopamine hit, you're not doing deradicalization - you're playing out your Sorkin fetish in public.

2026-01-26 15:30:41 UTC

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If you actually care about convincing any of those people about anything, it needs to be human conversations with someone who you're actually connected to. Not sure why you'd ever think this grandstanding west wing garbage would be effective at that, as though they'd never heard of liberalism before. Touch grass.

2026-01-26 15:26:24 UTC

Does anyone think that these open letters "Republicans, this should blah blah blah" actually work? Have you ever spoken to a human?
They seem more like they're targeted at liberals, trying to keep them in the political framing of the "marketplace of ideas" and outside the world of material action.

2026-01-25 00:49:49 UTC

If any Americans need cold weather advice, hit me up in this thread. I've spent a lot of time out in the bush at -40 and am happy to share whatever I got.
But I'm also so deeply hoser-fied that I have no idea what peoples' knowledge gaps are, so yous are gonna have to prompt me.

2026-01-22 16:49:03 UTC

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There's a good bit in the bread book where he talks about how the Paris Commune failed because the so-called revolutionaries were making grand speeches on liberty while the people holding the barricades went unfed. The grand revolutionaries were notably all men and they neglected the care work necessary to actually sustain their movement. Feeding people was just an invisible thing that happened, not a thing "they" were supposed to do. Not "revolutionary".

2026-01-21 01:25:51 UTC

Fascism wasn't stopped with Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches" speech. It was stopped by fighting them on the beaches. We're not getting out of this with words and not without paying a high cost. That hasn't sunk in for most people yet.

2026-01-16 00:05:38 UTC

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The first tanks to liberate Paris from the fascists were Spanish anarchist regfugees whose homes were under fascist occupation. As you say, free people can free people.

2026-01-15 20:56:57 UTC

This myth is still floating around, so I'm gonna reiterate please don't use milk on your eyes for teargas or pepper spray. There's a reason we put clean water in industrial eyewash stations. We do not specify milk. Stop.

2026-01-13 19:47:15 UTC

Notable that all of the very serious talking heads who think Canada shouldn't trade with China because they use forced labour don't think that Canada should stop trading with the US because they use forced labour

2026-01-04 22:53:17 UTC

I'll never forget the american coworker here who, when I described Canadian labour laws to him a few years ago, replied "yeah but it's an american company so it follows american laws".
The idea of going into another country to snatch someone up and try them in a yankee court for yankee crimes doesn't phase these people. America is eternal and omnipresent, the subject in a globe of objects, and the rest of the world is to be viewed from that lens.

2025-10-23 16:36:30 UTC

What the Louvre thieves have demonstrated for everyone is that you are unstoppable with a hi-vis vest and a calm sense of confidence. You can do basically whatever the fuck you want.
This tactic has been known for a while, but has been severely underutilized.

2025-10-19 16:28:31 UTC

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Again, I think the potential for misunderstanding is way too high and just invites endless word games trying to define democracy.
I go more along the lines of liberal democracy was an insufficient reform of feudalism because it simply replaced hereditary lords with elected ones. We instead need to go beyond democratic states and root power in communities of free people.
Makes it more clear where we stand, instead of sharing rhetorical space with yarvin.
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2025-10-19 15:42:32 UTC

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Yeah it's not my preferred rhetoric. I prefer something along the lines of (give or take):
Rights are simply someone writing down what freedoms you've won. Our goal is to extend those freedoms so far that it won't matter what anyone writes down.
Basically piggybacking on what's good about them and moving them into a better framing. Stays clear of the risk of parroting reactionary rhetoric. Works for democracy, social programs, etc. too, imo.

2025-10-19 15:15:41 UTC

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Yeah I agree and I also try not to get toooo tied up in the definitions. I think the thrust of his argument is clear.
And in this case, the assertion is posed against the liberal rights definition so it probably makes some sense to use their terminology anyways.

2025-10-19 14:02:02 UTC

"Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution."
-Rudolph Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice, 1938

2025-10-16 23:18:21 UTC

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The reason I'm bringing this up is to tell you not to go to bat for John Bolton. Even if that fight is won, you've just expended all your energy and all you've got is John Bolton.
There are so many people behind bars from 2020. There are more people behind bars every day. We need to actually build movement solidarity and movement defense, not just perform - and worse, put in work on behalf of people who'd have you in prison.

2025-10-16 23:15:22 UTC

Groups like the ACLU and other institutions that structure themselves as liberal rights-based NGOs tend to spend their time pursuing the most extreme end of whatever so-called principle they're fighting for. So they do things like defend nazis to prove that even the most *extreme* deserve freedom of speech. Meanwhile, they neglect genuine political prisoners languishing behind bars. They opt for performance of an ideal, rather than actually materially advancing that ideal.

2025-10-14 21:02:56 UTC

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In my experience, a big part of this is that nationalism causes people to identify with the state. Since they view the state as an extension of themselves, a criticism of the actions of the state is also a criticism of them.
They're also concerned that a challenge to the settler-colonial status quo may revoke various wealth, stability, privileges, etc. Land back is scary for someone with land. People also quickly catastrophize and reach for retributive genocidal narratives.

2025-10-05 19:18:47 UTC

I let my tomatillo plants get too bushy, which made me dread pruning and harvesting them. I'm finally hacking them back today so I can retrieve my soaker hose, and of course there's a fuckin billion tomatillos in here lmao. Not only on the plants, but also dropped all over the bed. Some rotting, some nibbled on, some beautiful.
Anyways, here's what I harvested off of just one plant. A lot of salsa verde in my future.
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2025-10-02 13:09:09 UTC

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This is at the heart of why it feels like "we can't build anything anymore". All of the resources have been pulled from the doers to managers, auditors, financiers. All of the attention is paid to tracking KPIs and box-checking compliance instead of actual labour.
A man like Carney has never "done" anything in his life. His entire worldview is as a manager. He doesn't know the first thing about actually doing anything, and likely never will.

2025-10-02 13:03:09 UTC

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Neoliberals and the private sector both wrap themselves in the aesthetic of "efficiency" and "cutting red tape", but really all they do is cut funding and gum shit up. They fucking looooove red tape. 10 more forms and 3 more auditors to scrutinize the spending please. Oh, that didn't work? Better create another agency of auditors to audit the auditing agency. Oh, that didn't work? How about another?

2025-10-02 13:00:35 UTC

Carney's governing style so far seems to basically consist of creating new government agencies to duplicate bureaucratic functions. I suppose it should come as no surprise that a neoliberal who spent his whole life in finance and government would fail open into this mode.

2025-09-11 17:42:52 UTC

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Has nobody in the US told these yankee petite bourgeoisie that we're hurting their businesses on purpose?

2025-09-11 17:27:35 UTC

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There's other ways too of course, but those probably take longer

2025-09-11 17:26:47 UTC

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The quickest way for blue states to get Canadians to visit again is for them to secede from the union.
Yes I am including the time it would take to resolve a protracted civil war and then rebuild.

2025-09-11 17:06:42 UTC

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It's funny too, that most of these people probably regularly refer to their current government as fascist.
Would they have travelled to the "welcoming parts" of Germany in 1937?
Do they not believe what they're saying, or are they just incapable of basic reasoning?

2025-09-11 17:01:47 UTC

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People here are not complaining about "hurt feelings" or the finer points of free trade deals. We're grappling with the idea of being killed by american soldiers or sent to a death camp. There's no amount of liberal apologies, "Canadians welcome" signs, or free parking that are going to change that. If these people are so concerned about Canadian visitors, they need to pull their heads out of the sand and fix the fucking problem.
Did it ever occur to anyone to actually go to Canada to ask?

2025-09-11 16:57:02 UTC

Look I'm sure these people are nice enough, but are they just totally oblivious? Or is this a weird selective sample by Klepper?
This is not a question of value for money where you're gonna lure Canucks across the border. The few Canadians they found down there to interview couldn't articulate the issue because the *type* of Canadian who's gonna border hop for a beer festival are, frankly, naive shitheads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEF_ya1tLfU

2025-09-10 21:55:56 UTC

I think everyone needs a reminder that fascists don't need "an excuse" to do fascist violence. Fascists do fascist violence when given opportunity, not when given pretext.
This is not some "start" to political violence. The fascists are already doing fascist violence, and have been for quite some time.
They will likely claim it as their reason for new violence, yes, but you shouldn't take fascists at their word. That would be a gravely dangerous misunderstanding of fascist behaviour.

2025-08-30 01:25:51 UTC

Capitalism brought us such innovations as setting up a second line next to the normal line at the amusement park where you can pay more money to go sooner. The ride still has the same throughput, it just lets you go sooner if you pay more.
Prioritizing the people who pay for the pass causes people in the normal line to go slower. They're not unaffected by others getting to go quicker, since the ride capacity is unchanged.
This post is actually about healthcare and housing.

2025-08-29 21:50:18 UTC

People who say that without markets we'll have rationing are hiding the fact that markets are a form of rationing

2025-08-23 17:07:00 UTC

There was a butterfly milkweed at the local nursery and it had a little baby monarch caterpillar on it so obviously I had to bring it home

2025-08-23 15:01:29 UTC

Look at this cute lil snake in the grass! :blobcataww:
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2025-08-22 22:22:17 UTC

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"I'm gonna change the system from the inside!"
*is changed by the system while inside*
:pikasurprise:

2025-08-22 18:54:13 UTC

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It makes me sad to think about how many of us have been stolen by these power structures. Young, idealistic, good people. They want to help, they grab the ring of power, and they become everything they were fighting against.

2025-08-22 18:50:45 UTC

People in my community tell me to run for council pretty often. Every time, I tell them that if I become their councilor then I won't be me anymore.
It's an error of hubris to look at an institution and say "It would be better if I was in charge" instead of "I would be worse if I was in charge".

2025-08-22 15:54:54 UTC

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When you'll do anything for a dollar, you'll do most things for a fascist dime

2025-08-22 15:53:55 UTC

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The past decade has been the longest most pathetic parade of liberal clowns entertaining fascists, and the clowns have found their Carney

2025-08-22 15:50:31 UTC

You put your elbows up
You put your elbows down
You put your elbows up
And you shake em like a 🤡
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-removing-retaliatory-tariffs-1.7614909

2025-08-22 14:12:06 UTC

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When I first saw this notification, I thought it was about the slug lmao

2025-08-22 12:43:12 UTC

A hummingbird was just flying 30 cm from my face and it looked at me for a bit!

2025-08-20 00:42:57 UTC

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I roll it in oil, sprinkle with flaky salt and fresh pepper, and crisp up under the broiler. Much less bitter.

2025-08-20 00:39:20 UTC

Good garden haul so I'm just gonna eat a fuckload of green things for supper. I am become rabbit.
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2025-08-19 14:01:01 UTC

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We men simply burn our hands when we cook tasty cinnamon buns

2025-08-18 17:42:40 UTC

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Based based based :ablobcatbongo:

2025-08-18 17:39:26 UTC

Defend Mark Hancock
Make King Carney tuck tail
Canada cannot be free with an oppressed working class
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-canada-strike-illegal-1.7611447

2025-08-17 14:39:52 UTC

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It's going to remain especially tough until the lib/NDP swing "progressives" get tired of their new toy and take off their rose coloured glasses. So many people still giving him the benefit of the doubt for absolutely no reason.

2025-08-17 14:36:28 UTC

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The state is not on our side, so why would I want it to be run competently? And workaholic types are the worst because they always act like the rest of us are supposed to feel the same.

2025-08-17 14:22:25 UTC

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One of these days, labour is gonna need to show some backbone and shoot our shot. Every one of these fights we lose by following the law, the harder that shot is gonna be.
The laws are not written for us, they're written to control us. And King Carney is all too fucking happy to use them.

2025-08-17 14:10:09 UTC

CUPE once again getting their rights to strike suspended by the government and Unifor once again signalling the government that they are ready to fuck up their shit.
Where is the line for all the NDP supporters who jumped to Carney? Is this what you voted for?

2025-08-15 15:02:47 UTC

Imagine coming unsolicited into my mentions to tell me how scary homeless people are and that's why you never leave the house unarmed. Buddy, do you know where in the fuck you are? Byeeeeee

2025-08-14 13:41:52 UTC

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They tell you that homeless people are a threat to you because of crime, drugs, blah blah blah.
Homeless people are a threat to you because your acquiescence to their continued deprivation gives your boss and your landlord social license to fuck you. They maintain this status quo because they want to live off your labour.

2025-08-14 13:35:45 UTC

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That so-called unproductive members of society will be forcibly deprived of housing is one of the sticks that they use to beat you into producing for them. Yankees will recognize this as the same reason why their healthcare is tied to their employment.

2025-08-14 12:27:36 UTC

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Is it because they've heard it so many times since childhood? Because the person saying it has an affect of respectability?

2025-08-14 12:26:05 UTC

It's amazing how many people will hear a statement like "obviously we can't house EVERYONE" and just shrug and go along with it as though it makes any kind of sense

2025-08-12 22:47:40 UTC

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Thanks, yeah everyone's safe which is what matters. Pissed though.

2025-08-12 22:43:47 UTC

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Anyone from the oil patch wanna make the pitch to me why my family's home should burn for their job?

2025-08-12 22:35:38 UTC

My family live in a place where the normal seasons are rain, snow, rain with fog, and rain again but different. They're all evacuating from wildfires right now.
And yet certain fuckers wanna sell us the idea that more pipelines are just common sense and we shouldn't politicize it.

2025-08-08 13:25:17 UTC

A hickory tussock moth caterpillar dropped into my hair from one of the walnut trees. What a fuzzy little cutie :blobcataww: Can't reach the walnut canopy so I left the lil fuzzball on a stump sprouting ash that's now taken on a sort of bush form. Lots to munch!

2025-08-07 17:24:00 UTC

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:blobcataww:

2025-07-29 00:27:24 UTC

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Yeah the swallowtail caterpillars will host on them too!
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2025-07-28 23:27:14 UTC

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Bush honeysuckle and columbine are good adds as well for hummingbirds 🙂

2025-07-28 21:18:42 UTC

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Probably a bunch, at least for as long as it's blooming. Good reason to have something else they wanna eat to extend their visits 🙂

2025-07-28 21:16:13 UTC

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Yessssss :ablobcatbongo:

2025-07-22 15:33:12 UTC

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They're on my lanceleaf coreopsis doing the same! I made sure to grab some seeds to spread around before the birds got them all lol

2025-07-19 13:12:53 UTC

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Sometimes I think we've overmessaged on milkweed and forgot to say that butterflies need nectar too. But yeah, the adults love liatris! It's good to plant things for the adults nearby the larval hosts 🙂

2025-07-18 17:50:59 UTC

Monarch butterfly! On the liatris spicata!
Snack away lil buddy, I love you ❤️

2025-07-17 15:19:46 UTC

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I had to wrap mine in chicken wire after the rabbits got one lol. And I planted it back by the ravine and the pawpaws where it gets part shade from the walnuts. Seems happy!

2025-07-17 15:12:48 UTC

Michigan lily is finally blooming! :ablobcatbongo:
A good replacement for those invasive daylillies if you like the look
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2025-07-15 16:42:35 UTC

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Damn, where'd they get the soil?

2025-07-15 16:00:28 UTC

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Haha yup! Named that because there's basically no soil there lol

2025-07-08 18:39:31 UTC

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They'll do that! Mine are about 4 feet tall right now and look juuuust about to burst

2025-07-06 21:08:33 UTC

I guess we can add tree of heaven to the list of invasives to deal with out back 😑

2025-07-02 21:16:06 UTC

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Very excited for your Joe Pye!

2025-07-02 20:41:41 UTC

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Mine too! The bees were really busy on the rubus thicket out back a few weeks ago. I saw them on the coreopsis a little bit after the rubus was done flowering, but I'm hoping the liatris gets them back here in numbers again. Need to figure out some good flowers to bridge those so my bumbly buds can hang out all the time.

2025-07-02 20:35:44 UTC

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Liatris brings all the bees to the yard

2025-06-30 00:49:26 UTC

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Can't keep soil free of plants for very long!

2025-06-23 20:14:16 UTC

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For americans, a clematis is a type of vine popular in canada for making cocktails, and includes clam juice

2025-06-23 20:10:37 UTC

Garter snake! In the clematis!

2025-06-23 13:31:31 UTC

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Kinda... it blooms on new growth I think, so it depends where you want the blooms. A lot of people prune it back to a foot or so above where it's attached to whatever it's trellised on. As you've seen, it'll be back to where it was in no time lmao

2025-06-23 13:28:14 UTC

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It'll grow even faster next year when it doesn't need to spend time setting roots!

2025-06-23 13:24:47 UTC

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Once it's established, yeah! Prolific grower. Mine's still establishing so I have to be patient lol

2025-06-23 01:09:10 UTC

She loves me back :apartyblobcat:

2025-06-19 21:00:09 UTC

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You need to get them some friendly neighbours 🙂 Maybe some little bluestem or black eyed susans or something to lean on. Prairie plants are communities, and they like to cuddle up close!

2025-06-18 13:22:46 UTC

Woke up lookin for the broccoli
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2025-06-18 01:42:02 UTC

Did anyone protest the G7 this time? Is it even relevant enough to protest?

2025-06-16 14:31:40 UTC

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A lot of people don't like their kids and wanted to be able to send them back to school so they didn't have to be around them all day. Thus, childhood covid immunity was phantasmically birthed into existence.

2025-06-15 15:05:22 UTC

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Certain that it has. This ridiculous incompetent behaviour is almost universal among fascists globally/historically though. It's a pretty defining trait in the ideology. I definitely wouldn't start counting chickens. It's certainly an opportunity though.
I'm very curious at what level the sabotage is occuring. Is this peer to peer among the rank and file, NCO level, or coming down from somewhere higher up? That answer will affect the terrain significantly.
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