Permacultureandpolitics

Sigh... I have probably should not have purposely chosen small servers when I migrated here. Beekeeping.ninja is closing - no fault of theirs - due to time and money constraints. (The prior server apparently had some kind of meltdown over moderation.) So I am moving again. I think I'm going to ohai.social, which is a bigger and hopefully stable, server. #mastodonmigration

2024-11-26 22:44:33 UTC

A short on the decline of a major starch and wood crop in the last century, and how quickly we forget. Also, we can grow it again:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/chestnuts-roasting-while-the-worlds?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1783367&post_id=152198026&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=80a45&triedRedirect=true

2024-11-25 04:41:41 UTC

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ver quick learner. One toy at a time.

2024-11-25 04:41:17 UTC

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for example, I would give him an octopus and call it that over and over while playing. If there were two toys with similar names I would pick a new name for one, so if he had a dog first, his hog would have to be a pig. It took some discipline on my part, too… I couldn’t just start calling the pig piggy.

2024-11-25 03:29:01 UTC

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mom thought maybe he’d catch clues from my eyes,so then I would studiously avoid looking anywhere near it,or facing it, or even looking like I was watching him hunt.

2024-11-25 03:27:30 UTC

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my smartest dog was a standard poodle. I bought dozens of dog toys, children’s dolls and stuffed animals. I taught him their names. I’d close him up in Mom’s bedroom (before she moved in with me) and hide whatever it was anywhere in the house, including upstairs, in the shower, etc., or I’d leave a door cracked to outside and he’d look there, too. He’d run around sniffing wildly and would bark and spin when he found it. I wish I had a video. He was amazing.

2024-11-24 04:31:53 UTC

Today when I was designing my next portable chicken pens, which will be narrower and lighter than the current one, I wanted to calculate the height of the roof triangle. I asked my computer the central height of a triangle with 5’ sides and AI said ONE FOOT! 🤪

2024-11-24 04:11:02 UTC

I know this game is over, but couldn’t resist:
A hungry boy named Elliot
Whose tale I’m compelled to telliot
All of the food
So very rude
Elliot had to smelliot.
#limerickaconfession
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/535/965/403/781/293/original/5280060af0cf1cc1.png

2024-11-21 13:59:16 UTC

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a man who in every painting I have seen, was wearing what could arguably be called a dress.

2024-11-21 03:56:50 UTC

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wish I could read the names!

2024-11-19 04:59:54 UTC

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the photo shows a woman smelling basil or mint, which have medicinal qualities. So do rosemary, lavender, and various pine/spruce/cedar terpenes. They all have mucus-thinning and antiviral properties. My grandparents knew to put strong smelling stuff in a bowl of hot water, place a towel over their heads, and lean over to breathe in as long as possible. Good medicine.

2024-11-19 03:59:37 UTC

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thanks for linking Seth Abramson’s thread in this.

2024-11-19 03:50:31 UTC

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he is often rude to her on the show, interrupting her (and sometimes others) while he blabs on and on…

2024-11-18 19:37:07 UTC

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is he the Leppard who eats faces? 😂

2024-11-17 21:59:08 UTC

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Yesterday afternoon I hand dug out the creeks/ponds a bit more to help with both water retention and movement. The clay was very wet and stuck to the shovel, and I was forced to either lift up or bend down while digging. My back is still sore today but I'm glad I did it. 5" of rain expected by Saturday night.
By Thursday or Friday I expect to see creeks overflowing onto the roads.
#permaculture #floods

2024-11-17 21:55:07 UTC

When I moved the chickens' portable pen this morning I had the distinct feeling I was being watched. I looked around. To my left there was a black male feral cat sitting watching me in the wet grass. Behind me there was a calico male standing on what was supposed to be a duck house. To the right the buck goat was sticking his tongue out at me through the fence. It was raining, so no camera/phone in my pocket.
#animals #permaculture

2024-11-17 17:30:49 UTC

Rolling Stone: "In October 2023, then-Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Ok.) accused Gaetz of bragging about sleeping with young women on the floor of the House of Representatives.
“We had all seen videos … of the girls that he had slept with,” Mullin told CNN last year. “He’d crush ED [erectile dysfunction] medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night.” (On Wednesday, now-Sen. Mullin said he “completely” trusts Trump’s decision to nominate Gaetz.)

2024-11-17 16:34:15 UTC

Heather Cox Richardson: Republicans established Federal funding for education in 1953 after Russia beat us to space, concerned that our students weren't learning enough. Ever since Reagan campaigned on defunding education, Republicans have been working to make our students stupid so citizens will agree with them that our education department is incompetent. Why? Because Republicans want federal funding to support all white, all Christian schools.

2024-11-17 16:08:06 UTC

Department of Government Efficiency, eh? A long way of saying we will save money if we don't pay anyone what they were promised. 3 lawsuits against Muskrat:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-lawsuits-america-pac_n_67351000e4b0958bad3dffd3?9p=&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2024-11-15 03:33:25 UTC

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misplaced tribalism, which (like religion) is almost predetermined by family and location of birth.

2024-11-07 04:01:12 UTC

I am DONE with big corporations that fund right wing politicians. I always said I was done before, but still sometimes shopped at Amazon, Home Depot, LL Bean, and a few others. I think I need to look up Kroger because they own almost all the groceries and bought Vitacost, too. I know these corporations won’t miss me, but I am angry enough to completely pull the plug now.

2024-11-07 03:28:22 UTC

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my sentiments almost exactly.

2024-10-27 14:24:09 UTC

Politicus USA reports of MAGAs arrested after threatening election workers and officials:
Teak Brockbank of CO, who threatened death to multiple people, including a judge, and who possessed illegal firearms; Brian Jerry Ogstad of AL, who sent violent direct messages to Phoenix election staff; Richard Glenn Kantwill of FL, who sent well over 100 threats to election workers, some while pending charges for previous threats; John Pollard of PA, who threatened to skin an election worker. #FAFO

2024-10-24 02:56:10 UTC

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make a lot of pumpkin bread and freeze it. Make pumpkin curry. Parcook a lot and then scoop out seeds, cut off the skin, and cut into chunks to freeze. Keep some in an unhedged garage or covered front porch for a couple months if it’s cool enough. Enjoy!

2024-10-24 02:53:46 UTC

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all of those are delicious!

2024-10-20 01:51:16 UTC

Did you know you can grow a perfectly fine apple from seed? A lot of people say you can't, and it's true that if you grew it *entirely* as a seedling, you'd wait a long time to find out if you liked it or not. But you can take a parent apple you like and plant the core, then graft seedlings onto an existing tree. Here's a guy who had fun with the name of an apple he grew from seed - and likes. #orchard #permaculture
https://skillcult.com/biteme

2024-10-09 02:27:37 UTC

Looking up rock on my property ,using:
https://www.oregon.gov/dogami/geologicmap/Pages/index.aspx#:~:text=From%20columnar%20basalts%20along%20the%20Columbia%20River%20to%20the