Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.

Turns out my food dehydrator can hold exactly two compact porcini, so the rest (five) are for dinner or in a stockpot for broth.

I know we know the birth rate guys aren’t serious people, but I would like to see the venn diagram of dudes that say the birth rate is a problem because “jobs” and the dudes pushing AI to do all the jobs.

The counter metaphor to “missing the forest for the trees” is “missing the wildflowers for the big grassy patches of meadow”

some climate scientists should do this. “if warming continues at its current rate for 200 years” and describe how different the world would be. thailand might not even be habitable

Blue no matter whoooooo

Fertility rates only matter if you’re a racist or a member of a ponzi scheme!!!

If you think we don't need to look at how COINTELPRO is used as an abusive dynamic that denies agency and causes long lasting outdated gender norms, you are the proverbial rich idiot 🧻

I wish people understood how truly evil McKinsey is and the type of people that work there.

Not sure this is clarifying anything about this confusing disorder, but the name change might help some doctors think about treating the metabolic aspects and not just the reproductive.

80° and hail in one day is a pretty good one

Our branch uses OpenAI we don’t know what happened, there’s no record of you even having money, sorry

I can’t wait for the day AI deletes the money out of my bank account

Torta restaurant Güero posted on Instagram on May 10 about the detention of their cook, Jose “Poni” Gongora Poot, and linked to a GoFundMe raising money to support his family in the legal fight to bring him home.

Did anyone ever suggest Peter Bjorn and John for the most Millennial shit ever game? Because Young Folks was ubiquitous from pretentious coffee shop to gay bar and everything in between.

Thank god there’s a lot of recession friendly Italian food.

Fuuuuuuck this dipshit, stay outta Oregon.

I have a bunch of European spam emails subscribing to my old farm newsletter on Mailchimp, what gives?

Why are there a dozen challenges to Kotek and none of them have any kind of meaningful experience

Where do Oregon gubernatorial candidates stand on housing and homelessness? Read 13 candidates' responses to Street Roots elections questionnaire. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH IS IMPERATIVE

Yupppp

i saw a tiktok about how doing ecoterrorism in childhood is a sign of bisexual valor theft and i can't stop thinking about it

Hauntavirus is mostly spread by dried up rodent droppings. Unless it’s a wacky mutation, I doubt this is our next pandemic.

Since the fertilizer and farm bankruptcies freak out is making the rounds again can I direct people to read Ag writer Sarah Mock’s substack, one of the few newsletters I look forward to getting: sarahmock.substack.com/p/the-46-inc...

This is largely true, but I will say there is a “supplement” that I take that was being researched for it’s therapeutic uses and supposedly it couldn’t be patented as a pharmaceutical “drug” because it’s a natural substance. It has helped where my doctors refused me a beneficial prescription.

Yeah, I think this is the reading that makes the most sense.

Whenever we start talking about Dem messaging I think about how the Vancouver BC law courts have this really cool ADA stair/ramp design, that was also apparently designed with the intent to break up the ability for protesters to gather.

Fire season and morel season overlapping is bad news. I’m not looking forward to this summer.

in case you don’t know, homicide by your husband is literally still the number one cause of death in pregnant women in the U.S. in the year 2026 www.smfm.org/news/new-nat...

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Fellas, is it sick to bonesmash with your bros?

Sunday essay about behavioral science, Hannah Arendt and life online. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/obeying-qu...

I love how Ag in this country is either “Farm good or farm bad” like there isn’t a whole spectrum of shit going on that y’all don’t understand.

I got the broadfork, the microbes and the spreadsheet of all 130+ crops we’re planting this season.

Doing some profile updates to better reflect the situation.

Yeah, that’s right, I got “poster’s madness”. The need to post despite 0 tangible benefits to my life.

My only contribution to the ethical food consumption discourse in Portland is that it’s unlikely that most of the food on anyone’s plate here is actually ethical and if you wanna jump down that rabbit hole you have a loooooong way to go.

🚨 Recession indicator 🚨

Is this really the only way to have both old trees and power lines?

Are they missing the whole “the government is explicitly and evilly experimenting on citizens and suppressing the truth” part of the show

Summer plant babies

Progressive Commander William T. Riker can still happen if people want it bad enough

1. Beck — Sexx Laws 2. Built to Spill — I Would Hurt a Fly 3. Modest Mouse — Teeth Like Gods Shoeshine 4. Butthole Surfers — Pepper 5. Iggy Pop — Passenger 6. Sleater-Kinney — Pristina 7. B52’s — Planet Claire 8. Fever Ray — If I Had a Heart 9. Tones on Tail — Go! 10. Lovage — Strangers on a Train

It’s so sunny and warm that I put my baby peppers outside for the first time and they’re like “it’s too hot!!”

Newly in love with this sound and the name, Gently Tender: youtu.be/keWhmfRhDMk

I am dying to know if it’s about a place that rhymes with Jeep Daughters.

what do you do if someone you vaguely know is like pretty clearly starting an actual cult? fairly successfully? not much, right, it's not illegal to start a cult, all you can kind of do is go "huh! sure seems like a cult"