jgcrocke.bsky.social
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Chuck Schumer get ready to field my 311 calls
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No idea what the original phrase was here, but usually these are situations where trusting your reader to figure out an idiom works just fine! Just translate it literally. If they have to go google some place names that’s not the end of the world.
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“People posting online will drive others’ views (not mine, I’m too sophisticated) but elected officials are helpless to move public sentiment” -savvy pundit-brain
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Please sir, the muskrat is a noble creature that does not deserve this association. They are very important for the functioning of Rhode Island’s wetland and ecosystems!
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If the number of eggs lost to culling chickens under the current health guidance is more than the reduction in egg production from just letting bird flu rip in your flocks, maybe? As we’ve learned, cheap eggs are worth any price, including millions of human lives
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Have you tried Old World? The setting would give you lots of historical assumptions to consider and the orders system helps by allowing eg some turns to be focused more on moving armies
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You don’t even have to “think this through” or “be smart” literally the first thought on your vote should be “is this person qualified for the position” and if the answer is obviously no then vote no! Really simple
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The only way you can look at the past couple decades and conclude that cheap goods will buy a happy populace is if your continued wealth depends on it
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“If destruction be our lot we ourselves must be its author and executor etc”
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It’s almost like there was a reason they made me read Platt 1964 in almost every course in grad school
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Can’t wait for mountain goats live skeeting a Trollope read. The Way We Live Now is maybe a better tonal fit for 2025, but the warden books can be a lovely escape from the present
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Take a leaf out of the new deal book and pay woody Guthrie to write a bunch of songs about how neat the dams are
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I heard terms like this in the wild when I was a young man and it made me reflect on aspects of masculinity that are indeed toxic. “In the wild” is actually much better as a context to hear this than in viral clips bc there’s a chance it comes from someone you like and respect.
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A cool thing about being a sports fan is that it doesn’t have to be rational. I am holding out hope that my beloved Rockies sign Juan Soto because he is good and cool, their offense is bad, and they need someone who can work a walk. Then they would only need two more hitters and a pitching staff.
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“In person, with cash” continues its rise to the top of the tarp-buying preference list with every email.
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For a more parasite-y answer, try doi.org/10.1017/S003...
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For some other big ecosystem impacts, this paper talks about what the loss of the passenger pigeon meant for eastern US forests
doi.org/10.1111/j.15...
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That’s a tough one! So many spp go extinct before we know even the basics about them, and the ones that get a lot of research tend to be in decline for a long time, so the impact feels small when it happens, even if, say, thylacines probably had strong top-down impacts on Tasmanian ecosystems
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“First principles Mike”??? “Old wisdom”??? Folks this is on the nose
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Worst wedding speech I’ve witnessed was from a bridesmaid who clearly felt that the groom should have married her. Stepdad feels like it also has room for its own weird energies as a category. Excited to hear about phase 7.
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Those trips aren’t free either! It’s been a few years since I was guiding and I assume it’s worse now but it used to be like $50 or so per head. Not all that useful or scaleable as an intervention although it’s fun.
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“Several points in between” Brookline and Great Britain so like… maybe Eastport in Newfoundland? The west coast of Nova Scotia?