wecandohardthings.bsky.social
|Retired pro 🎛️📻🎤nerd.| |USian beholden to generations of Séliš, Ql̓ispé, Ksanka & Nimiipuu for not mangling their land-water-human web.| |On autogolpe-watch.| |”The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” (Ellen Parr)|
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Meanwhile, in contrast with the self-inflicted 🐘 chaos emanating from DC: #MTPol #MTNews montanafreepress.org/2025/06/09/m...
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“Montana, which saw roughly $1.2 million in AmeriCorps grants canceled and 86 members terminated, did not join the lawsuit and is not affected by the court order.” #MTPol #MTNews
dailymontanan.com/2025/06/09/j...
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The Straight Poop. Coming to your local brewery in 2035.
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Case in point: thanks to contributors to this thread, now I can incorporate “Anglican exorcisms” and “very excited autistic people” into everyday speech or writing.
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And in today’s classifieds: a job posting for Allstate account executives.
“Are you tired of living in the ashes of Mt. St. Helens?”
The offer: a fresh start in Boise.
No salary listed. Just a forwarding address, just like it was in the old days.
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A brazen upvote for a question no one asked: if you dig “The Bean Trees,” follow Taylor and Turtle to “Pigs in Heaven.” IIRC, readers pointing out the background of the ICWA became the impetus for the sequel.
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You can’t roll coal in these things, and without the aid of a giant side-view mirror, you must actively aim for cyclists. Inconvenient.
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Our old Acme is now a ChurchMe.
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@cwarzel.bsky.social adds a link to the ‘internet of beefs essay' “which (as i read it) argues that our perma-feuding is a consequence of a societal rot of sorts.” www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t...
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(2/2) It’s been 10 yrs. since the 🇨🇦Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its 94 calls to action. “Remember the long and difficult struggle that it took to even make those 94 Calls to Action possible in the first place. Generations fought, resisted, and struggled…”
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Leaving the violence-prevention portfolio to an inexperienced ideologue: “In the past 7 weeks, at least 5 high-profile targeted attacks have unfolded across the U.S., including a car bombing in California and the gunning down of 2 🇮🇱 Embassy aides in Washington.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“Oregon’s data center market is the fifth largest in the nation … Overall rates for residential customers of both utilities — which collectively serve more than 1.4 million customers in Oregon — are now up about 50% since 2020 ...”
64,000 had 🔌 🙅 in ‘24.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/05/b...
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(4/4) “On those stepping into rivers staying the same
other and other waters flow.” - Heraclitus
“On those eating Big Ag cucumbers staying the same, other 🧫 and 🦠 grow.”
Contaminated raw produce is 🌏. Still, maybe catering at the White House, the FDA and the U.S. Congress should serve lotsa 🦠🥒?🙊
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(3/4) “Salmonella is naturally found inside the digestive tracts of many animals. It frequently reaches fruits and vegetables through animal waste that can get into the water supply through wildlife, runoff from animal feedlots or henhouses, or flooding that causes overflowing sewage.”
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(2/4) Also, 🤡 delayed until 2028 a new rule “requiring food manufacturers and retailers to keep detailed records of certain products, making it easier to recall foods during outbreaks.”
Watering veggies (that customers will consume raw) with untreated canal 💦 in the vicinity of 🐊,🐴 and🪿seems 👎.
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(1/4) Follow-up: Since April, large farms watering 🥒🫑with potentially salmonella-contaminated water are supposed to write plans to assess & address risk. Policy overhaul started in 2011; the U.S. Food and Drug Admin’s self-inflicted understaffing will slow/stop progress. apple.news/A7m2OdWnvTzO...
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Amid increasing U.S. electricity demand, there’s the usual sneaky monopoly utility behavior: theconversation.com/how-your-ele...
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It’s all kafefe. 🤼
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Lenapehoking Place, a sort of Lenape Sesame Place, with rides designed around 16th-century alliances, friendly and hostile neighbors, surviving smallpox & flu. Incorporate entertaining narratives about honest vs. fraudulent land purchases to Lenape football (Pahsahëman). Concessions sell 🌽,🫘,🦪 & 🦌.
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More details on one of the papers referenced in the 1st article, speaking to where, by whom, why and how prescribed and cultural burning of forests in the U.S. HAS increased. #MTFire wildfiretoday.com/only-one-fed...
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Unpaywalled version of G & M article.
In 2025, no matter your location in 🇨🇦, 🇺🇸 & 🇲🇽, you’re gonna breathe some wildfire 💨.
By year’s end, your encounters with 🔥 could be gnarly.
But it’ll be worst for tens of thousands of First Nations & Métis. #Climate
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
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(3/3) Wildfire smoke, including particularly toxic WUI smoke, nails us all, but esp. those living closest to 🔥: again, that’s First Nations & Métis, some (?) Inuit. And which communities routinely cope with substandard🚰& 🏘️ & 🩺 access, even before now-annual threats of displacement & 💲ruin? #Climate
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(2/3) First Nations & Métis are the canaries in 🇨🇦’s warming coal mine. With evacuations, property loss & multigenerational community upheaval, does any other group in N.A. suffer more consistently from our shift into the Pyrocene? Is 🔥 displacement the only time far-flung reserves’ 🧑🧑🧒🧒 are seen?
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Grid New Deal:
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On the “Grid New Deal” we need:
“To the ‘AI Bill of Rights’ (principles to protect the public’s rights, opportunities, and access to critical resources from being restricted by AI systems), we humbly offer a climate amendment, because ethical AI must be climate-safe AI.”
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🦕-fuels apologists will blame renewables as💲⬆️. Doubt them.
“The fossil fuel shills love to blame high energy prices on renewables. It's a lie.
Hopefully the media will continue pointing this out. Because US natural gas prices are going higher and that means so is electricity.” - Justin Mikulka