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Apple and pear. Cider and perry. And cats. IG: @will__rea http://will.rea.substack.con
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Oops 😬

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submitted 17 days ago • 572 comments

Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

If only Elon Musk had been accepted into art school.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Will probably be the first Rock pear planted in the US, outside of Corvallis

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

#science isn't built in a day, and many sensitive samples need constant maintenance. Specific temperature, humidity, etc. This insanity will cost us not just an enormous amount of money, but incalculable decades of lost research... 🧪

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan theonion.com/fritola...

submitted 20 days ago • 62 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 21 days ago • 215 comments

Also the Norwegian apple Torstein is Reinette de Hollande or Elmelund

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

One of the cool things about compiling genetic pedigree is that you might find something new. SNP data has Feltham Beauty with an unkn. parent with a pedigree of Hapsburg x Margaret. The FruitID project has it as Cox's x Gladstone. It's SSR data also seems to suggest Gladstone is HapsburgxMargaret

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Hi all, starting up on this platform where I'll be starting a habit of posting updates from my work and life here. Tune in and follow along if you want to see content about trees and orchards, our silvopasture pasture farm, my writing, cider, news+events related to all of the above and more! Cheers

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoy reading our review article about Malus sieversii, the primary progenitor of domesticated apples, from Central Asia! academic.oup.com/hr/article/1...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Much needed.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a cancer survivor and I lost my younger sister to cancer in 2023. I’m livid about a lot of things right now, but this hit me pretty hard. Trump and his corrupt fascist regime may be billionaires but they are morally bankrupt.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

submitted 37 days ago • 84 comments

Coloration looks more like staining to me.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

First Rock Pear outside the Corvallis repository, maybe. Perhaps.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Love a good dark mild on cask.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 50 days ago • 138 comments

More call hold music for Exxon stakeholders: “After the Gold Rush” — Neil Young “Smoke on the Water” — Deep Purple “The Wall” — Pink Floyd “Industrial Disease” — Dire Straits “Won’t Get Fooled Again” — The Who “Send Lawyers, Guns and Money” — Warren Zevon “Copperhead Road” — John Prine

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting illustration from an article about Michigan wine, and the Jesuit Pears (with a mention of perry), that was in The Bacchus Journal, 1967

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Love this photo of Firecracker crab (or Bill’s Red Flesh Crab), featuring a bit of internal flesh browning.

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

The next paper that is nearing submission will be on related the different wild species of apples to cultivated apples and to various apples held in germplasm collections. Here is an image from an early proof of concept test I conducted in 2020 while I was still a post-doc.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments