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I raise children and farm animals, love cooking and gardening, write code to pay the bills, & play music in my limited free time. He/Him/His. VA, USA. Banner: 5 guitars on a black couch Profile: white dude, salt & pepper beard, blue shirt, faded green hat
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for the love of God. fucking honestly. “controversial salute.” it’s a nazi stiff arm salute. literally everybody knows this. “controversial” is a chickenshit word generally (what purpose does its use serve? hint: an editorial, not journalistic one) but when we’re talking about public nazi shit gah

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I love that my kids are interested in baking! 8 plain bagels, 8 cinnamon raisin bagels, and 4 loaves of sandwich bread here done mostly by our wonderful 12yo with some minimal parental supervision (and a lot of encouragement). This will all be consumed before the weekend is over 😅 🍽️🍜

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The Rays are the most efficient team in baseball, but efficiency as an end goal is bullshit. I'm lucky to write for @baseballprospectus.com, where they let me publish a paragraph like this in a Rays season preview. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Intercropping is one of the ways to sustainably use farm land. The microclimate formed helps to reduces soil water loss, reduce soil heat, and allows for the use of available space. 🌱🧑🏿‍🌾🇰🇳 📸 #The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience

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Just had a tornado warning (we're fine, nothing touched down) and it reminded me of the last time we actually had one touch down about 7 or 8 years ago and someone took out an ad in the local paper a few days later.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Immensely useful (and terrifying) thread:

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Nothing fancy here just some costco quinoa, golden delicious squash we grew last fall, herby pan sauce, and some arugula from the greenhouse. Quick, healthy, mostly plant-based weeknight dinner 🌱🍽️🍜

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 226 comments

A thing that people not yet disabled don't get, is that being disabled is a full time job. Endless paperwork and deadlines and bureaucratic minutia to process and navigate and stress over, etc

submitted 192 days ago • 18 comments

I know there’s a lot of other stuff going on right now, but if you like content focused on building a better future for food, agriculture, nature, and/or climate, you might want to follow these folks:

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Even if our new secretary of health & human services doesn't think pasteurization is necessary we still trust the science of killing bacteria in our fresh goat milk to keep ourselves from vomiting and shitting everywhere. #SmallFarmLife

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Oh, sure, those are totally not critical medications and going off them cold-turkey has no well-known negative side effects /s (JFC please let me get my refills next month.)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Scrolling through Bluesky and seeing a lot of beautiful photographs and artwork. Please add Alt text to your images, many of us will not repost without it. Adding #AltText is not only the inclusive thing to do, your posts will reach a much wider audience. Thank you. 🪶🌱🐡 🦑🌿🐸 #Photography #Art

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Best feed on this place!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If you see this, post a photo of your cat(s)! (With alt text!) Doug passed a couple years back, but even in his old age he would muster up the strength to climb onto the back of the couch to catch some rays.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Unsurprising to anyone who knows me or my spouse, but our babies are printing out punny Valentine cards from NSF's website (at least while it still exists 😭)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Alright, even though I hate the snow, it does make for a nice, peaceful picture. I'm ready for the spring though.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

"Marigolds are flowers of hope.” – Maya Angelou I hope these marigolds from my garden last summer bring you hope and joy! 🌱 #Gardening #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Photography

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

~1/3 of food produced each year is lost or wasted between farm & fork. >700 million people face chronic hunger. It's a tragedy that these two shocking global food statistics exist. Here's an example of them explicitly linked together.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, Science! medicine.washu.edu/news/nasal-c...

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