very pleased that this fiddleleaf fig that was handed off to me after a family member almost killed it is now pumping out three leaves at once after just finishing two on the other main branch -- a relief to know something, some life is in the right place and has what it needs for now
Keep thinking that cruel optimism has shifted toward something like cruel inertia—feeling the enshitification of everything but repeatedly choosing the wan comfort of stasis over the minor inconveniences of salutary change
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has cleared cops of wrongdoing in 95% of police-involved death cases his office is responsible for investigating
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lol making it rain 🤧
yeah agreed they are quite charming though the wait until the fruit looks to be almost rotting off the tree rule is prob not the most charismatic haha. I think pawpaw is likely the lowest barrier to entry native
lol nope another husk of an org, real food farm
haha 🫡
cranky this weekend so today I'm calling out baltimore orchard project for doing almost nothing but promoting mulberry trees, which are often invasive locally, generate a zillion volunteer trees that can be hard to get rid of, & produce weak wood that creates risk everywhere, why is this their beat
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
pope tweets good
quite sad, yes. whenever I would go the shops were full of families, often immigrants, and lots of working people of all backgrounds. constantly wishing for this no car world of the recent past, too
dang did not realize til this morning that all of baltimore's value villages have closed and some were replaced with 2nd ave thrift stores which have worse selection and double the prices, RIP most sustainable shopping for low income ppl
Yes
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
v hype on the new chicken run extension zone full of lemon balm et al for grazing backing up to the beehive zone at the farm, spring project season is most lovely
gm, I made this playlist recently to create a groove that extends the feeling of sovereign time that can come with being up in the early mornings and it's on heavy rotation and working -- confirmed by a friend listening too, yours too if you want it
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"abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications. Facing risks of prison time and professional ruin, doctors have delayed key interventions until they can document that a fetus’ heart is no longer beating or that a case meets a narrow legal exception"
This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.
Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
Question: “And do you tell him that?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
"The image of luxury towers constructed above mass graves, with tens of thousands presumably buried under the earthworks, embodies the logic of 21st-century genocide."
This is what happens at concentration camps
[Baltimore, USA]
Please, someone update this mural with the flames that this "future"—already present—deserves 🔥
it has been a heavy week
The backlash has arrived
was obsessed with this willow there
As a woman with a female gaze, simply do not do this. We don’t want this. We want Magnum PI. We want ‘79 Knicks. We want to see what your leg day do.
"Top Oil and Gas Companies Made $30M Per Hour in Windfall Profits from Iran War"
visit to the native nursery mothership in taneytown for work today including driving that 12footer white oak an hour back to the city for a community green space that lost a mature tulip poplar this winter 💚
At the risk of indulging in a little eschatology, one does have to wonder how many signs it'd take.
