It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Good long read here on two decade collapse of FL citrus industry.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

this is what teenagers in movies looked like during the iraq war

Pour bourbon into a big enough jar, cook about 4-8 slices of bacon. Eat the bacon. Add the rendered bacon grease to the jar. Seal the jar and put it in the freezer for 24-48 hours. (The fat will freeze, the bourbon won’t.) strain bourbon through cheesecloth back into original bottle. Enjoy.

Non-Recourse National Strategy Behaviors you learn in your career are hard to unlearn

Non-Recourse National Strategy

a portrait of Tenochtitlan a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

Pretty cool 3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan that you can play around and explore in tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

Current status.

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Jors (2001)

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

JOHN WICK: [shoots fifty dudes]
WINSTON: jonathan you’re expelliarmus. I have no choice but to instigato you to the syndicaticus
HOT LADY: thats right
[she tries to kill John Wick]

The need to discover and pay for poorly Xeroxed newsletters in order to take part in various subcultures was, in hindsight, both a major hurdle for various liberation movements and the final seal holding back The Beast.

In Korean, the word for cowboys, 속기 쉬운, translates literally to “American horse pirates”

* read on for more of my all-time favourite translations from around the world (a thread)…

I wrote something: sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03...

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

Reading headlines like this is like reading "Another three cases of coronavirus found in Washington" in February 2020

Broke: The divide in the Democratic Party is lib vs left

Woke: The divide in the Democratic Party is fight vs don’t fight

Bespoke: The divide in the Democratic Party is “we can use the One Ring a little as a treat” versus “idk, didn’t seem to work out for that slimy little Gollum dude.”

The NATO Treaty, btw, being drafted by people who had no intention of getting into each other’s colonial wars, rather tightly defines the areas where your actions become a NATO problem. The Falklands is the perfect example of that, a defensive war that was not a NATO problem.

lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

it gets sillier if you go higher

most consecutive games with 30+:

1. Wilt (65)

2. Harden (32)

most consecutive games with 40+:

1. Wilt (14, 14, 10)

2. Jordan, Kobe (9)

most consecutive games with 50+:

1. Wilt (7, 6, 5, 5)

2. Kobe (4)

most consecutive games with 60+:

1. Wilt (4, 3, 2, 2)

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse? Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm 55, and I didn't really understand until the past decade that our entire support structure of checks-and-balances was held up by the honor system.

FYI the quoted poster is a US Navy veteran.

A SKELTAN KIND OF GOING NUT'S BECUASE THEY COULD SWEAR THAT A PONEY WAS JUST A BABY HORSE BUT TURNS OUT ITS A WHOLE NOTHER ANIMAL AND THERE WORLD VIEW IS FALLING APART, AND THERE SAYING "JUST FOUND OUT A PONEY ISNT A BABY HORSE, ITS A WHOLE NOTHER ANIMAL, DID THEY CHANGE THIS WAS I ALWAYS WRONG WHAT OTHER ASSUMPTIONS HAVE I MADE HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW' IS KNOWLEDGE FINITE OR DOES THE CONCEPT REPRESENT A CLOUD OF POSSIBILITYS? IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW EVERY THING OR IS A KNOWLEDGE SIMPLY DA COLLAPSE OF DA WAVE FORM OF CERTAINTY AROUND A WORLD MORE COMPLEX AND BEAUTIFUL THAN OUR SHIT MINDS CAN COMPREHEND ??? IS IT POSSIBLE TO FREE ALL NON VIOLENT PRISONERS AND REPLACE THEM WITH PEOPLE WHO USE LEAF BLOWERS? I DONT KNOW DA ANSWER SO IM GOING TO GO WITH "ASKING DA QUESTION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANSWERING IT" I MEAN DA SKELTEN IN THE GRAPHIC IS SAYING THAT . YOU KNOW - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

WHAT DA FUCK - dashare.zone ADMIN

If beef prices are too high have you considered switching to eating bag of organs? Consider the benefits:

*Free, left in garbage bag under overpass
*Juicy and bloody
*All shapes, round ones and squiggly
*Chewable
*Pair of nike sneakers in there also, not too scuffed up

Friend: how’s the new neighbourhood?

Me: good but there aren’t as many other younger people

Friend: dude, you’re 50

Me: