Birds make me happy 🥹

The government needs to subsidize the production of healthy food, not just grain that mostly goes to feed livestock, and create more incentives to preserve farmland, leave land fallow, and use regenerative practices.

And consumers need to care about how their food is produced.

Referring to farmers as “they” is again problematic. There are shitty, huge agribusinesses that are owned by corporations who only care about turning a profit, and there are people who are farming and hardly making a living, and there are lots of people in between.

who could be referred to this way? Sure. There are lots of different kinds of farmers/ways of farming.

Again: “farmers” are a diverse group of people. They cannot be lumped together and referred to as if they are a single entity. I would not categorize any of the small farmers in the farming community I am a part of as the “very worst capitalists” or anything close to that.

Are there farmers

How about IT’S CAPITALISM’S FAULT BLAME FUCKING CAPITALISM

(“Farmers” are people, and they aren’t all the same)

Bottom line: if you care about buying ethically produced food, make a point of meeting the people who grow it and find out what their practices are.

of people who farm, it is not a lucrative profession. Even many larger farms are only able to make it because they are propped up by crop insurance and govt subsidies for corn and soy. And they rely on cheap migrant labor (which is why I find it hard to believe they’d call ICE on their own workers)

tangled up in it. But making the claim that small producers are just as bad as the big agribusiness guys? I am friends with many small farmers in Michigan. They are doing the hard work of producing food because they love this work and care about the environment. For the overwhelming majority

I doubt farmers are calling ICE on their own employees. Possible, I suppose, but it doesn’t really make sense. “Farmers” are also a diverse group of people just like the rest of the population. Lumping us all together is problematic. Our food system is complicated and there are many wicked problems

What about the consumers who are eating the beef? The folks who’ve never grown a vegetable? Are they blameless?

So: where do you get your food? Do you know your farmers? Just curious

midlife by Claire Taylor I wish I could go back hold that girl in my arms & tell her sing your off-key songs the world is deaf to the pleasures of women no one's listening anyway

41 today. Woohoo.

If you’d like to help me celebrate, consider getting a copy of my book, or if you’ve read it and liked it, recommend it to a friend, or request a copy through your library. Or just go out and be kind today and try to enjoy your Monday.

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Indeed. Kinda freaks me out. But they’re so cute!

This is…actually good. We need this research.

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

and this day it was Spring....us A poem by E. E. Cummings in “&”

till,at the corner of Nothing and Something,we heard
a handorgan in twilight playing like hell

E. E. Cummings

The Little-Known Visual Art of E.E. Cummings “Why do you paint? For exactly the same reason I breathe.”

been reading lotsa lately e.e. have loved him since h.s.

didn’t really realize how much of an influence he was until recently it went in unconsciously

he was the epitome of artists did you know he painted, too?

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An anthropomorphic piece of sliced bread and a bunch of red roses smiling, walking hand-in-hand. The slice of bread carries a red banner that says "We Want It All" Beneath the image it says Haymarket Books Est. 2001, Chicago IL

We want it all

New design collab with @harebrained.bsky.social

Bread and roses, bread and roses. ❤️

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

I can think of a few… 🔥

Need to put up a few of these. I truly love bats but not when they’re shitting all over inside my barn 😬

Jack Kerouac, from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Cat visits the library so often, he now has his own library card YouTube video by CTV News

Damn right. youtu.be/nXbHOUeFe8s?...

“these are 100% uncut bolivian…bees”

This is just another example of how insulated he has been his entire life. Remember the video of him at the grocery store when he seemed so fascinated with a bag of popcorn because he probably had never gone shopping? “Groceries.” Such an old-fashioned term. Dude has no understanding of the ordinary

Don’t worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually. —Issa

My 4-yo this morning, out of nowhere, while putting on his shoes: “Mom, did you know pterodactyls have six bones?”

(He is not particularly interested in dinosaurs)