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• Post #4309978

  update on WIP industrial ag mega-zine: i'm so deep in the weeds on the green revolution that i'm reading about the agrarian development model of C. Subramaniam, India's Food and Ag Minister from 1964-66: "Subramaniam's agrarian model can be divided up in three components: the economic, the technological and the organizational. The economic component consisted in the view that price incentives would motivate farmers to produce more since it would be pr...

• Post #4309977

  The new "ghost in the shell" series has such amazing animation and visual design. I love it so much. I also have no idea what's happening with the story because it's so confusing. and the fan service is so over the top that I lose track of the story because I can't stop trying to understand why the cyborg creation attendants are at work literally wearing no pants, sexy red underwear, and garter belts. #tv #animation

• Post #3871993

  Look at how many times the heritage foundation ghouls use the word "natural" or "inherent" when describing some stuff about women: https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/after-pushing-anti-trans-laws-to Ideas about what's "natural" (vs "cultural") are central to a lot of messed up ideologies. The idea that something is "natural" is used as a cudgel to keep people in line: "girls shouldn't play sports, it's not natural" or "i...

• Post #1993394

  i highly recommend the most 80s brand new yacht rock jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob5hUHZJtE4 #music

• Post #1993393

  Happy caturday from Anza 😺 #caturday #cats

• Post #1993392

  work continues on my industrial ag mega-zine. we're getting into the "consequences of pesticide use" section, and unsurprisingly, it's much more complicated than i expected. it turns out that pouring a bunch of poison onto the land has complicated and unexpected consequences that are extremely difficult to trace throughout an ecosystem! (nevermind the effects on agriculture itself...see: "pesticide treadmill".) anyway, i've just starte...

• Post #1993389

  as you may know, i have a lot of dreams about living in weird houses. last night i dreamed that i was in a huge, weird mansion/castle (someone else's - not something i would build). it had a huge medieval-style central hall with like...shields and weapons going up the walls all the way to the ceiling, which was maybe 40 feet high. it was all stone and in the style of one of those people who's obsessed with castles. i had some people over and as we were entering, i showed them t...

• Post #1993388

  y'all, these calarts animations just keep getting better and better 😍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTDRsLvShu0 #sanfrancisco #sf #animation

• Post #1993387

  Raaaaiiiiny daaaay #cats #hawaii

• Post #1993386

  i'm increasingly seeing AI blogs/sites listed as sources for AI summaries at the top of search results. the answer might even be correct, but the bad source makes me question it completely. this seems like it was bound to happen. what do they call it...model collapse? for the record, this is the source of the AI assist's answer for my query: https://lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com/area/ks-value/ it's an obvious AI site imo. #tech #AI #ML #search

• Post #1850261

  does anyone have reading/viewing recommendations for materials on how different ecosystems interact with each other? (not interactions within a single ecosystem, but how one ecosystem might affect an ecosystem next to it) i'm interested in how changes to the land in one ecosystem might affect ecosystems near and far. specifically, i'm interested in how changes to desert ecosystems might affect neighboring ecosystems (or even ecosystems far away). but i'm very open to l...

• Post #1694464

  Good morning, happy caturday! https://youtu.be/JH3mYQaSA7I #cats #caturday #animation

• Post #1694463

  i love it when music and animation come together to make something that's greater than the sum of the parts 🥰 🪽 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1At5s0YLSs #music #animation

• Post #1545928

  there are so many things to love about cumbia, and one of those things is that you can just say "cumbia cumbia cumbia!" at basically any point and it's valid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n46HvMIsSuQ #music #cumbia

• Post #1491221

  Happy caturday from Star cat ✨⭐🌟 #caturday #cats

• Post #889357

  in these trying times, an important poll: (for the record, i'm "footnotes" 100%. i do not want to keep a bookmark in some mysterious other part of the book, and with pdf's, it's a complete nightmare. if someone has an argument for endnotes, i'm all ears.) #history #writing #research

• Post #655622

  research continues for good texts to go with the many images i've collected for my industrial agriculture collage zine. i think this quote from the book "the agricultural dilemma: how not to feed the world" by glenn stone is going to make it in: "Our real dilemma is how to unthink the entrenched belief that we will starve without new tricks from scientists and input industries when in reality we have been locked on a treadmill of subsidized over-production fo...

• Post #468653

  It's a bloody day full of worries and uncertainties, but we still have cats. I find cats to be very grounding - they're there with their (very small and reasonable) daily needs, their routines, their silliness, and their softness. 🐱♥️ #caturday #cats