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Ya’ll might wanna grow some hyperaccumulators (such as sunflowers, oyster mushrooms, mustard greens, vetiver, etc) around your house and/or in your garden for a few years before you plant leafy vegetables so you don’t end up consuming heavy metals.

This is a good thing to note, (also sunflowers are very pretty and easy to grow when you’re first learnign how to garden) but also searching “(nearest university) Extension” and “(your county) Extension” is GREAT because there’s ALL KINDS of cool services out there if you want to get into growing your own food or helping the local enviornment or installing solar panels on your house or buying livestock or- There’s a lot, it’s AWESOME, it’s usually stunningly low-cost and it’s veyr, very solarpunk so I encourage all of you to take a gander at the programs offered.

The Cooperative Extension System is run in each state by the state’s land grant university/ies (which might not be the ones you think, in NY it’s Cornell rather than any of the SUNYs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_State_Research,_Education,_and_Extension_Service#Cooperative_Extension_System It’s also where all 4H programs are based!

Some also offer classes! They’re taxpayer funded, so that means the wealthy ones can offer tons of resources. If you can’t find much going on in your state, nearby states may also have excellent info that can apply to your area. Some of the famous heavyweights are Cornell / New York and UC Davis / California, tons of research, plant breeding programs, and all around useful info coming outta those places.

realized that the "problem of susan" misinterpretation is going to explode when the new narnia reboot drops and started chomping at the bit

say it with me, kids: SUSAN WAS NOT KICKED OUT OF NARNIA FOR LIKING BOYS AND MAKEUP. SHE LIKED BOYS AND MAKEUP WHILE SHE WAS A BELOVED QUEEN OF NARNIA. SHE DIDN'T GO TO NARNIA BECAUSE SHE CHOSE TO PRETEND IT WASN'T REAL. SHE WAS REPRESENTATIVE OF CS LEWIS'S, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, "ATHIEST PHASE" WHICH WAS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF HIS LIFE AND HE ALWAYS INTENDED FOR HER TO EVENTUALLY COME HOME TO NARNIA THE WAY HE CONVERTED BACK. HE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO WRITE FANFIC ABOUT IT AND APPARENTLY HAD FINALLY BEGUN WORK ON A SUSAN BOOK RIGHT BEFORE HE DIED. LEWIS WAS NEVER SAYING HER FEMININITY DAMNED HER TO HELL. FOR FUCK'S SAKE

say it with me: susan’s preoccupation with wanting to be older is an outwards sign of her pride and Lewis’ communication of this idea (that a preoccupation with being older for the sake of being older is connected with pride) is clearly seen in both his chapter “The Great Sin” in Mere Christianity and in many of his essays surrounding the topics of writing for children and writing in general. to re-emphasize, LEWIS WAS NEVER SAYING HER FEMININITY DAMNED HER TO HELL. if any of the boys had shared this preoccupation with being older, Lewis would have treated their ending the same way.

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

it must be so freeing to be as stupid as a ceo. not a single thought echoing through that hollowed out skull. you get paid more money in 20 minutes than a handful of small countries make in a year combined to say the biggest number you can think of and if your company doesn’t hit that number you get to fire all of them

I don’t care if one of my writing quirks is a sign of AI! I was here with my em dashes, semicolons, Oxford commas, and flowery prose before ChatGPT!!!! Why should I be the one to change? I’m not destroying an entire town’s water supply every time I write a chapter

How is anyone ok with this

Generating cat pictures is by far a secondary purpose of AI infrastructure. A much more primary purpose is building a digital panopticon prison of mass surveillance and weapons system targeting. They're building Skynet, or close enough. They used Grok to select targets in the Iran war. When they're done, they won't need anyone else to be "ok with this". They'll have so much control that they don't think anyone will be able to stop them.

is that thing really true of all humans or have you just forgotten about disabled people