Turtlesong is 25 acres of mostly hay field on strip-mined land, and some wooded creek bottom. Add a few chickens, a donkey, a handful of goats...and maybe it's a farm. My last great project is going to be reforesting most of it. Or, to be more accurate, beginning the reforesting.

Fending off them mosquitos works like a charm

I think about this every day. In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.

Yup

There's no better case for socialism than the world's first trillionaire being a massive loser who cosplays as his mom and baby online and lies about being good at video games in an attempt to give his life meaning.

Bolivia está haciendo una revolución. Los ponchos rojos rompe el cerco policial de la Paz

This is a composite with just two of our apple trees. A core drive of #ProjectLichen is to support all #pollinators, ongoing. We used legumes, alliums and brassicas grown over Winter to provide early pollination of bumble bees, Mason bees etc. We documented it all.

I love this description so much. Also, everyone be sure to read *Eastern Plantways* by Eric Tonsmeier when it comes out, it’s about designing natives-first forest gardens and the deep indigenous history of the great eastern forests of Turtle Island.

Do not ever ask me to vote for a goddamn Democrat again

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In one University of Vermont study, a native purple coneflower drew 729 pollinator visits. The frilly double-flowered cultivar sold right next to it drew 94. Same plant, supposedly, but very different outcome for pollinators. Breeders have created "nativars" that stuffed extra petals into the spot where the flower's reproductive parts used to be. It looks like a pom-pom and sells like crazy. When researchers dissected those double coneflowers, they didn't even make seeds. No pollen to gather, and the nectar's walled off behind all those petals. So a bee lands, finds nothing, and leaves. It's a decoration shaped like a food source. That's the catch with a lot of nativars. The further a flower drifts from the wild form, especially the double blooms, the less likely an insect can use it. Skip the 'Double Delight' tag and find the straight species, the one that looks a little wilder and a little less impressive.

Reminder to everyone that your Ring camera is an ICE agent! When you use one of these, you are helping the fascist border regime with crowdsourced surveillance of your own community. UNPLUG RING! MELT ICE! PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS!

Here we are in the apocalypse, arguing theology. After all, why not? What the hell else do we have to do?

UPDATE: Bolivian police have fully RETREATED. 5 hours of pitched battles between police paramilitary groups against striking workers who fought back with stones and slingshots. The people had them surrounded from highway and nearby forests, this strategy forced police to flee.

Hunter Biden Sweetie, I love that you are feeling your oats. It is 100% good for you to strut a bit on Twitter. You done good! 7 years is good work. Give the haters hell. We'll call it 3 days of the Hunter

In 2010, Andernach, Germany planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to take whatever they wanted. It was so popular that they did it again, adding beans the next year. Over time, they added onions, fruit trees, lettuce, zucchini, berries, and herbs, all free to the public and maintained by the city. Andernach is now nicknamed the "edible city." And they're not alone. Philadelphia has been doing a version of this since 2007. The Philadelphia Orchard Project has helped establish 67 sites across the city with thousands of food-bearing trees. Baltimore is planting fruit trees on sidewalks. Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and Asheville all have public urban orchards. A mature apple tree produces 400-500 pounds of fruit per year. A mature pear tree can produce for 75 years. Cities pride themselves on their tree cover. We've decided that trees are important, but we haven't fully decided those trees should feed people yet. Would you support urban fruit trees and vegetables in your city?

Breaking: After Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s legal team appealed his arbitrary detention, Israeli authorities transferred him on 3 June 2026 from Naqab Prison to solitary confinement in Nafha as a punitive measure. The move comes amid harsh conditions and denial of medical treatment.

Creeping thyme has trended online for the last few years as a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly lawn alternative. That's mostly true. The catch is that it's slow to establish, expensive, needs full sun, and struggles in humid southeastern climates. The pollinator benefit is real but modest. European thyme didn't co-evolve with North American native bees. It feeds adult pollinators some nectar but isn't a host plant for any native caterpillar. The native alternatives that genuinely support North American ecology: Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica): shade-tolerant, drought-resistant, soft underfoot, native to most of the eastern US. The closest thing to a true native lawn replacement. Native violets (Viola sororia and regional species): already in most lawns as "weeds," host plant for fritillary butterfly caterpillars, tolerate mowing. Stop killing them. Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris ssp. lanceolata): the native subspecies, not the European one. Short, pollinator-supportive, tolerates mowing. Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta): drought-tolerant native, host plant for American lady butterflies, low-growing. Buffalo grass (Bouteloua dactyloides): native warm-season turf grass for the central US. Drought-tolerant, no fertilizer needed. Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora): native to the southeastern and southwestern US, supports buckeye butterflies, tolerates foot traffic. Creeping thyme is fine if you want a low-water ornamental ground cover. For ecological function, it's better to plant what evolved here.

This is the way. You DO NOT have to have to be a specific, acceptable, denomination in order to get a legal religious exemption from using AI. The pope provided good quotes for Anyone. Literally Anyone. Remember: for legal purposes, atheism is a religion in the US. ANYONE.

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be. I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.