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'The Annunciation; details' by Mikhail Nesterov

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Rolf Ohst (German, b. 1952)

Amnesia, 2016

Oil on canvas

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Having some Thoughts on the class of Farmer (and I do believe this functions as a class rather than an occupation in modern ag) and the necessity of food sovereignty. Will work on fleshing this out.

#woolly rambles #work trips got me thinking apparently

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On another whirlwind work trip, but at least this time, I got to see Her.

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The knowledge of some common plants

Since many people don't know most of the plants around them, this is information on some plants that are commonly seen in many places throughout the world

This is Lamium purpureum, also called Purple Deadnettle.

It's called deadnettle because it looks like a nettle but it doesn't sting you

This plant is a winter annual—it grows its leaves in the fall, lasts through the winter, and blooms and dies in the spring

Its pollen is reddish orange. If you see bees with their heads stained reddish orange, it is likely because they have visited Purple Deadnettle

This is Trifolium repens, white clover

It is a legume (belongs to the bean family) and fixes nitrogen using symbiosis with bacteria that live in little nodules on its roots, fertilizing the soil

It is a good companion plant for the other members of a lawn or garden since it is tough, adaptable, and improves soil quality. According to my professor it used to be in lawn mixes, until chemical companies wanted to sell a new herbicide that would kill broadleaved plants and spare grass, and it was slandered as a weed :(

It is native only to Europe and Central Asia, but in the lawns they are doing more good than harm most places

Honeybees love to visit clover

Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky

This is Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow

It has had a relationship with humans since Neanderthals were around, at least 60,000 years, since Neanderthals have been found buried with Yarrow

Its leaves have been used to stop bleeding throughout history, and its scientific name comes from how Achilles was said to have used Yarrow to stop the blood from the wounds of his soldiers. A leaf rolled into a ball has been used to stop nosebleeds

It is a native species all throughout Eurasia and North America

This is Cichorium intybus, known as Chicory

The leaves look a lot like dandelion leaves, until in mid-spring when it begins growing a woody green stem straight up into the air

Like many other weeds, it has a symbiotic relationship with humans, existing in a mix of domesticated or partially domesticated and wild populations

It is native to Eurasia, but widespread in North America on roadsides and disturbed places, where it descended from cultivated plants

Its root contains large amounts of inulin, which is used as a sweetener and fiber supplement (if you look at the ingredients on the granola bars that have extra fiber, they usually are partly made of chicory root) and has also been used as a coffee substitute

A large variety of bees like to feed upon it

This is Phytolacca americana, known as Pokeweed

It is easily identified by its huge leaves and its waxy, bright magenta stem

It can grow more than nine feet tall from a sprout in a single summer!

If you squish the berries, the juice inside is a shocking magenta that is so bright it almost burns your eyes. For this reason many Native American people used it for pink and purple dye.

It is a heavy metal hyperaccumulator, particularly good for removing cadmium from the soil

All parts of the plant are poisonous and will make you very sick if you eat them, however if the leaves are picked when very young and boiled 3 times, changing out the water each time, they can be eaten, and this is a traditional food in the rural American Southeast, but I don't want to chance it

British people have introduced it as a pretty, exotic ornamental plant. I think that is very funny considering that here it is a weed associated with places where poor people live, but maybe they're right and I need to look closer to see the beauty.

If you see magenta stains in bird poop it is because they ate pokeweed berries- birds can safely eat the berries whereas humans cannot

This is Plantago lanceolata, Ribwort Plantain

It grows in heavily disturbed soils, in fact it is considered an indicator of agricultural activity. It is successful in the poorest, heaviest and most compacted soil.

The leaves, seeds, and flower heads are said to be edible but the leaves are really stringy unless they are very young. Of course, it is important to be careful when eating wild plants, and make sure you have identified the plant correctly and the soil is not contaminated

I have also heard the strings in the leaves can be extracted and used for textile purposes

and that's some common plants you might often see throughout the world

#plant friends

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Not this Bayer woman calling pesticide injury lawsuits "bullshit." Ma'am, let's be real, neither of us know for a fact that your products don't cause cancer. We will never know. Which means that there is lots of room for people to ask these questions. It isn't fucking bullshit you corporate stooge.

God folks in the pesticide manufacturing industry are so up their own asses. This is the most annoying call.

#woolly rambles #having to stay neutral is occasionally the toughest part of my job

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God folks in the pesticide manufacturing industry are so up their own asses. This is the most annoying call.

#woolly rambles #this woman keeps going on and on about how enviros want to “take away” agriculture and how they don't know that they would starve w/o ag #when its so obvious that at the end of the day all Bayer cares about is the bottom line #they don't give a shit about ag or feeding people or being responsible stewards of the earth #they're not even listening to the enviros or they'd know that their assessment is wrong #anyways fuck it i hope Bayer's crop science division goes up in flames #we use pesticides to a concerning degree and while that might be helping to feed us in the short term it will doom us in the long #and i'm also pretty fucking skeptical about how essential pesticides are for keeping us fed anyways #idk y'all the state of CA - you know the biggest ag state in the US - is confident that they could safely phase out high-risk pesticides #by 2050 and be fine so like idk y'all #i think you're just worried about your bag

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There's a lot I hate the Supreme Court for, but disemboweling standing doctrine is absolutely up there. If, for no other reason, that I, someone who paid to go to law school and learn all this shit, should not have to seriously consider the claim that some weirdo out there believes they are materially injured and have lost money that they never had in the first place because they decided not to take action.

Sorry bud, but your claim that the EPA has caused you to lose money by implementing the Clean Water Act rings pretty hollow when you 1. haven't actually looked into getting a CWA permit at all and your biggest gripe is that you might have to comply with the law if you want to take a future action; 2. haven't actually even taken said action and might never take said action even if the law was different; and 3. are clearly willing to spend time, effort, and money on a lawsuit.

"Mr. White has forgone significant revenue already, with that figure mounting each day[.]" No he fucking hasn't. He never had that money, there is no guarantee that he would ever get that money, and it is an insult to my intelligence to pretend like this wanker has been injured.

#woolly rambles #in case you're wondering this is a direct result of that stupid fucking wedding website supreme court case #wherein the plaintiff bitched and moaned that she would have maybe liked to go into business designing wedding websites #but didn't because Colorado had a law preventing discrimination against gay people #that's not a fucking injury it should have been thrown out for being stupid as hell but SCOTUS threw the door open #that woman never ended up designing wedding websites btw #and now i have to read this shit and give it the time of day like it isn't a waste of my time #sorry but i paid a pretty penny for my legal education and i fully plan on being a cunt about it

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reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

#amusement #all my homies love Mark Bankston #seriously this man is getting to do the actual lawyer dream - get weirdos like Musk and Jones into court and eat their fucking lunch #AND he does it by just being a good attorney #seriously part of what makes Bankston so incredible is that he's just a good attorney #guys like Musk and Jones and Trump are so into their owm mythos they just hire these weird little yes-men attorneys #dudes who somehow managed to pass the bar but are itherwise woefully incompetent #but will tell their famous powerful clients whatever they want to hear #and Bankston shows why thats a pretty bad legal defense move #anyways not me getting popcorn and heading over to pacer to watch this shit unfold

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Could you please tell us all about your engagement? We love a love story! 💕 (– formerly GrandmotherJay)

Oh I am very happy to oblige!

My fiance (eeee!!!) and I met shortly after I moved to Arkansas almost five years ago. We hit it off pretty immediately. Our first date was at a fun local bar that is filled with retro pinball machines. We were given some free tokens to play the games, but were too busy talking and laughing to use them. We've been together ever since.

For the eclipse, we planned to go out to my fiance's family cabin out in the Ozarks which was right under the path of totality. It was a stunning spring day - the temperature was just right, the sky was clear, the birds were merrily chirping away. Along with both of his parents, my father and step-mother had came out from California to view the eclipse, and some of my fiance's and my very close friends were also there. It was a really lovely group. We spread out blankets and a picnic on the lawn and the little kids there were having all sorts of fun chasing a soccer ball (and each other). You truly couldn't ask for better.

A few minutes before totality, my fiance came up and asked me to come over to stand with him over by the pond to see if we could hear the frogs start to croak. We wandered together down to the pond, just him and I away from everyone else (and the frogs, of course, who were indeed croaking). He took my hand, and I could feel that there was something in his palm. He said that our first date was one of the best days of his life, and he was looking forward to planning the next one. He asked me to marry him, and I, of course, said yes. When our hands parted, I saw that the unused pinball tokens from that first date almost five years ago were nestled safely in my palm. Then we went and watched the sun disappear.

It was easily the most romantic thing that has ever happened to me. Y'all, I love this man and I'm so completely over the moon that I get to spend the rest of my life with him.

#your asks answered #oh! and as far as a ring goes we don't have one yet because he wanted us to pick one our together #kinesixtape #thank you for asking this i am going to take any excuse i can to tell this story

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Well my darlings, totality was a hell of an experience. Getting engaged right before was even better.

#woolly rambles #it was the most perfect day #i feel like one big cheesecake smile

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🌿 Forest details 🌿

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Tucked up, 1904 by Frederick George Cotman (English, 1850–1920)

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Lester Dore- The Green Man at Stonehenge

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If I've learned anything during my last 8 years working with law students, it's that if you name your daughter Regan and send her to law school, she will be joining the Federalist Society.

#woolly rambles #like come on lady Regans at least one of you could do something different #i know y'all's parents named you after a motherfucker but that doesn't mean you also have to be a motherfucker

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Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, Vincent van Gogh, 1890

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