@kimlockhartga @campuscodi Yeah, only once did they accept/ act on my report and the same scam company was back not six months later. That was probably 2016ish.

@bob_zim @thomholwerda @danirabbit Yeah, silvopasture or other regenerative pasturing isn't just *possible*, it's how nature evolved to keep sequestering carbon into gorgeous, vibrant, three-foot-deep soil for rich grasslands and scrublands. It also makes for happy grazers, often protected from predators, with medical care.

It just doesn't produce huge amounts of meat and money per acre when people are habituated to prices that come of thinking of meat as "every meal, what living conditions" and not sacred, rare, festival food.

@freyablekman It’s coincidentally a great example of applied physics. Pigments and reflective/ refractive materials are some of the prettiest physics available!

@freyablekman #alt4you A hand rotates to demonstrate iridescence in black-enameled nails, looking for all the world as if a magenta, gold, and green aurora were somehow captured in varnish.

@tg9541 @mk30 @Tarnport EXCELLENT framing, yes.

@mk30 @tg9541 @Tarnport Yeah. I think a lot of people overseas see the (hoarded, concentrated) material wealth and don’t realize that even for some of the ostensibly middle class are in that position because they kept right on going to work with untreated broken bones, or ten days after giving birth, or while actively in fever delirium, because the alternative was homelessness and subsequent criminalization (for the crime of having no private property to retreat to.) Speaking up about it a lot of places will get you fired as an agitator. Even a lot of Americans who’ve never experienced the precarity firsthand will be dismissive of it because it’s so verboten to speak of that they have no idea how bad it is - while trying to get a sick friend housed (let alone any medical care) I’ve been treated to someone from this country explaining that people like my friend could “just go on Medicaid.” Which wasn’t even true before the new slate of restrictions and work requirements. The narrative of our lives visible domestically and abroad is manufactured and finessed propaganda.

Like the climate crisis, which somewhere between 80-89% of people agree on as an urgent threat, or as with trans rights or reproductive freedoms, which at least two thirds have consensus on, a majority are feeling it and yet think they’re in a powerless minority because money is speech. But unstable times actually tend to bring people together… as do technologies like fedi, where corporations can’t choose the bounds of permitted discussion.