#Ispeakforthetrees
#Ispeakforthetrees
Which is part of why we are homeschooling our oldest and looking to move to the other side of the river where Minnesota at least has state supported virtual school options...
Fucking twatwaffles. ๐คฌ
Excellent graphic guide!
#freadom
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Target can fuck ALL the way off.
#boycott #resist #choosewisely
No one would argue that among two of Americaโs most beloved institutions are the late Fred Rogers (1928โ2003) and libraries (1849--โ).
action.everylibrary.org/what_mr_roge...
#respect #truth #thefacesandthenames
Paternal: farmer. Lived and died in a 100+year old farmhouse with no heat, no A/C, first indoor plumbing in the 1970s.
Maternal: US Marine, fought in Korea. Then a warehouse laborer for a major American company.
๐๐ Related book recs:
Toxic Legacy by Stephanie Seneff
Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
Sea of Grass by David Hage and Josephine Marcotty
What to Eat Now by Marion Nestle
A Call to Farms by Jennifer Grayson
#freadom #librarylife
Some are now friends, some are acquaintances, most just briefly moved parallel in place and time.
And, disclaimer: One of those new people DID end up becoming my partner. ๐ฅฐ
FWIW - giving up stressing about meeting "the one" and deciding to take care of me was the best move ever. I went to grad school in Hawaii and met a bunch of new people.
It gave me the pleasure and freedom to just learn and meet people, without any expectations of any kind of relationship.
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Awesome!
I mean, he was still solidly middle-aged when I was the target audience, but still...
#truth
Ugh. ๐คฌ
I donโt know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine itโs going to a website and typing โoh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go onโ as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like โbuy eggs milk bread and a horseโ
As a parent AND as a Librarian...mind your own damn kids!!
#freadom #parenting
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#freadom #booksky
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๐ Awww, sweet baby!
Puppy ears are all that are visible (center of photo) of a dog attempting to hide from the evil nail clippers.
How my dad's pup (our former foster-pup) feels about getting her nails trimmed...
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#dogsky #grooming
The FDA wonโt tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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#squee #dogsky
Always fascinated when discoveries like this continue to prove that the Americas were rich in peoples and cultures long before the Europeans showed up.
#history #archeology #nativepeoples
Surprise, surprise. #sarcasm #notshocked
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."
-Terry Pratchett
Happy to report that there ARE good people out there...
#adoptdontshop
Delighted to report that my husband's reaction to readinv this was an appropriate amount of horror complete with retching and shivers of disgust.
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...gross...
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alt text for photo, from top left:
The Independent Farmstead by Shawn & Beth Dougherty
The Sustainable Homestead by Angela Ferraro-Fanning
The Lean Micro Farm by Ben Hartman
The Ecological Farm by Helen Atthowe
The New Organic Gardener by Eliot Coleman
Beyond the Root Cellar by Sam Knapp