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Richard Waite

@waiterich.bsky.social

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Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Oct 21

The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪

- PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands
- PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems
- REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods
- RESTORE degraded lands

How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

By 2050, an area of land twice the size of India will be converted to agriculture. A four-pillared approach can ensure the world meets growing demand for food and fuel without destroying the environme...

www.wri.org

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 44m

Yeah that’s a painful one. We have some US states passing similar laws too.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 2h

Yes but skinny and in toastable form

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 2h

To each their own

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

I would absolutely eat those.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

Now, to will this into existence

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

Actual Squirrel Nut Zippers album cover (1998)

Squirrel Nut Zippers album cover for Perennial Favorites (1998). The font and vibe are old-timey, like from the 19th or early 20th century. There are pictures of flowers and what appears to be a head of green cabbage.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

Aha. I did not know these existed. I guess I just reinvented them

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

It’s mostly forgotten at this point, but the Dessicated Vegetables got their start as an opening act for the Glistening Meats

Erin @biscuit.quest · 14h

It’s a Saturday night in October, which means it’s time for the Glistening Meats™️ of SEC football commercials

Super close up of a glistening cheeseburger on a TV

Super close up of what appears to be a glistening barbecue sandwich

Super close up of a fried chicken sandwich with cheese and bacon. All glistening.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

Right but thinner so they go in the toaster rather than the microwave.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t like the sweet-savory mix idea, but I would totally try savory-only Pop-Tart flavors.

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Mar 21

Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts (2016-2016): Smoky, salty, bacon-flavored pastries, filled with a maple-brown sugar-pancake syrup flavored filling, and topped with vanilla icing and bacon bits-style sprinkles

A blue Pop Tarts box, featuring a pastry with white frosting and browning sprinkles, cut open to reveal a light brown filling. Next to this is a strip of bacon and glass container of syrup

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 13h

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 14h

#ResistanceRoots
#NationalHispanicHeritageMonth

Do you enjoy New Mexico chiles? I know I do. And for that, we can thank Mexican American horticulturist Fabian García, who has been described as the “father of the New Mexican food industry” because of his pioneering work. /1

An array of chiles grown in New Mexico. Photo credit: NewMexico.org.

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 14h

It’s a Saturday night in October, which means it’s time for the Glistening Meats™️ of SEC football commercials

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 22h

and once the network effect is established and all the kids expect to play with robots, the robots you already paid for become pay-per-throw subscription services and start throwing shards of broken glass instead, and you’d love to intervene but you now also have to fill out 20 TPS reports per day

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 22h

Seriously. Put it on the ever-growing “there’s no reason it had to be like this” pile.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer is good at Me

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

peak spirograph performance

Benjamin Cornish @mathematicians-pod.bsky.social · 1d

For any polygon, the maximum number of diagonals that can intersect at a point (that is not the centre) is 7.

#mathsart
#mathsky

Possibly my fact for episode 7 of #Un-NaturalNumbers

math.mit.edu/~poonen/pape...

Figure 1. The 30-gon with its diagonals. There are 16801 in-
terior intersection points: 13800 two line intersections, 2250 three
line intersections, 420 four line intersections, 180 five line intersec-
tions, 120 six line intersections, 30 seven line intersections, and 1
fifteen line intersection.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

here I sit, bereft and fishless, on a cold nonsalmon morning, hummusmaxxing against my will, with nary a marine specimen adorning my *cuts to logo*

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

the world is a really amazing and beautiful place

Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 2d

We love our shape-shifting, color-changing squid wizards in Coral City 🧙‍♂️🦑🔮🦑🧙 #reefsquid #caribbeanreefsquid #squid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #chromatophores #colorchange #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

unfortunately for me, what with the toasted bagel and all, I am not in my salmonmaxxing era this fine morning

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

bagelmaxxing and hummusmaxxing rn

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

been popular for a century or more - finally we have a word that captures the zeitgeist

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

salmonmaxxing tho

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

mais oui

Sebastian Lakner🇺🇦 @sebastianlakner.bsky.social · 1d

In Paris an einem Fahrschein-Automaten wird man über den CO2-Ausstoß informiert.

Grafik an einem Fahrschein-Automaten, die zeigt, dass man mit Zügen nur 3g CO2 je km und Fahrgast ausstößt, mit Bus 36, e-Auto 47, Verbrenner-Auto 108 und Flugzeug 260.

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New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 1d

salmonmaxxing

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Ada Homolova @adahomolova.bsky.social · 1d

Especially for @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social ❤️🐸❤️

How do frogs sound in different languages? Coa, kwak, ribbit .. my favorites are the hungarian frogs that just go brekeke ❤️🐸

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Sebastian Lakner🇺🇦 @sebastianlakner.bsky.social · 1d

In Paris an einem Fahrschein-Automaten wird man über den CO2-Ausstoß informiert.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

The tax goes into effect in 2030 at a low level rising to 2035. My understanding is that if farmers reduce emissions intensity below a certain level they won’t have to pay it. I don’t know if it’s reduced emissions so far; last I heard the policy was still in early stages of implementation

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