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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · Apr 3

This one is also my avatar, Sheesha, my whippador girl:

A black whippador girl dog on a light brown dirt shoreline with calm light brown water behind her. She's facing the camera and only her two front legs are visible, and she's frolicking, with her front legs off the ground. He ears are up and a bit askew, showing white hair inside of them. Her name is Sheesha.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 22m

The one that gets me is that most of the citrus fruits you know are hybrids.

From the Wikipedia entry for the genius "Citrus": "Many cultivated Citrus species are natural or artificial hybrids of a small number of core ancestral species, including the citron, pomelo, and mandarin. Natural and cultivated citrus hybrids include commercially important fruit such as oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, and some tangerines. The multiple hybridisations have made the taxonomy of Citrus complex."

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francis futurama @cheapneonshades.coys.social · 25m

there's only four vegetables

nightshade vegetables (and fruits technically)

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tytalkstv.bsky.social @tytalkstv.bsky.social · 27m

I was shocked, too, but I guess it makes sense when you consider these two animals are also the same species.

Great dane and chihuahua together on a couch.

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Ahab ApologhOoOooOost 👻 @ahabapologist.bsky.social · 27m

Yeah, it's like how all domesticated dogs are the same species. Nature is silly

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MoxieGrrl @moxiegrrl.myatproto.social · 28m

oh man, I love it when people find this out for the first time. Welcome to what genetic engineering has *actually* done for food. (It's also why brussels sprouts taste better now.)

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 16m

OK, this kind of gets up my nose: Words have meanings based on context, and in the context of cooking, "vegetable" has a pretty solid meaning. It doesn't mean anything botanically, because botanists don't divide plants like that, but that doesn't mean the word is completely worthless.

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 18m

I am a GMO! (CAR T-cell therapy. Some of my genes come out of a laboratory in California.)

Just once, I want to meet some anti-GMO fanatic and drop that on them, just to see what happens.

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 29m

"Sure, Lisa, a wonderful, magical vegetable."

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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 29m

Yeah, humans have really gotten *a lot* of mileage out of some plants, especially Brassica.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 33m

i'm sorry WHAT

Wikipedia screenshot

Brassica oleracea, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form, is a plant of the family Brassicaceae. The species originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated. It has many common cultivars used as vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, Brussels sprout, collard, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 30m

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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▲ndruscary @andrusi.bsky.social · 59m

There are actually 100 sineaters, two for each state.

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 29m

> It is also worth emphasising once again that nationalist feeling can be purely negative. There are, for example, Trotskyists who have become simply enemies of the U.S.S.R. without developing a corresponding loyalty to any other unit.

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 29m

I call them "photonegative MAGAs" and this ideology the "crazy ex school of history": "Everything evil in the world is the direct result of That Evil Asshole" and they refuse to stop basing their entire personality around hating that one country. Per Orwell, it's a form of nationalism:

George Orwell: Notes on Nationalism

Notes on Nationalism, the essay of George Orwell. First published: May 1945 by/in Polemic, GB, London

orwell.ru

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 1h

like every goddamn thing in history, the harder you try to pull up the roots of a given thing, the deeper you find they go. did the nazis take inspiration from america? yes! and from russian antisemitism, and from the european wars of religion, and from roman citizenship laws, and from-

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 1h

sometimes it feels like people, especially american leftists, believe that the united states of america is the final boss of history, that it is the sole nexus of every evil in the world, that it single-handedly sustains every evil humanity has faced for millennia

sorry. it's not that easy.

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 1h

we all live on this planet together, affecting one another, and always have, for good and ill. we will never stop affecting one another, there will never be a clean break from history. making the world better will be slow, hard, worthy work.

you are looking for cracks in the mortar of a cliffside.

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 1h

"jim crow inspired the nuremberg laws" is a corruption of what actually happened, which is that nazi lawyers looked at jim crow laws hoping to mine its justifications and language for the creation of legal race categories, and by and large outright failed

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 1d

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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By quote-posting:
Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 1h

The Trashwomen - Dragula [US / Surf - Garage] (1992)
https://redd.it/eu0teh
https://youtu.be/iu921JrKQwM

The Trashwomen - Dragula [US / Surf - Garage] (1992)

youtu.be

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 3h

Behold the striking colors of the blue-spotted stingray! Its bright spots are a warning to onlookers that it's venomous—& if its colors aren’t enough to ward off foes, it’s equipped w/ a tail that can inject a lethal dose of toxins.
Photo: Derek Keats, CC-BY-2.0, Wikimedia Commons

A photo of a blue spotted stingray. The animal is a dark greenish gray with a multitude of vibrant blue spots. Its body is flat and pancake-shaped.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 1h

This isn't a defense. You're saying that you're ok with Australia's indigenous population dying sooner than white people because the costs of giving them the same access to healthcare makes their premature deaths an acceptable sacrifice to make healthcare cheaper for you.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 1h

These people would have no problem accepting that foods and cultures routinely cross-contaminate if it weren't in the context of Jews. And they wouldn't be making jokes about a culture being fake or appropriative if it weren't for that, too.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

people become terrorists when they get engineering degrees, offering us a simple solution.

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 2h

It's taken for granted that when people are in bad enough circumstances, they become terrorists because they have nothing else to live for, but actually that doesn't seem to be the pattern at all.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 2h

It's taken for granted that when people are in bad enough circumstances, they become terrorists because they have nothing else to live for, but actually that doesn't seem to be the pattern at all.

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