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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 9h

I am a little sorry to be a downer about these protests but my desire to cooperate with liberals died for the last time watching them hand over anarchists and black activists to the police in 2020. I’m afraid I will not be sharing in the spirit of progressive patriotism or whatever.

muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 9h

So what’s the plan when next time the fascism is a little less senile and a little more competent?

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Elisabeth Nicula @elisabethnicula.bsky.social · 10h

I guess the difference of opinion i'm having right now is i never really think trump is more than virulently symptomatic of the real problem which is empire. A show of "reasonableness" that settles people down about what's happening broadly is in service of that

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 18h

Afghan war rug but the planes are dropping deuces instead of bombs

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all are worthless my god

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they are carrying American flags, but not attacking police with them.

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🚨 D I C K S Q U A D 🚨 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to engage in actions that don't sit well with you, but never let some rando who bought themselves a high vis vest turn over another protester to the cops. A lot of the time I've just had them getting in my face for openly filming cops, saying I was escalating? Wdym??

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll tell you what — you don’t have to keep your hands in your pocket when you watch ‘peace police’ tackle a graffiti artist, or when you view someone grabbing a kid for yelling at a cop.

You and your friends can grab those MFers back. Their actions are violent. You can, and should, intervene.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll tell you what — you don’t have to keep your hands in your pocket when you watch ‘peace police’ tackle a graffiti artist, or when you view someone grabbing a kid for yelling at a cop.

You and your friends can grab those MFers back. Their actions are violent. You can, and should, intervene.

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate everyone who is showing up to these things and making sure they get Cool.

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 1d

We actually have a longstanding success metric for large-scale protests in this country: the number of intact Starbucks windows by the end of the evening. Accept no substitutes.

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 1d

King

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 3d

Good. Also this case involved an FBI agent, not just ICE. So the public would be correct in their analysis.

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Occurrence @nowhere-entity.bsky.social · 3d

bit.ly/help-mohamed

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 3d

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 4d

Trying a few different bed prep methods this fall. In the background, my “traditional” cardboard to be topped with compost using a no-dig method, but in the front I dug and turned in organic matter to about 8” and using a peas and oats cover crop to build up some biomass for spring planting.

A long freshly dug terraced garden bed with rows of freshly planted pea and oats seeds. In the background is a line of brown cardboard on another bed, with mature vegetables behind it. In the background, a fence and a row of old manzanitas.

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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 4d

this lady has been flipping out about defending Newsom or whatever who cares. what's important is how how she shares "screenshots" of an interview

Itsgreek2me2 @itsgreek2m2.bsky.social · Aug 19

You know you, people are really picky and petty one little issue and you all turn and run. It’s amazing to me that you think there’s a perfect candidate out there that will go and do every single thing you care about you misinterpreted his stance on trans people.GO READ WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID….

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 4d

Alt-text final boss

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R Crumb Warehouse @rcrumbwarehouse.bsky.social · 4d

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 5d

Hood River Valley, Oregon, has an astonishing number of major food exports for a county of less than 25,000 people. Of course I am referring to apples, pears, Tofurky, and Juantonio’s (ne Juanitas) tortilla chips.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 7d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 6d

images of National Guard units just standing around w captions like "lol pointless" imo miss the mark on what the troop deployments are intended to do; the goal is for troops to terrorize homeless or protect ICE while they terrorize immigrants, if they're doing nothing, that's still projecting force

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 6d

Grazing can be a conservation tool and I’m not a militant vegan, but statements like that above make me feel insane. Cows were brought to this region barely two centuries ago, and along with them came wildlife entangling fences, guns, railroads, and then, later, asphalt.

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe pinning this on “animal agriculture” is unfair, but we’re talking here about a fundamentally colonial enterprise: raising beef cattle in the American West.

Still, I believe in ranching. I don’t see it as a choice between ranching and a gentler world, but rather between ranching and asphalt. A good ranch preserves land for untold umwelts. I feel lucky to be surrounded by cattle and the multitude of life in these fields: the porcupine trundling through alfalfa, the sandhill cranes leaving prints across the muddy banks.

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 6d

I do appreciate that this rancher is wrestling with the contradictions inherent in the ethics of animal agriculture, but the problem is that those contradictions might be unresolvable if you do much more than scratch the surface.

www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...

What’s it like to be a cow? - High Country News

A cattle rancher reflects on her occupation and the growing movement to understand how other animals see the world.

www.hcn.org

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muckmaster @plantwarlock.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone likes hiking!

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