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...

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Sondra @aggiegrad03.bsky.social · 5h

Prepping stuff for Italian veggie subs. Romaine that I’ll toss in vinaigrette, fresh mozzarella, roasted red peppers, tomatoes, banana peppers, avocado, Calabrian chili mayo, pickled red onions, & pesto made w/basil & chard from the garden. Roasted potatoes & asparagus as a side. So excited. ☺️🍜🍽️

A plate with cut veggie toppings next to a bowl of Calabrian pepper mayo, a bowl of pesto, a jar of pickled red onions and a bag of Martin’s Hoagie Rolls.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

Yes hi hello

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I wonder if people are paying attention to how much their doom scrolling is cutting into time they used to use to read books

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

“Hits different in your 40s than childhood” also describes Paul Simon’s entire Graceland album (although those lyrics are actually good so wouldn’t score high in this other game)

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

Wow I’d forgotten all of the non chorus lyrics to this one

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

Oh wow I cannot name a single lyric of that song outside Ma Ma Ma My Sharona despite hearing that song probably at least 1,000 times

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

o no

earworm

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

Fast forward to 1997 to Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind’s sunny, upbeat earworm about doing crystal meth

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

Ha, another reply was similar “most Red Hot Chili Peppers songs post 1991”

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

I end up doing a lot of muting or unfollowing if people turn to only posting about US politics. Like, I’m swimming in it day to day anyway…

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

Somehow completely missing this in my feed but maybe that’s why people don’t want to play the good music bad lyrics game????

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6h

While we’re at it, let’s just retire “Every Breath You Take” from radio play forever

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6h

Interesting. The OP I quoted kinda sounds like that.

I think I’m music-first - there are a lot of 80s/90s songs I grew up with but only “really” heard all the lyrics once I googled them (or saw them in album cover).

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6h

And while we’re on songs from 1999, Mambo Number 5 is another contender in this category

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6h

Ha I have that RHCP CD and it always reminds me of graduating high school in 1999. I like about half the songs on it although yeah the lyrics aren’t super defensible

Just thought of another: Life by Des’ree

Mmm-mm, yeah, yeah
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Oh life, oh life

I'm afraid of the dark
'Specially when I'm in a park
And there's no one else around
Ooh, I get the shivers
I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo doo doo doo
Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo doo doo

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6h

OK, game:

What song, in your opinion, has the highest music-to-lyrics quality ratio? That is, the music is catchy or even potentially good—but the lyrics are terrible?

Starter pick: “Hey, Soul Sister” by Train

Adam ✨ @thirdsandsixths.bsky.social · 11h

are you a music-first listener or a lyrics-first listener? I’m a music-first listener so I always judge a song based on whether I like how it sounds and most of the time idgaf about the lyrics

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

idk, all roads lead there

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

United States: pork

United Kingdom: pork

Australia: pork

Canada: pork

FAOSTAT: pigmeat

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

(very probably yes)

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 11h

are you getting enough protein???

Chart showing Per capita meat consumption by type, United States, 1961 to 2022

Per capita meat consumption is broken down by types of meat, and is measured in kilograms per person per year.

Our World in Data

Data source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2024) - Learn more about this data

Note: Data does not include fish and seafood. Figures show meat supply and do not correct for waste at the household level and, so they may not directly reflect the quantity of food consumed by a given individual.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumption-by-type-kilograms-per-year?country=~USA

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 11h

are you getting enough protein???

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Adam ✨ @thirdsandsixths.bsky.social · 11h

are you a music-first listener or a lyrics-first listener? I’m a music-first listener so I always judge a song based on whether I like how it sounds and most of the time idgaf about the lyrics

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Nice!

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Rivka Fidel, PhD @rivkafidel.bsky.social · 1d

Sphinx Moth enjoying some Desert Bells

Hummingbird-like moth hovers over vibrant blue flowers with round green leaves

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Dhilrukshi Pathman @dhilrukshi.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite quote:

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

My iPhone does this sometimes, because of dust in the charging port, and I gently scrape dust out of the port with a wooden toothpick

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

sorry, this one was niche

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

Credit: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty

Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's giant slalom race, jumps in celebration on the podium flanked by second placed Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, left, and third placed Switzerland's Loic Meillard, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.(AP)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.