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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...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 3h

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6-7 (meme) - Wikipedia

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 3h

#goals

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t even imagine what an alternative explanation would be

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 3h

It appears that the youngs have arranged the birthday balloons at the store

A store display of birthday balloons with 6 and 7 arranged next to each other on every hook. 1-5 and 8-up are all hidden on other hooks or behind the 6s and 7s.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not even sure! I know there are a lot of cool CCC-built trails at Acadia National Park in Maine and that it was a nationwide program so…

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

Why not both dot gif

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

This is Maryland-coded

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 10h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8h

Hiking all of the trails built in the U.S. by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) between 1933-1942

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 10h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

To my tablet!
I’ll inscribe now
My complaint in full,

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

#ScansionSky

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

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Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 13h

Hee hee haw haw, what’s so funny miss parrotfish?? 🤭🦜🐟 #redtailparrotfish #parrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #smile #livelaughlove #goofball #buckteeth #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 13h

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

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 14h

Muscari botryoides, an escaped Grape Hyacinth, blooming along the Coal Seam trail.

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 12 🌿

A cluster of blue urn-shaped flowers with white mouths

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 15h

Yes but skinny and in toastable form

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 15h

To each their own

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19h

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 · 1d

I would absolutely eat those.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Now, to will this into existence

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

#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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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

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Erin @biscuit.quest · 1d

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 · 1d

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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