Renee

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Subsisting off the coconut mono-culture of this tiny island.
Twitter: Renee@Varmint_Vittles

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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🌊Make a splash this Plastic Free July! Dive into the Ecochallenge with us and help create a wave of positive change. ♻️Join our Aquarium team, learn how to live plastic free or reduce your plastic use, and let’s sea how we can make a difference together!💧Sign up at mbayaq.co/ecochallenge

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For Disability Pride Month I’m once again begging for more artists to start considering accessibility and add alt text to your images. It helps low/no vision folks, neurodivergent folks, and more. Plus alt text shows up in searches! There’s a toggle in settings so you won’t forget. 👇

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The States Project is one of the best bang-for-your-buck options for your campaign donations. Even beyond it, though, state legislatures deserve your attention. Next time you're tempted to send money to whoever's going to lose to MTG, send it instead to a contested state leg seat.

Looking for one person to join me today in donating to flipping both statehouses in Arizona to create a new trifecta for democracy. This is the smartest political donation we can make this year.

Flipping Arizona | The States Projectwww.grapevine.org Learn more about Flipping Arizona such as its mission, community impact, and how you can join or make a one-time online donation.

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Had we listened to Anita Hill, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to the women sexually abused by Trump, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to Christine Blasey Ford, we wouldn't be here today.

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They’re onto me…..

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Here's the thing, there are so many fights being fought right now just to maintain the status quo nevermind fixing what ails us.

The Enshitification of everything. You buy a rain jacket, the zipper breaks. You learn there are PFOs in waterproof things. You learn it’s absorbed thru skin. You buy a hose. It melds to the faucet in a short time. You buy a toaster, it breaks in 6 months. It’s everything. Nonstop. It’s Exhausting.

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Such a neat story. (My dad can smell pregnancy, often before the parent knows.) www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/m...

The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’swww.nytimes.com She first noticed the scent on her husband. Now her abilities are helping unlock new research in early disease detection.

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I don’t know why AI needs gigantic amounts of energy to come up with really shitty takes when most of y’all seem to do it just with burritos and tequila

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Reminder: every lawyer you know personally—your cousin, your neighbor, whatever—has more experience practicing law than Kavanaugh. His career was (a) lackey for Ken Starr (b) second/third chair on briefs for clients of a big firm. Zero trials. Handful of oral arguments.

there's a lot that's disqualifying about Kavanaugh, but the harder question is what's *qualifying* about him bsky.app/profile/seth...

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i don't find other races or genders or sexualities so terrifying i need to bulk up on guns and armor and legislate them out of existence because that's some real pussy ass behavior

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Watching Sandi's Wood, about woman saying she couldn't sit around hearing about climate change. She wanted to do something. So she bought a woodland. She's restoring it. "I can't change everything," she said, "but I can change this little piece." I burst into tears. I've said this about my garden.

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walipini greenhouses are interesting. They're greenhouses that are partially subterranean. The average temperature one meter below ground is about a constant 55F, ~12C.

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A lot of people will, when building a walipini, extend the trench in a big loop and put a duct there. The air inside this duct will stay at a constant 55 degrees. Pumping this air into their home provides cooling in summer, heating in winter, with almost no effort.

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Looks like I'll be on All In with Chris Hayes tonight to talk about this. Let's say ... 8:25ish eastern.

Threw together a quick post from the book here: open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Thou Shalt Notopen.substack.com When I saw today’s news that Louisiana has become the first state to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, I thought it sounded a lot like the 1950s campaign to ...

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From last week's trip to the Smoky mountains, a few minutes of synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) in the forest undergrowth.

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I'm also entering an age where death starts to really take out more people you know; and Boomers aren't living as long as their parents did. And Boomers' kids won't live as long as THEM, etc. So there's like this generational death accordion where we're all smooshing closer together.

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Thinking again how as a society we're rarely encourage to think about and embrace "enough"

The “Hitman” is any incels wet dream. I suppose that’s why I’m not a fan of the movie.

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The latest numbers show inflation cooling. But rent prices are still high and are the main driver of inflation now. Just so happens that recent investigations have found evidence of algorithmic price-fixing by major corporate landlords. High interest rates won't fix this.

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ICYMI, I took a deep look at the battle over remote work and what it means for disability employment — including a discussion of how occupational segregation determines who actually benefits from remote work.

Reworking Remotewww.yesmagazine.org Making workplaces more inclusive requires normalizing accommodations like those offered at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Make a band milder: Puns and Proses

I’ll post this for the one out there, doing the extremely difficult work of conservation. www.sharktrust.org/shark-threats

What is overfishing?www.sharktrust.org Overfishing happens when fish are removed faster than they can be replenished. But why are sharks so vulnerable?

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This link shows the book attachment, and you can also get the iPad attachment separately. I like this base (the G2) because it's heavier (good for balancing heavy books) and has wheels. Only complaint is it's a bit of a pain to swap between the iPad and book attachments.

Our New LEVO Portable G2 Book Holder Floor Standlevostore.com Our New LEVO G2 Book Holder Floor Stand is a flexible and portable new way to enjoy your books both indoors, outdoors. Read in bed, in your sofa, or standing.

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Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia & the Democratic Republic of Congo now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy. A further 40 countries generated at least 50% of their electricity from renewable sources. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewab...

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energywww.independent.co.uk Scientists say we have reached an ‘irreversible tipping point’ that will see fossil fuels phased out

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I recommend reading The Tainted Cup!!! This reversal was one of the delightful bits of that one. amzn.to/3yPo1UA

I’m trying to think if I even know of ONE “female genius” that was ever described as or lived as the male equivalent. As in, endearingly referred to as scatterbrained, a posee of caretakers & sycophants, idiot savant, someone always ready to make a meal & clean up after her at any time 🤷‍♀️

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