Also I learned that you can have #horses and #pigs as #ServiceAnimals. One picture showed a dressed up horse with shoes and I'm curious if this is a thing for owners of such animals?
Search for "horse service animal" and you'll find a horse in a plane completely dressed up, which I find odd. Is this for better visibility, or personal preference?
Reading about the history of river regulation for this week's Rare Earth, and you've got to love the practicality of early English laws:
"A statute... from the 12th century declared that English rivers be kept free of obstructions so that a well-fed three year old pig could stand sideways in the stream"
Just in time for Black History Month, state of California wants to occupy #Oakland, and mayor Sheng Thao is "grateful for the help."
This is ultimately a flimsy article, that waves an ambivalent hand at "macroeconomic factors" but salivates all over right wing recall efforts and petty crime hysteria.
Oakland doesn't need a new goon squad, it needs wealth redistribution and genuine democracy.
Oaklandside:
"Newsom sends 120 CHP officers Oakland due to 'alarming' crime"
The really wild thing about this whole initiative is that it already implicitly acknowledges its own failure. Police don't prevent crimes, they don't solve crimes, and they don't produce public safety. If they did, Oakland wouldn't be in the position of making this decision in the first place. Handing over policing to some even less accountable police force will have the same outcome, if not worse.
Likewise, mass surveillance inevitably leads to vulnerability and abuse. City of Oakland couldn't keep their surveillance data safe, so why would handing even more data over to another agency with even shoddier regulation be any better?
Oaklandside:
CHP to control Oakland’s 300-camera vehicle surveillance network
Rancho de la Libertad is most definitely going to be adding some goats to the land in the next year or so, but are also considering pigs (for food self-sufficiency, not land restoration, although their manure is compost, too!).
So, #Pigstodon (if there is such a thing), tell me your experience raising pigs! We'd love to hear from some real human beings what they liked or hated about raising them and if it was worth it!
Wild ‘super pigs’ from Canada are a growing threat to crops, wildlife and pets in the U.S. These 500-pound cranky eating machines are causing economic losses of millions of dollars as they spread Southward.
This looks like a vital new #documentary: about the horrors Smithfield Foods (a pig farming giant) is imposing on on Black North Carolinians - correlating directly to geographies of #slavery