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joelmeador

@joelmeador@kolektiva.social

he/him, plant enthusiast, tech worker :anarchism:

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ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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Time to watch "Station Eleven" again.

joelmeador,
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@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs always a good time to rewatch it 🫡

joelmeador, to random
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Grow your garden this year.

Potatoes, kale, whatever you feel like. Share with your neighbors.

When it's fall go be a squirrel and collect acorns and hickory and walnuts and chestnuts. Learn how to process and cook them all.

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Reminder that Joe Biden's stolen 2020 primary "win" was already locked in before America's first confirmed covid case and before the George Floyd uprising went global. The political landscape changed so wildly between January and November that year, it was unrecognizable. In other words, the last time anyone left of the nazis got any real political say in this country, was a pandemic, several wars, and at least two genocides ago. It is not unreasonable at all to point out that Biden represents nobody, and if he had had to face an open primary in late 2016 he already would have lost - let alone this year. The "Democratic" party is a ideologically ossified cabal of neolib austerity ghouls and rebranded neocon warhawks, and they don't give a single solitary tin SHIT about your consent to be governed.

But yeah, bully me with the threat of what Trump will do! That'll definitely make me fall in line! 🙄🙄🙄

joelmeador,
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@CosmicTrigger i don't feel like motherfucker even faced an open primary in 2020. more to me like the whole of humanity got ratfucked into biden's bullshit and here we are getting mass gaslit out the overton window

joelmeador, to art
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I made a fairly bad-looking steel leaf in blacksmithing class last night and it has more artistic merit than the petabytes of bullshit LLMs are pumping out every week

joelmeador,
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see this here I made it with a hammer

a white person's hand holding a steel leaf, you can see striations in the surface and some red oxidation

pleaseclap, to random
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The special weather statement for central indiana right now:

  • Record lows expected
  • 40mph gusts and sustained high winds
  • Also btw there's a wildfire risk because it's low humidity and spring isn't fully here yet so the entire landscape is exposed dry dead stuff and half of us smoke cigarettes
joelmeador,
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@pleaseclap I liked the last sentence which was and I'm paraphrasing "if you have agricultural interests, lol lmao"

joelmeador,
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@pleaseclap I mean yeah, we have been in drought almost constantly for like 3y

joelmeador,
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@pleaseclap Honestly just the act of trying to grow a fucking lettuce or tree helps so much in seeing where we are in the climate weirding. Looking at weather reports every day and drought monitors and realizing it's not "normal" that 2 of the last 4 years we've gotten like bingo rain for multiple summer months in a row.

Like many other denials if you never leave your safehouse it's ignorable, If you are on a bike or in your yard or walking around and the AQI is 180 because of wildfire smoke in Indiana, like… shit is not going alright.

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    joelmeador,
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    @rose

    Is it anything like this? https://github.com/nopjmp/vscode-fairyfloss

    it sounds cool

    ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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    joelmeador,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs I have 3 big signs in my yard signaling "I am doing this on purpose" - so far no problems!

    joelmeador,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs omg that sucks

    c_9, to Toronto
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    This piece about Uber by @pluralistic contains just about the tightest and clearest description of how Toronto got where it is today.

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/29/geometry-hates-uber/#toronto-the-gullible

    joelmeador,
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    @c_9 @pluralistic This is very similar to the issues in some US cities, too. The one where I live is the state capital and a city-county combined govt. The State we live in often overrides local law and municipal votes, so even if the people who live here manage to claw something good out of the suburban voters, we still get punished by far right state lawmakers. it fuckin sucks. we cannot have nice things.

    joelmeador,
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    @tonydewan @c_9 @pluralistic Yes, and reading any account of the process from the start of this bill, all you hear is "the vast majority of citizens who showed up supported BRT" at every hearing about this. Like Cop City, the people in the majority just do not give a single fuck about governing for the affected citizens. They care about the people paying them in the backroom.

    alissaazar, to random
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    More than three years after consistent exposure to teargas, my periods are still beyond fucked up and I go through an immense amount of pain that I didn’t experience before. I’m on day three and I can’t even drive. And I should be so lucky... I know people who can no longer have children following repetitive exposure to chemical weapons, and a slew of other serious medical conditions/problems that people didn’t have before. At the time when numerous people were sharing similar experiences there seemed to be so much interest in researching what State sanctioned chemical warfare was doing to civilians and the effects it has... now? Seemingly nothing. I know this type of research takes time but doesn’t seem like anyone cares anymore.

    joelmeador,
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    @alissaazar I remember the smells in-person and folks talking about this but I haven't anything much about it from anyone since I left the bird site. All I know is a few class action lawsuits happened and got settled around it, but that doesn't help anyone with long-term consequences or knowing what they would even be. I wonder if there's anything out of hong kong given how much gas was being used everywhere. I don't have the research chops to find out.

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    joelmeador,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs lol

    watching at first i thought grohl was actually playing but nope, he is also just fucking around

    i never saw this before, thank you for this gift

    joelmeador, to random
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    you ever think about how mayor pete ratfucked us into genocide joe so he could get a cush job in middle management?

    also how he is in the like probably 5th most important US position when it comes to containing climate weirding and he's just doing jackshit except making bank?

    is this a good take? probably not, i haven't doen much analysis, all bad vibes here

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    joelmeador,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs the post-apoc gear gang loves hand-powered crank operation

    _L1vY_, to random
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    It's not that everyone I know who's had Covid has had some subsequent dreadful health issue, it's that everyone I know with some (new) dreadful health issue seems to have gotten it as a result of having Covid.

    joelmeador,
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    @ClimateJenny @ai6yr @_L1vY_ I can imagine a public health organization doing a humourous but more informative version of this to help change minds about covid precautions. holy fuck this is spot on tho

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    joelmeador,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs Agreed.

    My take would be copyright has been used as a proxy for lack of consent in a lot of ways and violating copyright by LLM scrapers is not a big deal because of the copyright violation in itself but clearly it is violating a lot of artist's consent, which I do not like at all.

    I don't know if this is a good take, but it's how I've felt as people talk about this for the last few months.

    quixoticgeek, to random
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    There is a package in Debian called "fontconfig" that gets installed by default in the most basic of console only installs. And I can't work out why. Wtf is using it ?!?

    joelmeador,
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    @quixoticgeek Ghostscript or some other command-line file processing util maybe installing it as a dependency?

    est, to random
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    okay in Boyfriend Dungeon you can date a cat

    but like

    how far does that storyline...go? like I'm worried

    joelmeador,
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    @est

    it's fine, the cat relationship is not sexual

    joelmeador, to random
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    SO I think TX just declared civil war?

    https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Border_Statement_1.24.2024.pdf

    joelmeador, to Plants
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    Garden and Plant Picture Thread Head 🧵

    joelmeador,
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    March 2020

    Covid is nipping at our heels at this point, but lockdowns and things haven't started yet.

    I finish construction of the raised bed with some inputs from my own compost and some commercial soil.

    dark brown compost with lots of organic material atop a cardboard sheet
    a partially constructed raised bed with a rechargeable drill sitting on it
    a completely constructed raised bed with nothing inside yet

    joelmeador,
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    March 2020

    This is how I constructed the soil inside. At the bottom I put some geotextile fabric. I probably wouldn't do it again if unless I had gophers or something.

    Then I put lots of partly broken down sticks and rotting logs. In retrospect I should have sawed or axed a few of the bigger pieces apart before I put them in there.

    Then I put the sod I removed from ground around the raised bed on top of leaves and the logs. Then finally I did layers of soil and compost and straw.

    IIRC it took about 25 wheelbarrows of soil to finish this off. I was real tired.

    a raised bed partialy filled with logs sticks, grass and leaves
    a half-full raised bed with sod showing at its top layer
    a wheelbarrow next to a mostly full raised bed that is covered in straw and soil

    joelmeador,
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    March 2020

    Finally I finished off the raised bed as it was getting dark. So the easy (for me) part of growing food was done.

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