TrixyKnitter

Anarchist. Radical. Chef. Prison abolitionist, border abolitionist. ACAB. Malcontent. IWW member. Dog mom. Free 🇵🇸 Hurricane Helene survivor. 💖

[jordan @JordanUhl]

As a key salesman of the Iraq War, who better to weigh in on “imposing alien rule” on indigenous inhabitants…

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Yes who could’ve popularized the idea that @elonmusk destroyed USAID

[aLec robBins @alecrobbins]

anatomy of a fall completely fine procedural but the choice of him listening to that calypso cover of P.I.M.P. while he died is soooo funny

[𝙢𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡. @vvksource]

小猫 & 小狗🐶🐱

#zhanglinghe #tianxiwei

[Joey Schumacher @joeyshoemaker14]

The thing nobody tells you about moving to Massachusetts is that going to Market Basket will be the Best and Worst experience you will ever have in your life

[DEI speedwagon (all eyes on Cuba) 🌹🇵🇸 〽️ @uhshanti]

fun fact Jagannath is the origin of the word “juggernaut,” also possibly the origin of Gritty

[Trashed Panda @RailroadRaccoon]

I don't think it get's talked about enough just how extensive the Boston Commuter rail network is:

[offseason enthusiast @FightMass]

saugus, massachusetts

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented.

My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

[Big Daddy✨ 🇵🇸🇨🇩 @FayFay_M]

Cults require too much ‘together’ time, and as a person who enjoys their solitude and not listening to a man speak for too long, I know I would be excommunicated within a week.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Jesus CHRIST

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows. Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold.

Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away.

Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other.

One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018.

By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like remnant prairie.

Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil. Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold.

This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space. The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050.

The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground, which is ecologically dead.

The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain. It's just a different seed mix.

[big dawg @formerlygossip]

Friendly reminder that New England is the only region with an actual name. Every other region is named based on their relative position to New England.

New England is the center of the US.

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

We are literally watching Orangutans and other rainforest species disappear before our eyes and do nothing… but dump funding into this abomination 🙄

[Bobson🌱Dugnutt @f_a_infinityy]

It always comes back to exploiting Appalachia

[Alex Skopic @alexskopic]

Wrote about Gluesenkamp Perez's perverse crusade against sea lions, and other such cases:

[Grey Wolff @GWolff815]

The landscape along I26 coming into West Asheville, NC from Tennessee is covered in red poppies. It's stunning.