Arthur Sears

Just here for my amusement.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Breaking news for anyone still buying fleece:

Wool is vegan.

Stay with me.

The sheep eats the grass. The clover. The herbs. The wildflowers. The diverse, mineral-rich, organically grown plant matter you have been told to base your wardrobe around.

No field ploughed. No pesticide sprayed. No irrigation. Unlike cotton, which is one of the most sprayed crops on earth and drinks a bathtub per t-shirt.

The sheep then, and this is the interesting bit, converts all of that into a keratin fibre that is ninety-seven per cent protein, flame resistant without chemicals, warm while soaking wet, good for thirty years, then rots into soil in one.

She does it with four stomachs. Which are considerably better at the job than the refinery on Teesside.

She does it whether you ask or not. Modern sheep cannot shed. Leave her unshorn and she goes lame under the weight. The haircut is the welfare.

Renewable, annually, forever, off the same animal. No harm. No drilling. No plastic.

The sheep is the mill.

Meanwhile the vegan option is polyester. Cracked out of crude oil, dyed sage green, shedding microplastic every wash into the sea and the fish and eventually back into you.

Every box on your list, ticked by a ewe standing in the rain.

You're welcome.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your risotto is made of methane.

Rice is grown by flooding a field, and the flooding is not incidental, it is the entire method. Standing water keeps oxygen out of the soil. With no oxygen, a particular set of microbes takes over the mud and starts breaking down organic matter without it, and the waste product of that process is methane, which bubbles up through the water and out through the plant's own stem.

Those microbes are archaea. They are the same organisms, doing the same chemistry, as the ones in the cow's rumen.

There is no difference in the gas. There is no difference in the mechanism. A paddy field is a rumen with the lid off, and it works because a farmer deliberately drowned the ground to make it happen.

Rice is somewhere around 8 to 12 per cent of all human methane emissions, depending on whose inventory you read. It is the third biggest agricultural source after cattle, and it is bigger than the entire global sheep and goat population put together.

Nobody has ever been asked to give up rice on a Monday. There is no Rice Free January. No documentary. No supermarket pledge. No fourteen-year-old at the dinner table explaining to her grandfather that his paella is killing the planet.

Because rice is a plant, and plants have been granted permanent moral clearance, and the archaea did not get the memo.

[Arthur Sears @ArthurSears]

@ClaireT13274488 Lord I wish I had seen this before my first 3 marriages 🤣 now I just got to remember it for my last

[Arthur Sears @ArthurSears]

@BeauTinEvrythng @MAGAVoice Are you saying women don’t know what courthouse they applied for a marriage license at?

[Jesse Watters @JesseBWatters]

🚨 VIRAL MOMENT IN L.A. 🚨

Residents are absolutely TORCHING city leaders 😳🔥

“L.A. is a public toilet at this point” 🚽
“All the government has given me is TRAUMA” 😬
“I threw out 3 pairs of shoes from human feces” 👞💩
“Karen Bass has been LYING her butt off” 🤥
The reactions only get crazier… 👀

[Arthur Sears @ArthurSears]

@WheelerRipWA So this means you can just park anywhere, until you think of somewhere else to go, and they can’t tow your vehicle. Sounds like a win win for the motor home and van dwellers 🤣

[Arthur Sears @ArthurSears]

@NickHandres @Ikennect Even if dress weight was half so much of it is loins and roast that the butcher will not grind up for hamburger

[Arthur Sears @ArthurSears]

@ladybistre @aakashgupta Maybe drying in the sun, on the line, in the backyard

[In the Know Idaho @intheknowidaho]

The gas prices update you’ve been waiting for, plus a comparisson between the Idaho pumps and a highly requested Washington spot. 👀🥦

Oil may be high, but Idaho still manages to keep a level head as Washington actively punishes you for purchasing one of the necessities.

This is what you get when a state refuses to tax its citizens into oblivion!! 🇺🇸

[C3 @C_3C_3]

There are 42 states that hold bartenders accountable if the customers they over serve kill someone but 0 states that hold Judges accountable if the criminals they release kill someone.

Insane.

[Arthur Sears @ArthurSears]

@Nas_tech_AI A. WTF is a pichnic?

[OneOutOfFour @OneOutOf4]

The comments 🤣

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Do you remember?

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

How libertarians see election cycles