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@thebbvegan We raised pigs. When children were little, they would ride them. All piggies had names & got hugs and love. We processed them at home. One year the girls made sure each pack had the pig’s name on it. We would give thanks to “Romeo” or “tornado” when we cooked them. They loved it

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thefaeriekissedbypixies @carelovefun

4 months ago

@NewsroomGC @NewsroomGC : might want to ensure your National GOV Website links actually function before making live announcements… Link to the actual initiative comes up 404.

carelovefun's tweet photo. @NewsroomGC @NewsroomGC : might want to ensure your National GOV Website links actually function before making live announcements…
Link to the actual initiative comes up 404. https://t.co/2846mibry4

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4 months ago

@tbone1819 @FrancesWiddows1 @Aaronpete_ @UBC https://t.co/pQrCiMn37t

thefaeriekissedbypixies @carelovefun

4 months ago

@Aaronpete_ I LOVE the idea of the UBC-O debate series and had no idea about them!! I have registered my family for the upcoming event in March! Thank you!

thefaeriekissedbypixies @carelovefun

4 months ago

@Aaronpete_ I really appreciated this episode! (All nuanced episodes are awesome, and I have my teens listening to them). “Debate night” at our house reviews big topics, and @Aaronpete_ helps teach my kids HOW to think, not WHAT to think… and how to appreciate inquiry! Thank you Aaron!

thefaeriekissedbypixies @carelovefun

4 months ago

@MattWalshBlog @Aaronpete_ has an extremely well presented episode about Canada’s MAiD program on his podcast “Nuanced”… very much worth a listen for anyone interested in facts and thought-provoking dialogue: https://t.co/JiIfcdPBpA

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5 months ago

We all need more of this…

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5 months ago

@samstein Please listen to this mindfully, in its entirety. Many difficult decisions must be made as a leader. THIS is an Impeccable example of just and equitable leadership. https://t.co/9dE0eAOZyO

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5 months ago

A journalist asks about human rights.

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thefaeriekissedbypixies @carelovefun

5 months ago

@dissidentwest @PrometheanActn … you gave an excellent explanation of this move by trump on your livestream… can you help us all out with a summary?

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Nayib Bukele

@nayibbukele

5 months ago

A journalist asks about human rights.

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5 months ago

@wideawake_media https://t.co/w6CxEBO3VO

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Sama Hoole

@SamaHoole

6 months ago

Scotland's Rewilding Failure 2003: Environmental groups celebrate a major victory in the Scottish Highlands. Large tracts of land are designated for "rewilding." The goal is to restore the landscape to "natural" conditions. Step one: Remove the sheep and cattle that have been grazing there for centuries. The theory is simple. Livestock are "unnatural." Remove them and nature will recover. What actually happens next is documented extensively, though rarely discussed outside specialist ecology circles. Year 1-2: Without grazing, the grass grows tall and rank. Coarse species dominate. The flower diversity that existed under grazing pressure begins declining. Year 3-5: Bracken invasion. Bracken is toxic to most herbivores, so it faced no natural check once livestock were removed. It spreads aggressively, shading out other plants. Biodiversity drops. Year 5-10: Scrub encroachment. Without grazing to control it, woody shrubs spread rapidly. This sounds good - "more trees!" - except it's the wrong kind of succession. Ground-nesting birds that need open grassland lose their habitat. Species like curlew, lapwing, golden plover - all declining. The tick population explodes. Without livestock to host on, they wait in vegetation for deer or birds. Lyme disease cases in surrounding areas increase. Fire risk increases dramatically. Ungrazed vegetation creates massive fuel loads. Summer fires become a serious problem where they were previously rare. Meanwhile, the soil isn't improving. Plant matter isn't being trampled in. No dung to feed soil microbes. The carbon sequestration that grazing provides isn't happening. Year 10+: The land is assessed. Biodiversity has decreased. The landscape is dominated by a few aggressive species instead of the diverse grassland that existed under grazing. The "rewilding" failed to restore what was there before livestock. It created something else - and something worse for most species. Ecologists quietly start reintroducing grazing. Sometimes with native breeds of cattle. Sometimes with Highland cattle specifically selected to mimic wild herbivore behavior. The land begins recovering. The diverse grassland returns. Birds come back. Flowers reappear. The lesson is clear: The British uplands evolved with large herbivores. Before cattle, there were aurochs. Before aurochs, there were other large grazers for millions of years. Removing grazing doesn't restore nature. It disrupts the process that built the ecosystem in the first place. But this story doesn't fit the narrative. So it's not publicized. Environmental groups continue campaigning to remove livestock from hills while the ecological evidence shows this makes things worse. "Rewilding" sounds natural. Until you realize the land evolved being grazed and removing that process is the actual disruption.

SamaHoole's tweet photo. Scotland's Rewilding Failure

2003: Environmental groups celebrate a major victory in the Scottish Highlands. Large tracts of land are designated for "rewilding." The goal is to restore the landscape to "natural" conditions.

Step one: Remove the sheep and cattle that have been grazing there for centuries.

The theory is simple. Livestock are "unnatural." Remove them and nature will recover.

What actually happens next is documented extensively, though rarely discussed outside specialist ecology circles.

Year 1-2: Without grazing, the grass grows tall and rank. Coarse species dominate. The flower diversity that existed under grazing pressure begins declining.

Year 3-5: Bracken invasion. Bracken is toxic to most herbivores, so it faced no natural check once livestock were removed. It spreads aggressively, shading out other plants.
Biodiversity drops.

Year 5-10: Scrub encroachment. Without grazing to control it, woody shrubs spread rapidly. This sounds good - "more trees!" - except it's the wrong kind of succession.

Ground-nesting birds that need open grassland lose their habitat. Species like curlew, lapwing, golden plover - all declining.

The tick population explodes. Without livestock to host on, they wait in vegetation for deer or birds. Lyme disease cases in surrounding areas increase.

Fire risk increases dramatically. Ungrazed vegetation creates massive fuel loads. Summer fires become a serious problem where they were previously rare.

Meanwhile, the soil isn't improving. Plant matter isn't being trampled in. No dung to feed soil microbes. The carbon sequestration that grazing provides isn't happening.

Year 10+: The land is assessed. Biodiversity has decreased. The landscape is dominated by a few aggressive species instead of the diverse grassland that existed under grazing.

The "rewilding" failed to restore what was there before livestock. It created something else - and something worse for most species.

Ecologists quietly start reintroducing grazing.
Sometimes with native breeds of cattle. Sometimes with Highland cattle specifically selected to mimic wild herbivore behavior.

The land begins recovering. The diverse grassland returns. Birds come back. Flowers reappear.

The lesson is clear: The British uplands evolved with large herbivores. Before cattle, there were aurochs. Before aurochs, there were other large grazers for millions of years.

Removing grazing doesn't restore nature. It disrupts the process that built the ecosystem in the first place.

But this story doesn't fit the narrative. So it's not publicized.

Environmental groups continue campaigning to remove livestock from hills while the ecological evidence shows this makes things worse.

"Rewilding" sounds natural. Until you realize the land evolved being grazed and removing that process is the actual disruption.

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thefaeriekissedbypixies @carelovefun

10 months ago

@thatsKAIZEN awesome! I have just this week begun a weekly “communications night” at our house to teach my girls the importance of purposeful info gathering, curious conversations, and debate… clear thinker looks like it could help with ideas for that! Do you have resources for kids too? Thx

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Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

10 months ago

🇺🇸WHEN BULLETS MATTER LESS THAN THE CHEERS: AMERICA’S TURNING POINT TOWARD HATE The news of Charlie Kirk’s shooting had barely settled into the air when the real story began. It wasn’t the sirens echoing in the night or the medics pressing their hands against the wound. It wasn’t even the crack of a single shot that ended the life of a man whose greatest weapon was his voice. It was what came next - not from the street, but from our screens. The sound of cheering. Millions of Americans picked up their phones not to mourn, not to pray, not even to pause, but to revel in his death. On TikTok, people danced in celebration. On Instagram, stories turned his blood into a punchline. On X, strangers called for more assassinations. The bullet silenced a man. But the cheers revealed a hatred that could consume a nation. This is hatred that runs deeper than politics, deeper than ideology, deeper even than the arguments that Charlie lived to make. It is a hatred that strips away the humanity of those we disagree with until all that remains are caricatures, villains, targets. Neighbors are no longer neighbors. Citizens are no longer citizens. They are enemies. They are the prey. And once a society embraces that view, violence is no longer seen as tragedy. It becomes mission. America has endured bitter divisions before, yet its promise was always that unity could survive difference - that one nation, under God, indivisible, could weather even the fiercest storms of politics and war. But the reaction to Charlie’s death shows how fragile that promise has become. Because this country is not just divided anymore. It is being poisoned by hate. And hate spreads. For years, conservatives quietly braced for the aggression of the left, keeping opinions to themselves, lowering their voices in classrooms and boardrooms, pretending neutrality for the sake of safety. But the dam may now be breaking. At a vigil, only hours after Charlie’s killing, a man who screamed “F*** Charlie Kirk” was beaten. When has that ever happened before? Charlie Kirk was not a lawmaker signing policies that destroyed livelihoods. He was not a president commanding armies or issuing orders that shaped the fate of nations. He was a commentator, a debater, a man whose battlefield was ideas. And yet, for daring to debate, he was silenced by a bullet. If the response to that is not grief, not silence, not even uncomfortable reflection, but celebration - then America is not simply facing the loss of one man. It is staring into the abyss of losing itself.