Peter DePere

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The quote of the century.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

All the memes & ai videos (FROM TRUMP) of him leading the charge, fighting with our founding fathers, & riding lions.

And in real life the pussy hides in a catering truck while leaving everyone else to die.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Flew to Afghan. w/different president on AF1. An insurgent missile struck Bagram runway before landing. Weather was bad so planned Marine 1 trip to Kabul scrubbed. We were w/president the whole time. Our safety wasn’t treated any differently from his. We were never decoys.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

My friend Jonathan Fuller took this picture of ducks in a dried up pond on Wallasea Island, Essex.
It’s heartbreaking.
I will never ever forgive the media, politicians, the oil industry and the moronic fools on social media who have been complicit in this climate crisis.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

ONLY IN AMERICA DO THEY DENY CHILDREN FREE LUNCH WHILE FORCING THEM TO READ ABOUT JESUS FEEDING THE HUNGRY 🙄

[Peter DePere @DeperePeter]

@LiamCelt03t0 @PhilGordonDC Moron.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Reminder: progressive is mainstream

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

How about we worry about the Colorado River drying up and forget the Reflecting Pool for a minute. One is decorative. The other provides water for 40 million people.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Dr. Fauci spent his life trying to save children, Trump spent his life trying to f*ck them. You’re going after the wrong guy, GOP. @realDonaldTrump

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

People with 6 teeth defending people with 8 yachts is one of the greatest political achievements in modern history.

[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

Every time egg prices spike, someone posts "just get backyard chickens" like it's a financial hack...except it's not. Your backyard eggs WILL cost you more than store-bought, probably for years (or forever). But chickens might still be one of the best things you ever add to your garden, and the eggs are the least interesting reason why...

Let's do the math first so we can stop pretending this is about saving money:

A basic coop and run for 4 to 6 hens runs $300 to $800 if you build it yourself, easily $1,000+ for a prefab. Mine was $12k but I'm stupid and MAXXED my coop. Chicks cost $3 to $5 each, but they don't lay for 5 to 6 months while you're still getting them through the chick -> pullet -> hen stage

Feed runs about $15 to $20 per 50-pound bag, and a small flock will go through one every month or so. Add bedding, feeders, waterers, a heat lamp for chicks, and the inevitable "I need a better coop" upgrade (you WILL fall prey to this), and your first year is somewhere between $700 and $1,500 before you see a single egg

A laying hen produces roughly 250 to 300 eggs per year in her first two years, then production drops. So your first-year cost per egg, even being generous, lands somewhere around $3 to $5 per egg. Store-bought eggs, even at the crazy prices we saw during the bird flu spike, topped out around $0.50 to $0.75 per egg, MAYBE $1.00

You will never, ever "save money" on eggs with backyard chickens, at least not in the way people mean when they say it

So why do I think more gardeners should have them?

Because chickens are one of the best tools a gardener can have, and almost nobody frames it that way

Start with pest control. A single chicken can eat 150+ bugs a day. Slugs, snails, beetle larvae, aphids, grasshoppers, ticks, earwigs, even small mice (as a flock, at least)

We spend so much energy in the gardening world talking about organic pest solutions, neem oil, diatomaceous earth, companion planting. A small flock of chickens patrolling your yard will outperform much of it. I've watched hens clear a slug-infested bed in an afternoon, scratching and hunting their way through every inch of it

You do need to manage them though. Chickens in a vegetable garden without supervision will eat your seedlings and scratch up your mulch. The move is controlled access: let them into beds AFTER harvest, or run them in a "chicken tractor" (a movable pen) across sections you want cleared. They eat the bugs, scratch up the top layer of soil, and deposit fertilizer as they go

Speaking of fertilizer...chicken manure is one of the highest-nitrogen organic fertilizers available. Fresh chicken manure runs roughly 1.1% nitrogen, 0.8% phosphorus, and 0.5% potassium. For comparison, cow manure is about 0.5% nitrogen, roughly half the concentration. One laying hen produces about 130 pounds of manure per year. That's a LOT of free fertilizer, BUT...

The catch: fresh chicken manure is too "hot" to apply directly. The nitrogen content is high enough to burn plant roots, and raw poultry manure can carry pathogens. You need to compost it first, usually for 3 to 6 months, mixing it with carbon-rich material like straw or wood chips

But here's what makes it all click for a garden: coop bedding (straw and wood shavings mixed with manure) IS your compost. The chicken coop becomes a compost system. Every time you clean the coop, you're building the next season's soil amendment. You stop buying bagged compost and bagged fertilizer. The chickens make it for you

We run a deep-litter method in our coops at the @epicgardening test garden. You layer carbon material on the coop floor, the chickens add nitrogen through their manure, they turn it by scratching, and the whole thing slowly composts in place. Every few months you shovel it out and it's nearly finished compost, ready for a final cure in a pile before going into beds. It's one of my favorite looped systems in the backyard

But to me, the biggest benefit is psychological: chickens give you a reason to go outside every single morning

Checking on the flock, filling water, collecting eggs, making sure nothing got into the run overnight. Takes about 5min. But those 5min pull you into your garden, and suddenly you're noticing your tomatoes need staking, there are aphids on your cabbage, etc. Chickens create a daily rhythm that makes you a better gardener, not because they do something magical, but because they make you show up

So no, backyard chickens won't save you money on eggs.

But they'll eat your pests, make your fertilizer, build your compost, improve your soil, get you outside every morning, and quietly turn you into a more attentive, more connected gardener...AND you'll get some of the most nutritious eggs you've ever tasted...

That's worth a lot more than $4 a dozen :)

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. https://t.co/7hxuP9yOfi

[PatriotDaughter @Cubfan13241]

I will never forget this portrait composed of the faces of healthcare workers across the world who died from Covid. These are the heroes who should never be forgotten.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is one of the best political ads I have ever seen. Full stop.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu: I need $12 billion
Trump: Approved

Elon Musk: SpaceX needs $4.16 billion
Trump: Approved

Jeff Bezos: Amazon needs $17.5 billion
Trump: Approved

Top 1%: We need a $1 trillion tax cut
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife has cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Hannah Hutzley was shopping in her wheelchair when she heard a little boy whisper, “Hi… do you know how to do wheelies?” And it was the moment both their lives changed for the better.

[Le Contemplateur @LeContempIateur]

👨‍🚒 Juste une immense gratitude et un respect infini et éternel à tous les pompiers qui luttent de toutes leurs forces en ce moment ! Vous êtes les gardiens de ce monde ❤️

[Peter DePere @DeperePeter]

@NebraskaDems Professional liar who thinks people are stupid and infinitely gullible.