Scooter Weizenschnitzel

Get your hands in the dirt, people. Gardening, soil, and quietude enthusiast.

[Scooter Weizenschnitzel @weizenschnitzel]

@gorurmangsho We all share a kinship born of the human experience, we are all children of God, & it is our highest duty to care for one another. We are part of a social compact to each other that can never be broken. Love one another. Elevate the fallen. Comfort the afflicted. Grow compassion

[Camille ⚫ @CatRedFront]

This is the solution to a solid 30% of the problems in western society but people will get mad at you if you say it

[ShibaDad8 @shibadad8]

I hate how so many folks try to rehabilitate his image, y’all forgot New Orleans after Katrina? Iraq? Tanked economy?

[Olive Siffleur @OliveSiffleur]

IT'S TIME TO DEMOCRATIZE THE FUCKING UTILITIES. Let the people own the power company and vote for the power company decisionmakers.

[𝕱𝖎𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖆.* 𝚆𝙽𝙲 @uncletypewriter]

How can you not enjoy walkable cities? Do you know how depressing it is to need a car to go any and everywhere?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Swiss farmers planted flowers between their crops and watched pest damage drop by over half. The UK is now running the same trial across 15 farms. The reason this works is embarrassingly simple.

A Swiss study on winter wheat found that fields with wildflower strips had 40 to 53% fewer leaf beetle pests than fields without. Crop damage dropped 61%.

The mechanism is simple. Wildflowers feed hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, ladybugs, and ground beetles. Those insects eat the aphids, beetle larvae, and caterpillars that farmers would otherwise spray for. A few meters of wildflowers hosts an unpaid pest control crew that would jump at the chance to whoop some aphid ass.

In apple orchards where no insecticides had been used for five years, plots with wildflower alleyways had 9.2% damaged fruit. Control plots without flowers had 32.5%.

The UK is now running a five-year trial across 15 farms placing 6-meter flower strips through the middle of fields, not just at the edges, because the beneficial insects can't reach the center of a large field otherwise.

This works the same way in a backyard vegetable garden as it does on a commercial farm. Plant native flowering species near your tomatoes, beans, and squash. The pests still show up, but the predators show up too.

Study doi: 20151369

[Beukie @BeukieGaming]

take this as a sign to build up a physical library again guys. that goes for games, books, movies and music. we literally don't own anything anymore. these subscriptions are piling up. i'm sick of it.

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

There is no need for meta glasses. There is no need to record all the time. There is no need to be online all the time. there is no need to record adult strangers without their consent or children. It’s dangerous and it’s invasive for the sake of being invasive.

[SILENCED Brandon @PrettyBadLefty]

When I open see a tweet and it's longer than 240 characters, I skip it. The old ways are the best. This isn't livejournal

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They're designing park benches
so that homeless people can't sleep on them
and placing metal spikes beneath overpasses
so they can't be used as shelter.

Jerry Seinfeld says Palestine doesn't exist
and that sometimes socks go missing in the dryer,
wocka wocka
ha ha ha
it's funny because it's a witty observation
about life's everyday little goofy goofs.

Fast food wrappers blow in the wind
like the leaves used to do.

Duct-taped gargoyles with garbage bag wings
peer down at the din of civilization
as we march over the sidewalk sleepers
to our Jobs,
stepping over dead bodies
while staring at our phones
and counting the minutes
til we can go home to our sofas
and watch wocka wocka comedians
and shovel SSRIs into our faces
from large plastic bowls
so the crushing beauty of our world
and the knowledge of our mortality
doesn't topple us like Jenga blocks
and make us weep like open fire hydrants.

In this din they don't want you to feel.
They don't want you to think.
They don't want you to hear.
They keep it all CLANG, CLANG, CLANG,
BUY, BUY, BUY,
WORK, WORK, WORK,
WOCKA, WOCKA, WOCKA,
so that you can't feel your body.
So that you can't hear the songs.

There's bird song
and whale song
and heart song
and lung song.

There's fire song
and sea song
and wind song
and tree song.

There's ancestor song
and mountain song
and sun song
and wolf song,
and lots of others I bet;
I can't hear any of them.

Oh, except thought song,
which blasts through my head
like a sonic homeless deterrent
in a shopping center alleyway,
and,
like them,
I have nowhere else to go.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A single toad in your yard can eat thousands of pest insects over a single summer. One cheap June project gives them a place to hide out over winter.

Find a terracotta pot, ideally 12-14 in diameter, remove the drainage plug, and bury it on its side in a shady corner of the yard, flush with the ground. Pack the inside loosely with leaf litter and leave a clear entrance.

You've built a toad hibernaculum. Toads need a frost-free place to overwinter underground, and a buried pot gives them exactly that. They find these within a season if toads are anywhere in your neighborhood.

[Uahikea Maile @uahikea]

“‘Land back’ strikes fear in the heart of the settler. But as we show here, it’s the soundest environmental policy for a planet teetering on the brink of total ecological collapse. The path forward is simple: it’s decolonization or extinction.” —The Red Deal (@The_Red_Nation)

[Hugo Turner @hugoturner1969]

Anti- Imperialist U: Inside the FBI War on Tupac Shakur & Black America https://t.co/pd1uxcXalp #Cointelpro #DeathRow #Tupac

[josh! @queersocialism]

been (re)reading a ton about oil, maritime trade, and nation-states over the past year or so. some stand outs if you’re interested:

[Noname Book Club @NonameBooks]

Happy Birthday Octavia Butler 🥳

[Scooter Weizenschnitzel @weizenschnitzel]

@WilliardSimkin @claireforny It's good to be on the side of the majority of people who have to trade their labor for money. It's bad to be on the minority side of capital. Capital already has too much power.

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

Good context here on the riots in Belfast

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

Stopped at an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp I found in the woods on my way home from court today. This country has a history worth celebrating it's just easy to forget those moments amongst all the horrors.

Looking to the future we need a jobs guarantee. We need to invest in people and modern infrastructure. So much infrastructure from dams that create renewable energy in the modern day to decades old sidewalks in small towns they are still walked on by residents today, and so much more, were created by programs like the CCC and WPA.

There is no reason we shouldn't renew that legacy. Our infrastructure is crumbling and unemployment statistics don't tell the real story. People are working 2-3 jobs and still struggling to survive. We can provide good jobs. We can rebuild the United States. We just have to invest in people and not endless wars and the billionaire class.

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

Workers, Students, and Indigenous Movements Shut Down Bolivia in Popular Rebellion. https://t.co/uMUmpLeB1K

[Scooter Weizenschnitzel @weizenschnitzel]

@Liberation_Blk Dnow helped sell the invasion and destruction of Libya in 2011 and they've been downhill ever since

[🌽🌽 Erica, The White Trash Socialist 🌽🌽™️ @herosnvrdie69]

America should have a universal job guarantee. We have so much work to do as a country. We should have centers that I can show up to at 7am with my ID and get assigned work for the day. Trash clean up, food pantry distribution I mean the possibilities are endless