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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

For the quantitatively inclined, the white egg is what I'd call a normal size - weighs in at 57g. The green one is a big big - 66g. The brown one is 133 grams!

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I've kept hens for about 15 years now - generally have between 70-100 birds in my laying flock. So I've seen tens of thousands of eggs. There's kind of a normal size, and a distribution with some bigger (esp from old hens) and some smaller. Today I saw the biggest outlier ever

A gloved hand holding 3 eggs, one of which is over twice the size of the others

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Spontaneous oyster on willow

Oyster mushroom fruit coming out of the end of a stack of logs

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Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Important and tragically timely article about Danish resistance to the goals of their Nazi occupiers: www.thenation.com/article/acti... Via @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s excellent newsletter

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The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Ah - looks like wool-sower gall www.inaturalist.org/posts/6119-w...

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Anybody know what this fuzzy ball wrapped around a young white oak branch might be?

White oak tree with a fuzzy white ball surrounding one of its branches

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Nice - I thought they looked quite large!

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Fungal activity in the compost pile confirmed

A not quite finished compost pile with all kinds of little mushrooms sprouting up all over it

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

nice-looking lambs! What breed are they?

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

bonus playground for the lambs as the flock graze through my unfinished firewood work

Lambs on logs cut to firewood length laying in long green grass

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It is written: whosoever uses the pressure washer to clean out the chicken trailer has dibs on the first shower

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Our very modest little “pond” is mostly minimally realized potential, but it’s at least enough for this turtle family to have decided to call it home

Small pond with a little log floating in it and a turtle on the log. A smaller turtle is poking its head out of the water a few feet from the log

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I’m easing the flock from hay to grass gradually so their rumens have time to adjust, and feeding hay on bare patches that I seeded first, so the sheep do the work of pressing the seed into the soil and the hay remnants they won’t eat serve as mulch. Happy early spring in zone 5b

A few dozen sheep and lambs in a patch of green pasture with a few bales of hay scattered throughout

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

2025 lambing season has begun - we expect 9 ewes to be expecting, so ballpark ~18 lambs en route. The white & black one here we've dubbed Lexi - a candidate to be kept for future breeding

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

many such cases. we deceived ourselves that somehow work that needed more than a HS education and usually doesn't involve getting dirty or sweaty was somehow different in kind

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"Blade" here feels like calling a bike sprocket an "engine" because the reader might not know "sprocket" but it *is* involved in making the bike move forward. They could, for example, have written "along the side of the chainsaw" to avoid both potentially unfamiliar terminology and wrong-ness.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I guess I don't know the specific AR-15 argument you refer to - I try avoid online gun control "debates" ;) My point is not that great technical precision is always necessary, audience be damned. If "bar" won't be understood, explain it or figure something else out. But "blade" is just wrong.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

c'mon, @theguardian.com - compared to the alternatives you're a less-objectionable major news source but chainsaws don't have "blades" and missing that is a bad look

A portion of a newspaper story that reads:

As for Musk, he waved around the chainsaw – which had the words “Long live freedom, damn it” written along its blade – after an interview in which he pushed falsehoods about Europe jailing people for memes, astronauts being left in space for political reasons and Democrats having an electoral incentive “to maximise the number of illegals in the country”.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yes! Great piece - the conclusion really gets at the heart of the optimism-supporting angle on our current moment:

An image of text that reads:

That very space of breakdown is the space of emergence. It's where new intelligence can burst forth if we let it. Many people won't allow this emergence. They may very well die, psychologically if not physically, because they won't allow something new to be born. Death isn't bad or wrong, but there is another choice. And the world desperately needs those who make that choice—people who have liberated themselves from dying ideologies and are willing to create and discover something new.

The ideological complex that enabled our lifestyle was based on ignoring profound externalities that were debasing the planet's life systems and harming people worldwide. We're entering a future of exponential technology where any individual could potentially cause great harm. We can no longer afford structures of externalization that afford us a pleasant lifestyle but create resentment and anger elsewhere. We need to find a way forward together.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A fantastic & inspiring read

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Mr. Shinkle's gonna eventually regret that he stopped paying attention to that US History class after the roaring '20s 1.0...

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🤌 (it's not both-sidesing to note the scale of a thing in comparison the scale of other things)

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

how many kittens does it take to replace the pressure switch on an air compressor?

A half disassembled air compressor on a cluttered workbench with two curious kittens

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

From "Hospicing Modernity". This is a good and ambitious (if challenging) book.

Paragraph of text from a book reading "Remember that I lovingly don't care about what you think, but I do care very deeply about our collective capacity to dig deeper, to relate wider, to engage in productive disillusionment, and to fall apart and together generatively, as we face the end of the world as we know it."

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

yeah this one really got under my skin, too - I think it's because it superficially acknowledges better paths like regen but then just kinda waves them away as flawed and leans hard into an unexamined "whatever's efficient must be good"

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

100% OP completely misses this point, as well as the whole underlying point of "regenerative" practices being that, well, they _don't_ harm the land in the way that extractive ones do

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

yeah you're not missing much. the tl;dr is basically: * people think factory farms are bad * but akshually factories are efficient * land use is all bad so efficiency is "good" for "the environment" * QED It's rather a crap line of reasoning IMO

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

yeah, that original article is total Chris Smaje bait ;) It's like the polar opposite both of Chris' argument and of the quality of Chris' argument (there's a non-paywalled link the author shared if you want to read it, but it's not very good IMO :) )

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

none the flora nor fauna I steward seems to have a political leaning

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I’m now posting on behalf of the Deep Adaptation Forum (so I may quote post thoughts from there occasionally). DAF is a global community of individuals exploring the Four Rs of DA, practicing inner and outer adaptation to the predicaments we face. Times call us to face our fears, not hide from them.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Nuance here is hard but important. To me, merely "interacting with" an account from a certain PoV isn't categorically a problem - really depends on what the interaction consists of. I certainly don't think Nate is beyond criticism, but saying Dems have some reality-denial is, well, true :)

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I interpret Nate's comment to mean that any platform that presumes the continued operation of our high-energy society in a more-or-less business as usual sense is "reality denying insanity". And the Dems fit this description.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

is that meant to be a dunk on Nate Hagens?

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Agreed. Via him (on some podcast) I became aware of Sterling, and our younger kid (currently a HS senior) is actually considering attending!

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Departure from the status quo is unsettling - @alexsteffen.bsky.social's frame of "discontinuity" has really stuck with me as it implies a departure on the Nth order. The depth and unpredictability of resultant change is humbling and daunting.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

my personal motto along these lines has been "praxis or GTFO", but Sim's "Less Abstraction More Action" (LAMA? :) ) is pithier

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'm working through Surviving the Future - www.chelseagreen.com/product/surv... Fiction-wise I'm about a quarter of the way through Polostan, @nealstephenson.bsky.social 's latest. Loving both so far.

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Surviving the Future | Chelsea Green Publishing

With friendliness, humor, and charm, Surviving the Future plucks this vision out of our daydreams and shows us how to make it real.

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