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Miner's Lettuce

#cnps #miners lettuce #native plants

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““We have to stop CONSUMING our culture. We have to CREATE culture. DON’T watch TV, DON’T read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your OWN roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are – NOW – is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered. You’re giving it all away to ICONS. Icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that, you want to dress like X or have lips like Y… This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion. What is real is you, and your friends, your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And, we are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player. You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.””

— — Terrence McKenna, Reclaim Your Mind, from the lecture “Eros and the Eschaton”

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american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.

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I live in the uk.... seems like it would be far too cold for this? The ground freezes for like 3 months a year so I'm not sure an earthhouse wouldn't freeze too?

The UK actually has many earth houses and the claim to the origin of cob, the mother material of natural building belongs to you folks in the UK. Personally, I'd go with strawbale construction over earthbag or cob for the insulative properties but all are possible.

#ask #permaculture #earthbag #natural building #cob house

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I have my first COVID vaccine appointment in 10 days. Feel free to message if you have questions, I'll do my best to answer what I can.

#covid #covid rn #covid vaccine #mrna vaccine #covid-19 #nurse

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As a COVID nurse, I often hear people reassure themselves that they're not in a risk group. And while it is true that the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions like autoimmunity, obesity, and diabetes are at a higher risk of severe illness and death, please understand the risk many people (and nearly all Americans in particular) are facing right now. Until we get this disease under control, your local hospital is just as impacted for sick covid patients as it is for your broken ankle, your heart attack, your pregnancy complication, your appendicitis. I don't know if the public truly understands beds and staff and equipment are short for EVERYONE. Not just people sick with covid.

#covid 19 #covid nurse #stay home #mask up

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Ivermectin is poised to get the world much needed respite from this pandemic. Not only is it cheap and safe, it is already utilized frequently by many people around the world due to its on-label use as an anti-parasite.

$ is always a major factor. Little spotlight is ever shown on cheap and effective drugs. But ivermectin is also suffering due to this year's Surgisphere scandal which had nothing at all to do with the drug itself but with a "database" of highly questionable data. Which is deeply, deeply unfortunate since, unlike the previously lauded drugs, none of which have been the least bit effective, this one looks like the real thing and has an ever increasing pile of evidence from around the world to back it up.

Why the Scientists refuse to seriously research ivermectin, a cheap medicine for parasitic infection that has shown good signs of healing covid19? Obviously, vaccine research promises a huge windfall that is highly motivating. We, the people need to stop this systemic corruption. 

#public health #covid19 #ivermectin

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Working in a rural ICU right now feels like blundering around a huge cave system in something called Bear Mountain using up my last flashlight batteries and jumping at shadows while listening to the echoing screams of other explorers in the dark as half my party debates whether bears exist.

#covid-19 #nurse #coronavirus

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Hi! I think I read that you're in Northern CA? I'm from Sacramento but currently live on the east coast (I'm trying to get back home!). My wife and I are studying natural building (self guided, just books and youtube) and eagerly await the day we can get some land and mess around with earthbags. What area are you in, and what has permitting been like?

Great question! One day I will tell the very dramatic tale of my run in with code enforcement but suffice it to say, code in California is tight. I'm east of Sac, in the foothills. Ultimately, my studio was allowed under the no-permit-required heading of "shed, playhouse, or similar use building." The requirements being no electricity, no plumbing, and no dwelling, and under 120ft². So.

(After my nail-biting visit with the folks from coding, my partner pointed out the spirit of the code probably also implies "easily moved" which the studio certainly is not since it will outlast the town and probably the state of California if the roof is maintained.)

As far as I understand, CA building code currently only gives permits for strawbale construction (and the plan much be signed off on by a CA licensed architect). Cob probably has a shot since it has recently been adopted into IBC. Earthbag is still completely at the discretion of the local coding authority.

To me, this is all deeply backward in the Shake and Bake state which aspires to be a leader in environmentalism. It would honestly take a healthy measure of insanity to build with anything other than earth in Northern CA these days between the blackouts and the fires.

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Sunset window doing its thing.

#permaculture #earthbag #cob house #natural building #superadobe #cottage

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This doesn't mean we've won, it means the work can begin again.

this is the best nyt headline i've ever seen

#joebiden #kamala harris

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In honor of the first rain of the year in my patch of Northern California.

Thank you, please stay long and visit often.

#permaculture #earthbag #cob house #natural building #blossomandburr #science pagan

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To the nurses, doctors, RTs, etc of Tumblr...did your hospital see a bizarre plunge in the number of pts admitted for non-COVID illnesses (particularly heart attack and stroke) since the pandemic started? Please let me know, it's important.

#nurse #nursing #rn #md #covid #covid-19 #global pandemic #respiratory therapy

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On my way to VOTE. Let's do this.

#vote202 #joe biden #kamala harris #climate crisis

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When you are young and naive you think the professionals will sit down soberly, look at the evidence wisely and then labour long to achieve a good end based on sound science and experience. As you get older you realize that it is commonly not that way.

-Derek Gow

#permaculture #derek gow #rewilding #bringing back the beaver #climate change

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#earthbag #cob house #natural building #permaculture #solarpunk #rewilding

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Time Lapse of Plants - Three Days

#plants #nature is magic and also science #life is always stranger than we expect #permaculture