Temperate. Hot humid summers, relatively mild winters (below freezing for most winter nights but mild days).

The straw/mudslip goes much faster than cob but it still takes a while to fill those walls! Was fun and satisfying, though, and the house feels amazing and insulates very well.

I promised this ages ago! Some photos of our straw/mud house build.

Concrete pad, brick stem wall, planning out windows (from a Craigslist ad, old nearby barn)

partway through straw/mudslip fill

sand/lime plaster

finished tiling today

#naturalbuilding #permies #homesteading

Yeah, I don't applaud it but I'm not sure there's much i can do about it.

GM Odell and Happy Thanksgiving. Appreciate you 🙏

omg, I laughed so hard at this

At least 60% of our calories come from the half cows that we buy from a local regenerative ranch.

I have no words of wisdom, but I'm sure I speak for many when I say that ranchers should be revered, not harassed. Tell them thank you!

It seems to be working 🤩

Thanks for sharing, Rabble!

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Yes - arrest ppl for crimes, not for words.

FFS

Ha! all good. Just the usual free-speech rant.

We mostly agree

Umm - wow. No, I just believe in free expression, even for folks that I don't agree with. Even for folks who respond to strangers on the internet with categorical statements and crazy accusations.

I know some people who think they should be able to force others to use pronouns, and they are probably also the ones who would turn us in for not wearing masks, etc. I agree with you that the Venn diagram for those (who insist everyone use pronouns) and all the things you listed is probably an almost complete overlap. I'm in an organizational fight with one of those people right now. Giving in on this question feels almost existential to me - if I use pronouns to make other people safer, I'm part of a very serious problem. So I'm willing to fight on my right to *not* use them. But it's none of my business if they chose to use them.

(And I also know some who use pronouns because they have been convinced that by doing so they're helping trans people. They either haven't thought much about it or are afraid of backlash within their social group. Off the top of my head I can think of at least half a dozen ppl I know in this category.)

I can attest that those things are not true for all of the folks who use pronouns.

There may be a strong overlap between pronoun use and all the positions you mention, but in the end ppl have a right to put whatever they want after their names (or not, which is a fight that *is* in fact worth having).

As with so many other questions (vaccines, big ag, etc), I don't think an ideal policy would take direct action against the dangerous actors

We just need to stop subsidizing them

The $6 trillion one is so good!

your reading of Lyn's What is Money was pivotal for me, Guy.

Thank you 🙏🧡

Interesting. I used to conflate god with religious dogma, and I didn't have great associations with dogma.

Yep

And just to be clear: now I totally get why someone who voted for Obama (and for Bernie in the primaries) would vote for Trump now. It was my ignorance that made that confusing for me.

Boomers were evenly split between Harris and Trump. Gen X favored Trump.

Ha! ah, got it.

But lots of punk fans (and bands, I think) went full psycho during covid, didn't they?

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*me looking up Black Flag*