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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 3h

Brassica oleracea is the MVP of leafy/stemmy vegetables

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 3h

fighting against the deployed soldiers. Super demoralizing.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 3h

More recently, the soldiers in the attempted coup by Yoon were all super unwilling to do things in part because they could literally see they were being asked to violence normal aunties and uncles. Harmless respectable people who they might see drunkenly singing a song at that hour who were instead

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 3h

I remember watching a livestream late at night when it was only the hardcore protestors left who were being aggressively kettled. I was worried that the protests would fizzle out. But the next day normal people showed up in even larger numbers and the police stood down.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 3h

It makes me think of protests in my own country, SK. When the protesters were "the usual", militant labour unions and activists and farmers, the police had no problem kettling and tear gassing and water cannoning.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 4h

I think it's a joke

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 2d

Right wingers are so obsessed with seeing uni as a place of shocks and horrors when in reality it's just a normal, maybe even boring location where hundreds of people are walking around and learning things.

Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 2d

Doing a live rehearsal of how effective the evacuation plan is

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 3d

TIL USCPSB is not furloughed during shutdown!

Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 4d

The sacrifices one makes for pupils 🥲

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 5d

Both nightshade and glaze are fundamentally flawed: an attacker can just store the image and exploit it later once a workaround has been developed. They are deterrants but won't prevent an LLM from eventually ingesting your stuff

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 24d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 8d

Roll forward, roll forward!

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 8d

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 10d

A. vulgaris can be added in small quantities for its interesting flavour to food. On the other hand, us Koreans can and will use entire bundles of A. princeps in a single dish.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 10d

Extra sidenote, the mugwort in this story is Artemisia princeps. The mugwort common in Europe is A. vulgaris or A. absinthium and tastes a lot worse than A. princeps.

Source: found mugwort, got excited about it being 쑥, learned it was not quite 쑥

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김성일 Sung-il Kim @sung-il-kim.com · 10d

Context:
Korean myth says that a lesser son of god came down to earth to carve out something of his own. He and his retinue brought technologies and knowledges such as farming to the barbaric people below and began a civilization. (1/n)

muneo @literaryfish.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone please remember to always feed your Korean friends plenty of garlic, so we can maintain our human form. Otherwise we'll turn back into bears and we'll eat you. 🧄

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 12d

Oh hey remember that some more news episo— [turned into corn cream by warmbo]

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 13d

thank u Hades 2 for adding animal familiars 🐸💕

Hades 2 comic
Melinoë yelling”CHRONOS!!”
Chronos: “So you’ve returned…”
“And I see you’ve brought… a friend…”
Melinoë grinning goofily with hearts all around her standing next to Frinos the frog who looks equally goofy

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 13d

Me, about to be disappointed: I wonder what's going on in the world

Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 14d

Thinking about how Apollo, one of our two cats, insists on chewing holes through any plastic that contains grains or tortillas 🥲 you can't even digest uncooked rice, baby

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Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️ @helenareal.bsky.social · 14d

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Screenshot from what-even-is-thiss tumblr

"Cats don't actually love you"

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don't you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it's helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

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Skaiiaiai @skairunner.bsky.social · 14d

Supergiant games keeps making bangers!

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