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posts are by the lead organizer of a decentralized cold-hardy avocado breeding project in the Cascadian lowlands Join or learn more: https://www.drymifolia.org/

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 27d

It's been awhile since my last avocado-related post, but for anyone in the project area (hardiness zone 8b+ Cascadia), I've got a bunch of seedlings that are overdue for distribution and planting. Slide into the DMs if you wanna join the project!

Photo of a couple dozen avocado seedlings in narrow sleeves

Photo of an avocado seedling in a narrow sleeve-style deepot

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 2h

And many of those collections still exist only on microfiche!

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 2h

How is it that we have so many reactionary nimby types always commenting on wsb, can we please just scare these people out of the city already? Spoooooky density is coming to get you and your families! 👻👻

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 3h

I say this with such confidence because I spent way too much time in the bowels of a library microfiche collection at a smallish library one time and it had every issue of most major newspapers across the country, many going back to the late 1800s

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 3h

I guarantee it's in some library near you, if you still have libraries down there. Probably on microfiche, yes.

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 11h

That would only be applicable if he was actually arrested and charged. They will hold him and harass him and steal his gear and let him go because they know he didn't do anything they can charge him for

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 11h

Would not be surprised to learn he was in there himself under a pseudonym

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah there have for sure been some openly, proudly racist republicans for at least the last 80+ years, but most of them tried to use more coded language in public than that until recently when they've decided it's fine to go masks off

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 13h

What if leftism, but renamed

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 14h

The ambiguity is intentional, he's winking and nodding to those who know what he "really means" but saying it in a way the he can argue was misconstrued

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 14h

*subskeet

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 14h

What they mean is they miss when most republicans felt socially obligated to maintain plausible deniability about their racism

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 1d

Can everyone please get your normie friends to join signal for this kind of thing? Apple, Google, and now Meta have shown they will not allow you to organize your community on their platforms

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 1d

No no no, not a quiz for whether you're a tankie, a quiz for whether I'm allowed to accuse others of tankiehood

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 1d

Can you create a quick online quiz so we can all test our knowledge and get certified

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 1d

Minimurd

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 1d

It's like the multidimensional version of Poe's Law, where I can't tell if the people responding to that post are being sincere or doing a bit where they act like they can't tell if someone else is being sincere or doing a bit

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 1d

I am pretty sure I was there the first time that happened on blue sky dot com

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 2d

If the three shittiest right-wing organizations in the greater Seattle area are "a friendly audience" then #youMightBeMAGA

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Harrell Says King County Public Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast

The mayor talks to a friendly audience at event sponsored by Seattle's police union, We Heart Seattle, and the Discovery Institute.

Harrell Says King County Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett As readers may know, I’ve spent much of the last month attending Seattle mayoral debates and…

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 4d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 4d

I mean excellence and kindness might be abnormal, but you're behaving abnormal in some other Third Way

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 5d

No$hu has something to say about it: frogs are the future!

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Portland Frogs Forever, by No$hu

track by No$hu

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 5d

Ah damn paywall

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 5d

For anyone who doesn't remember the milkshake incident here's some contemporary context
medium.com/@BJ_Murphy/n...

No, Andy Ngo Wasn’t Pelted with “Concrete Milkshakes” by AntiFa

Telling Lies and Crying “Victim” Won’t Save You From the Truth

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the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 5d

Target them with peaceful protest jeeze

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 5d

But maybe the people organizing big national protests could actually make themselves useful and target ICE facilities, if the administration is going to call them terrorists anyhow then might as well actually do something useful

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