Eric Piper
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Publisher, farmer, accident prone, family man
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It’s not just big cities! No King’s Protest in Pepperell, Mass
October 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It’s not just big cities! No King’s Protest in Pepperell, Mass
Wilbur and Penny, two unrepentant escape artists caught looting our hay garage on a quiet Sunday morning
July 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Wilbur and Penny, two unrepentant escape artists caught looting our hay garage on a quiet Sunday morning
Wilbur and crew in a spring fling
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Wilbur and crew in a spring fling
My amazing wife is hosting a right-to-farm fundraiser 5/17 - purchasing signs for our town from the proceeds of an arts event that the planning board illegally tried to shut down for two years:
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March 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My amazing wife is hosting a right-to-farm fundraiser 5/17 - purchasing signs for our town from the proceeds of an arts event that the planning board illegally tried to shut down for two years:
www.facebook.com/share/p/12Kv...
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The Healthy Incentives Program in Massachusetts helps families with SNAP benefits purchase fresh, nutritious food from local farms. 285 farms participate, serving 206k households and strengthening the local economy. Mass. voters, please urge your legislators to support this program!
March 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Healthy Incentives Program in Massachusetts helps families with SNAP benefits purchase fresh, nutritious food from local farms. 285 farms participate, serving 206k households and strengthening the local economy. Mass. voters, please urge your legislators to support this program!
"The two parts of Bezos' editorial line would be contradictory in practice. The 'free market' and 'personal liberties' would have to contradict one another in editorial decision-making, to the point that they could not be enforced together."
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Unfreedom at the Washington Post
How an editorial line fosters authoritarianism
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March 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Perfect day for this album. In 1963, the State Dept. sponsored Duke Ellington’s tour through the Near East and Japan. This resulted in one of the best recordings of one of America’s greatest artists - or, in the minds of DOGE’s high-tech barbarians, DEI waste.
February 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Perfect day for this album. In 1963, the State Dept. sponsored Duke Ellington’s tour through the Near East and Japan. This resulted in one of the best recordings of one of America’s greatest artists - or, in the minds of DOGE’s high-tech barbarians, DEI waste.
Learned from @jonathanhealey.bsky.social’s history of the English Civil War that the idea of inalienable rights arose not from John Locke but irascible political street-fighter John Lilburne.
A good reminder of how these rights should be used: loudly and with great annoyance to those in power.
A good reminder of how these rights should be used: loudly and with great annoyance to those in power.
February 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Learned from @jonathanhealey.bsky.social’s history of the English Civil War that the idea of inalienable rights arose not from John Locke but irascible political street-fighter John Lilburne.
A good reminder of how these rights should be used: loudly and with great annoyance to those in power.
A good reminder of how these rights should be used: loudly and with great annoyance to those in power.
Spending time w/Thucydides this week. The conflict between Athens and Sparta finally broke out over a trade war; Athens' allies in the Delian League, formed after the Persian invasion, turned against the city due to its arrogance; and democracy was in conflict w/empire. Now to see how it all ended.
February 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Spending time w/Thucydides this week. The conflict between Athens and Sparta finally broke out over a trade war; Athens' allies in the Delian League, formed after the Persian invasion, turned against the city due to its arrogance; and democracy was in conflict w/empire. Now to see how it all ended.
@geoffgrundy.bsky.social we may need to revisit Arendt. Here is John Ganz on her analysis of imperialism and its relevance for tech authoritarian-libertarians today:
February 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
@geoffgrundy.bsky.social we may need to revisit Arendt. Here is John Ganz on her analysis of imperialism and its relevance for tech authoritarian-libertarians today:
