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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 13h

My cows have stronger boundaries than most people I know.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 15h

If the barn cats ever form a shadow government, I’ll vote for them.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 16h

In Peacham, the hills wake wearing silver beards.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 17h

The government shutdown hit day 14. Somewhere a senator is tweeting some nonsensical fantasy about “preventing illegals from getting free healthcare” while park rangers pawn their gear.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 1d

A jar rolled on the grocery belt. The woman behind caught it with both palms, then set the divider like a guardrail.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Spiders are librarians filing secrets into silk.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Astrid and Elvis

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Stairs are gravity’s favorite teeth.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 1d

This feels like an Aprl Fools story. How is it not an April Fools story?

Coffee icon changing its name for first time in 133 years

The Kraft Heinz Co. is temporarily changing the Maxwell House name to "Maxwell Apartment" as it aims “to meet the needs of today's consumer."

www.foxbusiness.com

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

Every voice in a Charlie Brown holiday special belongs to a child who eventually paid taxes, got wrinkles, and exited this mortal coil.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

By 2026, 90% of all news stories will simply be recaps of TikToks and good Reddit posts.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

I buy fancy notebooks, write one page, and then decide they’re too sacred for my actual thoughts.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to get a thumbnail for the new YouTube video. Sun’s perfect, cows cooperating, camera rolling. Then I realize I’ve spent ten minutes posing like a motivational speaker who lost his notes. Peak YouTube cringe.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

Every small act of repair is an insult to entropy.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

The storm was praised for washing away rivals…until it flooded their own fields.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

Hope isn’t a feeling. It’s a chore. You do it even when the weather’s wrong.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

Heifers this age don’t follow. They negotiate.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

A rooster never wonders if he’s cringe. That’s why he wins every morning.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

The war between Vermont's Lt. Governor and his hometown is friggn' wild.

www.wcax.com/2025/10/07/l...

Lt. Gov. Rodgers’ road dispute escalates after grader collision

Dashcam footage recorded July 8 records the moment when Rodgers’ truck made contact with the municipal vehicle.

www.wcax.com

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 3d

“Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would give up its legal rights and would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.” @brendannyhan.bsky.social & Lisa Fazio

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

“The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding expenses for farmers, who, thanks to a president they still overwhelmingly support, fear losing their farms.”

The article fails to attempt an unpacking of why this is the case. I wonder why.

Ohio family farmers describe life under Trump tariffs: 'We're in a hell of a mess here.' • Ohio Capital Journal

Chris Gibbs farms more than 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County, along with a 90-head cow-calf operation. The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding expense...

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

I never write better than when it rains. Maybe because the world finally sounds like how my brain feels most days.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 2d

The NYT calling Hegseth’s anti-DEI rant “pretty good” is how authoritarianism launders itself through respectable fonts. You don’t need tanks in the streets when the paper of record hands out nuance passes to culture-war fascists.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Despite a raw vocabulary and some rude provocations,” Pete Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society,” writes Christopher Caldwell.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech on D.E.I. in the Military Was Actually Pretty Good

Despite some rude provocations, he outlined a nuanced vision of the military.

nyti.ms

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 3d

Every rural road eventually becomes a metaphor.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 3d

It's pouring in Peacham!!

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