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@jrheling.bsky.social

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Nudger of complex systems. Small scale multi-species livestock farmer 🐑🐓🦃🐐. Regenerative+perennial focused. Stubborn DIY-er. Novo Collegian. Husband. Dad. Also @jrheling on Twitter / @[email protected]

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Aug 23

Spontaneous oyster on willow

Oyster mushroom fruit coming out of the end of a stack of logs

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Curious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · Aug 9

Important and tragically timely article about Danish resistance to the goals of their Nazi occupiers: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Via @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s excellent newsletter

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

www.thenation.com

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Aug 16

Spiders are amazing

Sunlight reflecting off of a spiderweb that appears to float about six feet off the ground in a wooded area against a backdrop of an exposed rock outcropping and the morning sun

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Jun 20

Solstice sheep stroll

Guy in the woods with a few dozen sheep walking behind him

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Jun 8

Ah - looks like wool-sower gall
www.inaturalist.org/posts/6119-w...

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Jun 7

Anybody know what this fuzzy ball wrapped around a young white oak branch might be?

White oak tree with a fuzzy white ball surrounding one of its branches

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 14

Nice - I thought they looked quite large!

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 14

Fungal activity in the compost pile confirmed

A not quite finished compost pile with all kinds of little mushrooms sprouting up all over it

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 14

nice-looking lambs! What breed are they?

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 10

bonus playground for the lambs as the flock graze through my unfinished firewood work

Lambs on logs cut to firewood length laying in long green grass

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 4

It is written: whosoever uses the pressure washer to clean out the chicken trailer has dibs on the first shower

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 4

Our very modest little “pond” is mostly minimally realized potential, but it’s at least enough for this turtle family to have decided to call it home

Small pond with a little log floating in it and a turtle on the log. A smaller turtle is poking its head out of the water a few feet from the log

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 4

Yummy

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · May 4

I’m easing the flock from hay to grass gradually so their rumens have time to adjust, and feeding hay on bare patches that I seeded first, so the sheep do the work of pressing the seed into the soil and the hay remnants they won’t eat serve as mulch.

Happy early spring in zone 5b

A few dozen sheep and lambs in a patch of green pasture with a few bales of hay scattered throughout

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Apr 26

It is springing

A large dog laying in green grass with a row of fruit trees, the first of which has blossomed, and a bright clear blue sky

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Apr 15

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Mar 30

:) I'm sure it does!

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Mar 30

2025 lambing season has begun - we expect 9 ewes to be expecting, so ballpark ~18 lambs en route.

The white & black one here we've dubbed Lexi - a candidate to be kept for future breeding

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Mar 30

many such cases.

we deceived ourselves that somehow work that needed more than a HS education and usually doesn't involve getting dirty or sweaty was somehow different in kind

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Feb 24

"Blade" here feels like calling a bike sprocket an "engine" because the reader might not know "sprocket" but it *is* involved in making the bike move forward.

They could, for example, have written "along the side of the chainsaw" to avoid both potentially unfamiliar terminology and wrong-ness.

jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Feb 24

I guess I don't know the specific AR-15 argument you refer to - I try avoid online gun control "debates" ;)

My point is not that great technical precision is always necessary, audience be damned. If "bar" won't be understood, explain it or figure something else out. But "blade" is just wrong.

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Feb 23

c'mon, @theguardian.com - compared to the alternatives you're a less-objectionable major news source but chainsaws don't have "blades" and missing that is a bad look

A portion of a newspaper story that reads:

As for Musk, he waved around the chainsaw – which had the words “Long live freedom, damn it” written along its blade – after an interview in which he pushed falsehoods about Europe jailing people for memes, astronauts being left in space for political reasons and Democrats having an electoral incentive “to maximise the number of illegals in the country”.

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dk @portdrift.bsky.social · Feb 13

“a bird in the hand is worth..” — let me stop you there. comparison is the thief of joy. enjoy your bird

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jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · Feb 12

Yes! Great piece - the conclusion really gets at the heart of the optimism-supporting angle on our current moment:

An image of text that reads:

That very space of breakdown is the space of emergence. It's where new intelligence can burst forth if we let it. Many people won't allow this emergence. They may very well die, psychologically if not physically, because they won't allow something new to be born. Death isn't bad or wrong, but there is another choice. And the world desperately needs those who make that choice—people who have liberated themselves from dying ideologies and are willing to create and discover something new.

The ideological complex that enabled our lifestyle was based on ignoring profound externalities that were debasing the planet's life systems and harming people worldwide. We're entering a future of exponential technology where any individual could potentially cause great harm. We can no longer afford structures of externalization that afford us a pleasant lifestyle but create resentment and anger elsewhere. We need to find a way forward together.

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