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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10h

this is heinous I love it

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

aHA the original. fresh-caught from the wild bsky.app/profile/matt...

Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

don't worry she'll get there <3

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

aHA ty

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her

Alt: "good for her!" GIF from Arrested Development

media.tenor.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

Becky's Basilisk

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

updated, disappointing version of the Odyssey where a shitposter goes on a quest that takes them far from home [having to post like a grownup]

by the time the return, none of their mutuals recognize them anymore

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

I mean that's kinda been the pattern so far

"planting a crop that you know is gonna fail, just so you can collect on the crop insurance" is definitely a thing

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a handy video on how millionaires like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are EXACTLY the kind of person the farm bailouts are for.

pls pardon the clickbait thumbnail, it does have real math in it

youtu.be/3kEr0jb6zhU

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

Important farm labor update: Trump DOL is now planning to massively expand the H2A program.

Their logic? "Gee, all the farm workers are gone now. It's causing a food crisis. We just HAVE to run a crash-expansion of our slavery-prone H2A program."

prospect.org/politics/tru...

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

yeah

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

I imagine that like many, he simply figured losing your markets doesn't matter bc bailouts will be on the way.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

nope

the $ from farm programs always goes to the owners

David @dondanger.bsky.social · 2d

if he’s renting out the land wouldn’t the bailout money go to the renters?

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

So here's the thing, the largest farms (including investors) benefit the most from bailouts. The conflict of interest is pointing towards "do bailouts," not "avoid bailouts."

did a whole video on it here etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD50...

AcreTrader, Bailouts, & The Future of US Farms

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

Screenshot from the Scott Bessent "thousands of acres of soybean farms" story:

Screenshot from article. "The biggest potential conflict of interest for Mr. Bessent is his ownership of as much as $25 million of soybean and corn farmland in North Dakota. The land spans thousands of acres in Burleigh, Kidder, Eddy, Benson, and Wells Counties and earns Mr. Bessent as much as $1 million a year in rental income, according to his financial disclosure form."

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

The 2018 farm bailouts were $20B, and the gov't had the money for them. (Funds for that bailout came from the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation).

This time? The gov't is shut down, USDA has no budget for it, and they're asking for $50B.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, yeah, real

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

We've had a lot of news on how farm workers get abused.

Time to talk about how it's not actually that hard to put a stop to it. Real, actionable steps that work contained in this article 💪

www.propublica.org/article/h-2a...

Employers Have Exploited and Abused H-2A Farmworkers for Years. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way.

The seasonal visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death. Experts, lawyers and advocates say there are ways to reduce and even stop the har...

www.propublica.org

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

or heck just make a couple mafia movies required viewing

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

there's a rich kid TikToker who posts genuinely insightful stuff about the 0.01% & also about how her dad treats her like a princess

so many replies say "wow it's so great to have parents who are actually good people!"

and like. based on context clues he's definitely an eastern european oligarch

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

Re: places where land can't be built on

I could make the same point w how my land situation is also not standard (currently urban farming, expanding to rural land this winter). But it still doesn't change the broader economics of rural private land, which are important & need to be talked about.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

"Separating the 'real' farmers from real estate investors" is really appealing but breaks down in real life. A lot of the biggest real estate developers in the US are just... the big farm families who own most of their home county. That's why the farm-to-housing pipeline is real.

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