Posting about the world's least canonical ship & having somebody tag it like "this is making me want to watch that show" is always so funny like no sorry I'm lying to you

like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

Merry Almost Christmas! 🥰

Does anyone happen to have My injuries were so jolly I was Christmas for a month on hand

you have no idea how excited i was to see this request

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

This also commonly comes to us from indigenous societies. Famously, the Iroquois and Cherokee native American cultures planted the Three Sisters (corn, beans, and squash). https://www.nal.usda.gov/collections/stories/three-sisters

The reason that monocultures are still prevalent for the Three Sisters is because co-planting requires manual harvesting. My question for the wheat/walnut example is if the same is true, or if industrial machinery can still be used for harvesting?

One of these photos is using industrial machinery for harvesting wheat. It's obviously less efficient in terms of percentage of wheat harvested, since it can't get at any wheat too close to the trees. But even if they sacrifice ten percent of the wheat for that reason, ten percent of 1.4 is significantly less than forty percent of 1.0. Either that or the 1.4 yield already doesn't count that sacrificed wheat.

The form of polyculture in the pictures is called "alley cropping" and it's often done explicitly to allow machine harvest. If correctly spaced and managed it can be very efficient. You can alley crop certain kinds of raspberries in apple orchards, because the raspberries are an earlier crop and can be mown flat after harvest, allowing harvest of the apple trees (the raspberries are fine and will grow out again afterwards).

There's a lot of kinds of polyculture that work better with manual harvesting, of course. One I can think off offhand is the walnut - apple/apricot - currant - vegetable crop layering common in some parts of Central Asia for example, which is just too many layers for industrial harvesting equipment to cope with in its usual format. But alley cropping is very machine-friendly.

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) dir. Brian Henson

discourse 100% speedrun

if your ocverse was like a published media which character of yours would be interpreted by the fandom in the most horreeendously incorrect ways possible

ITS TIIIIIIIIIME

anyway, guess who fell into the bathtub and scratched me up trying to escape

Do women drunk on the trad wife fantasy know that women have been working in factories since the 1800s?

Like, why do you always assume you’re going to be middle to upper class living in the suburbs being a full time homemaker?

You’re more likely to be living in a multigenerational household while also doing some work on the side while raising your kids. Your money will go straight to your husband and he gets to decide what happens to it.

between this and that one post about how men want to go back to a mythical world where there were gentleman's clubs and galas (the kicker being that we still have those today, it's just that the men fantasizing about this shit would never have the wealth or social connections to be able to go to them then OR now), it's occurring to me that a nonzero number of "trad" people are just fantasizing about being wealthy but with extra window dressing