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The ruminant family, and the one job each of them does that nothing else on earth can.
The cow turns a wet hillside into beef and milk, and leaves the soil better than she found it.
The sheep grows a fireproof, waterproof, compostable coat every year, out of grass and rain, and then gives it away for the price of a haircut.
The goat eats the bramble, the scrub and the invasive weed that strangles everything else, and asks only for a weak point in the fence.
The water buffalo makes the milk that becomes real mozzarella, standing in marsh a cow would sink in.
The yak gives milk at an altitude that would kill a lowland animal in a week, and carries your bags up there as well.
The reindeer feeds and clothes entire peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss, in the dark, for months.
The bison built the deepest soil on the planet by walking across it and eating.
Seven animals, one gift each, and not one of them can be replaced by a crop, a machine or a sachet.
Every one of them is classed, this decade, as a liability on a spreadsheet by somebody who has never been cold.
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Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green, with a slightly sore jaw for your trouble.
Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose, and it will tell you so for two days.
Eat acorns and you get tannins, a bitter mouth and a very long afternoon.
Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen with a view.
Eat nettles, thistles, gorse, rushes and heather and you get a mouth full of blood and not one calorie.
Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the sweepings the factory could not sell to a human at any price.
Now put the whole hillside in front of a cow.
She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a leather coat, on ground that will never grow a lettuce, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you were not issued.
The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a slope nobody can plough, and she walks up it herself.
She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is, and she does it while being told she is the problem.
She is eating the 90% of the planet's plants that you cannot. Nobody at the table was going to touch them.
Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the chewing.
General Mystery retweeted
In college, I read a FTM trans autobiography. It was an amazing glimpse into what it's like to be loaded up with testosterone.
It's especially eye-opening when it's a person with previously female hormones going through it & even he's shocked!
He said his sex drive was so intense that merely passing a woman on the sidewalk made him unable to stop thinking about bending her over. He couldn't stop thinking about ravishing women. The thoughts were insanely intrusive & distracting.
He said he cried way less easily and, when angry, had to get it out physically somehow when that hadn't been a thing before.
He said he found women kinda unbearably emotional once he was on T & felt bad for feeling that way 😅
He found his moods overall more stable but was much quicker to anger & felt more aggressive overall.
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🚨 TRAGIC ENDING for 24 year old NYC marathon runner, Rachel Apa
24-year-old Rachel Apa collapsed at Mile 24 of the NYC Marathon and died after six hours of life-saving efforts at Mount Sinai.
Parents tracking her on the marathon app noticed she stopped moving just shy of the finish. Bystanders, including a social worker, performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.
Doctors later determined she died of rhabdomyolysis, a rapid muscle breakdown from extreme exertion that releases toxins into the blood.
The Bucknell field hockey alum had been in excellent health and was running the race in memory of her grandfather, who died of Parkinson’s.
Her father called it unfathomable 💔🙏
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So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right?
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One week, my great grandma realized she'd scheduled 7 dates in 6 nights.
She decided one guy had to go.
Did the man she cancelled on seethe, call her a hoe, & stop speaking to her?
Nope!
He wrote her a poem.
He said no matter how much he tried to get close to her, she kept slipping away.
He said the game of love was hard & there unfortunately must be losers.
He said he hoped, once his heart had healed, that they could be friends.
She was so touched by this poem, she agreed to go on a date with him.
And marry him. And have 3 kids. She took up fishing, a big love of his, so she could spend more time with him.
Yes, that man was my great grandpa.
I got my love of writing from him & my hoe side from her 😂
But I love this story because it shows that even back in the day, men had competition. Women weren't demurely dating 1 guy at a time; they were courting for marriage, a serious business that required consideration of all of the options!
And taking rejection well took one guy from the bottom of a woman's roster to #1 💙
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Tonight, my family and I experienced something no family should ever have to go through.
Our restaurant, Singh’s Dining Restaurant in Hammersmith, was attacked by a group of Islamists.
We had been receiving death threats every single day, including one that specifically warned us that 28 October would be our last day.
We raised our concerns, and the @metpoliceuk were aware of the threats. Yet tonight, we found ourselves facing the very nightmare we had feared.
My daughter had to close the shutters just in time. I cannot even begin to imagine what might have happened if she hadn’t acted so quickly. We could have lost someone in our family tonight.
The attackers reportedly tried for a long time to break through the shutters to get inside, leaving shortly before the police arrived.
We have serious concerns about how the attackers knew when to leave, and whether they were alerted before the police arrived. These concerns deserve a thorough and transparent investigation.
Tonight, I am left facing a heartbreaking decision, Do we keep our doors open and risk our lives, or do we shut down the business we have worked so hard to build because I don’t serve Halal food.
No family should ever have to choose between their livelihood and their safety. No one should have to live in fear in their own place of work.
I am angry. I am heartbroken. I am frightened for my family’s safety.
I am calling on the @metpoliceuk to take these threats seriously, investigate tonight’s attack thoroughly, and ensure that my family is protected.
Please share this post. Let our voices be heard. We should not have to wait for someone to lose their life before our safety is taken seriously.
Enough IS Enough.
#Justice
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This is a watershed moment and it passed by almost unnoticed. Here we have British cops threatening a man with arrest for being “openly Jewish” at a pro-Hamas rally. Being Jewish in public where Muslims can see you in Sadiq Khan’s London is now officially a crime. Never mind that he’s standing quietly with his hands in his pockets while people chant “Nazi scum” at him: he’s visibly Jewish, which makes him clearly in the wrong.
Also worth noting: the fact that the cops, apparently incapable of preventing violence as long as this man is antagonizing the crowd by breathing Jewishly at them, have decided that the best way to deal with the problem of violent antisemitism is to side with the antisemitic mob. Arresting a Jew, whose very existence is an act of Islamophobia, is so much safer than protecting him and his right to be openly Jewish in 21st century Britain.
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“Russia invaded Ukraine, committed atrocities in the territories it occupied, and when it failed to force the government to fall or achieve its aims on the battlefield, began targeting civilians, seeking to terrorize the population into accepting Russian domination. The first Trump Administration shook off the Obama Administration’s reticence to assist and admirably sent both weapons and military trainers to help Ukraine. After the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Biden Administration orchestrated a herculean international effort to assist Ukraine, which the Trump Administration has abandoned.”-@KoriSchake @AEI aei.org/foreign-and-defense-…
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The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be. The restoration began overnight, and by this morning, speeds were already sufficient. This matters: for our frontline logistics, for defending Ukraine against jet-powered “shaheds.”
I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.
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Ukrainians keep showing enormous courage in defending their country against Putin’s immoral and indeed evil efforts to conquer a neighbor. They have resisted now for four years and eight months and we should do all we can to help them.
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Elon, first of all, thank you. Nobody really ever denied SpaceX’s enormous contribution to Ukraine’s defense, especially during the early days of Russia’s invasion. That deserves recognition.🇺🇦🛰️
But stop twisting the fundamental reality of this war, FFS! Russia invaded Ukraine. Not the other way around. Russia is responsible for starting this slaughter, and Russia can end its invasion by withdrawing its forces.
Ukrainians are defending their homes, their children, and their right to exist. And the recent Starlink and Starshield restrictions reportedly affected Ukrainian drones intercepting Russian attacks, not just offensive operations.
You talk about people dying in trenches and condemn those you call warmongers. But where is that same outrage directed at Putin, whose decision to invade created this catastrophe? Wanting the killing to stop is one thing. Blaming those defending themselves without holding the invader accountable is another.
Yes, you helped Ukraine enormously. Most of us appreciate that. But your past contribution doesn’t make every subsequent statement correct. You know who started this war, Elon. Stop obscuring the difference between invasion and defense bro! Not everyone is as foolish as MAGA cultists you keep trying to appease, for some stupid reason.
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As an Iranian-American, I was able to exercise my right to vote today for the first time. When I inserted my ballot into the machine, my only thoughts lay with all the young girls in Iran—just like me—who don’t get to have this same privilege. Instead, they only get sham elections filled with the same rotation of candidates handpicked by the bloodthirsty Islamic Republic.
Today, I voted on behalf of those silenced voices. My vote went to @SteveHiltonx, as he supports maximum pressure against the Islamic Republic in Iran—a policy that will protect both Iranian people, as well as the integrity and national security of the United States.
I can only dream of the day the music of birds will grace the skies of Tehran once more, rather than the “morning prayer” and the choking sobs of mothers and fathers that follow. And thus, I will vote for those who believes in this future as well.
