Holly Chism, author

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Holly Chism, author

Holly Chism, author

@HollyChism

Mom of teens, inflicter of cultural touchstones on said teens, teller of tales, writer of books, keeper of cats

smack-dab middle of the USA Katılım Ocak 2026
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Holly Chism, author
Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@SamaHoole There's a time and place for hydroponics and/or lab-grown meat. The place is...not here, nor is the time now. The proper time and place is on orbital stations, long-haul space ships, and/or extraterrestrial colonies. Sci-fi stuff, at present, but...maybe not forever.
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Plenty Unlimited raised $940 million from Jeff Bezos, SoftBank, and Eric Schmidt. They were going to feed the world with vertical farms. Lettuce grown indoors, under LEDs, using 90% less water and no pesticides. The pitch was beautiful. The decks were elegant. The press releases were full of words like "revolution" and "future." They filed for Chapter 11 in March 2025. The valuation had collapsed by 99% from its $1.9 billion peak. Bowery Farming raised $700 million at a $2.3 billion peak valuation. Backed by Fidelity, Google Ventures, Justin Timberlake. Shut down in November 2024. Fourteen indoor farming companies filed for bankruptcy in 2025. Combined funding burned: $1.37 billion. Of capital. Vaporised. The reason every single one of them failed is the same reason a farmer in Herefordshire with 180 cattle, no LEDs, no robotics, and no Series C, is still in business in 2026. Grass is free. Rain is free. Sunlight is free. The cow does not require a $200 million data centre to function. She is the data centre. She runs on weather, processes cellulose, outputs protein, and her firmware has been stable for ten thousand years. The pitch decks promised to reinvent agriculture. Agriculture was already invented. It was just in a field, looking the other way.
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Activist: "Your cow looks depressed." Farmer: "She's chewing." Activist: "Her eyes look sad." Farmer: "Cow eyes don't have eyebrows. The droop is structural. The sadness is in your head." Activist: "She's not interacting with the others." Farmer: "She's twelve feet from her best friend of nine years. They take turns lying down. The one standing is on lookout. You arrived during her shift." Activist: "She didn't run when I approached." Farmer: "Running is for predators. You are a person with a notebook. She has classified you correctly." Activist: "She just seems so resigned." Farmer: "She is digesting. Resignation requires a sense of unfulfilled ambition. The cow's ambition this afternoon was to eat that bit of grass. She has done it. She is having, by every measure available to her, a triumphant Tuesday." Activist: "But I can feel it." Farmer: "You can feel what's in your own head. The cow isn't there. The cow is here, on her side, full of grass. Project somewhere else."
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@KenFarmerTV I walled it when I was a teen. Then thanked God it wasn't damaged because it was the high school library's copy.
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KenFarmer ⒶⓋ@KenFarmerTV·
Just curious. How many of you have read Catcher In The Rye ?
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@cuttybraughn Honestly? Yes. The message did get in the way. The only reason they're still taught is because they're held up as message fic that worked in then universities, and that trickles down, but the explanation is lost. Can't think of anyone reading either of those for fun.
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
Writer's tip: keep in mind WHY you're writing. If it's to entertain, awesome. If you've got a story to tell, even better. If it's to persuade an audience? Don't try to do that with fiction. Write an essay. Otherwise, you'll end up preaching, and ruin the story.
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
Health news: Painkillers aren't safe. Tylenol taken wrong will destroy your liver (and there's almost no margin for error). Naproxen and ibuprofen will destroy your kidneys. Aspirin will eat your stomach lining. Choose carefully. Only one of those things is recoverable.
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Armand Morelon
Armand Morelon@ArmandJville·
@HollyChism Holly, I finished "Light Up The Night." Great wish-fulfillment fiction, once again.
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
Meat cows aren't depressed. Meat cows aren't anything. We've bred the brains right out of them to the point that they should count as vegetables. Dairy cows are almost a different animal. Dairy cows are smart enough to be assholes. And dairy bulls are downright dangerous.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

Activist: "Your cow looks depressed." Farmer: "She's chewing." Activist: "Her eyes look sad." Farmer: "Cow eyes don't have eyebrows. The droop is structural. The sadness is in your head." Activist: "She's not interacting with the others." Farmer: "She's twelve feet from her best friend of nine years. They take turns lying down. The one standing is on lookout. You arrived during her shift." Activist: "She didn't run when I approached." Farmer: "Running is for predators. You are a person with a notebook. She has classified you correctly." Activist: "She just seems so resigned." Farmer: "She is digesting. Resignation requires a sense of unfulfilled ambition. The cow's ambition this afternoon was to eat that bit of grass. She has done it. She is having, by every measure available to her, a triumphant Tuesday." Activist: "But I can feel it." Farmer: "You can feel what's in your own head. The cow isn't there. The cow is here, on her side, full of grass. Project somewhere else."

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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@SamaHoole Property tax is awful: I've paid for this house in full, but have to pay to keep using it. Inheritance tax is worse, in my opinion, since you have to pay to keep what your ancestors worked to leave to you, after you've just paid for your dad's funeral. Insult added to injury.
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@SamaHoole So, now, I'm eating the fat, when I'm able to eat without it coming back on me (stress-caused and involuntary--I wouldn't do that on purpose). Trying to get rid of the problems by making my gallbladder work.
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@SamaHoole Am doing exactly that. I lost forty pounds due to nerves a few years ago, and re-developed gallbladder issues. For a while, I took a supplement to help get rid of them, and it worked until I got handed another pack of stress and developed ulcers.
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
"Eating too much fat will give you gallstones." Eating too little fat will give you gallstones. The gallbladder exists for one reason: to release bile when you eat fat. No fat in, no bile out. The bile sits there, concentrates, and crystallises into the stones the low-fat diet was supposed to prevent. A 1998 Italian study put obese subjects on two weight-loss diets, identical in calories, differing only in fat content. Higher-fat group: zero gallstones. Lower-fat group: 54.5 percent developed gallstones in twelve weeks. The mechanism is not hidden. It is in the textbook. Harvard Health will tell you, in the same paragraph, that low-fat diets cause gallbladder stasis and that the recommended treatment for gallstones is a low-fat diet. The contradiction is presented as nutritional wisdom rather than a problem. The hinge needs to move. The gallbladder needs to empty. Fat is the lever. People who go high-fat low-carb sometimes pass small stones in the first few weeks and panic. The gallbladder is finally emptying after years of being told to sit still by people who did not understand what it was for. Eat the fat.
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@RealJamesWoods Your character on that movie was freakin' awesome, and you did a spectacular job portraying him. (I need to find that movie on DVD, now.)
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James Woods@RealJamesWoods·
Thank you. Actually that’s a cult favorite film among John Carpenter fans.
Lindgren@Rising_West

@RealJamesWoods James woods im a big fan you're a great actor. Watched one of your least known 1998 movies called vampires. I first seen that film when i was a kid and still think it's entertaining 👍

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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@CynicalPublius Most of my furniture is second hand. What isn't is mattresses, things other people have bought for us, or task chairs.
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Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
In the 80s my furniture was from Goodwill, I fixed my 1972 Chrysler with parts from the junkyard, ramen was my primary food source and I recall having Wonder Bread toast with mustard for dinner because that's all I could afford. Gen Z has created an America that never existed.
Crispr (Third-Worldist) 🌍📉@CollapseAnime

boomers who spent the 80s and 90s drunk driving from work to cheap restaurants to eat 5$ steak dinners on their way to drunk driving home to their cheap houses bought on one income want me to eat cut up hot dogs on crackers

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Adam Carolla
Adam Carolla@adamcarolla·
How many young healthy people died of covid, statistically almost zero
@Nostradonny@Nostradonny

For starters, COVID killed or hospitalized plenty of younger/middle-aged people without obvious comorbidities, and it exacerbated conditions in others. Framing it as mostly a non-issue for healthy people understated the virus's impact on working-age adults, long COVID, and healthcare overload. Framing it as a vast conspiracy undermines the valid point about the shutdowns.

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Sarah A. Hoyt
Sarah A. Hoyt@SarahAHoyt·
@HollyChism It's not an uncommon name. that said most of grandad's brothers and uncles and great uncles spent a long time in Brazil and some stayed there. And he had a lot of those, because family runs to boys. So high chance it's a relative. :D
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Holly Chism, author@HollyChism·
@NiohBerg They should go to jail for taking bribes. I want the regime to fall for the sake of the people living in Iran (and the rest of the world--a suicide cult is a terrible basis for a government), but this would be a nice side benefit.
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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎@NiohBerg·
One underrated reason why Western leaders and organisations want the regime in Iran to remain in power is this: This regime has directly funded so many groups and individuals. If it falls, all of this will be exposed. Thousands will go to jail. And they know it very well.
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