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@ecomaterialism

keeper of the granary of the upper and lower mississippi 🌻 field negro training arc, agroecologist 👨🏾‍🔬

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Kevin → Plant Daddy
Kevin → Plant Daddy@KevinEspiritu·
While everyone argues about data centers and water, California almonds quietly use up to 80x more, AND the whole industry only survives because of trucked-in "livestock"... Every February, beekeepers transport nearly every commercial honeybee colony in the United States (around 2.8 million hives) to California to pollinate almonds. It's the largest "managed-pollination" event on the planet. Almonds cover 1.4 million acres and need bees to pollinate so they set nuts. So why do we need to truck them in? Well, almonds are grown in huge monoculture orchards, meaning the native bee species are all but eradicated...there's nothing for them to eat most of the year. To fix the problem WE created, we ship in bees from across the country. I interviewed the creator of the 2019 documentary The Pollinators, which followed this migration and brought a lot of this story into public view. First off, honeybees aren't native to North America. They were brought from Europe in the 1600s. The "bee crisis" you read about, with national colony losses around 55% last year and some commercial keepers losing 60 to 70% in a single season, is happening to a managed, introduced species. It's a livestock collapse driven by long-haul transport, pesticide exposure at bloom, hives packed together spreading mites and viruses, and a monoculture diet. Meanwhile, North America has roughly 4,000 native bee species. Most are solitary, don't make honey, don't sting, and quietly pollinate everything from squash to blueberries. Research out of UC Davis and UC Berkeley has been direct about this: when blue orchard bees, bumble bees, and other natives forage alongside honeybees in almond orchards, fruit set goes UP, not down. The presence of wild bees changes how honeybees move through the trees and makes the honeybees themselves more effective pollinators. So the fix isn't more honeybee hives. It's hedgerows, wildflower strips, bare ground for ground-nesting bees, and uncut field edges, aka habitat for the natives who were doing this work long before we started trucking in livestock. Honeybees are livestock. Native bees are the wildlife, and we should be planting to include them in our agriculture.
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@REL4REALTHO So you’re literally in this thread admitting you’re gonna sign up for the *actively* genocidal military force. You think being young excuses you, as if the IDF doesn’t execute children everyday. No one will ever want to hear your dogshit art. Never listen to rap music again 🤡
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@REL4REALTHO But will you burn your draft card and/or in any way materially oppose Zionism? Or will you serve and just point fingers at the “conservative” elements of your society? Nobody wants no IDF rap music.
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REL is ded // אריאל מת ✡️✡️✡️
@ecomaterialism Do i support it and will i work to further the ideology and teach it to my kids? No. Will i support people who claim me and my family and nearly everyone i know should either leave the country or get killed? Also no. On the real
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ShekelCoin!@SelYourShitCoin·
@ecomaterialism @REL4REALTHO Same can be said about the u.s.a and many other countries sround the world too so why attack the citizens and not the government.
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dash@thedigitaldash_·
i think i’m meant to live in chicago ngl
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jas❤️‍🔥🏒@1girl1library·
FILM FORWARD FILANTHROPY • movies to watch AFTER watching I LOVE BOOSTERS💛•
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Nedia@Nediaxyz·
@pmamtraveller This dumbass facing the other way
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Sam Husseini
Sam Husseini@samhusseini·
The Iranians and anyone with a shred of decency should be working to end Israel’s nukes, the Sword of Damocles threatening humanity. US gov won’t even acknowledge them, watch:
Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו@netanyahu

I spoke last night with President @realDonaldTrump about the memorandum of understanding to reopen the Straits of Hormuz and the upcoming negotiations toward a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. I expressed my deep appreciation to President Trump for his unwavering commitment to Israel’s security, including during Operation Roaring Lion and Epic Fury, when American and Israeli forces fought shoulder to shoulder against the Iranian threat. President Trump and I agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate the nuclear danger. That means dismantling Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites and removing its enriched nuclear material from its territory. President Trump also reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself against threats on every front, including Lebanon. The partnership between us and our two countries has been proven on the battlefield and has never been stronger.  My policy, like President Trump’s, remains unchanged: Iran will not have nuclear weapons.

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Yung Miami
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Boostin’ bitches where y’all at??????👀👀👀 Meet me at AMC Tuesday May 26th @ 7:10PM to watch #ILoveBoosters with Spend Dat music intro!🤑🎥 AMC Sunset 5701 Sunset Dr #300 South Miami, FL 33143
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Boots Riley@BootsRiley·
I Love Boosters is in theaters NOW! Go see it THIS weekend.
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theylive420@TheyLive420·
Eiza Gonzalez as the vaping dialectal materialist spouting union organizer in I Love Boosters might the be hottest anyone has ever been.
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Shoobz
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Y’all are watching Boots Riley campaign for his own movie and then making it a “we don’t have to support all Black art thing” is so ugly. At what point do y’all just let people be excited for something and promote it without turning it into a lecture.
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