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Gazing into my newborn daughter's sleeping face, tearing up with the cascade of love spilling out of me, and she suddenly frowns and rips a massive fart

I'm also doing the rutabaga and carrots but those are less pretty, I planted them too closely and waited too long to thin so I'm fucking a lot of them up, sorry my smol frends

Thinning out the kale patch today. I kinda hate doing this since they're all healthy and viable plants, but it gives the others the space and nutrients they need. Gotta bulk up before I try to overwinter them. On the plus side, now we've a TON of baby kale leaves

This is a gamble but I got so many dang cukes! Heck

My large picklesons

Carrots starting to come in! Some still pretty small but they're developing nicely; these were just a couple that I pulled to check and thin out the row. These will supposedly over-winter here so I think I'll leave a few and try for some seed next year https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/collections/beets-sweet-potato-slips/products/over-the-rainbow-carrot-mix-minnesota-over-wintered

Koronis purple beans! These were really productive and easy to grow, even though I messed up and pulled some way early. Highly recommend
https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/collections/legumes/products/koronis-purple-bean

Developing out this take to counter @grendelsmumm@twitter.com's anti-dinosaur energy

The one thing that stupid Anthropocene article got right was that dinosaurs could absolutely have developed a high-energy civilization and we'd have no idea

Pretty certain I can't be the first person to think this

Where are the takes about how institutions encourage climate nihilism to temper our expectations for what can be done via collective change

Being overwhelmed sometimes is okay. It's the biggest problem we've ever faced. But it's not so big that we can't do something about it. You have to remember that what you do still matters. It's hugely important to your kids and mine. The next generation will come later

I am disturbed by the framing of the original article that I saw, as being "oddly comforting". That's letting yourself off the hook. Don't ever forget the urgency of right now, don't get sucked into the numbing inhuman scale of deep time

This isn't to say that individual consumption can ever fix the problem, but if you're unwilling to change your own habits, to at least make an effort, how are we ever going to change the course of all of human global society?

This is abdication, the same way as saying that individual consumption doesn't matter because corporations and institutions are the biggest polluters. Guess what? They're made up of *people* who have choices and share in our collective responsibility

Zooming out and trying to see the big picture blunts this. On a long enough timeline everybody dies, so why should we care about a few billion individuals?

One of the reasons that all of this frustrates me so much is that although ecological change has huge inertia and plays out over centuries, the *political* changes we must make are human-scale. They have to happen fast, within years or decades at most

Even this, which seeks to look out over a bare few thousand years, is so riddled with uncertainty that it starts edging out into speculative fiction https://e360.yale.edu/features/taking-the-long-view-the-forever-legacy-of-climate-change

The concept of the Anthropocene might offend a geologist's sense of scale, but who cares? We're trying to motivate mass action, and it's a useful illustration for how much we're disturbing the ecosystem. You don't have to put it in a geology textbook

This is all high-grade intellectual stupidity. Who precisely cares about "eternal geological life" at this point? We're tryna keep the fucking oceans from swallowing a billion people in the next 40 years