Feral Laureth
@ferallaureth.bsky.social
The rag and bone collector. Eat Trash, Be Free!
Doing something. Kinda.
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
cmarmitage.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Doing something. Kinda.
The most prominent change I'd make in this piece is the word "spurned". But other than that...
celdf.substack.com/p/moving-bey...
celdf.substack.com/p/moving-bey...
Trapped Inside Free Speech Zones: How Americans Must Move Beyond Protest
Reflecting on the last 6 years of protest movements in the United States, and how to build sustained political power
celdf.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The most prominent change I'd make in this piece is the word "spurned". But other than that...
celdf.substack.com/p/moving-bey...
celdf.substack.com/p/moving-bey...
"Sometimes, the most powerful messages aren’t written in ink or typed in code, but slipped between the knits and purls."
www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/wo...
www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/wo...
Women Who Smuggled Secrets – Modern Daily Knitting
www.moderndailyknitting.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"Sometimes, the most powerful messages aren’t written in ink or typed in code, but slipped between the knits and purls."
www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/wo...
www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/wo...
Urine contains many of the same nutrients as commercial fertilizers, but at much less environmental cost. Practices like this have a future as other resources are depleted and necessity demands we start closing nutrient loops.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Why Vermont farmers are using urine on their crops
Urine was used as fertiliser in ancient Rome and China. Now farmers in Vermont are bringing this practice back to boost harvests and grow crops in a more sustainable way.
www.bbc.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Urine contains many of the same nutrients as commercial fertilizers, but at much less environmental cost. Practices like this have a future as other resources are depleted and necessity demands we start closing nutrient loops.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Bonobos also form "sentences" by stringing a few calls together in ways that affect meaning, strongly suggesting that compositional phrases are very, very old.
theconversation.com/bonobos-crea...
theconversation.com/bonobos-crea...
Bonobos create phrases in similar ways to humans, new study suggests
Human language is not as unique as we think.
theconversation.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Bonobos also form "sentences" by stringing a few calls together in ways that affect meaning, strongly suggesting that compositional phrases are very, very old.
theconversation.com/bonobos-crea...
theconversation.com/bonobos-crea...
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend. -WS
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend. -WS
April 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend. -WS
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend. -WS
Do it for Freddie!
Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.
The show must go on.
The show must go on.
March 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Do it for Freddie!
Excited to get some winter squash seeds today from the good people at GoingToSeed, to contribute genetic diversity to my locally adapted squash project. (At harvest time, people send them back some seeds from the best plants to keep the project going!)
goingtoseed.org
goingtoseed.org
Going to Seed
Going to Seed inspires a shift in agriculture towards adaptation, community, and diversity. Adaptation Agriculture or Adaptation Gardening allows the ecosystem to select the best plants, rather than r...
goingtoseed.org
February 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Excited to get some winter squash seeds today from the good people at GoingToSeed, to contribute genetic diversity to my locally adapted squash project. (At harvest time, people send them back some seeds from the best plants to keep the project going!)
goingtoseed.org
goingtoseed.org
Maybe this will make more sense to people now than it did even a few years ago, since they can look around and see it noticeably happening in real time?
How the past 75 years of infrastructure development has created a massive predicament for industrial nations and what comes next.
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/averting-c...
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/averting-c...
Averting Collapse Is No Longer Profitable
How the past 75 years of infrastructure development has created a massive predicament for industrial nations and what comes next
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Maybe this will make more sense to people now than it did even a few years ago, since they can look around and see it noticeably happening in real time?
This whole thread is worthwhile.
Apropos of nothing, I'm thinking about several things, one of which I just learned bout. The first is "Chesterton's Fence": an early 20th Century author who used a parable of a fence to posit why we should not destroy what we do not understand. 1/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPGb...
Chesterton Fence: Don’t Destroy What You Don’t Understand!
YouTube video by Sprouts
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This whole thread is worthwhile.
"The results also suggest apes can simultaneously hold two conflicting world views in their mind," which is better than a lot of people can do.
phys.org/news/2025-02...
phys.org/news/2025-02...
Bonobos realize when humans miss information and communicate accordingly
To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown informatio...
phys.org
February 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"The results also suggest apes can simultaneously hold two conflicting world views in their mind," which is better than a lot of people can do.
phys.org/news/2025-02...
phys.org/news/2025-02...
Relocalize and rewild!
January 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Relocalize and rewild!
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"Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other."
--Ben Franklin, making "Fuck around and find out" classy
--Ben Franklin, making "Fuck around and find out" classy
January 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other."
--Ben Franklin, making "Fuck around and find out" classy
--Ben Franklin, making "Fuck around and find out" classy
If I were Japanese, this would be my mission and my aesthetic. I'm not, but might do something like it anyway. Recycling, zero waste, and respect should know no boundaries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJo...
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If I were Japanese, this would be my mission and my aesthetic. I'm not, but might do something like it anyway. Recycling, zero waste, and respect should know no boundaries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJo...
Please also imagine this in rainbow colors. And Red, White and Blue, actually, for people who don't think the United States should go the way it's going.
January 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Please also imagine this in rainbow colors. And Red, White and Blue, actually, for people who don't think the United States should go the way it's going.
Wow, that's even worse as a video than as a still image. There is real feeling put into that. He *means* it.
January 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wow, that's even worse as a video than as a still image. There is real feeling put into that. He *means* it.
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The thing is, you're part of an ecology whether or not you recognize it. Trying to pretend you're not is just a surefire recipe for a dysfunctional relationship with the rest of the life that's also a part of it.
January 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The thing is, you're part of an ecology whether or not you recognize it. Trying to pretend you're not is just a surefire recipe for a dysfunctional relationship with the rest of the life that's also a part of it.
They can come live with me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds
Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They can come live with me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Never a bad idea really, but probably an even better idea in the years ahead.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/e...
Why more Americans are gardening as Trump returns to the White House | CNN Business
Just two days after Election Day, Maggie Mosher, a retired history teacher based in San Jose, California, began setting up raised beds to build a winter garden in her backyard. Never before had Mosher...
www.cnn.com
January 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Never a bad idea really, but probably an even better idea in the years ahead.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/e...
This firm weaves bags from waste plastic. Inspiring, yes. But when an "eco" tote costs $122, it's not going to save the world (or much of anything else). "Sustainable" takes labor, then it's hard to recoup costs.
There's just no good way out of the big predicament.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9t...
There's just no good way out of the big predicament.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9t...
Turning Plastic Trash Into Luxury Bags | One Small Step
YouTube video by NowThis Earth
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This firm weaves bags from waste plastic. Inspiring, yes. But when an "eco" tote costs $122, it's not going to save the world (or much of anything else). "Sustainable" takes labor, then it's hard to recoup costs.
There's just no good way out of the big predicament.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9t...
There's just no good way out of the big predicament.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9t...
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