John Brisbin
@ethicalfeast.bsky.social
Contented cultivator of the blossoming local.
I am what I eat. I am the change I want to see.
I am what I eat. I am the change I want to see.
Sure, all true. But isn't this a strange sort of choice of graphs? Instead of showing a long term trend, it accentuates the "startling" rise (from 0) in just one year, implicitly, as a result of antivax policy setting in.
At the least, this choice diminishes concern w other contributing factors.
At the least, this choice diminishes concern w other contributing factors.
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Sure, all true. But isn't this a strange sort of choice of graphs? Instead of showing a long term trend, it accentuates the "startling" rise (from 0) in just one year, implicitly, as a result of antivax policy setting in.
At the least, this choice diminishes concern w other contributing factors.
At the least, this choice diminishes concern w other contributing factors.
But do you really think it's a different story at national level? (cough... Tassal cough...northwest shelf...cough cough)
The system is fractally consistent top to bottom, fully saturated with a singular mandate to reproduce capital in a zero-sum ecstasy of materialistic delusion.
The system is fractally consistent top to bottom, fully saturated with a singular mandate to reproduce capital in a zero-sum ecstasy of materialistic delusion.
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
But do you really think it's a different story at national level? (cough... Tassal cough...northwest shelf...cough cough)
The system is fractally consistent top to bottom, fully saturated with a singular mandate to reproduce capital in a zero-sum ecstasy of materialistic delusion.
The system is fractally consistent top to bottom, fully saturated with a singular mandate to reproduce capital in a zero-sum ecstasy of materialistic delusion.
An amazing tree and so beautiful...just a shock/disruptor to the environs here.
We really don't have a proper, grounded theory for native vs exotic, weed vs not-weed....leads to so many confusions. I'm not sure how to best navigate these questions!
We really don't have a proper, grounded theory for native vs exotic, weed vs not-weed....leads to so many confusions. I'm not sure how to best navigate these questions!
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
An amazing tree and so beautiful...just a shock/disruptor to the environs here.
We really don't have a proper, grounded theory for native vs exotic, weed vs not-weed....leads to so many confusions. I'm not sure how to best navigate these questions!
We really don't have a proper, grounded theory for native vs exotic, weed vs not-weed....leads to so many confusions. I'm not sure how to best navigate these questions!
They're irresistible to the native bees and poisonous. A death trap. You can have a look inside the flowers and count the bodies!
www.publications.qld.gov.au/ckan-publica...
www.publications.qld.gov.au/ckan-publica...
www.publications.qld.gov.au
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They're irresistible to the native bees and poisonous. A death trap. You can have a look inside the flowers and count the bodies!
www.publications.qld.gov.au/ckan-publica...
www.publications.qld.gov.au/ckan-publica...
You're probably aware that they are a real problem for Australian native bees. Here in very far north Queensland we're trying to figure out how to control and minimise these trees. Not easy... Very weedy and very popular with the community.
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
You're probably aware that they are a real problem for Australian native bees. Here in very far north Queensland we're trying to figure out how to control and minimise these trees. Not easy... Very weedy and very popular with the community.
Wait, how do they calibrate the weights for antimatter?
October 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Wait, how do they calibrate the weights for antimatter?
Colonial practices by capitalists. WV people get a chance to feel like most of the global south, no overseas travel necessary! All hail "the Way Things Are"....
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Colonial practices by capitalists. WV people get a chance to feel like most of the global south, no overseas travel necessary! All hail "the Way Things Are"....
Savage. You've got more faith in professionalism than I do.
Or, let's say, nothing is going to be socially beneficial as long capital returns are the one tent pole we are all required to gather under.
Or, let's say, nothing is going to be socially beneficial as long capital returns are the one tent pole we are all required to gather under.
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Savage. You've got more faith in professionalism than I do.
Or, let's say, nothing is going to be socially beneficial as long capital returns are the one tent pole we are all required to gather under.
Or, let's say, nothing is going to be socially beneficial as long capital returns are the one tent pole we are all required to gather under.
Wrong conclusion.... The reason Tennessee is so saturated with queries is because people from Proper sweet tea country are mystified about where to get a decent drink...
September 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Wrong conclusion.... The reason Tennessee is so saturated with queries is because people from Proper sweet tea country are mystified about where to get a decent drink...
Always with the big ideas!
Yeah sure...lovely, let's have both.
But without the new (as yet undefined) thing, there's clearly little hope for, or purpose for, the likes of Meanjin.
Yeah sure...lovely, let's have both.
But without the new (as yet undefined) thing, there's clearly little hope for, or purpose for, the likes of Meanjin.
September 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Always with the big ideas!
Yeah sure...lovely, let's have both.
But without the new (as yet undefined) thing, there's clearly little hope for, or purpose for, the likes of Meanjin.
Yeah sure...lovely, let's have both.
But without the new (as yet undefined) thing, there's clearly little hope for, or purpose for, the likes of Meanjin.
Well, yes but...
If the values and intellectual horsepower that supported Meanjin for all those years actually had the impact they aspired to, we wouldn't be here now, eh,?
Deeply sad to see it go but perhaps the rude truth is that we need something more fit for purpose in these times.
If the values and intellectual horsepower that supported Meanjin for all those years actually had the impact they aspired to, we wouldn't be here now, eh,?
Deeply sad to see it go but perhaps the rude truth is that we need something more fit for purpose in these times.
September 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Well, yes but...
If the values and intellectual horsepower that supported Meanjin for all those years actually had the impact they aspired to, we wouldn't be here now, eh,?
Deeply sad to see it go but perhaps the rude truth is that we need something more fit for purpose in these times.
If the values and intellectual horsepower that supported Meanjin for all those years actually had the impact they aspired to, we wouldn't be here now, eh,?
Deeply sad to see it go but perhaps the rude truth is that we need something more fit for purpose in these times.
Yah yah...plenty of truth there but also obscures the weirdness of the larger project of the Western Mind or modernity.
The Indigenous Mind (heart) is actually a different place.
Drinking deeply of the western science process, especially as "leaders" simply means becoming less Indigenous. Cool?
The Indigenous Mind (heart) is actually a different place.
Drinking deeply of the western science process, especially as "leaders" simply means becoming less Indigenous. Cool?
September 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Yah yah...plenty of truth there but also obscures the weirdness of the larger project of the Western Mind or modernity.
The Indigenous Mind (heart) is actually a different place.
Drinking deeply of the western science process, especially as "leaders" simply means becoming less Indigenous. Cool?
The Indigenous Mind (heart) is actually a different place.
Drinking deeply of the western science process, especially as "leaders" simply means becoming less Indigenous. Cool?
Hmmmm I'm sympathetic on many levels, but push a bit deeper? There's no specific stopping point for the drive to "efficiency"...only a change in objectives.
Woomeras are pretty cool.
Riding a horse is cool too.
We shape and are shaped by tools. Your question, why? is a great one.
Woomeras are pretty cool.
Riding a horse is cool too.
We shape and are shaped by tools. Your question, why? is a great one.
August 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hmmmm I'm sympathetic on many levels, but push a bit deeper? There's no specific stopping point for the drive to "efficiency"...only a change in objectives.
Woomeras are pretty cool.
Riding a horse is cool too.
We shape and are shaped by tools. Your question, why? is a great one.
Woomeras are pretty cool.
Riding a horse is cool too.
We shape and are shaped by tools. Your question, why? is a great one.
Thanks, sorry, I did not see the link.
August 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Thanks, sorry, I did not see the link.
And worse...what is the source for the "leaked prompt"? How does one access anyone else's prompts?
Wouldn't this logically be more likely a false flag outrage prompt seeded by "friendly forces"?
Wouldn't this logically be more likely a false flag outrage prompt seeded by "friendly forces"?
August 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
And worse...what is the source for the "leaked prompt"? How does one access anyone else's prompts?
Wouldn't this logically be more likely a false flag outrage prompt seeded by "friendly forces"?
Wouldn't this logically be more likely a false flag outrage prompt seeded by "friendly forces"?
Spike Jonze 2013
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August 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Spike Jonze 2013
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Ditto this for any development frontier where the central objective is capital return, as quickly as possible.
We have recurring issues with industrial Ag developers trying to 'bring jobs to our communities' with much the same result: degraded lands, degraded communities. Capital wins.
We have recurring issues with industrial Ag developers trying to 'bring jobs to our communities' with much the same result: degraded lands, degraded communities. Capital wins.
August 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Ditto this for any development frontier where the central objective is capital return, as quickly as possible.
We have recurring issues with industrial Ag developers trying to 'bring jobs to our communities' with much the same result: degraded lands, degraded communities. Capital wins.
We have recurring issues with industrial Ag developers trying to 'bring jobs to our communities' with much the same result: degraded lands, degraded communities. Capital wins.
*funders* =dunderheads
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
*funders* =dunderheads
Yep, well a bailout ought to be accompanied by ostracism for the funders who blew the budget. I know that moment has passed, largely for Tas, but as a matter of policy there ought to be a way to keep all states solvent...with conditions.
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Yep, well a bailout ought to be accompanied by ostracism for the funders who blew the budget. I know that moment has passed, largely for Tas, but as a matter of policy there ought to be a way to keep all states solvent...with conditions.
Really appreciate your reminders the Fed debt is pseudo.
But why not fund the States as needed? No one needs to live with crippling debt. Surely a national bailout is not the end of the world?
But why not fund the States as needed? No one needs to live with crippling debt. Surely a national bailout is not the end of the world?
July 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Really appreciate your reminders the Fed debt is pseudo.
But why not fund the States as needed? No one needs to live with crippling debt. Surely a national bailout is not the end of the world?
But why not fund the States as needed? No one needs to live with crippling debt. Surely a national bailout is not the end of the world?
You must have a view on the criticism of this "virtuous cycle" as being far too uninterested in the Jeavons paradox (where new clean generation simply adds to growth of total energy consumption instead of displacing)...
Decarbonisation is good but far from sufficient. Need #degrowth, yes?
Decarbonisation is good but far from sufficient. Need #degrowth, yes?
June 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
You must have a view on the criticism of this "virtuous cycle" as being far too uninterested in the Jeavons paradox (where new clean generation simply adds to growth of total energy consumption instead of displacing)...
Decarbonisation is good but far from sufficient. Need #degrowth, yes?
Decarbonisation is good but far from sufficient. Need #degrowth, yes?