jeffwrites.bsky.social
@jeffwrites.bsky.social
Nonbinary journalist covering state politics, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive rights

Bylines at Teen Vogue, LGBTQ Nation, and the Baltimore Sun
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I heard there was a secret ooze
It turned four turtles into dudes
But you don't really care for pizza, do ya?

They fought like this,
Two swords, a stick
A couple sai
Some nunchuck tricks
Those Ninja boys-a callin

Cowabunga
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
That doesn't mean their chickens are more likely to survive, it just means that they are less likely to go under if all their chickens die.

Does that help food availability? Not sure. Maybe they can pivot to another food product easier, but that doesn't help the egg supply during bird flu.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
That flexibility probably won't change anything with bird flu though. If your chickens are dead then you don't have eggs to sell.

The UC Davis study also found product diversity increases resilience. The farms in their study sold an average of ~3 products, which helps with something like bird flu.
February 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Bird flu will be very different, but a UC Davis study (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) found that reliance on wholesale channels was associated with lower resilience during COVID. That might be the big factor - economies of scale can't survive with CSAs, farm stands or u-pick sales.
Farm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of California direct market farmers
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant shocks to U.S. food systems at multiple scales. While disturbances to long-distance supply chains received su…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Yeah, that was my first thought as well.

It also doesn't really make sense based on how I understand carbon capture to work.

You capture it on site, compress, then pipe it to the containment zone.

Are we shipping the liquid co2 all the way to Brazil? What about the shipping emissions?
January 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"I don't believe any court would allow this," they said, ignoring the dozens of court decisions to allow it cited in the original article.
January 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In my experience, it was boring for me as someone with a "talent" for math.

In theirs, it left them entirely unprepared for future math classes - and they were still "smart" enough to get into college, so top 60% of educational attainment.

Who does it help then? The 65th-85th percentile?
December 24, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I'm one extreme and I know that. I did not do math homework and got a 5 on my AP calc test, then never took math again.

I had friends who took remedial math in college and got excited when they learned multiplication is just adding things over and over.

Times tables screwed them over really hard.
December 24, 2024 at 5:13 PM
I watch and play a lot of chess. This is less true than people think. International Master Eric Rosen has coached other pros on stream and said "Don't memorize this, understand it."

A single difference in pawn placement can change a winning move into a losing one. You study top games to understand.
December 24, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Math and science don't have a mechanical skill aspect to practice. Art and sports rely on muscle control - straighter lines, smoother curves, dribbling.

Memorizing multiplication tables doesn't make you better at math. It can even hide kids who don't understand the principles of multiplication.
December 24, 2024 at 4:29 PM
There are other errors, and the author typically puts the dots a letter or two in after an i rather than directly above it, so I think it's a defensible call to make, but idk the rules for that sort of thing here.
December 11, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I agree with "Improvement" as the last word.

I'm starting to force things, but my best guess is "learn - all workers need Improvement."

That requires you to see the dot above "need" as an ink blot rather than part of an i.
December 11, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I'm no expert, but I read "learn - all workers..."

The "learn" would be an exhortative for emphasis. "- draw inference from this circumstance, learn - all workers..."

I would expect "all workers" to be the start of the lesson. A poor woodcutter turned a merchant into a lord with cultivated land.
December 11, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I'm allergic to the whooping cough vaccine and have had it a couple of times.

It's hard to explain how bad it is to someone who's never seen or experienced it.

People just need to know that 1. You never want to go through that, and 2. There are people who rely on everyone else getting vaccinated.
November 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM
That's the best choice
November 24, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Project 2025 was already going to crush farmers. They want to dramatically cut farm subsidies and either eliminate or cut back crop insurance programs.

I'm not saying all that is wrong, but it will transform the economics of farming in the US, and they're not worried about an equitable transition.
November 17, 2024 at 5:14 PM
I honestly quit playing acnh over those blue roses. I had everything else, but after a couple weeks of no blue roses I couldn't motivate myself to pick a new goal
November 2, 2024 at 12:50 PM
"individuals took action at some point in the process to have their registration flagged in … the commonwealth’s systematic purge"

I thought the third parties suing to purge voters made bad arguments. Add "noncitizens aren't covered by the NVRA" and this is just insulting.

Even worse, it worked.
October 30, 2024 at 10:52 PM
A friend of mine told me they didn't believe in humanity anymore, just individual people or groups.

"Covid is the closest we'll ever get to an alien invasion that unites humanity, and we turned it into a point of division instead."
October 25, 2024 at 2:30 AM