Joel Tagert
@joeltagert.bsky.social
Writer, artist, yogi, Zen student, resident manager at Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.
Ticks that cause an allergy to meat? See, this is what happens when you give Jonathan Safran Foer a CRISPR machine.
#meatallergy #vegetarian #vegan
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#meatallergy #vegetarian #vegan
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ticks that cause an allergy to meat? See, this is what happens when you give Jonathan Safran Foer a CRISPR machine.
#meatallergy #vegetarian #vegan
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#meatallergy #vegetarian #vegan
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Patriotism, n. —Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name. Dr. Johnson's dictionary defines patriotism as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first." — Ambrose Bierce
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July 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"Patriotism, n. —Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name. Dr. Johnson's dictionary defines patriotism as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first." — Ambrose Bierce
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Really enjoying how our dining room altar is taking shape. Feel like it's finally come to life. #altar #buddha #buddhist #earthwitness #ecodharma
July 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Really enjoying how our dining room altar is taking shape. Feel like it's finally come to life. #altar #buddha #buddhist #earthwitness #ecodharma
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Awakening Microcosms is a new body of work based on the micro-worlds of lichen, fungi and the tiny universes within them. I have fallen in love with them…each painting permeating my being. Thank you @joeltagert.bsky.social for suggesting this exploration.
#lichenart
#denverartist
#interconnectedness
#lichenart
#denverartist
#interconnectedness
June 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Awakening Microcosms is a new body of work based on the micro-worlds of lichen, fungi and the tiny universes within them. I have fallen in love with them…each painting permeating my being. Thank you @joeltagert.bsky.social for suggesting this exploration.
#lichenart
#denverartist
#interconnectedness
#lichenart
#denverartist
#interconnectedness
"A boss is a system of mistrust." - Alan Watts
June 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"A boss is a system of mistrust." - Alan Watts
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What Are Our Dietary Restrictions?
June 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What Are Our Dietary Restrictions?
I got out this ladder to hang some shade sails, and in a few minutes discovered this rash on my arm. Apparently ladders are sometimes made of fiberglass, which can deteriorate in the sun and then be a fucking menace. "Fiberglass bloom," it's called. Like, whose idea was this??
June 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I got out this ladder to hang some shade sails, and in a few minutes discovered this rash on my arm. Apparently ladders are sometimes made of fiberglass, which can deteriorate in the sun and then be a fucking menace. "Fiberglass bloom," it's called. Like, whose idea was this??
Still waiting for Vanilla Ice to release an anti-fascist remix of "Ice ICE Baby." #abolishice
June 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Still waiting for Vanilla Ice to release an anti-fascist remix of "Ice ICE Baby." #abolishice
June 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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look, I may not agree with everything our president says, but I will defend to the death his right to be impeached, removed from office, arrested, stripped of his wealth, tried for his crimes and thrown straight the fuck into prison
May 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
look, I may not agree with everything our president says, but I will defend to the death his right to be impeached, removed from office, arrested, stripped of his wealth, tried for his crimes and thrown straight the fuck into prison
Was just talking on the phone about the moose when this one literally showed up at my window. #moosewatch
May 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Was just talking on the phone about the moose when this one literally showed up at my window. #moosewatch
April 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
First retreat of the season is underway, and...yeah, it's April in the mountains. #ecodharma #colorado
April 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
First retreat of the season is underway, and...yeah, it's April in the mountains. #ecodharma #colorado
This mother and calf have been coming by regularly to enjoy the new grass directly off the east deck. Calling em Mohawk and Mrs Whitemane. #moosesky #ecodharma
April 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This mother and calf have been coming by regularly to enjoy the new grass directly off the east deck. Calling em Mohawk and Mrs Whitemane. #moosesky #ecodharma
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
New deck for the lodge!
April 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New deck for the lodge!
What Trump wants, simply put, is to turn the USA into Putin's Russia - or Stalin's.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago (Gift Article)
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What Trump wants, simply put, is to turn the USA into Putin's Russia - or Stalin's.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
These two large friends stopped by the lodge today. The first I've seen this season! #ecodharma #moosewatch
April 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
These two large friends stopped by the lodge today. The first I've seen this season! #ecodharma #moosewatch
My latest short story in Birdy. Yes, that gasbag. @birdymagazine.bsky.social #denverscifi #shortstory
www.birdymagazine.com/featured/gas...
www.birdymagazine.com/featured/gas...
Gasbag by Joel Tagert | Art by Moon Patrol - BIRDY MAGAZINE
Out of the poisoned wastes in the east he drifted like a decrepit dirigible, a gasbag so bilious and vile the earth though wounded repelled his pustulent flesh.
www.birdymagazine.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My latest short story in Birdy. Yes, that gasbag. @birdymagazine.bsky.social #denverscifi #shortstory
www.birdymagazine.com/featured/gas...
www.birdymagazine.com/featured/gas...
Brand new drawing! OM NAMAH SHIVAYA. Color pencil on illustration board, 32" x 32". The mantra translates "I bow to Shiva," but another interpretation is that the syllables represent the five elements (of earth, water, fire, air and space) and Shiva as their master. #shiva #hinduart #yogaart
February 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM