Jonathan Parkes Allen
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Jonathan Parkes Allen
@jparkesallen.bsky.social
historian of the Islamicate with @openiti.bsky.social; community food forest/garden organizer with @foodforestchatt.bsky.social. ☦ Christian, father, deep time delver. 🏴 anarcho-agrarian 🌻 upholder of Gustav Landauer thought. Signal @ jparkesallen.11
Actually just finished it lol which is partially what made me want to read more
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
in this particularly fight at least I wish my crazy congresswoman well lol
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
how much would you like to know
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I will be very very shocked if any future Democratic administrations take climate change seriously tbh
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
also a million and a half voters turning out for a race with a couple people (it was these two plus a special tax measure in our county) on the ballot is pretty wild
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
did my part
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Would actually be interesting to see if you can find regional etc differences in American nature writing- I would say my own nature writing is much more like that of the British, and I wonder how much of that is due to my being from the American South or is just personal idiosyncrasy
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Virgil was friends with black musicians up in the Big South Fork area where he lived most of his life, and the influence is definitely there, nice reminder of the (now mostly forgotten) history of African-Americans on the Cumberland Plateau
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM