It's a short sweet life

Tremendously intriguing article on ocean farming and the prospect of the “blue-green economy.” Too often our thinking stops at water’s edge:
//This is our opportunity to rearrange the seafood plate by moving ocean plants and bivalves to the center and wild fish to the edges. Imagine being a chef in 2015 and discovering that there are thousands of vegetable species you’ve never cooked with. It’s like discovering corn, arugula, tomatoes, and lettuce for the first time. As one of my partner chefs — and the former punk-rock drummer — Brooks Headley says, “As a chef it feels frightening, daunting, and exciting all at once.” Ocean greens such as kelp are not small boutique crops. We can grow incredible amounts of food in small areas: 25 tons of greens and 250,000 shellfish per acre in five months. If you were to create a network of our ocean farms totaling the size of Washington state, you could feed the planet.
This is zero-input food that requires no fresh water, no fertilizer, no feed, no arid land. It is hands down the most sustainable food on the planet.//

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Jan 12
2019

tastefullyoffensive:

Best man on the job.

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Jan 11
2019

gefuhldeszweifels:

Paul McCartney and David Bowie

Jan 11
2019

transgender-history:

Gendertrash From Hell issue 2 volume 1, 1993
(note: “genetic” is an older word for “cis”)

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Jan 11
2019

settledtravels:

positive-memes:
I always hoped
This just melted my heart. 😍❤

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Jan 10
2019

Fruit that are Appropriate to Salt:

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Cantaloupe (or just wrap it in prosciutto) and figs (or add some gorgonzola). Good stuff.
not a huge fan of gorgonzola, but then again im not a huge fan of most blue cheeses.
But i will say i feel u on the melon front, it’s become a favourite snack of mine since seeing em in Hannibal to make little proscuitto/melon (be that watermelon or cantaloupe) bites
All of them if you’re not a coward.
nb4r there’s the classic apple/cheddar combo, and salting a bruleed grapefruit is *chef kiss*
honestly thats fair and all of this was me trawling for snakc ideas, i hadn’t considered putting grapefruit through the flames b4 but now i shall try it
Anything you can make into jam can go on salty crackers with cheese imho.
I strongly suspect dried apricots and peanut butter pretzels go well together.
I love stuffing a chicken with tinned apricots and then roast it, I can confirm apricots go well with savoury foods.
that shit sounds fuckin delicious do you have an overall recipe for it??
How many more followers are you prepated to lose?
fame is an unnecessary evil if those who follow persecute me for fruit crimes
also cranberry sauce is a thing that exists and goes on poultry, that last one wasnt even cursed
You want Fruit Crimes? I’ll give Fruit Crimes.
Spaghetti Ala Watermelon
Crapes (Caper grapes)
Appleoni and Cheese
Fruit Salad Casserole
Avocado Roast on Toast
Salimei (Lime Wedges wrapped in Salami)

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Jan 10
2019

dappermouth:

When I was a kid, a very quiet girl from my school who I kind-of sort-of knew brought me a bundle of lavender, carefully wrapped in butcher paper and tied with a string. She said she’d thought of me that morning and picked it on her parents’ farm. This hasn’t come to mind in years, but I remembered it today and I’m startled by the kindness of it now, that someone who hardly knew me thought of me, and picked me lavender.

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Jan 10
2019

eevart:

Just thinking about people making year-end summaries of their accomplishments and also about reasons to keep yourself alive through the next year. Sorry, it’s a bit of a sappy comic.
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Jan 10
2019

great-tweets:

There is nothing new under the sun.

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Jan 06
2019

luxshine:

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sabelmouse:
This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep.
Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.
So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.
You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.
Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.
Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.
Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of.
Removing wool from sheep is literally just giving them a haircut.
There’s a news article about a poor sheep that wasn’t sheared for like 10 years. he couldn’t run, he couldn’t walk easily. Once they took off all that extra wool, he was prancing happily. Shearing is good for them, and anyone who says otherwise has never seen a sheep!

Solarpunks call this out

The Seas Will Save Us

Fruit that are Appropriate to Salt:

Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.