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Mark in LA

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Farmer, forager, forester, author, mycophile. 20 yrs as the 1st employee of The Longleaf Alliance & Res. Assoc. w/ Auburn University. Science over religion. Retired educator who speaks regularly on several subjects ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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How in the AF did I miss that?

08.12.2025 04:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know. I'm always embarrassing myself.

08.12.2025 04:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New Mexico is not red.

07.12.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It looks fine as is. But no one should trust me for fashion advice.

06.12.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine, if you will, a country so comprehensively pathetic that it chooses a serial rapist, child molester, bankrupt draft-dodging, lying, theiving, POS as it's leader.
It's hard to see a future for a country that would that.

04.12.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It truly sucks to share an identity with a white American populace that doesn't have a single moral or principle they won't exchange or sell out for power.

03.12.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He's from Chicago!

29.11.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I try to find a distraction, reading a book, watching a movie, DuoLingo language lessons, hiking.

25.11.2025 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

May it be so.

25.11.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I remember when they murdered the nuns in El Salvador. The US became synonymous with brutal regimes. Now we're reminding the world of our murderous ways.

18.11.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jessica is laying down the law!

18.11.2025 01:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is how you grow lion's mane #mushroom.

17.11.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The world sucks, but APR does some cool stories that help divert our attention in a positive way.

13.11.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cool!

13.11.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for remembering!

12.11.2025 11:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I thought Osoff didn't surrender. Are you sure about that?

10.11.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was it a robbery?
I have 2 surviving children and I think they'd be safer in a country with less firearms. Stories like this are so depressing.

08.11.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is it a different species from the Viscacha all over Machu Pichu in Peru?

07.11.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If I had the dough, I would commission a sculptor to render this in marble.

02.11.2025 23:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Multiple wars on multiple fronts.

02.11.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I enjoyed this book enough that I reread it again decades later.

02.11.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How many strikes that close until the building collapses? That's hell.

02.11.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reduce "committing killings of civilians" to "killing civilians."

Sorry, but I'm an author and unnecessary wording distracts from the message.

28.10.2025 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Vonnegut is a favorite of mine.

23.10.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This woman did everything she could to elect Donald Trump.

21.10.2025 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

She did not survive, but her message may live on.

21.10.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This country can not survive these degrees of divisiveness, prejudice, and cultist devotion to a rabid ruling class.
Murdoch and the talking heads inflamed this situation for ratings and personal enrichment. They should be exterminated.

20.10.2025 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One after another, many of the most intelligent white men I know have demonstrated that Democracy and equality mean nothing to them.
They want white privilege.

20.10.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Everyone is revealing their true selves.

20.10.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wearing a cross =s sign of the beast.
Begone, foul creature.

19.10.2025 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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