Richard Waite

it's terrible at keeping out the rain

what am I supposed to do with my colander though

*climbs up onto my "because many foods are global commodities, consumption decisions in one country can have effects on land use and environmental impacts in another" soapbox*

A lot of the "so whats" are pretty similar to what's in the thread below that focuses on agricultural production in areas where non-forest ecosystems like grasslands, savannas, and wetlands were recently cleared: bsky.app/profile/wait...

Graph with heading that says: Beef caused at least 4 times more deforestation than any other food in the last two decades The top 15 most forest-destructive foods, ranked by the scale of deforestation they caused 2001-2022, in millions of acres. Beef ~120 M acres Oil palm 20-30 M Soybeans 15 M Corn 15 M Rice 10 M Cassava 10 M Cocoa, sugarcane, beans, sorghum, coffee, plantains, peanuts, wheat, bananas, all 0-10 M.

The study found that beef has driven about 120M acres of forest destruction globally between 2001 and 2022, mostly in the tropics. This is an area larger than California.

Oil palm was in a distant second place between 20-30M acres, followed by soybeans, corn, rice, cassava...and others.

The 15 foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart New research reveals which food crops are razing the rainforest. One comes out way ahead — and it’s an American favorite.

The same week our study about non-forest ecosystem loss came out, here's another new study looking at what foods are being grown or produced in areas deforested between 2001-2022 with a good article by @benjij.bsky.social:

70s later this week tho

Tulip mania - Wikipedia

“At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, certain tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled artisan”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_m...

Dutch skeets from the 1630s:

I’m ok with it but who am I to yum your yuck. Glad you got it off your chest.

This is such a specific and minor grievance. I can appreciate that.

Unpopular opinion, the sauce variety is too long and overwhelming for the quality of the product adorned by said sauces

NB by “experience” I mean the food not the atmosphere, it was carry out

This is probably exaggerating somewhat but every experience I’ve had w BWW is like “here are 12 wings and some fries, the experience is mid at best and for some reason it cost like $30”

The same amount of time has passed between now (2026) and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991) as between 1991 and Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” (1956)

I still think it’s rude that the classic rock station plays Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Green Day now, but that stuff is as old now as the 50s were in the 80s 😬

Nice!

Very wholesome

“And I don't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive”

“Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Fear today, forgot tomorrow
Here besides the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk”

It’s good. And still relevant

Just your humble correspondent, in the produce aisle, pushing the cart and fighting back tears to the tune of Duran Duran’s Ordinary World (1993)

[person is actively trying to harm me or worse, on multiple fronts, at scale] hmm I had breakfast today and I bet they did too. That means we must have stuff in common. Perhaps if I seek to understand and talk in a respectful tone they’ll see where I’m coming from and we can meet in the middle

eXtrEmE 80s-00s foods colored brightly the wrong way, like neon blue ketchup or Hi-C Ecto Cooler

(Although I guess the enduring things like blue raspberry candy and Gatorade get a pass here)

And it’s even worse than a broken clock. It’s an actively harmful clock!

two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works Alt: two women are standing in a room and one of them says that’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works!

You don’t get a gold star for saying “people should really exercise more” if you are, at the same time, dismantling public health infrastructure in the present and for decades to come.

I almost outrage-shared the article. I decided not to because I’m trying not to do that type of thing over here. I can’t believe people are still asking questions like this in 2026. You don’t get props for saying “vegetables are nice 😊” if you are simultaneously dismantling vaccine infrastructure.

Between the latest horrors of the morning and an article that just crossed my feed wondering if the food justice movement and M*HA can find common ground because both care about healthy diets and limiting food dyes, I think I may need to log off for the weekend and touch melting snow.

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