Anna 👩🏼‍🌾

Will they list their suppliers for the products they'll be selling, or continue the "farmwash" under their Ballerina Brand? People are paying a premium for milk powder, flour, and meat because they want to feel like they are supporting a local farm. Do they know it's mostly just branding?

A counter top with chocolate sandwich cookies shaped and stamped like the head of a sunflower. Some are filled with yellow cream and some are yet to be assembled. There are also a few peanutbutter with chocolate centers in the upper right corner.

HOT TIP: when boycotting, try dupe recipes at home to share with friends. Sometimes there's no local alternative but there's always a recipe blog on the internet. Now i can have doublestuffed mint chocolate sandwich cookies without funding the capitalist machine crushing my American friends ☺️

If you’re a middle aged female with an interest in solar power, nuclear campaigners want you. In the week 15th to the 21st of March, Nuclear for Australia and its offshoot astroturfing group, Mums For Nuclear, spent a combined $89,233 on Meta ads, according to online political database WhoTargets.Me. Mums for Nuclear targets mothers with claims that nuclear power will reduce power bills and is essential to a “clean energy future for our children”. The ads (sample below) claim “We’re not activists or lobbyists, but we know nuclear is our future”. Nuclear for Australia, which is backed by mogul Dick Smith, is the contact email address on the account. While men and women saw the ad, around 18% of the budget was spent targeting women only. The group is also running print ads and issued a media release. Belinda Noble, founder of climate communications group, Comms Declare said, “Targeting mums with false promises of cheap power bills and climate solutions is as manipulative as it is cynical. The CSIRO has confirmed that only renewables can provide the cuts in climate pollution that we need this decade.” People classified as being interested in renewables, sustainable energy or efficient energy were among the top contested audiences between climate and nuclear campaigners, Independent candidates and the Liberal Party.

a screenshot of the facebook ad

If you’re a middle aged female with an interest in solar power, nuclear campaigners want you. In the week 15th to the 21st of March, Nuclear for Australia and its offshoot astroturfing group, Mums For Nuclear, spent a combined $89,233 on Meta ads, according to online political database WhoTargets.Me. Mums for Nuclear targets mothers with claims that nuclear power will reduce power bills and is essential to a “clean energy future for our children”. The ads (sample below) claim “We’re not activists or lobbyists, but we know nuclear is our future”. Nuclear for Australia, which is backed by mogul Dick Smith, is the contact email address on the account. While men and women saw the ad, around 18% of the budget was spent targeting women only. The group is also running print ads and issued a media release. Belinda Noble, founder of climate communications group, Comms Declare said, “Targeting mums with false promises of cheap power bills and climate solutions is as manipulative as it is cynical. The CSIRO has confirmed that only renewables can provide the cuts in climate pollution that we need this decade.” People classified as being interested in renewables, sustainable energy or efficient energy were among the top contested audiences between climate and nuclear campaigners, Independent candidates and the Liberal Party.

'mums for nuclear', backed by famous Mum For Nuclear Dick Smith, is massively ramping up its targeted spending on Meta: just flat-out lying to people by claiming nukes will bring down power bills.

Extremely dodgy and unethical stuff

via @commsdeclare.bsky.social

Looking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers Thursday marks 40 years since former President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers. That dealt a serious blow to the American labor movement.

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A garden shot showing a cucumber and mixed greens in front of more stone garden beds and a tiny house

Sun flower and berry canes in front of a tiny house lit up by sun light.

Zinnia flowers in a peach colour with small yellow blooms around the centre

Wet washing on the line with a rainbow above

🌱 some garden shots. Itching for autumn tbh but trying to enjoy the last bits of summer

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

I'm sowing for autumn and ealry winter at the moment 😁

Thank you!

A hand reaching out and touching a large pumpkin still on the vine

🌱 Do you think she'll keep growing?

Beautiful!

A hand full of blueberries over a small basket with more berries.

🌱 summer snacks 🫐
I never got around to netting my blueberries this year. The birds have finally spared me a few big handfuls.

That absolutely is

I am 100000% sure, i just took the wrong screen shot i tried it multiple times and there are established articles on it as well as meta addressing it

Yeah i realise i misspelled it in this one but you can go read on the bbc how republican was never blocked

It wasn't just me having an issue..meta says they "fixed it"

Thank you 🥹🥹

I made dough with 1 part water 2 part flour but added colouring to the water

Thank you! Its a farming game that has these little creatures called junimo that can help you harvest and water your crops

A floral plate with 4 colourful Junimo dumplings. There is a floral tea cup with sliced ginger 🫚

🌱Junimo wild pork dumplings with veggies from the garden and ginger tea 🍽 creating little pockets of joy to refill my cup while we take on 2025 together
#stardewvalley

I'm still figuring out how to find people here. It's a bit clunky to navigate. Are you searching words or finding feeds?

This looks so cute!

Instructions
1. Download the template and 100 submission sentences from my linktree
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4. Push send!!! linktr.ee/taniawaikato... .

#addmepleasechef

Okay Bluesky, I've been here a while and found lovely garden content, but where do I find #sewing? Or other sustainable living/tiny house families? Where do I post my little diy low-waste parties?

Great idea! I'm sure once I get one component working, it wouldn't be hard to add more as it should be a very similar set-up. I will share as I go 😊 I think it's really important to have this kind of thing free and accessible so as many people as possible can benefit

I'd like to give it the ability to chart how much water I'm using for each section, and I might integrate moisture meters. I'd also like to eventually have the weather monitoring charting as well. I really love spreadsheets but I need to save time for community projects

Home Assistant Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.

Who has an automated garden system? I'm setting up irrogation this year to free up more time for planting, foraging, and dreaming. I need to be able to run it off a mini solar setup, and I'd like to eventually integrate it with a weather monitoring system. Has anyone used home-assistant.io? 🌱

Shame i just saw this! I would have been interested in attending. Platforms like reddit have also seen small losses to decentralised platforms like Lemmy

Worth it though!

Wow those are beautiful! I'm going to try a new spot with poor soil for autumn. I shoukd still have time if i get my starts going today 🤞