American anti-fascist, democratic socialist, sponsor of four Ukrainian refugees, fencer. Avatar is definitely not a picture of me. I generally don't boost toots that contain links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, the Washington Post, or the New York Times.
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Last Notes npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot I've only found two remedies for Japanese beetles. One is planting peonies, which encourage Tiphia wasps that prey on the grubs. The other is hand picking the beetles off whatever I'm trying to protect. I decided my three rows of beans were worth a daily trip to the garden with a cup of soapy water. I try to maneuver the cup under any adult beetles I see. They drop off the leaf and into the cup, where they drown. #Gardening #JapaneseBeetle npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot I'm impressed. But I see no fences. Do you not have rabbits? or deer? npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot Costco is pretty good about taking returns on anything they sell. Including a perishable salad kit that hasn't even been recalled yet. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot I think we all know what to do with the new Trump dollar coin. https://cdn.masto.host/leftbanknet/media_attachments/files/116/936/268/972/605/264/original/aa8860514b8a8b6c.jpg npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot Four (expensive) chopped salad kits in my refrigerator are now quarantined pending a recall announcement. I was minutes from eating one. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot TIL that bumblebees, which I had thought were harmless, are in fact MOSTLY harmless. Apparently there was a nest in a pile of composted leaves, and disturbing it was just the right amount of provocation. #Bumblebees #Gardening npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot Lindsey Graham must be added to the list of fascists and collaborators who escaped justice. #Graham npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot We all assume Mr. Salagado was murdered in cold blood for being Mexican. And Republicans have no one to blame for that cynical assumption but themselves. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot Now that billionaires can buy a Supreme Court that will hand them the unrestricted right to buy elections in their own interest, I no longer feel the need to phase in a wealth tax gradually. Let's tax 100% of the assets over a certain amount, so there are no U.S. billionaires after the first year. #WealthTax #Billionaires #Fascism npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot Possibility: she's lying like all the other fascists. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot That's a keeper. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot I once read of a cooling method a lot like this, but with the air flow in reverse. The towers are passively heated by the sun, drawing warm air up and out. Fresh air enters the building via underground tunnels, where water from the soil evaporates to provide cooling. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot RE: https://left-bank.net/@BlueDot/116116562689530911 @npub1h9q…fkmf None of us should be spreading unconfirmed information. None of us should be acting on it. #note1kpw…c58k npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot I'm currently taking a break from building a rabbit fence, and I'm curious to know how you keep rabbits out of the #CommunityGarden. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot Depends on what you want to do with your time. Ripe sweet corn is ready to eat as soon as you husk it. Grinding corn and making tortillas takes time, but it might be a fun activity. Popcorn has some finicky storage requirements: gotta seal it up when the moisture content is JUST right, or the whole container is ruined. I never got the hang of growing popcorn. And, of course, if you have deer you'll spend your time building a fence, or threatening the deer with violence. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot In fact, the ICC can be invited by a non-signatory country to take jurisdiction (Article 12, Section 3). This is how the ICC is investigating tens of thousands of war crimes by Russia in Ukrainian territory, even though Ukraine did not sign the Rome Statute. So Iran could invite the ICC to investigate crimes by the U.S. in Iran. Or the next U.S. President could invite the ICC to investigate crimes against humanity by the Trump regime. https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot It will take more of everything. We cannot know in advance what will work. For today, the objective is to give more people the courage to join us, people who will join us in boycotts and eventually in the general strike. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot A general strike would absolutely be a more powerful statement. Reasonable people can disagree about whether we can pull one off now. I don't think we can yet. npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot I can't imagine why anyone would ask the question "Did AI select the target?" The U.S. military bombed the school and killed the children. It doesn't matter what their motives were, or how they selected the target. It doesn't matter whether they did it dutifully or gleefully. It doesn't matter how they became the kind of person who murders children. They did it. #Iran #WarCrimes npub12jlhhyt8f5cxtwuxr4378zpp3w45lfmkqkcrnp6f7pf800cgyc2q7nacfz BlueDot The premature death of Trump --- by which I mean, Trump dying before his criminal trials are all finished and his civil fines are all paid --- would be a terrible thing. What this country needs, what he owes us, is the opportunity to prove all his crimes in open court with sworn testimony, creating an undeniable permanent record. We have to be able to identify every corrupt act, every lie, and every accomplice, in the #InternationalCriminalCourt or some new tribunal.