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Cake day: January 3rd, 2024

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  • There are many reasons to buy local, especially for canadians.

    When it comes to food, you benefit from better practices, for instance. In B.C., even if you aren’t buying organic, most of our producers are using some form of integrated pest management, and are smaller family farms, so you’re getting a cleaner product.

    Also, more obviously, we have decent safety standards, and while we also have a big farm worker exploitation problem to solve, there’s some momentum in improving that.






  • Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.

    Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.

    Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.

    Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.




  • Our Skogkatt ate teen rabbits regularly. She would bring them into the house so we gave her a “murder mat” that was for that purpose (smart cat, didn’t need training and immediately started using it).

    She had a hip problem so didn’t bother with birds, and we let her roam the “farm”. The rabbits she mostly ate at home were nearly full grown eastern cottontails.

    One day she brought in and ate two smaller 5-week old or so teens, side by side. Always ate everything but the kidneys and maybe a foot or nose. She also ate the giant dock rats that show up sometimes around the chickens.

    Scary little ambush predator. Owls are just as impressive.

    Barn Owls and lots of other big claw birds around here thrive on the naturalized cottontails. But they are mostly part of the ecology that eats smaller things like voles or snakes.







  • We have many alternate routes toward national self-reliance, but they aren’t neoliberal enough for bankers and oligarchs… Carney’s main clients.

    As a simple example, the housing crisis really started to hurt when the Mulroney and the subsequent neoliberal governments withdrew from social housing. This is not an isolated issue, look around the world and observe that the only governments dealing with the problem are actively committed to publicly owned housing on a grand scale.

    We can decommodify our way out of many false or unnecessary scarcity issues. An additional economic multiplier at a time of need would be the keynsian stimulus of unions building out our solutions.

    Of course, this is contrary to letting the Market decide, so nah. We get commodity solutions at fake discounts. More capital flowing upwards until it’s too late.