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For the quantitatively inclined, the white egg is what I'd call a normal size - weighs in at 57g. The green one is a big big - 66g.

The brown one is 133 grams!

A gloved hand holding 3 eggs, one of which is over twice the size of the others

I've kept hens for about 15 years now - generally have between 70-100 birds in my laying flock. So I've seen tens of thousands of eggs.

There's kind of a normal size, and a distribution with some bigger (esp from old hens) and some smaller.

Today I saw the biggest outlier ever

Oyster mushroom fruit coming out of the end of a stack of logs

Spontaneous oyster on willow

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

Important and tragically timely article about Danish resistance to the goals of their Nazi occupiers: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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Sunlight reflecting off of a spiderweb that appears to float about six feet off the ground in a wooded area against a backdrop of an exposed rock outcropping and the morning sun

Spiders are amazing

Guy in the woods with a few dozen sheep walking behind him

Solstice sheep stroll

Ah - looks like wool-sower gall
www.inaturalist.org/posts/6119-w...

White oak tree with a fuzzy white ball surrounding one of its branches

Anybody know what this fuzzy ball wrapped around a young white oak branch might be?

Nice - I thought they looked quite large!

A not quite finished compost pile with all kinds of little mushrooms sprouting up all over it

Fungal activity in the compost pile confirmed

nice-looking lambs! What breed are they?

Lambs on logs cut to firewood length laying in long green grass

bonus playground for the lambs as the flock graze through my unfinished firewood work

It is written: whosoever uses the pressure washer to clean out the chicken trailer has dibs on the first shower

Small pond with a little log floating in it and a turtle on the log. A smaller turtle is poking its head out of the water a few feet from the log

Our very modest little “pond” is mostly minimally realized potential, but it’s at least enough for this turtle family to have decided to call it home

Sheep grazing

Yummy

A few dozen sheep and lambs in a patch of green pasture with a few bales of hay scattered throughout

I’m easing the flock from hay to grass gradually so their rumens have time to adjust, and feeding hay on bare patches that I seeded first, so the sheep do the work of pressing the seed into the soil and the hay remnants they won’t eat serve as mulch.

Happy early spring in zone 5b

A large dog laying in green grass with a row of fruit trees, the first of which has blossomed, and a bright clear blue sky

It is springing

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

:) I'm sure it does!

A ewe tending to two small lambs

2025 lambing season has begun - we expect 9 ewes to be expecting, so ballpark ~18 lambs en route.

The white & black one here we've dubbed Lexi - a candidate to be kept for future breeding

many such cases.

we deceived ourselves that somehow work that needed more than a HS education and usually doesn't involve getting dirty or sweaty was somehow different in kind

"Blade" here feels like calling a bike sprocket an "engine" because the reader might not know "sprocket" but it *is* involved in making the bike move forward.

They could, for example, have written "along the side of the chainsaw" to avoid both potentially unfamiliar terminology and wrong-ness.

I guess I don't know the specific AR-15 argument you refer to - I try avoid online gun control "debates" ;)

My point is not that great technical precision is always necessary, audience be damned. If "bar" won't be understood, explain it or figure something else out. But "blade" is just wrong.

A portion of a newspaper story that reads: As for Musk, he waved around the chainsaw – which had the words “Long live freedom, damn it” written along its blade – after an interview in which he pushed falsehoods about Europe jailing people for memes, astronauts being left in space for political reasons and Democrats having an electoral incentive “to maximise the number of illegals in the country”.

c'mon, @theguardian.com - compared to the alternatives you're a less-objectionable major news source but chainsaws don't have "blades" and missing that is a bad look

“a bird in the hand is worth..” — let me stop you there. comparison is the thief of joy. enjoy your bird

An image of text that reads: That very space of breakdown is the space of emergence. It's where new intelligence can burst forth if we let it. Many people won't allow this emergence. They may very well die, psychologically if not physically, because they won't allow something new to be born. Death isn't bad or wrong, but there is another choice. And the world desperately needs those who make that choice—people who have liberated themselves from dying ideologies and are willing to create and discover something new. The ideological complex that enabled our lifestyle was based on ignoring profound externalities that were debasing the planet's life systems and harming people worldwide. We're entering a future of exponential technology where any individual could potentially cause great harm. We can no longer afford structures of externalization that afford us a pleasant lifestyle but create resentment and anger elsewhere. We need to find a way forward together.

Yes! Great piece - the conclusion really gets at the heart of the optimism-supporting angle on our current moment:

A fantastic & inspiring read

Mr. Shinkle's gonna eventually regret that he stopped paying attention to that US History class after the roaring '20s 1.0...