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Babble, 2025-09-02 08:59 – on centering the making of dirt

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I was reading my writing, specifically “Letter to the Web, 2023-10-31: Fall Arrives”, and was struck by remembering how central making dirt used to be to my praxis, and I’m introspecting on how that came to change.

With very little thought I can remember how I got there - not just related to climate breakdown or LandBack, but cultivating relationality: making dirt is good because it helps relations relate.

And, I’m proud of myself for babbling this little babble, because it isn’t important or urgent, and I had to stop writing another babble to do it - but that’s exactly the sort of thing I want to do with GnoponEmacs.

Arranging a container garden of beans, corn, sunflowers, and squash, in the American Midwest

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Someone was asking about how to arrange a container garden with beans, corn, sunflowers, and squash. I said:

I would do beans on the north and squash on the south (the squash leaves shade the ground on the southern side, corn shades the north side and beans’ll find their own way better than squash can. I think you could probably do 6-8 beans on the north side, then 2 rows of 12-14 corn each (I plant corn tight compared to most folk and never have problems), then 5-6 squash on the south side. I’d do sunflowers on the west side to give it all some afternoon shade.

Reflecting on personal experiences with solidarity in North Carolina

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It’s hard not to get confrontational when I see some folk in North Carolina complaining about how hard the region has been getting hit by climate breakdown recently. There are folk who I am, or used to be, mutuals with, posting about it, and it’s just… hard not to jump in and be like, “Hey, do you regret not putting more effort into organizing against these things earlier, like when I was living in the region, screaming about how the models were underestimating how bad things would get and how quickly?”

Complaining about wildfire smoke

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a lot of wildfire smoke currently in the air. It smells acrid and is very hazy: my throat is itching. Someone nearby is playing some sort of woodwind instrument.