CW: Discusses weight loss, diets, eating disorders
Farmers struggle to make a profit at the best of times, and times just got worse. @gbhnews spotlights how cuts in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s federal grant programs mean Massachusetts schools, food hubs and food pantries can’t buy fresh produce, and farmers are left with cases of unwanted produce. Who wins? No one.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-05-01/massachusetts-farmers-scrambling-to-sell-crops-after-usda-funding-cuts-leave-them-without-a-buyer
#USAgriculture #Farming #Massachusetts #Agriculture #DOGE #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
We’ve read more about Joe Rogan in the last couple of weeks than we really wanted to — first, with the Menswear Guy’s story for Bloomberg on his influential physique, and now, with @Daojoan’s article on the dangers of the Roganified male mystique, and what to do about it. “That pipeline doesn’t stop because we roll our eyes at it. It stops when we block it with something real. The Roganification of masculinity is a symptom. The disease is deeper. But the cure won’t come from debunking or mocking. It will come from reclaiming the terrain of meaning. Of power. Of identity,” she writes. “The future of men is being whispered into a mic. What these men hear next — rage or renaissance — depends on what we build. And whether we build it fast enough.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-roganification-of-the-male-mystique/
#Masculinity #JoeRogan #Manosphere #Influencers #RightWingPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Our @CultureDesk shared Lyz Lenz’s story for her newsletter, Men Yell At Me earlier this week, and we’re sharing it again. How could we not celebrate the sublime writing of Lenz on the subject of the drive to fight the declining birthrate, and Trump’s ambition to be the “fertilization president?” “Just the phrase ‘fertilization president’ made millions and millions of embryos in the bodies of women yeet themselves themselves right on out of their respective uteruses,” she writes. “They were like ‘send me into the ocean with the microplastics, I’d rather live there than turn into an American son forced to grow up grunting in gyms, optimizing my sales techniques, wearing tight Andrew Tate-ass pants, and calling women “females” online, as our civilization slowly collapses and women would rather watch “Pride and Prejudice” for the seven millionth time than text me back.’”
https://lyz.substack.com/p/conclave-of-chads
#Trump #TrumpAdministration #Birthrate #America #Parenting #Lifestyle #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Honestly I've been wanting to like...start trying to make a podcast or a youtube channel 'cause my type of masculinity is way better than Rogan's.
And finally, to the sea cucumber. @KnowableMag deep dives into these diverse, spiny, slimy creatures, the threats they face, and how to protect them.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/weird-wondrous-sea-cucumbers
#Nature #Biology #Ecology #SeaCucumbers #Conservation #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Lyz Lenz gets it!
When your "economic" policies take my tax dollars to deport families AND take my tax dollars to incentivize having more babies, that's not economics, that's eugenics. 🤬