... probably yet another reason the us government is trying to fuck farmers as hard as possible - force them to sell their senior water rights.

Seriously, prior appropriation for water and data centers is the worst possible combination. Data centers come into rural areas, buy up water rights from agriculture use, have a few hundred jobs for construction for maybe a year, and then go down to maybe dozens for maintenance after. Meanwhile, the permanent senior water right transfer has rendered the land useless for agriculture, thereby destroying the local economy forever.

But it's going to be 100 degrees today, so im going to have to close my window soon and then I'll be really sad 😭

I can hear a couple of scrub jays out there too. Capitalism is garbage.

There are doves in my tree too. It's sheltered, so pretty safe from the nesting pair of Hawks in the tree a few houses away.

New tattoo just dropped

🐝 > s/mime

My kids want to start a beehive, so they've been reading books from the library on bees.

Can I just watch my bees all day instead of working?

Sometimes there's a pair of bees working the flowers outside my window and I wonder if they are friends doing their chores together to help get them done.

I wish i was shorter

JFR Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith, a YA romance novel about a trans guy and a cis girl written by a trans guy. As usual for the genre, it touched me and triggered me.

Just realized they only gave me 30 days of progesterone for what was supposed to be a 90 day supply. They mentioned they were having supply problems when I picked it up today, but I didn't realize they meant they couldn't fill my entire prescription. Hopefully they'll refill in 30 days rather than 90?

@eleanor IDK I'm personally less and less enthusiastic about metric every time someone gets smug at me about it

admitting you can't divide by 12 and 16 in your head and then complaining other people are bad at math

sure is a choice

(An acre foot is the volume of water required to fill one acre with a foot of water)

I'm all for metric, but the ignorance of the post currently circulating smugly making fun of acre feet as a unit of measure is annoying.

We measure land in acres. In the western and central us, we flood irrigate our crops. You generally build a one foot or so berm around your fields to hold the water in when you irrigate. So an acre foot is in direct correspondence with the number of irrigations you can do per acre. It's a measure of volume that farmers understand viscerally, so they hear about how many acre feet of water used by a data center and they *know* what that means to them and their crops. They know how many acre feet they've had to skip this year because of drought water restrictions and what that means for their fields.

So, yes, it's good to be angry about water theft for data centers. But to turn that into some smug bullshit about units of measure is just fucking ignorant.

(And reply guys stay away from this - i grew up on a farm in the western us and helped my family irrigate fields every summer, and I developed data analysis tools and coauthored papers for agriculture water conservation, so just don't)

Bullshit fucking endocrine disorder

I give precisely zero fucks about the world cup, but i do hope Belgium wins tonight.

Have you tried turning it off and back gay again

Freaking seriously:

In her eyes
I sense a story never told
Behind the disguise
There's something tearing at her soul

Tonight ive been searching for it
A feeling thats deep inside me
Tonight ive been searching for
The one that nobody knows
Trying to break free

I just cant help myself
I feel like im going out of my head
Tears my heart into two
Im not the one the sleeper thought he knew