Michael Robinson

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Biological.

Eschew Manichaeism.

There's a new article out about that time JD Vance tried to run a farm & it wound up being a hellscape.

FWIW I watched AppHarvest’s rise & fall closely. At the time, I was coaching new greenhouse companies like AppHarvest through their build & first harvests.

All my clients are still in business! And Vance’s one attempt isn’t. There's a lot to say about why, & what it means for "rural leadership."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/politics/kentucky-startup-appharvest-jd-vance/index.html

Workers allege ‘nightmare’ conditions at Kentucky startup JD Vance helped fund

As a venture capitalist, JD Vance repeatedly touted his guiding principles for investing in a company: A business should not only turn a profit, it should also help American communities.

CNN

polyfill.io was crazy huh, we just let a third party run any JS without even checking integrity. lol

anyway please add this snippet for google tag manager, marketing needs it

It's some sort of Anarchist plot.

It would almost make you wonder whether Tory MPs or party donors were the beneficiaries of opaquely-constructed trusts.

Not, of course, that any of they would be involved in anything even remotely underhand or dishonest, my word no.

#UKPolitics
#TorySleaze

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/03/owners-of-100000-properties-held-by-foreign-shell-companies-unknown-despite-new-uk-laws

Owners of 100,000 properties held by foreign shell companies unknown despite new UK laws

Legal loopholes are used to obscured the ownership of two-thirds of English and Welsh properties held by foreign shell companies

The Guardian

Ok I have a cancelled meeting! So I'm going to tell you the llama arrival story (as the sky above the canola fields outside slowly turns apocalyptically orange from wildfires hundreds of km away... here's something lighter.)

So, my friend has had this llama for years. He's been a good guardian for my friend's goats. But my friend sold all his goats last year (farming is really hard, people need breaks). So what to do with the llama?

uh were any of you people who signed up to #threads actually paying attention to the onboarding flow?
This photo is the Norman Rockwell moment for SF 2023:
#innersunset #goodneighbors