Nebula: Why are you still single?
Peter: A lot of people are intimidated by my intelligence.
Nebula: No, seriously.
Peter: Because you never asked me out.
Nebula: Wh-what?!
Peter: Caught you off-guard, didn't I?
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Ted: We're like made men. We're like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
Beard: He got shot.
Ted: Before he got shot.
Beard: Before he got shot, he wasn't a made man.
Ted: We're like James Caan in The Godfather.
Beard: Also shot. Many, many times.
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(Asakusa got badly injured doing something stupid)
Asakusa: (waking up in a hospital bed)
Kanamori: You've been sleeping for a while.
Asakusa: Yeah.
Kanamori: That's good, you need to rest.
Asakusa: Yeah.
Kanamori: (gently removes a newspaper from Asakusa's lap)
Kanamori: (starts whacking Asakusa with the newspaper) Why did you do this?!
Asakusa: Hey!
Kanamori: What is wrong with you?!
Asakusa: (shielding her face with her hands) Stop hitting me!
Kanamori: I've been waiting two days to hit you!
Asakusa: I appreciate your patience.
Kanamori: I don't want your wise-ass remarks!
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Jellylorum: I like puzzles.
Skimbleshanks: No you don’t.
Jellylorum: I love puzzles.
Skimbleshanks: You literally talk back to the New York Times crossword. You yell at it.
Jellylorum: Can I tell you something about the New York Times crossword? Very often, they put the wrong number of boxes in to house the correct word.
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Meet the Alabama woman who is turning her farm into an indigenous food forest
Danny McArthur, Gulf States Newsroom
Angie Comeaux walks around her farm in Florala, Alabama. She calls it Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv, or Hummingbird Springs, Farm.
It has its own water sources – like a spring that’s not too far from her house. She and a group of volunteers planted 2,000 trees that are all native species, as well as hundreds of plant species. It’s January, so at first glance, it just looks like overgrown grass and bushes.
“A lot of folks might come out here and they’ll look around and be like 2,000 trees where? But it’s because it’s winter time and they’re still small,” Comeaux said.
What’s actually there is the early stages of an indigenous food forest. To understand what that is, think about corn, beans, and squash. They’re known in some circles as the Three Sisters because they grow together, like family.
“So the corn is tall, and it gives a trellis for the beans to climb up. But the beans will put nitrogen into the soil and that will help both the corn and squash grow,” Comeaux said.
The story of the Three Sisters is a smaller version of what happens in a food forest. The plants here grow stronger, together.
“The squash leaves are very prickly and they’re big and cover a lot of the ground, so it’s giving moisture control to the soil,” Comeaux said. “It also gives pest control because bugs don’t like to walk on prickly little leaves.”
From extreme heat, to periods of drought, climate change is impacting farmers in the South. In response some farmers, like Comeaux, are leaning on regenerative practices. For her, that means returning to indigenous practices that focus on preserving the land for future generations – rather than depleting it now.
Comeaux’s journey to launching Hummingbird Springs Farm started in early 2020. She was originally born in New Orleans and raised in southeast Louisiana but she always had a goal of getting land and living off it once her children were out of the house. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, her son had to finish school online and she saw her chance to get started.
Comeaux, who said she’s Mvskoke, Cherokee and Chahta, came to Alabama to farm her ancestral lands. She found land from a family of multi-generational farmers looking to sell. But, when she first arrived, it was completely clear cut and hadn’t been farmed in seven years. For nearly a century before that, it had been a peanut farm. Comeaux said that kind of monoculture farming tends to leave the soil depleted.
“We definitely saw that as an opportunity to reclaim and reestablish a healthy ecosystem,” Comeaux said.
To do that, she’s using traditional ecological knowledge, or knowledge that has been passed down by generations of indigenous people based on their direct experience with the environment.
More at the link
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The New York Times pulled a high-profile episode of its podcast “The Daily” about sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 amid a furious internal debate about the strength of the paper’s original reporting on the subject, Times newsroom sources told The Intercept. The episode had been scheduled for January 9 and was based on a prominent article led by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Gettleman, claiming that Hamas had systematically used sexual violence as a weapon of war.
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Zoey: You wanna be like Spider-Man?
Devon: I'd love to.
Zoey: The musical. They didn't have enough rehearsal and actors died, Devon. They lost their lives.
Devon: I don't think anybody died.
Zoey: Well, they got bruised pretty bad.
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