Sarah Taber
@sarahtaber.bsky.social
Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money. https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Oh man if you think this one's crazy, wait till you hear my Rocky Mountain Locust story
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 17h agoOnce had a fungal anthracnose strain in the lab that got dosed with copper fungicide so often, copper didn't kill it anymore. That is VERY strange for a fungus! Ain't supposed to happen. And it really shouldn't be allowed to get out of the lab. So I autoclaved it & it died. The end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah & I don't think it was even necessarily "knowing more than Hank Green." Those scripts are written by teams & staff writers! And like… every SciShow video about agriculture has stuff in it where I go "Haha actually it's a little bit different than that!" That's what knowing a field is like!
Libby@libbylevi.bsky.social · 17h agoOmg, I saw that happening and, despite having a literal pile of yarn and crochet hooks covering my coffee I table, I could not figure out why it was worth anything more than briefly feeling smug that I knew more about something than Hank Green
it's the tumbling passes that really elevate this to Art for me
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
You'd be AMAZED how many industries you can rack up by "simply taking whatever entry-level blue-collar gigs are open when you need a job"
Damiana Swan@damianaswan.bsky.social · 17h agoHow many misspent youths can one person have?
🎵you ever look at your creation & think my God what have I done 🎶 ::sick banjo riff::
trent holograms@steadynappin.bsky.social · 17h agook now make this an old-timey banjo song
Right so I see this as a human perception problem, not a fungal existence problem. (And listen, I get why "can defy human perception" can be seen as "eldritch," I just... don't agree? There's a LOT we don't understand?) To fix this, we gotta stop fearing them & get on their level
Robert Lepage, PhD., P.Eng.@rtmlepage.bsky.social · 23h agoI did my doctorate on fungi and yeah they are spooky mysterious eldritch creatures. There's an entire genus of them called "shit, I don't know what that is, here's a placeholder". Despite first being identified in 1800s, Stachybotrys chartarum has been reclassified 11 different times.
ok now that I've gotten public buy-in on the Taco Bell Principle, let's find out if we can apply it in real time
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterdayI would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Will nobody think of the ::copies & pastes:: Neocallimastigomycota???
Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 23h agoNeocallimastigomycota arguably are almost as economically important as yeast due to their impact on ruminant livestock and yet we never think about them as much
The microbiologists who do "anything that's not bacteria & viruses" at the microbiology function
Dr. Horrible: We Do The Weird Stuff
Alt: Gif from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Dr Hammer stans pop into the frame to sing "We do the weird stuff!" while Nathan Fillion looks hog & smug about it
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Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24h agoI focused on rumen fungi and ciliates and even though they’re harmless they low-key scare rumen bacteriologists
Aww that sounds about right. Love when classic bacteria microbiologists act like fungi are ~spooky mysterious eldritch creatchers~ that ~nobody understands ooOOoOOooo!!~ Like ok maybe you guys don't.... the people who work with them manage just fine though?
Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24h agoI focused on rumen fungi and ciliates and even though they’re harmless they low-key scare rumen bacteriologists
this is literally what I do for a living and it's called "blameless root cause" where you identify everything that went wrong without assigning blame to any one person in particular. the NTSB really went all in on this and it's one of the reasons airplane travel is/(was?) so safe in the US.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterdayI would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The craziest fallout of the Cyclospora situation for me personally is I used to work in a microbiology lab as the one (1) parasitologist. That lab didn't even have the right gear for many of the tests they wanted me to do. Couldn't train me to run the tests right, bc nobody in the lab knew how!
when the taco bell tolls, heed the warning, and then go back to taco church when the danger has passed or they won’t toll it again
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterdayI would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
I used to think it was crazy that each Flock camera costs taxpayers $2,500/month! But now it all makes sense. These are valuable objects that may contain up to 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d agochat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Markwayne 🎵 Markwayne Markwayne, Markwayne They're beggin you to not expose the scammmm 🎶 newrepublic.com/article/2138...
MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam
Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: that immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.
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Welp guess we know what we're talking about in tomorrow's Sunday Morning Outbreak News Livestream! (Plus Salmonelleggs, & ANOTHER botulism outbreak in baby formula that's somehow going under the radar. So obvs we gotta talk about… all that.) youtube.com/live/_mjPVY1...
Yep, Taylor Farms Uses Prison Labor (& Other Outbreak Updates)
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
Yep. There IS no such thing as "an ideology that's So Pure, it automatically repels rapists, so we can just relax & stop vetting." "But what about [centrist sex pest]??" Thats not a fucking gotcha, dude. They should get kicked out of politics too. And that's exactly what's been happening to them.
Colin Danby@cdanby.bsky.social · 4d ago... So I think the point, to go back to the OP, is that this has to be fought out, again and again. At least in the corner of bsky I hang out in, opposition to Platner was fierce as of last Fall, and a lot of people did the work to figure out what was going wrong.
the size of the pie doesn't matter as long as it's all yours
OOF (re: local & even state leadership intentionally sabotaging their own economies to drive the middle class out of the area, in order to keep political control forever)
100% Anti-Trump, Which is Probably Illegal@319e17th.bsky.social · 5d agoI’ve literally (as a cishet white man in the real estate business) heard Republicans in Ohio say this.
If you've wondered, like I have, how tf Graham Platner made it through vetting with multiple credible sexual assault allegations? He didn't. The guy in charge of vetting him also has multiple credible allegations, & just didn't think vetting was important. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Guy Who Recruited Graham Platner Has a History of Sexual Misconduct Allegations Too
Is this why Platner made it so far?
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We have hit the point of Bluesky virality where the QTs on the "Hey did you know "rural" is not a synonym for "white" thread are angry that it isn't a historiographical deep dive on the processes of settler state formation
