I tried a pawpaw that was peak ripeness, and now I wanna be Johnny Pawpawseed.
https://ediblejersey.ediblecommunities.com/eat/pawpaws-0

The wild strawberry that came up in my garden doesn’t know that October isn’t strawberry season. I have been getting a few tiny, sweet strawberries every week all summer.

If the only time an issue gets attention is when powerful people lose money, guess which events are going to keep happening, more and more? And guess which government response to them isn't going to reduce the frequency?

How many people would have heard of Eddie Irizarry or Officer Mark Dial, or about the peaceful demonstration after charges against Dial were dismissed, if there had been no riots? Now it's international news.

Parenting guides warn people to be careful that they aren't disproportionately paying attention to their children's bad behavior. Otherwise, even if the attention you give is punishment, you're still encouraging them to do more of the bad behavior.

But if Black Americans come on Twitter, the platform knows that if they show them that shit, they're not going to stay. So they're going to be fed posts by strangers who are predominantly Black. They will find a space where being Black is more the norm. Their experience on Twitter is much different from white users'. In that context, coming to Coso and just being lost in the sauce with no suggestion of who to follow would feel unwelcoming.

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But then it occurred to me, the lack of an algorithm here works both ways. When white people go on Twitter, Twitter wants our engagement. They put posts by racist and misogynist strangers on our timelines unbidden, because many white people will feel it a responsibility to feed the trolls by speaking out against that stuff.

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I was scratching my head about people who were saying they didn't feel like Coso was a safe space for BIPOC -- and yeah, most people on Coso are probably white -- but then those same people continue to participate on Twitter. Like WTAF? Twitter is full of literally dangerous people who, if they don't like what you post, will stalk you and your contacts, doxx you on some troll forum, and have a hundred other trolls harass you until you have to move out of your house.

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