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@jasonheppler.org Yep! This one didn’t stick around long enough to be pickled :D

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First garden harvest!

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Before / after

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Chicken check-in.

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@fredericofreitas.org

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The upside here is Canvas might just go away permanently.

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A quarter of American farmers do not have fertilizer on hand, and an American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season. And this is after we saw farm bankruptcies increase 46% in 2025.

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@jasonheppler.org Here’s the Farm Bureau report on rising bankruptcies:

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@bakerdphd.bsky.social Well, at least the writer’s retreat I’ll be at this summer will be nice.

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@jemostrom I’ve been inundated by fake conference and journal emails lately!

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Home Screen update.

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@wcaleb oh no!

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@dwalbert First up, once I make some carb adjustments to get it running smoother, is some drive-around-the-countryside to really run it through its paces :D

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@Miraz Thanks! It’s been fun to learn.

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@JohnBrady Oh I still have plenty to do, don’t worry! There’s a leak to fix, and I still need to paint the sheet metal and put on new stickers, adjust the carb to get the engine running a little smoother, and such. I’m not sure these restorations are ever really done.

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@wcaleb “Depends how good this coffee is, robot.”

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The Farmall runs again!

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Fun night at the college rodeo!

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@jasonheppler.org More similar politics to today: Watt claiming that Interior will be a “good neighbor” and give more power to states, while at the same time approving offshore oil and gas extraction that angered California Republicans because he didn’t consult Sacramento first.

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@bordergroves.bsky.social

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@rauchway.bsky.social cheers 🥃

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@jabel yum!

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@kmcdono.bsky.social Congratulations Katie!

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Later this morning I’ll be joining the DHTech meetup to talk about using generative AI to fix legacy projects and resilient digital history.

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Claude is getting real with me, after I asked if emacs would be a better fit than Obsidian.

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@jabel Thanks! I’m wrestling with some DNS stuff, I’m trying to move it to updates.jasonheppler.org and I keep hitting a few hiccups.

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I’ve realized I have another book to write, alongside the one I’m already working on. The good news is the archives I’m using completely overlap so there’s no reason to not do it!

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@levesque-chris.bsky.social hear hear

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@jackiantonovich.bsky.social Very nice! I love seeing the results of such labor. I have an acre or two that was once cropland I’m trying to restore back to native prairie, so it’s encouraging to see what could be.

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(I was also once a landscaper, and have helped a lot of former overgrown patches become nice again.)

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@jasonheppler.org Per @bachmann-farm.bsky.social‘s suggestion, here’s the same data showing filings divided by farms in operation for a given year, expressed per 1,000 farms.

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(e.g., 6,535 Chapter 12 filings ÷ 2,087,759 US farms × 1,000 = 3.13 farms out of every 1,000 filed for bankruptcy that year).

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@jasonheppler.org Let me see what I can do.

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@jasonheppler.org But the 1980s Farm Crisis was the biggest agricultural downturn since the 1930s, causing thousands of small farms to cease and decimating small towns.

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@jasonheppler.org Chapter 12 was created to allow farms to file bankruptcy while maintaining ownership. Under this bankruptcy policy creditors can devise a debt repayment program based on a filer’s income and financial obligations while allowing the farm to remain in business.

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@jasonheppler.org The bankruptcies in the Depression and Dust Bowl era are self explanatory. The peak in ‘87 represents a backlog of farmers filing for bankruptcy in the wake of the Farm Crisis when the value of commodities and land collapsed as inflation and the cost of fuel and equipment rose (sound familiar?)

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@scottbot.net There are dozens of us, Scott. Dozens!

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Currently reading: The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier by Megan Kate Nelson 📚

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@chrispolansky.bsky.social Ah-mazing

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I love building interfaces for digital history projects. Really, really pleased with a couple of (soon to be launched) projects.

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Currently reading: Downriver: Into the Furure of Water in the West by Heather Hansman 📚

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We’re experiencing our first major hit of chatbot crawlers against our projects, which are taking sites down from time to time. So that’s fun.

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Finished reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 📚

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Hi there, garden sprout.

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Finally got around to figuring out the electrical system on the Farmall H and successfully got the starter turning over today. I need to replace the gasoline line, but, in theory, I could give the tractor a test run as early as tomorrow.

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It’s free Easter Lilly day at church this morning.

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NASA has posted a ton of excellent photos of the Artemis II mission on their Flickr page.

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Currently reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 📚

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