What an incredible photo of the scorekeeper for the Durham Bulls.
Jerad Walker
The term “community resilience hubs” is becoming more common lately, especially in Appalachia, following extreme flooding from Hurricane Helene. But what are resilience hubs, and why are people talking about them?
✍️: Abby Hassler for The Appalachian Voice
For example, a more senior scholar who works in a similar region to me recently told me "how can you work with those people? They burn Priuses for warmth in the winter." Which of the two groups mentioned above were they referring to? I leave that to your imagination
There's just something about deploying "hecking doggerino" language in service of pseudo-intellectualized racism that awakens the ghoulmind
Wanted to flag two concurrent platforms happening atm, which engage smaller but globally conscious proactive players as the Liberal International Order is rupturing.
Pictured:
Mongolia's foreign minister Battsetseg Batmunkh at the Nikkei Forum.
Kenya's President William Ruto at Oslo Forum.
Nomadic pastoralism, ethnography, both climate doom AND climate optimism, rural culture, outer space, animals having feelings, being stuck in samsara - this book has everything y'all hate. If only I had left in the section on snake handlers. Good for a hate-read, even a ruthless podcast takedown
Generally there seems to be a cultural backlash among academics against both Appalachia and Mongolia, maybe because they've both been culturally ascendant in the past few years out maybe because of a prominent Menswear Rights Activist who doesn't like those places aesthetically. Bad times for ol KG
Sorry I still can't get over the fact that a professor of Chicago Studies (???) called nomadic pastoralism "a yikesaroonie" on here. It's activating my feral ghoul gene, my fingertips are already turning colloidal blue
My contribution
Whoops got the math crazy wrong on that. Luckily there is no math in music
