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Blackmarsh Homestead

2 months

A homesteading woman never has to leave her baby's side - not even while she's working. (In the clip, my son and I are helping my husband herd our livestock to their evening grazing.)

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Blackmarsh Homestead

@RedVelesov

9 months

Normalize women having children in their prime reproductive years.

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@RedVelesov

11 months

Every skill you learn brings you one step closer to freedom.

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@RedVelesov

2 months

Homesteading doesn't really work if you don't go full retard. You know why so many homesteads fail? It's a really obvious issue, but no one talks about it. The problem is chickens. More precisely, the "start with some chickens" approach to homesteading. DON'T start with

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2 months

Expect to see more of this

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@RedVelesov

8 months

Contrary to popular belief, chopping firewood is pretty light work that is often performed by women while men are busy doing heavier tasks. It is about as strenuous as doing laundry by hand and fits well with other womanly tasks that are centered around the fireplace.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

@FightHaven Such people (like the girl in question) should have their memberships revoked and be expelled from the gym. She lashed out at him for looking at exactly what she is intentionally showing to millions of people. Hypocrisy and bad manners beyond belief.

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@RedVelesov

11 months

"I will live on a self-sufficient farm and dedicate my life to philosophy and art." No. You will work hard. Every day. You will deal with exhaustion, accidents and animal escapes. You will herd livestock, clear brush and build fences at 8 months pregnant. And you will be happy.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Learn to love toil, for toil is the price of freedom.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

We found our herd! After EIGHT DAYS of constant searching and worrying, our sheep were spotted by the river by a group of kids waiting for the school bus. Judging by their affectionate behavior upon seeing me, as well as their eagerness to return home, they were genuinely lost.

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@RedVelesov

9 months

If you want a hard woman to tame land with, it's right all the way. Good luck trying to get the one on the left to live in a small cabin without running water or a toilet - prepare to hear a whole lot about what the "bare minimum" is. Heavy metal chicks is where the money is.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

I still haven't gotten used to the sheer beauty of this place. I may not be rich, I may live in a tiny cabin and I may have to work to exhaustion on most days. But I get to wake up to this every morning.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

"This is stupid! Why would you live like this in the 21st century? A machine can do this faster and better! Oh, great God-Machine, deliver us from toil!"

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Many people warned us that turning a profit by raising livestock is "extremely difficult" and that it requires "huge initial investments". Turns out they were wrong. All livestock needs is good pasture and some modest infrastructure that you can easily bushcraft at zero cost.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

The henhouse is complete! It may look like we went a little overboard with the size, as we currently only have eight chickens, but we're planning to expand our flock next year. Stone foundation, spruce logs and oak shingles. Also, notice the epic roe deer skull above the door.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

"Homestead Twitter" is crazy about cows, and for good reason. But, as great as cows are, for the self-reliant homesteader, sheep are even better. If we could keep only one kind of livestock, we'd keep sheep. Milk, meat, wool, fast growth, winter-hardiness... All on pasture alone.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

The only way to truly prepare for the collapse is to live as if it already happened.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

Women who feel their husbands should work hard so that they could, on the other hand, have a "soft life" are bad wife material. Laziness is a poor substitute for true femininity just as a glorified sugar baby is a poor substitute for a real wife. Only soft men want soft women.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

Our cow, Duka, gave birth to our first calf. It's a big deal! :) Highland cattle are known for ease of calving and calf vitality, but this little heifer calf still blew my mind when I saw her JUMP while still wet with amniotic fluid. Welcome to the homestead, pretty girl!

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@RedVelesov

2 months

Live below your means Save money Quit your job Get land (move where it's cheap, if necessary) Buy livestock Plant a garden Build structures from scratch Hunt, fish and gather Make cheese Smoke meat Spin yarn Keep bees Churn butter Tan hides Train oxen Brew beer Live free.

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@RedVelesov

3 months

The ideal woman: Intelligent Hard-working Beautiful Wants to live on an isolated farm Great mothering instincts Honest Herds livestock Compassionate Chops wood Responsible Milks cows/sheep/goats Unpretentious Clears brush Good sense of humour Builds fences What did I miss?

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@RedVelesov

1 year

Self-sufficiency is incompatible with intensive farming methods. You don't want fast growers and heavy milkers. You want old, traditional breeds. Healthy, hardy, late-maturing animals. Modest producers, but great survivors. Just such animals kept us fed for the last 10,000 years.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

Many people have a terrible opinion on trophies, but why would you let a nice skull go to waste when it could serve as a cherished reminder of a beautiful hunt?

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@RedVelesov

3 months

Comfort or freedom? Pick one.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

We're thinking about changing the name of this account. What do y'all think of "Blackmarsh Homestead"?

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@RedVelesov

2 years

YOU DON'T NEED A JOB. You need land. A job is a very convoluted and roundabout way of providing for your basic needs. It's the System's way of making you dependent on itself, so it can steal the lion's share of what you produce. The only thing jobs are good for is buying land.

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@RedVelesov

11 months

@olivia_p_walker @empathyhaver We don't have a problem with mixed race couples. It just feels forced to watch a show where casting is not about telling the story, but rather about making a political statement.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

As a homesteader, you have to learn things the hard way - by doing them - and all your initial efforts will give flawed results. The more mistakes you make, the quicker you'll learn, so don't let perfectionism hold you back. The sooner you start making mistakes, the better.

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@RedVelesov

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@RedVelesov

1 year

"But maintaining even a small farm costs tons of money!" Another paddock is complete! One hectare (~2.5 acres) of pasture, fenced in with 420 metres of dead hedges and elm gates like this one. All done with nothing but time (~150 wo/man-hours) and a few simple hand tools.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Treat your animals with love and respect. They have been our faithful companions since prehistoric times. The bond between us is sacred.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

The ultimate hedge against inflation.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

Can you appreciate the beauty of a cold, foggy morning?

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@RedVelesov

6 months

The problem with cattle is that they're highly addictive. At first, we only wanted a few cows, to provide milk and meat for our homestead. But the more time I spend with these majestic animals, the more I dream of a powerful herd, grazing in a vast silvopasture.

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@RedVelesov

10 months

I love the hardiness of these animals. The other day, we were hit by a devastating, tree-felling storm. These beauties just kept grazing all through it, as if it were nothing. Bless them.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

The oil is gone. The grid is down. Governments have collapsed. Cities lay abandoned. The end of the world as we know it. Pick three skills that will help you survive.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

What's the point in having machines do all our heavy work for us, if we then have to exercise to stay strong and healthy? Isn't it better to kill two birds with one stone?

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@RedVelesov

2 years

FUCK THE GYM! The proliferation of gyms is a direct consequence of the techno-industrial revolution. Modern life makes us weak, as we constantly rely on the strength of machines. So we go to a place where, for a price, we can exert ourselves. Talk about lunacy.

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@RedVelesov

10 months

RUNNING WATER IS OVERRATED. We've been living without running water for three years and would not go back. Tap water is cheap because you pay with your autonomy, while drawing a bucket from a well takes but a minute. Reliable. Independent. Simplicity will set you free.

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@RedVelesov

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! We're putting our money where our mouth is. The SELF-SUFFICIENCY CHALLENGE begins in exactly one month. Starting from June 21st, we will stop buying any and all food, including animal feed, and attempt to keep it up for a whole year. 100% of our

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@RedVelesov

11 months

STOP WORKING OUT AND START WORKING.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

A self-sufficient homestead requires self-sufficient livestock that thrives on pasture alone - old breeds of cattle, sheep and goats. Don't be tempted by the impressive production numbers of modern breeds - their high demands will leave you dependent on outside inputs.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

You don't need the System to survive. The System needs you to survive.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

I see Twitter keeps telling young men they'll never find a pretty, young woman who wants to move to the countryside, start a homestead and have lots of kids. They call it a "trad fantasy". Despair not, lads. There is hope.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

We thought, since we're LARPing, we might as well LARP all the way. This beautiful one year old Highland heifer is the newest member of our homestead. She's eager to hang out with the goats and sheep, but they're still pretty scared of her. :)

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Never buy what you can build yourself. Learn to build with the raw materials that are naturally present in your environment. Expect your first projects to fail and don't give up. Eventually you'll be able to build anything you need at zero cost.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Despite what almost everyone else says - food self-sufficiency is actually easy to achieve. Even by total agricultural beginners. So don't believe the horror stories and just go for it. It's a good life.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

Riving oak shingles. When building structures the low-tech, self-sufficient way, the most challenging part is always the roof. This simple tool, called a froe, is a real game changer, as it allows you to make thin wooden shingles out of logs.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

I got tired of measuring everything and looking for the straightest wood possible, so I thought I'd see what happens when you just "eyeball" it and use whatever wood you come across. I kind of like it. It has a certain barbaric, "black metal" kind of charm.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Don't put yourself through a lifetime of debt slavery to buy an expensive house or apartment that society is telling you is the "bare minimum". A humble little cabin is all you need.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Our first building project - a shelter for our flock. The roof is now thatched, so we'll start adding walls. As always, the land provides all the necessary materials. All you need is a few simple hand tools.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

Get yourself a wife who'll refuse a golden wedding ring and instead opt for a 6 € steel ring from the local heavy metal shop. "It costs as much as a cow and I'd rather have the cow. I can neither eat nor milk a ring."

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@RedVelesov

10 months

You will watch your calves grow and you will be happy.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

We're very happy with Kosjenka's progress, so we bought two more carefully selected pregnant Highland cows, along with their two heifer calves. They'll be here in a few weeks. Highlands seem to be the perfect cattle breed for our low-tech approach to farming.

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@RedVelesov

11 months

@olivia_p_walker @empathyhaver If you watched a show that depicted life in the UK or US in the near future, but all the stars were always white and straight, happy mixed race couples would never be shown and the villains were always black and homosexual, would you also not think it's a political statement?

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@RedVelesov

1 year

Our Lacaune (French dairy sheep breed) ewe lambs. Cuties. We're working towards increasing the milk production on our ranch - not for profit, but to secure a reliable source of feed for those of our animals that can't thrive on pasture alone, like chickens, ducks, dogs and cats.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

"Graze peacefully, friend. I've got it covered."

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@RedVelesov

8 months

To our ancestors, modern technology would look nothing short of magical. However, this amazing techno-industrial machine has many parts, any of which can fail at any time. Don't get soft. Use it to your advantage, but don't rely on it for your survival.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

From a self-sufficiency standpoint, livestock can be divided into two categories: "Producers" - herbivores like cattle, sheep, goats, geese, rabbits and bees - and "transmuters" - omnivores like pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys, pigeons and quail. A short thread...

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@RedVelesov

5 months

@Radfemfuture Guy has a car, a gun, nice hardwood floors, a much bigger mattress than I did... Looks pretty well-off to me. He also possesses that distinctly masculine sense of spartan pragmatism that women simply can't resist. :)

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@RedVelesov

3 months

"You are lazy and weak! You make your wife do hArD pHySiCaL lAbOuR while you sit at home doing NOTHING!!!" Meanwhile, it's another day at the office, building a farm from scratch.

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@RedVelesov

4 months

@PigeonFeatherz Now that you've mentioned it, it does sound like the "wife's" sentences were written by someone with one of those "red pill" accounts. Definitely an atypical choice of words for a woman. And thank you.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

I love how, in the Croatian language, the same word ("blago") means both "treasure" and "livestock".

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@RedVelesov

9 months

This one's for all the new feminist and trad friends we've made with our last tweet, so they no longer have to rummage through old photos, take enlarged screenshots and strain their eyes. :) Many people want to know if my husband really branded me with a rusty, old branding...

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@RedVelesov

11 months

No part of an animal should ever go to waste.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Letting your rabbits free-range sure helps you get some pretty photos. Reeeally hoping we won't regret it (I know, I know :/ ), but so far so good. #arcadia

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@RedVelesov

1 year

We had to make a difficult decision - we're selling our goats. Yes, they're adorable and they're excellent dairy animals, but for our region and our approach to farming, sheep are the superior choice. And to think it all started with our first two does. Man, I'll miss my goats.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

Beware ye wolves, bears and jackals! Regoč the Protector has come to put an end to your reign of terror!

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@RedVelesov

2 months

@Hyperaionian We might be looking at the new frontier of animal husbandry here. I'll dig up a dozen more ponds and focus exclusively on platypuses.

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@RedVelesov

10 months

"Stop licking me, mom, the human is staring at us!"

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Gotta start working on them sweaters for the nuclear winter.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

Livestock > Netflix

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Start working on something meaningful to you and I guarantee you'll stop worrying about seed oils, synthetic clothing, tap water, sunning your genitalia, breathing through this or that, fapping or not fapping, etc. This modern neurosis is merely the symptom of an idle mind.

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@RedVelesov

9 months

@Motivation9807 Most of us live in very affluent modern societies. Young people can afford to raise many healthy and happy children, if they embrace a modest and frugal lifestyle.

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@RedVelesov

9 months

@bearguidewife Late teens to late twenties.

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@RedVelesov

6 months

When winter catches you unprepared, dead trees are your best friends. Look for those with a lot of their bark missing and whose wood took on that seasoned gray hue. Such trees, having long been dead, had time to fully dry and can be used as firewood immediately.

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@RedVelesov

8 months

@Iwobrand Correct. The sawing also requires a good amount of muscle and is much harder than, say, splitting big logs with wedges and a maul.

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@RedVelesov

9 months

@Richard_Vixen LOL. This account belongs to both of us, I'm just the one who's usually doing the writing because my English is slightly better than hers. She's been telling me to take this pic and make this tweet for about a week, but we couldn't find the time for a photo session.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

Many young people, men and women, are waking up and, once again, feeling the call of the land. They're tired of living in rat cages, tired of being wage slaves and tired of being told insanity is wisdom and perversion is virtue. Go find each other.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

A loving farmer that takes care of them and keeps them safe goes without saying, of course. Pictured: our young males that we sold as breeding stock. Two Tsigai rams and an Alpine buck.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

It was time to sell our ram, as we're keeping his daughters. Farewell, Dobriša. You will be missed. Now, for the new ram - should we get another Tsigai and strive to improve our herd while staying within the breed, or should we just get a dairy breed ram, like an East Friesian?

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2 years

"You know, there's this neat new invention called the *STOVE*. So, you know, you don't have to cook like a caveman and develop lung cancer from inhaling all that smoke..." Wifey making spinach and egg soup for dinner. Chieftain Little Hoof likes spinach too. :)

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10 months

I don't believe in the idea of self-sufficient communities. Machines with too many parts break easily. True self-reliance is a solitary pursuit.

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1 year

The dark beauty of a foggy day in the swamp.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

"You can't say you love them if you're going to eat them!" The truth is, the kind of love a good-hearted farmer feels for his livestock has to be experienced firsthand to be fully understood.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Milking is a great way to bond with your animals. :)

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Here's a little something we harvested while LARPing as homesteaders. Some crops from our "gArDeN", along with chicken and duck eggs and sheep cheese. Of course, this is a fake picture we found online, because food is actually very expensive and only grows on supermarket shelves.

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2 years

Don't get me wrong. Being strong is always better than being weak. But strength should be a by-product of useful work. Strength should have MEANING. The machines have alienated us from the true meaning of our strength and, thus, from our role as men.

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@RamuneRavenart @Stone_tossers Homosexuality is natural. So is infertility, dwarfism, mental retardation, etc. It's a psycho-sexual defect that impairs a person's practical reproductive ability. But it definitely does occur naturally.

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@RedVelesov

9 months

...unlike a tattoo with the name of a loved one, only better, as scarifications can't be covered up or removed. If people here want to spin an act of love and devotion in a negative way, that's on them. But I'm a proud wife and I'll wear my husband's name on my skin with pride.

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@haphios @lporiginalg When did he blaspheme? Black Sabbath, despite its name, was a decidedly pro-Christian band. They started the whole Christian rock genre with their song "After Forever", and I don't think Ozzy had a different stance in his solo career either.

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8 months

@LouisaWald79980 Yes and yes, many times. And big blankets and quilts too.

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11 months

@olivia_p_walker @empathyhaver Funny how she accuses people of "not having the balls to admit they're racist", while not having the balls to answer this simple question.

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@RedVelesov

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One of these newcomers must've taken command of the herd, causing the whole incident. New animals should always be introduced cautiously, as the outcomes can often be unpredictable. We got lucky this time. A lot learned (primarily tracking skills) and nothing lost. Grateful.

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@RedVelesov

1 year

But rest assured: when you see a farmer taking great pains to keep his livestock not only safe and healthy, but also to give them a happy life - and, when the time comes, a quick and painless death - they're more than a job to him and he's not just thinking about his bottom line.

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2 months

@Vic_Vinegarrrr My old baking job, our savings, my wife's scholarship, child subsidies, farm subsidies, the selling of livestock... We don't have much money these days, but it works because we've drastically reduced our cost of living, and we're constantly working on reducing it even further.

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9 months

@vanillatary That's not "nature", that's fields. As in, fields used to grow food that people eat.

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@RedVelesov

2 years

Our first Winter here. Burning dead weeds to create a pasture for our goats and sheep. People often think homesteding is a peaceful lifestyle, but sometimes it can be rather adventurous. Here we were, enjoying the view, when a sudden gust of wind blew towards our little spruce...

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@RedVelesov

2 years

If you see this image while scrolling your feed, you have been visited by the Disgruntled Goblin of Animal Husbandry. Start raising livestock within one year, or he will come after you with his billhook.

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2 years

You're thinking: "Where can I buy this?" I'm thinking: "How can I make this myself?" We are not the same.

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