#anti golf course

[nerdby]

I am so put off by people who think that the only suitable hobbies for adults are dating, parenting and/or procreating, wine tastings, golf, museums, theater, and -- ugh -- travel😩 Like museums, theater, dating -- okay, I can get on board with that but I don't drink and can't smoke cause of my asthma and golf courses are terrible for the environment. And travel isn't a hobby -- it's a class indicator, and like these things just make me think the person aspires to be head of the PTA and the HOA.

It's like, damn, when people become allergic to fun and personality?

[nando161mando]

[makorragal-312]

3 Reasons Why Buck Could Be Golfing with Evil Mustache Man

It's some sort of dream or alternate reality (which I seriously doubt)

2. Buck is trying to get entail on Gerrard so that he can get fired, so he attempts to get close to the enemy (honestly, this option makes the most sense. No way in hell our boy would willingly hang out with that prick)

3. Tommy is taking Buck out on a golf date and end up running into Gerrard. And Tommy like a dumbass decides to invite him over to join them, much to Buck's annoyance and he ends up being forced to be cordial and tries to ignore him. (lowkey don't want this to happen, but could definitely see this happening)

[theorderofthetriad]

your pristine golf course turf guzzling water in the middle of a nature preserve in the arizona desert during a year with drought? WRONG! 100-150 javelina! 🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

[blimpixels]

wrong number moment

[bright-and-burning]

re: prev reblog. dickhead new coworker asked if i got into f1 via dts like two weeks ago and i should've just lied and said yes but instead i stumbled through like, oh you know, just randomly got into it while unemployed haha.

it was the web weaves, if im honest. but uh. im not explaining that to a man who used to be an economic consultant.

[ioletia]

Today at the Traveler Championship golf nonsense game, some people stormed the field to protest something. People are attributing it to Just Stop Oil, a British based environmental group, but as of right now no one is certain- and, honestly, I don't want to talk about that. I want to talk about the nonsense that are golf courses...

I could and should write out a whole treatise on why exactly golf courses and their existence within the world are both ethically and morally "bad," but no one's going to read that twenty page document. So, bullet points.

Golf courses, and the associated country clubs, were (and still are) notoriously bigoted- specifically towards Jewish and BIPOC people. If you aren't a WASP, good luck finding a foothold in the sport/community.

Golf courses, and the associated country clubs, actively exclude anyone not of a certain wealth. This has a number of knock on effects, such as keeping average people out of "green" spaces, actively gentrifying nearby areas, and just generally creating a very insular community. And, as we all know, insular communities tend to become quite bigoted- see the first bullet.

Golf courses are monocultures. A monoculture refers to a large swath of area predominately populated by one species to the exclusion of others. Golf courses use one or two species of grass to populate their entire course. This pushes out local native species of plants that many native species of wildlife need to survive.

To continue, golf courses aren't allowed to seed. Grasses need to go through a period of growth before they push up seed heads, but, because golf requires very consistent turf, that is prevented by constant cutting and over seeding. This essentially creates a vast wasteland that pushes out local wildlife and starves any that might try to stay within it. Golf courses might look "natural" and "green," but are literally as far from those concepts as you could possible be.

In addition, maintaining a thick lush turf requires constant fertilizing, watering, and biocides/pesticides, which are rarely ever contained to only the golf course. These chemicals can run off to local water ways causing all sorts of environmental damage to wildlife species that were already pushed out of their habitats.

Golf courses take up so much space! Which, in and of itself isn't an issue, but when you combine this with the environmental impact they can have as well as the exclusionary culture they operate under, it becomes a huge issue. Instead of having a green space for everyone, including the local wildlife, there's a WASP club that actively poisons the area around it.

So, yeah, fuck golf. We should be protesting it all the time. It's bad.

[mokeymokey]

Why can't golfers just accept that golf is different depending on where you are. Like there are clay tennis courts as well as grass ones...you can hit balls in the desert without fucking the entire landscape into some kind of uncanny green hell it's ok

[jaybarou]

I don't want to be negative on an utopia post so I started my own.

For reasons, I have lots of golf lore. And transforming golf courses is a good idea in teory, but I'm afraid these kind of posts paint this trasformation as a miracle that will solve the housing crisis and become the solution to climate change. It's not.

There is a lot, and I mean a LOT of nuance.

For example, there's a difference between a links golf course in Scotland (a kind of course more integrated in the native nature in an already humid country), and a regular golf course in a desertic area in Florida. Or a par-3 course? (the one least eco-damaging and the friendliest to kids, old people and people in general)

More nuance: is the golf course in the middle of the city or is it a 60 minute ride from anywhere livable? (Because transforming a green area in the middle if a cramped city into more housing will increase the summer heat in the area. And transforming an isolated area is a waste of resources.)

Even more nuance: is it a golf course in use or one of the 200 golf courses closed in the U.S. in 2017?

And a big big nuance: is it a PUBLIC golf course or a PRIVATE golf course? Those are incredibly different problems with incredibly different approaches.

Most golf courses in the USA are a privately owned business that rely on the kind of clients that make business on the club house. And like to bee seen spending 8 hours staight walking around It is lucrative! Look at all that water, and the land they can aford with the tiny number of people perusing it at a time. Because they are not selling in bulk, they are selling exclusivity snd selling an image of power and richness.

One way to close them down is to ruin golf's public image. But this year they survived being shamed for betraying an association of terroist victim's families. I'm not kidding. I wish I was, but the golf lovers are willing to shove a LOT under the rug.

The tipping point for golf gourse private owners is not going to be shame. It's going to be: "is more profitable to exploit people through rent indefinitely than to sell the image of richness?"

You may love direct action, but a few weeks ago a main event for senior players was trashed. Destroyed, the ground was unplayable, and all the golf superintendants of the region pitched in and in the morning it was perfect and they played.

However you choose to dismantle it you have to take into account that this is still owned by people who live off the image of affluence, it is their business model. So whatever they build instead of a golf course is not going to be affordable for you and me.

It is not going to solve the housing crisis. The neighborhoods surounding a golf course are of high value, so you are going to find a strong opposition of a small army of semi rich Karens and Kens of the area unless you find something that will keep the value of their property up.

And this is not a crazy "what if" story. I come with receips because this has already happened.

Successful story of repurposed golf course into a park. The land had to be clawed out of private hands.

“It always had been identified,” Moskos said. “It just took 100 years to secure the land.”

Metro Parks bought the property, which had been a golf course for more than 50 years, for $4 million in October 2016. The 200-acre property connects three parks — Cascade Valley, Gorge and Sand Run — and creates the district’s second-largest contiguous area, at just under 1,700 acres.

Another repurposed golf course in Kent, this time apartments. Public space in debt sold to private hands to build "luxury rental housing". You decide if that's a success.

Auburn-based Landmark Development Group and HAL Real Estate will construct the project on the former Riverbend par 3 golf course property along the Green River they bought from the city of Kent for $10.5 million. The City Council voted to sell the property to eliminate the Riverbend Golf Complex fund’s debt of about $4 million and spend about $6 million to improve the 18-hole course across the street from the former par 3 course.

[...]

Marquee on Meeker will provide Kent first-of-its-kind, luxury rental housing and retail via two new six-story, 120-unit buildings featuring 6,000 square feet of retail each, and 21, 12-unit, three-story walk-up residential buildings. Residential units will feature high-quality finishes.

The apartment complex will include lounges, decks, fitness centers and a large clubhouse including a modern kitchen, pool, spa, outdoor fireplace and barbecue areas.

Yet another story, this time in Palm Springs. Dead golf course turned into "exclusive neighborhoods".

Overseen by Freehold Communities, a national real estate developer, Miralon represents one of the country’s biggest bets on agriculture-oriented real estate. [...] Residents in these exclusive neighborhoods can tend community gardens, fill up baskets of fruits in orchards, and, in Kukui’ula in Hawaii, even harvest guava, papaya, and pineapple.Selling a more experiential and exclusive lifestyle—“whether it’s tranquil, artsy, eclectic or organic, more or less everything is right where you want it,” says Miralon’s website. [...]

Of course, maybe the most sustainable use of land may actually be dense high-rises, which support resource conservation, public transit, and more efficient land use. But that may be a bit too radical, not to mention expensive, for Palm Springs.[...]

Miralon actually had its start as a failed golf course development named Avalon that, like it’s partial owner, Lehman Brothers, was stopped short by the recession.

There have been other successful stories, like Japan turning a defunct golf course into a solar farm. And there have been faillure stories about HOAs refusing to let affordable housing be built.

What can you do?

I don't know, do you live near a defunct golf course? Is there a public golf course in your town that you could encourage to plant local flora? Are you involved in a HOA that's blocking the repurposing of a golf course? Can you educate someone making seed bombs into a more productive course of action? I don't know! Here is where you have to think for yourself, learn about your area of influence and influence it.

Just make sure when you rage against the machine that you are aimed at the right direction, make sure there is at least one possibility of realizing what you set yo do, and know what will happen later to save yourself the pikachu face.

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Another thing that makes most dating apps a huge fucking headache is that they won't let you actually filter out most results you already know you don't want, or if that is an option then it's something you have to pay for.

[plut00nline]

I think we should convert all golf courses into labyrinths of miniature golf courses

[i-am-church-the-cat]

Fuck golfers and fuck lawns and fuck single family houses

sure

[nando161mando]

Golf complex opened in Vegas earlier this year and this happened…I hope the whole staff walks out at once

[archeogeist]

Anyone wanna come salt the golf course with me 💞

[satyrradio]

Truffle Queer (or Trufflequeer)

A blankqueer stance that understands it's pretty much impossible to change peoples' minds over the internet, so why not have some fun with the idiots and haters? Trufflequeer is pro trolling in defense. Trufflequeer promotes trolling in defense against harassment as a way to waste the time of the harasser while not allowing oneself to get worked up.

It is pro:

Good faith identities

Intersectional feminism

Atypical dysphoria awareness

Sex positivity

Choice

History learning

Bodily autonomy

Freedom of speech, not freedom from criticism

Binary abolition

NeoAGABs

Alterhumanity

Trolling as an act of defense

Freaks

Weirdos

Hyenas

It is anti:

PRATs

Offensive, insensitive, and hateful transID

Contact

Gatekeeping

Bigotry

Harassment

TERFs (trans exclusionary radfem)

TIRFs (trans inclusive radfem)

TURFs (golf courses)

Capitalism

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Edit: remembered that ppl love emoji codes so the one for this one is 🩵🤎

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Last summer, anti-drought actions multiplied. This summer, activists will act with even more fearlessness and creativity: cutting off hoarders’ water supplies, putting golf courses out of action, dismantling megabasins, squatting the swimming pools of the ultra-rich and the air-conditioned offices of their insurers, banging saucepans outside pool manufacturers offices, building beaver dams to revive our rivers and their banks. Our inventiveness must have no limits.” This kind of activist communique follows two years of unseasonable drought across France. As of 30 June, 42 of France’s 96 mainland départements (administrative divisions) contain at least one area with water restrictions. 15 of these 42 are officially in crisis, meaning water usage is restricted to priority functions: health, civil security, drinking water and sanitation. It’s no surprise, then, that French climate groups are escalating their tactics in the fight over water. In August last year during water restrictions in Vosges in eastern France, activists drilled holes in jacuzzis at a holiday resort. Over the winter, others sabotaged artificial snow canons at Clusaz, south-eastern France, while others set up a ZAD (autonomous zone) in the area, citing the winter drought as their motivation.  The most contentious of these groups is Les Soulèvements de La Terre, or ‘Earth Uprising’, which is currently waging 100 days of action against “water hoarders” across the country. In response, the French state is cracking down on so-called eco-terrorism – and hard.

[...]

Earth Uprising doesn’t use the word sabotage to describe its militant action. In French jurisprudence, sabotage denotes an attack on infrastructure that’s vital to the “fundamental interests of the nation”, Basile explains. “A cement production site or a megabasin is the opposite – it’s private infrastructure which puts the possibility of a living future on the earth in peril.” Instead, activists prefer the term “disarmament”. Victor Cachard, author of A History of Sabotage, adds that this term is also a reference to the actions of the ecological movement in the US against the industries building weapons for the Vietnam War and later the Gulf War. “There was the idea among ecological activists to join their environmental struggle with their anti-war struggle, as they recognised that war pollutes,” he says.