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Jeremy Cherfas

Two minutes is probably a bit much for an intro. But I do think it is useful to introduce the person, if there is a guest, and at least give a hint of what you will be talking about. At least, that's what I do.

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Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

You forgot to say how bad it really was.

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@StPaulTim Lots of ways to do that, and we are friendly and welcoming. Here are some suggestions https://indieweb.org/discuss and there are lots of online meetings happening too.

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Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

Funny to feel a close affinity with what is happening to a friend half a world away, and interesting that Jason too needs his parks and open spaces. The biggest park here is the remnants of an old established family villa, and so is surrounded by high walls. That is how they manage to close it off. Another big park on the other side of town is much more open, and the rumours are that the city cops are just hanging out around the perimeter, trying to keep people out.

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Replied to a post on dem.cx :

I very much share and understand Amani Mena's frustrations, and often feel the same way myself. That's the problem with plurality, and building blocks, and many things, loosely joined. Too much choice. That's why when I started I went for WithKnown out of the box. Today I might recommend micro.blog. Once you're up and running, and have everything on your domain, you can learn and change systems as you do so. The key is to have everything on your domain.

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That's interesting, Chris. I've just checked, and Huffduffer is picking up only my domain, and none of the other links present as rel="me" on my Home page. I wander what the difference is. Might need to ask @adactio.

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Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

There's much to applaud in Jason's write-up of a university student's efforts to show people in Japan where positive responses to the coronavirus are. And one thing to abhor, and that's the description of "a foreign virus running rampant". The virus may have had an origin elsewhere, but there is no sense in which a pathogen can be considered foreign. This sort of wording legitimises xenophobia.

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Nice idea, but anecdotally, the few people on Twitter whom I’ve asked have said they don’t have a blog of their own.

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Wait a minute. Are the campaign to abolish recipe headnotes and the campaign to insist on listening to podcasts at 1x somehow related? I'm not going to tell anyone what to do with their time. Listen at any speed you like; but listen. @kathrynw5 @nwquah

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"My Brexit stash of tins of beans and toilet paper has had a rebrand. It’s now the corona virus emergency stash."

Very clever.

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@webby2001 Of course, it could easily evaporate, if something happened to Medium. Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a copy on a site you actually control?

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@LisaLodwick Exciting indeed. Frustrating that it remains behind a hefty paywall, especially as the research it reports was probably funded by public money. As bad as more than half the cemetery sites being unpublished.

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@MGraybosch Fine sentiments, and for a one-page site with a single message, not sharing metadata is an OK choice. But a little markup with microformats on a site helps others to find and enjoy the in their own way.

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@EIT One newsletter reader suggested it was because cooking in the US is much more aspirational than in the UK. So UK cooks want to get on with it, I think, while US cooks want to think they could get on with it.

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I hope you enjoyed it. Just to let you know, I've just finished brewing another episode on coffee, to be published noon GMT tomorrow.

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.@jpnudell (Apparently long threads can get lost so I was asked to break them up, hence the choppiness)

A better solution might be to also write on your own website, or even at Humanties Commons. Somewhere we can avoid the choppiness and understand you better.

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You're right! Apologies for that. Apparently those icons need JS.

Now to work out why your reply didn't show up on my site.

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@TavolaMed At last. Thanks for saying it loud and clear: farro is spelt and einkorn and emmer, and the point is that they are traditionally grown as a mixture, all three in the same fields. So yes, farro is all three, but on their own none of them is farro.

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@jojolemon I hope you win too. And while I could tell you your exact odds of winning, that would be commercially valuable information. Not.

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@noffle I know absolutely nothing about server admin but I am very happy using bits of indieweb. There is also micro.blog which is even more accessible than WithKnown.

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I have not exactly solved the problem, but I can say that posting a bookmark from Omnibear, using the Firefox extension, does work. That is, the description is received and used by Known.

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@AgroBioDiverse So true. Feeds make it so much easier for people to keep up with websites of interest. Case in point: one of my favourite backgarden plant breeders sprang back to life after a gap of 8 years, and I was immediately informed. https://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/

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@khurtwilliams In the interests of science? I'll accept your report.

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@usfoodpolicy I have a different question:

Who could eat a bacon ice-cream sandwich? I know I couldn't.

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Replied to a post on micro.blog :

Nah. Definite case of pebcac; it was the receiver, not the sender, that was at fault. https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2019/somewhere-along-the-line-i-seem-to

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Somewhere along the line, I seem to have lost a rather crucial line from the <HEAD>. Now, I hope it has returned.

If it has, please accept my apologies for spamming micro.blog.

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So have I. And this time I am going to resist the temptation to ping the site to which I am replying.

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I've been doing this for more than a month, and it works just fine.

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@mapkyca Amen to that, and thanks so much for your invaluable help with all things WithKnown.

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Replied to a post on micro.blog :

I forgot to mention that a good amount of fresh mint is an excellent addition. I hope you enjoy it.

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I'm a late adopter on IndieWeb readers, I freely confess. Maybe I should make the effort now. Well, not now, because I'll be out of circulation for a bit, but soon.

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@heyheymaimai It is strange how one just feels that a gap should be a nudge longer or a nudge shorter, but one does. More to the point, do you have to look away from the screen to know? I do.

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@thesugarchef How strange that the tweet to which this thread is a reply has vanished. How sad too that the wisdom in the thread does not exist on, say, https://butterysaltedcaramel.wordpress.com/ where it could read and appreciated even more.

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@_MatthewDillon This latest was prompted by the recent piece on gluten free from Bob Quinn ... and there's a certain irony in trademarking your grain name while not being content to simply copyright what you write rather than hand it over.

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When Google Translate lets you down (because you can't be arsed to read what it offers).

It seems highly unlikely that the Catalogo de variedades de papa nativa de Chugay, La Libertad made "a great contribution to the National Register of Pope Native to Peru".

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Replied to a post on seblog.nl :

Sebastiaan has made fantastic progress towards indiewebified private posts. And it makes me feel better to read what he says about code that works, given how awful my own is.

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@sandroantonello @racheleats Alas, the Guardian article doesn't say how Andrea gets fresh flour. Is he milling his own? Or does he have a special supplier? I'm keen to try milling my own but so far not been able to source wheat berries reliably here.

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Don't do this! Just don't. Autoplay ought to get you flayed alive.

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@jkphl Likewise, and although I won't be in Düsseldorf next weekend I will be in Utrecht the weekend after. May is @indiewebcamp month.

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@rdwrt Not really, because it is an unconference. The sessions on the first day are offered by the people who are there and adjusted to suit people, and the second day is a hack day devoted to IndieWeb projects. Some more details at https://indieweb.org/IndieWebCamps/Attendance

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@sugartraffic So true. Also gives me an opportunity to plug my post, compiled with help from people like you who are so much more experienced in these things than I am. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/what-to-use-when-you-cant-afford-vanilla/

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@lindanewbery The single best reason to eat meat is that as part of a balanced agricultural system animals turn things we can't eat, like grass, into things we can eat. No need for intensive rearing at all, and we get to eat what they are now being fed.

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@GastroHistory Whatever next? A law to stop cultured animal cells from being called meat?

No, wait ...

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@kevinmarks Very much this.

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@khaosanlao Taxation is unlikely to be part of the mix will offer, but there's a good case to be made elsewhere. Listen here: https://www.eatthispodcast.com/antibiotics-and-agriculture/

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@miiiike_sm Another great breeding story to add to my collection; thanks. Not unlike the Red Fife story.

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@jamesksowerby Indeed, Elizabeth David did not think much of the Chorleywood Bread Process from the start. And I think she was the first person I read who suggesting using much less yeast and much more time to get good flavour.

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@help I truly don’t understand how updates on micro.blog work. I deleted something on this site, which feeds to MB, but the post is still there.

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@ChrisAldrich Indeed, except that, formally, 1, 3 and 5 are identical.

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I knew I'd forget some. So, there's @fallingtreeprod @kitchenbee @_captainscience @bartona104 @jkphi and, to round things off, @indieweb and all who sail in her.