* On foot
* 41.8847, 12.4596
* 22 July 2025
* 423.90 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
If you’re triangulating my location — and why would you? — this is the closest to home I have ever been.
I vaguely knew, in a theoretical way, about S-spun and Z-spun yarns, but not about their impact on crochet and knitting. Finally, buried deep within the useless and the slop, a site that was very helpful.
https://yarnsub.com/articles/twist
Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it.
A fine diagnosis, through and through. The challenge now is, how to mass deprogram the members of the cult.
2025-07-22
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Eat This Newsletter 276: Sharp practice is alive and well marketing dairy products to countries in Africa, as Ireland's big dairies know well. Also, food deserts, colourful carrots, garlic seeds, and Neanderthal butchery styles.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-276-diversities/
Eat This Newsletter 275
* Neanderthal fat factory; yes they could
* A history of school lunches in the USA; unintended consequences
* Pity the Snack Food Giants; sales plunge
* Big not-so-pink trouble in the rice fields.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-275-infrastructure/
Your honesty with yourself and, secondarily, with us, your readers, is impressive. I wish you a tranquil summer.
Seeing Aaron's cedar hot tub makes me nostalgic for my own Snorkel hot tub, and makes me wonder what Aaron's source of heat might be. I don't think there's room there for the sunken stove box mine had.
Just received a webmention -- micro.blog like -- from 12 February 2019. Strange ...