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I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 9.5

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🦘 Animal #154 🦙
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5

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🐡 Animal #153 🐀
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 12

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No spoilers, but man, I got a whole lot of wrong guesses along the way

Note to self: do not use Google Maps to find the correct bus stop at an airport

🦣 Animal #151 🪰
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 8.5

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A great story of creative practicality. How I like reading about other peoples' projects. My own, not so much.

🐆 Animal #150 🐐
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 9.7

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#metazooa

🐇 Animal #148 🦫
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5

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What a coincidence. In 2023, I didn't read the exact same 20 books that Austin Kleon didn't read.

A new departure, after 10 years of Eat This Podcast, a Xmas quiz. With prizes.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/2023-quiz/

Impressed that you found Valentino. One of our favourite places when we are around that neighbourhood.

New issue of Eat This Newsletter is up and available, with thoughts on lead-poisoning in baby foods, declining nutrition in cereal crops, dietary advice on ultraprocessed foods, a rumination on rural repair and a late entrant to tosh techno-fix of the year.

All at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-225-the-world-turns/

I know I have left this very late, but I wonder whether anyone has recommendations for a good place to dine on New Year's Eve in Dublin?

Today's Eat This Newsletter has a couple of items about quinoa, takes a closer look at red-fleshed apples and rounds up some slightly delayed takes on Thanksgiving. Read it at

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-224-life-happens/

These 40 questions -- in my case direct from Chuck Grimmett -- could make for a satisfying end-of-year exercise and maybe even an IndieWeb carnival topic.

#IndieWeb

Currently reading: Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by William Kennedy, ISBN: 9780140063400

#Fiction

Interesting to come across Bryan Lehrer's piece on the same day as Ben Werdmuller's. Personal histories, both focussed on building for the internet, sorta, and both coming, I think, to the same conclusion: money is essential and money spoils everything.

#IndieWeb

Very interesting personal history from @benwerd ... and here I remain, ready and willing to move from one-off donations to paying a real price for WithKnown.

#IndieWeb

I fundamentally disagree. My best days start slowly, with hydration (tea), a little light scrolling, some internal planning and generally enjoying a bit of peace and quiet and loving company. An hour will do.

Latest Eat This Newsletter includes:

Can you talk about the hummus wars when there is an actual war on?

School food in Nairobi

Global — and Californian — production of calories

Silent Doritos

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/223-enough-to-go-around/

Finally offered the opportunity to pay to go ad free on Meta. At 12.99 a month, enough to put off most people, something tells me my information is worth much more than that. They’re not stupid.