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A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
The Atlantic
In 2018, one year before his ascension to prime minister, Boris Johnson was asked by a European diplomat about these adverse effects. He replied, “Fuck business.” And indeed, something like that happened.
Good article that explains a lot, but not how people were bamboozled into letting it happen.
Top Albums from last.fm on 07/06/26
1, Chopin; Jablonski, Fichman, Gekic, Luisada, Piano Favorites, (16);
2, Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio, Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio, (14);
3, Various Artists, Transatlantic Sessions 2, Volume One, (14);
4, Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire, (12);
5, The Oscar Peterson Trio, We Get Requests, (10);
The 252nd Carnival of Mathematics
I loved some of the things Fractal Kitty rounded up, especially Hawzen's amazing effort to identify a fossil mollusc shell purely on the basis of gross morphology, here. I kinda sorta understand the maths, though not in any great detail, especially this:
Naturally, the distance between two shells s1 and s2 is squared euclidean distance between their contour points:
Naturally!
Is it the species they think it is? Who cares.
Testing syndication from idno, which had disappeared a while back. I wasn't happy with the formatting of the shared post before, so perhaps this will prompt me to improve that. No good. Reverting to CDN's fix
Testing this reply
I embarked on trying to update a web mentions plugin for my other site, which uses the Grav CMS. I fear that the work may be beyond me, even with the help of an LLM, but we shall see. So I want to follow the Posse of Webmention Scratch-Builders even though I have little to contribute.
#IndieWeb
I do have vague recollections of caffeine being a sleep blocker rather than an arousal mechanism of some sort, and I have to say I have never personally experienced a coffee buzz nor coffee induced insomnia.
Guerilla Gardening.
Last time I tried this the forces of evil prevailed quite quickly. Maybe this time will be better, maybe times have changed.
2026-06-01
More Sustainable School Meals
1 min read
Researchers in Sweden optimised school lunches to reduce GHG emissions while staying essentially the same. Negative result very positive; no changes in amount eaten, amount wasted and meal satisfaction.