Splendid piece by a splendid broadcaster. Only one thing to push back against:
Music helps. Sound beds help. Clear simple writing helps.
Clear writing, obviously. But music and sound beds? This is much more culturally determined, in my view, and I don't know how best to cope with it.
I see Jason using what looks like the AT 875 short shotgun mic as his desktop mic, possibly for podcasting and conferencing, and wonder how that compares to a less directional mic like my Electrovoice R50.
@TimDee4 More to it than spring and autumn. Thought to be a coded guide to the long-term storage of grain, known to the Ancients and then forgotten until rediscovered in the late 18th century -- without which there would be no global wheat trade. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/grain-persephone/
@jblanca42 And finance. This week, @nelshist explains that wheat warehouses were the first banks, how the grain futures market emerged from the US Civil War and how Russia robbed the widows and orphans of France.
https://https://eatthispodcast.com/finance-grain
Next week, empire!
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Abracadabra!
Here, have a webmention in recognition of this bold leap.
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Whoa! New artwork, parts of which look just like the leaves on my cannas. @cdevroe
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Quite hard.
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So many vowels
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No coalmines around here.
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Indeed it is!
A bookmark with a fixed number of sticky tags on it is a brilliant idea. No more tags? Stop reading and write notes on the things you tagged.
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Another easy one
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Nice an' easy
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Not too hard
โFor Monbiot to highlight the complexity of soil but ignore the complexities involved in nutrition doesnโt make his faith in a protein techno-fix convincing.โ
โItโs not clear, though, why a shift in attitudes wonโt lead us to increase our intake of beans, nuts and lentils instead.โ
Thank you Dan Saladino, especially for that final โNevertheless ...โ
@ECLLD Very happy to see my dreams come true. I don't understand why my reader failed to pick up the feed automatically, but I have now added it and will look forward to seeing updates as they happen.
Very disappointed that Lets Liberate Diversity @eclld does not offer any kind of feed from its website. I would much rather follow a feed than any other way.
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Pure luck
โRepublicans are now preparing a Fascist coup while Democrats wring their hands and dither.โ
It is a worry, to be sure.
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Twice is coincidence ...
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Another bad guess.
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Bah! Rubbish performance today.
I dunno, maybe an underground garden (blog) isnโt such a bad idea. Maybe, in the scorching heat of social media we need a cooler, darker space for connections and discussion. Where things grow more slowly but still bear fruit 25 years later.
Makes sense to me
@neilbuttery Agreed, blackcurrant leaf tea is delicious. Right now we also have an abundance of mint that will all die back in a couple of weeks. What other leaves are good to steep fresh?
Now for the third time, after checking out the dev branch, upgrading to PHP 8.1 and running composer.phar update, let us see whether we can post a new status update here.
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OK, this is weird, but I find it hard to believe that yesterday's word and today's came up purely randomly.
@cll2606 This is annoying. It seems that my install of WithKnown is not playing nicely to POSSE Twitter replies. It might be something to do with Quilll, but I doubt it. More likely to be accumulating cruft in WithKnown. I want to keep using it, but ...
I try to make my site look good on mobile, but that isnโt my primary concern. Not too difficult with so many good responsive basic packages available.
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Nearly missed this one.
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Tricky one, and also, entirely remote.
It truly is like magic being able to use my desktop computer from far away, and will be even better when I can work out how to summon Alfred. I use option-space on the Mac and cannot for the life of me work out how to send that from my iPad. Do you know?
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Very provocative, although Iโm not sure I could cope.
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Very appropriate.