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Final work on fixing up my 1979 steel bicycle.
2023-08-30
Ready for the shake-down cruise
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Currently reading: English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss, ISBN: 9780007255566
#Non-fiction
Wow; what a great piece weaving together so many strands into a cohesive skein. Thank you. (I'd still like to read your version, if you ever write it.)
against apps, for wander lines – The Homebound Symphony
Long, and fascinating, preamble to the essential point.
Interesting to see someone else dithering about how to present smaller, stream-like notes and longer articles. I have not resolved this to my own satisfaction, nor have I found a home I control for my newsletter. I have a domain, I just don't know how best to make use of it.
Top tip from a Park Tool video: use an old toe strap to keep centre-pull brakes close while you fasten cable. Worked a charm. We now can stop. Next: new chain and gear setting so we can go.
When Naomi Klein Realized People Regularly Confused Her With Naomi Wolf, She Went Down a Rabbit Hole | Vanity Fair
My treating Wolf like a branding problem would be about as off-brand as I could get.
Fascinating read, and now I am trying to think whether I have ever mistaken the Naomis.
Thanks to Ton for the reminder about isochrones. I have been thinking along similar lines and may well try to adapt the isochrone mapping tool to my needs.
Barbie was great, apart from the ending before the ending.
Currently reading: Weatherland by Alexandra Harris, ISBN: 9780500292655
Currently reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, ISBN: 9780571368709
2023-07-30
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Always a thrill when I have to delay publication of Eat This Newsletter to respect an embargo. Sign up now to have it drop into your inbox at 17:00 CEST tomorrow and be the first to read about the truth of microbiome studies.
Coincidence, I'm sure, to be mentioning an author and his book on the same day seven years apart.
* [An Extended Moment of Joy](https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/an-extended-moment-of-joy)
* [In the mind of the body politic](https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/in-the-mind-of-the-body-politic)
Two lefts | Chris Smaje
Criticising the likes of Bill Gates and his infernal foundation shouldn’t be that controversial a move on the left, yet it suddenly feels a bit dangerous, as if it aligns the critic with dumbass right-wing conspiracy theories about vaccine nanobots or suchlike against the supposedly scientific certainties of technocratic governance.
Chris Smaje, on the money. Again.
Here's another of my climate emergency rants from back in the day, this day in 2007 as it happens.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/ruminate-on-this
I do not see anything at all that could rightly be considered controversial.
Very odd. Simone got an error each time he replied via webmention to my link to his manifesto, and yet I see each of the replies and each of the emails he sent me to warn me of the error. A clear sign that I should upgrade WithKnown, and soon.
Rome-Munich direct is of immediate interest (I'll be doing it with changes in October) although all 10 projects will make life easier for train travellers in Europe.
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/connecting-europe-train-10-eu-pilot-services-boost-c...
Take precautions: global warming deserves it | Jeremy Cherfas
On this day, 17 years ago, I linked to an article by James Hansen about the urgency of taking climate change seriously. We are still not taking it seriously.
Somewhat pooped after a long drive, Rome to almost the tip of Salento, made tolerable by a delicious lunch with friends at their new house along the way and the restorative nap that followed.
Localism, manufactured food and energy futures: thoughts from the Groundswell Festival | Chris Smaje
In other words, there’s no sign of an energy transition out of fossils yet.
Just in case you were feeling optimistic because energy from solar increased by 24% last year ...
Now that Threads is here, I no longer see options to like or reply to a comment on a photo on IG.
patriotic effusion for Independence Day – The Homebound Symphony
All very nicely put.
More relevant than ever ... and yet, still very little progress.
Just put the finishing touches to Eat This Newsletter 210, with:
* Ur-pizza
* Chinotto, eh?
* Entomophagy? Again!
* Food System Fixes
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/u/spez is right about feudalism and that’s why reddit as we know it is doomed | maya.land
Fascinating and informative article, not so much about Reddit -- which I use sporadically -- as about the reality of life before the State really got going. This kind of content makes the "real" internet so much better for me. thanks to @martymcgui.re for the link.
Thanks to Sara Jakša for pointing me to some other blog carnivals that are still going strong. I have also just posted my own submission to her carnival, and hope that a webmention will get through to alert her. Here's hoping the new carnival catches on.
Just put the finishing touches to Eat This Newsletter 208. Fancy a pot luck of food-adjacent links? Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas
Nice to see someone else trying to revive blog carnivals in an IndieWeb context. Sara Jakša's first taster appeals on two levels; it is a blog carnival and it is about food. Count me in.
We’ve Lost Our Damn Outrage Because ‘The Community’ Knows Where Their Money Comes From And Are Scared to Lose That Income — But My Fucking Money Comes from Readers, And I’m Pissed – The Brooks Review
”But what is the price of letting egomaniacs ruin unique little businesses, destroy trust, mistreat workers, mistreat society, and break apart core democratic values? Or letting them dictate politics in even the slightest way? Or even working for them for free as all users are, but also moderators on Reddit — providing all the valuable content for “their” platforms?”