Tonight’s the night. Noodles not pictured.
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Looking back through some posts On This Day, I came across one about a book and CD called Jane Austen Sings the Blues. The book is still around, but I can find no trace of a recording of the accompanying interview. Maybe @GrantStovel at @ckuaradio knows where I can find one
2021-09-09
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Correctly attired for editing next weeks episode with @dianaegarvin on some fascinating aspects of coffee history. 
Bagged another geohash, yesterday, which miraculously was within walking distance. Not sure how best to own this contents though. [2021-09-06 41 12 - Geohashing](https://geohashing.site/geohashing/2021-09-06_41_12)
I can almost see this cactus flower opening in front of my eyes, but I’m going to go inside for an hour now.
I can almost see this cactus flower opening in front of my eyes, but I’m going to go inside for an hour now.
pesosAn open letter to Airbnb
I don't know why he doesn't post this to his own site. Seems to me airbnb and Medium share certain similarities
Great fun chatting with Amalia Sacchi for @festletteratura about food, agriculture and the climate crisis, although ashamed not to be able to do it in Italian. It will be streamed on 8 September at 14:10 CEST.
21 pieces of unsolicited advice nobody else is willing to tell you | poste italiane
Found via Ton, lots of these are good. I need to internalise "the grind" more than I currently do.
In case you thought "organic" meant anything more than another way for industrial food to profit with no regard to any costs other than purely financial, Marion Nestle takes apart Danone's decision to abandon small organic dairies https://www.foodpolitics.com/2021/08/24686/
Best analysis of US pull-out in Afghanistan
We started the Global War on Terror with a Leviathan force but we're continuing it - forever - with the SysAdmin force that does not wage war on states but on individuals.
Rings true to me.
Scotland, stop selling yourself shortbread!
Excellent, thought-provoking read on the fall and rise of local food traditions.
Renegade projections and the domestic mode of production: for Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) | Small Farm Future
More here than I remember, and my copy of Sahlins is long gone, but it would be good revisit, as Chris has.
Yesterday’s walk from Islington to Limehouse along the Regent’s Canal
Yesterday’s walk from Islington to Limehouse along the Regent’s Canal. I can think of worse places to live in London.
pesosStruck on my morning walk by this tiny unmoved strip in Whitehall Gardens
Struck on my morning walk by this tiny unmoved strip in Whitehall Gardens. I haven’t been here for ages, so I don’t know the general policy, but do London parks go in for reduced mowing and managed wilding at all?
pesosStruck on my morning walk by this tiny unmoved strip in Whitehall Gardens
Struck on my morning walk by this tiny unmoved strip in Whitehall Gardens. I haven’t been here for ages, so I don’t know the general policy, but do London parks go in for reduced mowing and managed wilding at all?
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Looking at an old post of mine from this day in 2007 and wondering, does anyone, anywhere, host a blog carnival on any topic these days? Time for a revival?
Huge credit to @theMaggieAyre for a wonderful edition of BBC Soul Music on The Parting Glass. Moving stories and beautifully mixed. A real treat.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000y6n2
No favourites from Marion Nestle: Unethical food marketing ad of the week: infant formula, organic no less.
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2021/08/most-egregious-food-ad-of-the-week-infant-formula/
w/e 2021-08-01 (Phil Gyford’s website)
What if you don’t realise which genre you’re actually in and you’ve been doing everything wrong all this time?
Nicely put!
When the recipe is behind a particularly obnoxious paywall, all you can do with the inspiration is wing it and hope for the best
When the recipe is behind a particularly obnoxious paywall, all you can do with the inspiration is wing it and hope for the best. Still, what could possible go wrong? Too much fruit is not a mistake.
pesosWelcome to the Entropocene (Interconnected)
I fully confess that from my position of inherent privilege, I had never considered the negative connotations of Anthropocene, despite often using "not ALL men" myself. So, can I train myself to use Entropocene instead? Maybe