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Further to the idea that the colonist settlers of New England allowed their prejudices to blind them to reality, I offer their misidentification of domesticated dogs as wild wolves.
https://daily.jstor.org/why-english-colonists-called-indigenous-dogs-wolves/
Current status https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hY6CMvJ9Vg
Colonist settlers thanked divine providence for the fallow land they found near Plymouth Rock. And that helped them to ignore the agriculture of the Wampanoag people who helped them survive their first few winters by sharing the fruits of that agriculture.
Michael D Wise, the author of Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, helped me to understand how the Wampanoag provisioned themselves.
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20261011-C-AY68OD
On foot
41.8843, 12.4564
11 October 2026
425.76 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.8843&mlon=12.4564#map=14/41.88431/12.45641&layers=H
Some days you cycle to the foot rabbit. Other days, you walk to the bicycle rabbit. Yesterday was one of those days.
When you finally find some molasses in a local shop and it isn’t yet cold enough for porridge for breakfast, obviously you make molasses cookies.
Need to withdraw this question. I discovered this morning the my LBS (Local Brompton Shop) had this lovely pair of pedals which he gave me at a steep discount because they had been mounted once and then immediately remounted because the customer “didn’t like the look of them”. I can live with that.
Well, that's a major downer. Was scheduled to go out with the local Bromptonauts for a tour of the city's obelisks, went to top up the tyres, discovered the back wheel had a puncture. In a mad rush, because of course I had left checking too late, I took it apart, fixed the hole with a quick patch, pumped it up and discovered I had failed to fix the hole.
So, excursion abandoned, and I am peeved at myself for waiting till the last minute to prepare.
Group outing on Sunday with FIAB Ruotalibera, from Cesano di Roma station to Parco Leonardo station. Perfect day for it, sunny but not too hot, although the technology let me down.
This is pretty interesting. Maybe I can use it to play around with my old Macbook Air and learn some new stuff too.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-desktop-now-available-for-pc-and-mac/
“A [17-month] Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk.”
Sure, as a grown-up feel free to make your own decisions about your health. But should you really inflict them on people who aren't (yet) equipped to decide for themselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-raw-milk-regulation-emily-marris-moonlight-ridge-farm
I think I went a bit overboard in trying to distill a theme from cassava, chestnuts, rice, food names, and — abandoning the theme — fruit breeding. But they are all there in the latest Eat This Newsletter.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-317-staples/
Slightly niche, this, but does any one know of a stockist of MKS Grip Monarch pedals in the EU?
“In a sense heat itself is a kind of garbage we’re dumping offshore while we dump the carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere.”
“To starve a whale is a crime against nature that staggers the imagination.”
Two perfect sentences from Rebecca Solnit’s latest newsletter.
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-starve-a-whale-letter-from-a-hot-planet/
Top Albums from last.fm on 27/09/26.
1, k.d. lang, Hymns of the 49th Parallel, (11);
2, Stéphane Grappelli, It Might As Well Be Swing, (11);
3, Warren Zevon, The Wind, (11);
4, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);
5, L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Sona, (9);
Wondering how it is that 40% of visits to my website this past week seem to have come from the American Osteopathic College of Radiology, double the number from Google.
@jon In case you have a moment, we were just in Padua where the trams run on a central single rail. Presumably the have balancing wheels on the sides. Are they unique? Is it considered a good design, or weird?
The round red ball of Chioggia radicchio, with its white ribs, is a mainstay of Italian salads. However, it is just one of a huge family of varieties in a range of colours from pale pink to dark magenta and green splashed with red. Now, thanks to more than a decade of work by Lane Selman and the Culinary Breeding Network, they are beginning to be recognised in the USA.
A new book tells that story.
I just listened to Avery Trufelman’s podcast Lace and Labor.[1] What a banger. An absolutely thrilling episode for all sorts of reasons. Naturally, I had thoughts.[2]
[1] https://overcast.fm/+AARIdT6k-yg
[2] https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/knitting-crochet-and-podcasts
Went for a bike ride and pondered a fitness problem. If I am getting fitter, and I am, how come Apple Health says my cardio fitness is going down?
I love reading, and then day-dreaming, about the kind of cycling infrastructure I’ll never get to enjoy, like these cycling bridges in Limburg, BE. Time was when I used to visit Leuven, but never with a bicycle.
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/09/five-striking-cycling-bridges-nearby/
New episode: The Truth About Picky Eaters
I cannot imagine the horror of being a parent whose child won’t eat anything. The guilt, the fear, the worry. And yet pickiness is everywhere. It seems almost inevitable. Helen Zoe Veit's new book reveals that pickiness wasn’t even a thing until the 1920s. Where did it all go wrong?And what can you do if your child is picky?
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260914-W-B2M8NE
* On foot
* 43.4747, 12.1380
* 14 September 2026
* 424.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.47472&mlon=12.13803#map=14/43.47472/12.13803&layers=H
Deep in the Umbrian countryside, even a Rabbit only 1.3 km away (much less as the crow flies) might not be reachable, and so it proved. I got as close as I could, on the edge of an olive orchard, but the Rabbit itself was down in a steep wooded valley.
RE: https://functional.cafe/@otfrom/117217395338987297
In this one respect, I would much rather be in Dundee than Rome, where Critical Mass seems to have slunk off into a corner to die.
Crocheted ‘Fungi Hunts’ is absolutely bonkers, and I love it.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/lydia-hansen-fungi-hunts-crocheted-mushrooms-minnesota/
h/t @melanie
Highly unscientific survey, but while sitting at the bus stop today I counted 20 cars and 25% had a single occupant.