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Ford Denison's post Fighting Trump’s War on Science makes a strong case that he cannot make a strong case for his research without using the word "evolution" which puts it in danger of a personal, ignorant veto.
https://darwinianagriculture.com/2026/06/05/fighting-trumps-war-on-science/
Happy World Bicycle Day.
I wrote a thing about how hard it is for a tinkerer sysadmin to learn how to do things.
If you have answers, I am all ears.
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/how-is-a-baker-like-a-sysadmin
RE: https://social.yeschenko.com/@fsa_archive/116679691643432473
Every picture tells a story, eh?
Guerilla gardening.
I tried this when we first got here, and the forces of evil wiped it out pretty quickly. Maybe times have changed. Maybe this time beauty will prevail.
New episode: More Sustainable School Meals
Researchers in Sweden optimised school lunches (universally free) to reduce GHG emissions while staying essentially the same. Negative result very positive; no changes in amount eaten, amount wasted and meal satisfaction.
"Most [pupils] hadn’t noticed the shift. Some of them actually noticed that the food was tastier. And some of them noticed that there was more vegetarian food."
Alas, a total bust. After 35 minutes of hanging around, one more person arrived and I bailed. Such a disappointment. Shan’t bother again. #criticalmass #roma #bicycle
Ready for #criticalmass #roma although there are only five of us here at the moment. Got a #bicycle? Near Piazza Vittorio? Come on over.
RE: https://mastodon.uno/@FIABSegrateCiclabile/116651488204969316
What a cool idea. Wish I were close enough to participate.
Eat This Newsletter 303 once again peddles goodies encountered online.
Pasta heresy and neo-orthodoxy
Incarcerated Cooking
Grapes as Growth Promotors
Rational? Maybe. Practical? Not so much
Processing: The News
Processing: The Story
Support a Farmer, Eat at Home
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-303-rationality-rampant/
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I'm looking at two different crochet patterns for the same basic object. There is a long series of decreasing rows. One pattern says to decrease by 4 stitches in the row, then do a row with no decrease. The other says to decrease by two stitches in each row.
I am wondering whether they would look at all different.
RE: https://indieweb.social/@cassiterite/116632009644320359
If you do domain stuff too, I think people would be attracted.
I used to be a bit sniffy about the mezzaluna. I mean, what’s the point of a tool that can do only one thing. A year ago, I succumbed, in a hardware store from heaven, and now I am a total convert. Nothing else could reduce a handful of leaves so efficiently. And it doesn’t even take up that much space in the drawer vertically.
I think this may be a green-veined white butterfly (Pieris napa) but would welcome confirmation from the likes of @lionelb
Latest episode takes a look at espresso, with conversations about the hipster barista and Chinese espresso. Together, they show clearly that even traditions that define an identity are not as immutable as people sometimes think they are.
Solved, I think.
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/static-ip-on-a-fastgate-router
It has been a long, long time since I went to an actual geohash (as opposed to the far more approachable rabbit quest).
Time to block #eurovision for a few days.
Patience and planning rewarded. #bloomscrolling
Aaargh. Despite using stitch markers I have somehow managed to drop on stitch per row in the hat I am working on. Because the markers lured me into a false sense of security so I didn’t actually count. But I haven’t the will to undo it all and start again. Maybe only I will notice?
I’m getting very fed up with the fact that every time there is a powercut, my router reassigns IPs, especially to the Pi is use for pi-hole. It is a Fastgate router, supplied by my ISP, Fastweb, and although I have looked everywhere, I cannot see how to assign IPs permanently. Is there a way? Would some extra equipment help?
Rome doing its best to prepare me for Ireland and #HearSay26
New episode: Mysterious Collards in Morocco
Collard greens are strongly associated with Black foodways in the US South, though they are also eaten in parts of Europe and in East Africa.
And, as it happens, in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, although the outside world has only just found out about that.
Where did those collards come from? Who brought them? When? And what do they tell us about collards in the US?
Oh boy! The bee-eaters are back.
RE: https://mastodon.art/@minnart/116330637381883327
The octopuses are gorgeous.
Very happy today, of all days, to share this timely piece from The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pyramid-of-the-capitalist-system/
If the current president of the USA is the modern incarnation of Pope Paul II, which he certainly seems to be, dare we hope that meets a similar end, as related in Inventing the Renaissance?
No pretzels for me. DB was on time to 3 mins from the station, then sat there. 9 mins late for an 11-min transfer. Just made it.
And we’re off. Dear gods, please let DB deliver me to Frankfurt on time.
