OK, let's do this.
Setting up a mobile BirdNET-Pi to eavesdrop on our feathered friends.
Surveillance as it should be.
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I wrote about a way round the EU directive on single-use plastics
Would you actually put them in the dishwasher and re-use them?
A medieval pushmi-pullyu
https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/115976858388253903
Spero Che anche Roma si fa
https://poliversity.it/@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/115971331639329426
New Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet
* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.
All the news that's fit to drink at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-294-all-wet/
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I migrated a site to a new host (Hetzner) yesterday. Spammers can apparently reach the site, but I still can’t.
Is there anything I can try?
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/alas-i-am-not-a-server-admin
There's a new paper in PNAS [1] (paywalled) showing that zoo populations of mammals in North America and Europe are getting older because zoos will not do what is needed to maintain species sustainably.
Which is by no means a new problem, though it is good to have data. [2]
[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2522274123
[2] https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/better-breeding-in-zoos
Resurrecting this post from 2011 because I can, and because you may find it intersting.
New Eat This Newsletter 293: Normal Service
Parmigian-Reggiano’s Hail Mary pass
Gastronationalism in Italy and the Levant
Gourmet undead
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-293-normal-service/ and while you’re there, consider signing up.
It's all very well having my own domain and online home, but an attack by malicious spambots is enough to make me reconsider my “freedom”.
One is also up against the plethora of tutorials and guides that are almost useless to me.
The United States Needs Fewer Bus Stops: https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2026/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops
Pasta e ceci, just the job on a cold winter night. Cold indoors, I mean.
Eat This Newsletter 292: Eat Real Food
The big news is the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The big question is why anyone thinks that suddenly American eaters are going to start doing what the guidelines say they should.
Still, I can't ignore the big news, so I've linked to pieces from Marion Nestle and Kevin Klatt, both of whom have more to say on the subject than I do.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-292-eat-real-food/
Reminiscing about the old days of using an iPod in the car and thankful for my current setup, based on #Navidrome
and Tailscale
As I promised myself late last year, rereading for the first time, not quite 60 years on.
Dragged myself upright to post this monthly report. Now it’s back to bed. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/monthly-report-2025-12
Last bake of 2025, first loaf of 2026
New episode: Cooking in Maximum Security
Very unexpected, on the one hand, to learn that prisoners in Italian maximum security prisons have a right to cook in their cells, and yet also somehow fitting. And the ingredients they can get; kid goat, for example, and red wine for whatever needs it. Also, the sheer inventiveness of creating the tools they need and that they can't just order from the commissary.
Could someone tell me — who has never used the stuff -- what is crisp about chilli crisp?
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20251219-B-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.8703, 12.4458
* 8 December 2025
* 427.73 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.870263&mlon=12.455828#map=14/41.87026/12.45583
Another occasion on which the Quest provided the kick I needed to go for a walk, to the bicycle location, as it happens, which was closer and a better walk than the foot location today.
Well, that’s nice. Today is the 10th birthday of my current CMS.
Ready to deploy? https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/ready-to-deploy
Just a small detail, but a wonder to behold in the Treasures of the Pharoahs exhibition at the Scuderie.
The latest newsletter from @Documentally prompted me to climb up on one of my many hobby horses.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/not-disgusting-unfamiliar
What if I told you that I know exactly how to ensure that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants?
Consumer Brands Association “about as Big Ultra-Processed Food as you can get” launches a campaign[1].
“The concept of ultra-processing is an existential threat to the companies that make such products. The CBA’s all-out effort to discredit the concept is a tribute to how powerful it is.”
A good reason to remind you that “Food Facts Are Not the Answer to Fear of Foods” [2].
[1] https://www.foodpolitics.com/2025/12/https-www-foodpolitics-com-2025-12-28072/