Here's the Specialty Coffee Association's World of Coffee Dubai trade show doing social media PR for Dubai's ruling family. The SCA hosted WoC at the Dubai World Trade Centre, and it was put on by DXB Live, both of which are owned by the Dubai government's sovereign wealth fund. #CoffeeSky

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

Republican presidents be like “you can’t have guns”

I think it's interesting that just hours ahead of @theverge.com reporting that OpenAI's president has donated $25 million to Trump that Katie Miller was over on Twitter falsely trying to clam that actually, the AI companies are biased against conservatives (the opposite of reality).

america is more divided than it's ever been. only one thing still unites us across all cultural, racial, religious, and economic lines: universal recognition that Cape Feare is the best sideshow bob episode

The blessed day is upon us once again

"Up to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week". The West's normalisation of the mass death of black Africans (because that is predominantly who these people are) will never be less than devastating.

a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)

Incredible.

that's a real pro move, removing the bloodthirsty little ghoul and replacing him with the hideous shambling ogre, that should fix everything

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Modern Times is a South Minneapolis staple, and a personal favorite haunt. For the duration of the occupation they're renaming themselves Post Modern Times and going to a donation-only model. Everyone but ICE can eat for free. Donations: Venmo: moderntimescafe givemn.org/story/centralimpactfund

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In the 90s this would've been the organizing concept for a whole album by a NY rapper who smoked a ton of weed before going to the used bookstore.

In my latest column at The Lookout, I wrote about how Riverbend Roastery took a one-star Google review from a "back the blue" chud in stride by mocking him on its own Instagram account—and how owner Alexa Schuett's perspective of mixing politics and business has evolved since the first Trump admin.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Broken again by this post from the cute brunch spot a block from where ICE killed Alex "We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"

security for protesters, right?

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing

"One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that, regardless of the management model, coffee must remain the protagonist of the production system if the goal is, in fact, to produce coffee." Read our latest column from Jonas Ferraresso on the ideal vs. the possible in coffee production...

Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

the "problem" of "illegal" immigration disappears the second you stop thinking like a racist freak

I disagree with all three points, but the third one especially. I love looking at nicely-arranged bookshelves full of books (and DVDs for that matter). It's incredibly meditative.

'Rajai al-Shatli, a Palestinian media producer who is also displaced, said it was “the first step towards ending the entire Palestinian national project”. “This is where the plan begins: to take control of the Gaza Strip as if it were the private property of investors worldwide.”'

The absolute dumbest people on the planet are in charge.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

My newsletter approaches the topic of coffee quite differently from a lot of other publications. Thus, I figured it was worth it to clearly articulate some of my governing principles when it comes to The Pourover. #CoffeeSky Inspired by @dinfontay.com's excellent ethics page at fingers.email

Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak. www.thetimes.com/article/4a1c...

The coffee consolidation will continue until morale improves

Yeah for people not up to date on the back story, the conservative war on "Gender Ideology" actually started as a response to Gender Theory, and specifically the impact of Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" at the United Nations summit for women in 1995.

the reason the elite are so desperate to vilify hard-working people coming to this country to build a better life for their families, unleashing wave after wave of gutter racism in the process, is to distract from the fact that their incestuous degeneracy causes most of our actual problems

they're calling Elon Musk "CSAM Altman" folks,

that's right

My takeaway from the Oscars nominations is that there were only about six films released last year.

Lmao, cry more you losers.

Yesterday it was Satya Nadella, today it’s Jensen Huang; what with the world burning around me I can take some pleasure in the fact the AI bros are both mad and sad

Listen, see all this money here? We all know it has to be used to hurt people one way or the other.

Gmail is now asking if I’d like to have two sentence emails summarized

It is 100% a culture war. There is no value in this dogshit. None. Look, the WORST people want you to use AI. Corporate America. CEOs. Management types. Republicans. Trump. No one you respect or admire is saying it's good.

I wonder how many closures will be of unionised stores... #CoffeeSky

Writing a short newsletter for my paid subscribers about how shit it is that so many coffee brands and organisations are still actively using Twitter/X, despite all the everything. It is truly dispiriting to see how many are still using it. Publications too! #CoffeeSky

Love that while a rambling, senile fascist slowly brings about the end of the world in the dumbest way possible, I'm sitting here trying to make a living by writing a commissioned article on the rise of protein coffee. Seems fine.