‘The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Moving (so far) over 32,000 photos and videos, years' worth, from Google Photos to @ente.io. I'd almost forgotten what a joy to use an app is when it works as well as Ente does.

I see St Eustachius in Tavistock still has squatters

Today's loaf felt like wearing a jaunty side parting.

Crispy roasted chickpeas, pea and tahini puree, roasted red pepper (out of a jar because they were on offer), poached eggs. Most Saturday breakfasts seem to be a variation on something involving chickpeas.

Good morning

Bought this book within about five minutes of getting the email about it. Recipes brought to Almeria by migrant workers, to be prepared and eaten together, with their stories. This is food prepared by the people who grow much of our food. #FoodStudies

Jobs list, done: * Move big log * Move bags of logs * Log stacking * Move dung * Move pallets * Prune elder * Prune fruit bushes * Say we might have left it too late to do the rest of the apple trees * Worry about the fence and say we need to get a fellow in to look at it

The Norway Consumer Council is so on the ball with this! Absolutely love it vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

Like A View From A Bridge on Instagram, some interesting juxtapositioning of the stories as well

Trust The Sun to frame this in the grimmest way possible. It's called aquamation, Desmond Tutu had one and it's way better for the environment. Be chill.

🦋🇪🇺 @eurosky.social -or any alternative PDS. How? Why? A short thread on what you need to know ⬇️

Stop anthropomorphizing ants. They're totally fed up with it. They had a meeting. "Eek! People keep anthropomorphizing us! What do we do?" "Derek, what did I tell you? We've got an agenda to work to here. Please raise your point as an AOB." "OK, sorry Judith." "Right, volunteers for the tombola"

Oof, Bluesky you're a bit angry again this morning. I mean, I know, I understand, I get it, but how about a nice coffee and going outside for a minute before you have an embolism?

Signed into my university email and suddenly add-ons and apps start getting installed on my laptop without me asking. I've had less invasive viruses.

Bonjour, hola, guten tag and hello - my Bluesky account is now on European-hosted infrastructure at @eurosky.social.

#Dartmoor National Park Authority is looking for a Landscape Project Officer www.dartmoor.gov.uk/about-us/wor... #jobs #devon

Post-breakfast ritual with coffee. I look like that because of the news, she looks like that because there might be a squirrel nearby outside.

Prove you're not a robot. Tick all the square without birds in. ✅

I've got a Facebook account and get second-hand reports on what friends are up to there. I keep thinking about going back on it because I want to be in touch with people I miss. Then, every time I look at being active on there again, I physically recoil.

The last of last year's Longkeeper apples are going into apple butter and stewed apple today, and the first of this year's wild garlic is going in dinner.

Anthropic: we're not down for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. OpenAI: sign us up. Copilot: hey! It looks like you're writing a letter.

Look at all the lovely tadpoles!

Doing panelle (Sicilian chickpea fritters). Chickpea flour, salt, pepper, water and parsley heated until thickened. Cooling in a tin to slice thinly later before baking in a hot oven, brushed with oil.

Us getting back from raiding the Italian Week shelves at Lidl yesterday

Charity dung delivery by the local young farmers tomorrow. I'll be adding it to last year's dung. Might, I don't know, build a house or daub some wattle.

The average size of a CSA in the UK is just over 3ha. The SFI has been re-designed (again) explicitly to exclude small-scale growers, the minimum eligible area criterion coming from a recommendation from Baroness Batters' Farm Profitability Review aimed at targeting payments to active farmers...

The former plumber has said that she'll arrive at Parliament on Monday, some time between 8 and 5.

Backing my (around 180GB) photos up to Ente from Google Photos with a view to an eventual switch. I like it so far. #DeGoogle

To top it all off it's Italy week at Lidl.

This week it's been like my brain went on holiday and forgot to send me the calendar invite

New obsession is the food films on @nowness.com www.nowness.com/topic/food #FoodStudies

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This is a bit lovely. www.nowness.com/series/chapt...

There's a disturbing trend towards talking of systemic collapse as being the inevitable and even necessary precursor to a more ideal future; it's all coming down, empires must fall, only that way can we usher in better things. We must make good ruins as Dougald Hine put it. Enough already.

Pup's in heat, so my arm will be spending the next few weeks fending off her amorous advances.

On the wsocial.eu waitlist. Catchy name.

Just imagine a peripatetic parliament sitting in a different city for say ten years at a time, building new spaces for deliberation and leaving them as civic spaces when moving on. Bristol, Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester.

Hey, your Windows has been updated! We introduce some more annoying shit you didn't ask for. You're welcome.

I used to spend my disposable income on electronics and now I get excited about the imminent delivery of a 12-pack of good Italian tinned tomatoes.

Saw this and instantly heard "Stoneybridge" in a Scottish accent

I do love this time of year.

1978: Could You Survive Without Modern Technology? | Connections | BBC Archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZp...

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. -- Wendell Berry

Never forget this, but also, as if you needed any more justification, web accessibility usually also means following standards and improving usability for EVERYONE.

Episode 1 of Dirty Business on Channel 4 watched and it has already boiled my piss. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

Mrs N's Merlin app picked up an American robin on a walk up on our #Dartmoor common just now - apparently they can be blown off-course and appear in the UK occasionally, but could Merlin be confusing it with a mistle thrush or something? #birds Maybe it came here to not hear the State of the Union