Go italy!

The flotilla is having its effect. 51 boats, activists from 40 nations, including G. Thunberg, F. Albanese, a bunch of European Parliament members, former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau, etc. The US press is barely paying note, but events move on.

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Thanks to @tinkeringtailortom.bsky.social for suggesting this electric canner! Did 8 half pints of peach jam on the "low pressure" setting and it was a breeze. And at this altitude, I like that there's an option between water bath and full pressure canning. www.farmandfleet.com/products/127...

Colbert had a pretty good one too

I'm at the point of muting anyone who shares a picture of the orange man without using alt text because my mute filters can't hide it for me. There's no reason to make us look at him, ever.

How's my writing going? I mean... you know that houseplant that you don't neglect, exactly--you actually try really hard to take care of it--but some of the leaves are brown and some are falling off and some are splotchy but some are also green and tender and you don't know why, maybe it's the soil?

Wow. I didn't think it was possible for Substack to make their experience more unpleasant, but they've outdone themselves with the Home page redesign. Get me out of here!

I was so sick in grad school, and I'd drive up onto the Uinta plateau to hunt mushrooms, and it's the thing that saved me.

Unbearably grateful for my dude who does not disagree about how upsetting, humiliating and invasive these procedures are, especially since they're mostly about covering the doc/hospital against lawsuits. The peaceful cabin helps too (though the Shreiking Coyote pack was in full force tonight).

So is every Dr appt after 60 just a fight about cancer statistics and lifestyle?

Is anyone monitoring the clock site rapture people? How's the meltdown/denial going?

I am very very tired of dealing with not-terrible but also not-good rural health care.

The group of Democrats who were primarily concerned with getting rich and gaining power, instead of, you know, bringing about a more equitable society, are sure showing their whole asses right now.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

I am not as cautious as the folks at r/canning (who are a little nuts) but boy howdy, I'm glad the only thing my sweet but not bright neighbor has been "canning" by boiling the lids and "screwing them down REAL tight" are pickled peppers. Had to be Very Firm with him that jelly needs a water bath!

Shana Tova to all my Jewish beloveds I see you and I cherish you and I am grateful you exist here in this world, and I am holding you in my heart with so many blessings and good wishes for a sweet new year

happy autumn equinox from me and prince rogers nelson.

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

That the kids next door are big enough to be outside, just hanging out and having kid-chat with their dog, is so fun. They're funny spunky kids and good siblings.

Found a handful of nice agaricus mushrooms on our dog walk, so there's breakfast tomorrow. (Always makes me feel like VIrginia Woolf, with her weekend mushroom forays.)

I have reached the age where I know there's a pressure change coming in because I can feel it in my joints. Fun!

All I want for Rosh Hashanah this year is for Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza.

Before the sun gets any lower—yes, too late already in a lot of places, sorry—I wish you and yours a happy and a healthy, as we used to say.

I meant to make bread today, but pears, and the sourdough starter attracted So Many Fruit Flies that I might have to burn my kitchen down.

Oh goodness. It never occurred to me that people don't know this, but I'm at that stage where "most people" are way younger than me, and yeah, don't know this. Thanks Jamelle

Look, I know all you younger people think your old hippie parents/grandparents are too weird about brands, but we're right! Disney is evil, it's marketing, it's NOT MAGIC. Walt was a regressive, conservative, commie-hunting asshole. So dump Disney and go make some actual magic in your own lives.

I really do not enjoy Fly Season.

Well these came out nice...

Why don't we have electric pressure canners? Not instapot, but canning ones that we can bring to the correct temp and keep there without having to play stove-roulette.

I guess I'm eating pears with my yogurt all winter (this is the 2nd batch).

I have a long-sleeved wool tee shirt on under my regular shirt which means the regular part of the year has returned and I can finally relax.

Guy stopped to chat while I was walking the dog yesterday, and talk turned, as it does this time of year, to bears. He too had seen "our" grizzly trio in the southern end of the valley. They've been spotted a LOT, and knock wood, so far haven't gotten run over, poached, or into trouble with humans.

One good thing. ❤️

If I could have a personal mascot, it would be this pig wearing a chicken I found on the clock app.

it should be unacceptable and unforgivable to the majority of democratic voters that their leadership shows less moral and strategic backbone than the iraq war’s marketing team

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

anyway the world is on fire but my stepmom is organizing a grandma brigade to send letters of affirmation to a scared kid so like some things are still beautiful and good

Which is why no, it's not a Catholic thing (until very recently and only the weird Catholics who are really evangelical Protestants who wanted more incense and better music) because around that time the Catholics were more into unionizing workers and feeding people

I’m always more interested in FOAT (favorite of all time) lists than GOAT ones. Canon-building is for institutions and corporations. Desire is for us.

Eliot Weinberger in the Paris Review "All my essays come out of curiosity or indignation..."

Reddit keeps showing me people obsessively planning trip itineraries especially to foreign cities and I fundamentally Do Not Get It. What fun is a trip if you only see what you thought you were going to see? Where's the surprise? the discovery?

The war on cars does not include lowriders, and especially not this one.

Today in "Let's all move to France together" I present to you a giant house in a converted workshop with 4 bedrooms, and THREE workshop spaces, for only 295,000 euro. Let's run away and start an arts colony near CDG: www.espaces-atypiques.com/en/for-sale/...

#MTPOL folks? Anyone have good reporting (or the tea, feel free to DM) on this situation with Tester and the party conference? Including the vice chair who resigned? I mean, we have a real problem with gerontocracy in the Dem party, was this an intergenerational sniping incident?

Paul Hollywood, once again being provincial, patting ifthe top of Pui Man's cake and asking "is this the lion?" It's a landscape cake of Lion Rock, an actual geological feature, not a landscape cake of the Lion King. Sheesh.

I have like 8 beer boxes of books in the basement that need to go to the library sale people, but town has torn up every intersection on the main street between me and the library, so I guess they're just going to have to hang tight for a bit.

Watched a book unboxing video this morning in which the author's partner was DELIGHTED and holding it up, and opening pages while you could see the author ITCHING to do a proper check that the photos came out right, and that essential corrections had been made.

But what we can do now is build opposition widely across the country, fighting each step along the way to try and protect where and who and what we can, and working towards something better.