Split the seasoning. A little at the beginning to deepen the flavour, the rest at the end to brighten it up.
Split the seasoning. A little at the beginning to deepen the flavour, the rest at the end to brighten it up.
Thatβs the spirit.
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
The way to actual tech sovereignty from the US? Extremely interesting talk by Cory Doctorow.
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Gorgeous.
How $140,000 a year is the real poverty threshold for a family of four β www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
This is 100% the modern Irish state of being.
Funny his consistent use of the Russian imperialist term, The Ukraine, while railing against imperialism.
π’ EU Billionairesβ wealth surges by over β¬400bn in first half of 2025.
Thatβs over β¬2bn a day.
πhttps://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/eu-billionaires-wealth-surges-over-eu400-billion-first-half-2025
#TaxTheRich
photo of paulina borsook
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
Excellent podcast on this: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/s...
If heβs into flower photography, Flower by Phaidon isnβt photography but an absolutely glorious collection of images from across time and cultures. So much there to inspire creatively getting out with your camera.
A map of North America in which "Canada" incorporates Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California.
Time to...
People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world.
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Elon Musk and Trump have already murdered hundred of thousands of people around the world by means of their obscene cuts to American aid funding.
Making me pine!!!
I saw her play at the Festival Interceltique in Brittany a few years ago. She was magnificent. Sheβs still touring, and absolutely worth seeing if you can.
So true! I started again this week and itβs just as enthralling the second time round.
This series is, by miles, the best thing you could be listening to right now.
A newly released report has named senior Cambodian political figures as central players in what it describes as possibly the worldβs most powerful criminal network β a multibillion-dollar, Southeast Asia-based cybercrime industry that experts warn may soon become βtoo big to failβ.
Donald Trump has the habits of the vandal, the autocrat, the gangster and the fool - for proof, look no further than Ukraine. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nigerian authorities have seized 3.76 metric tons of pangolin scales and arrested five people in Lagos, in a follow-up to the recent arrest of a Chinese national suspected of trafficking pangolin scales.
A front page of Liberation magazine in France from 2016. Trump is silhouetted in darkness. The only things visible are his unmistakable hair and his hand making his usual finger up, thumb out gesture. The headlines reads, in block capitals βAMERICAN PYSCHOβ. It is a very sinister front cover.
France always got it.
Je n'ai pas trouvΓ© de compte rendu de ce discours dans les mΓ©dias franΓ§ais et je me demandais pourquoi. Je connais la France, mais je ne connais pas encore trΓ¨s bien le paysage mΓ©diatique franΓ§ais et jβapprΓ©cierais votre avis sur la question,
Just what I was thinking!
Have a look at Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari for a nice discussion of how the luxury trap has been stifling humans since the agricultural revolution.
I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
This has been my most ambitious piece of writing so far. It's long. And I will be working on a much shorter version for a wider audience. But I also don't want to lose sight of the deep truths lurking around us. So, here is The Plot Against America. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!
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