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7 Haziran 1881'de dünyaya gelen Kanno Sugako, kadınlara yönelik baskılara karşı özgürlük mücadelesine dair makaleleriyle anarşist kadın hareketindeki önemli isimlerden biriydi.
Kadına yönelik şiddete karşı 1906’da Wakayama’da çıkan özgürlükçü bir gazetenin editörü oldu.
Haziran 1908'de Tokyo’da İmparator Meiji’ye karşı anarşistlerin gerçekleştirdiği bir eyleme katılan Kanno, eylemde tutuklanan yoldaşlarını ziyaretinde tutuklandı. Serbest bırakıldıktan 2 ay sonra Shusui Kotoku'yla devletin yasakladığı anarşist bir gazete çıkarmaya başladı.
Gazete sebebiyle tekrar tutuklanan Kanno barışçıl eylemlerle herhangi bir şeyin değişmeyeceğini düşünerek 4 yoldaşı ile İmparator'a suikast planı hazırladı. Yakalanan ve "vatan hainliği" ile suçlanan Kanno, Japonya'da 24 Ocak 1911'de, idam edilen ilk kadın politik tutsaktı. https://x.com/anarsizmtarih/status/1931309578093756795?t=Epb_GLE7jKuixnOJNv1zCQ&s=35
”From the ground, Zaydan saw his mother start to stand up, before a sniper bullet felled her with a shot to the head. ’Because I’m young, I got scared and left my mother,’ he said. ’I ran away.’ Zaydan is one of eight Palestinians who spoke to the Financial Times about their attempt to reach the #Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in western Rafah over the past week. Their twilight journeys thronged with thousands of people, hoping to get close to the aid centre.” on.ft.com/4jDvhEE
Le nouveau système de distribution de l’aide humanitaire imposé par Israël dans la Bande de Gaza tourne déjà à la catastrophe.
Depuis la 1ère distribution, le 27 mai, des dizaines de personnes ont été tuées par des tirs israéliens autour des sites de distribution. Une sorte de massacre dans le massacre, un piège mortel pour les populations affamées.
Après plus de 2 mois de blocus total et une reprise très insuffisante des livraisons d’aide, au lieu de rouvrir tous les points de passage et de reprendre les distributions par les services de l’ONU et des grandes ONG, Israël a décidé de se passer de ces réseaux traditionnels en confiant les distributions alimentaires à une société pour le moins douteuse et inexpérimentée, la Fondation humaniaire de Gaza, protégée par des mercenaires américains et l’armée israélienne.
Les professionnels du secteur et les N.U. ont refusé de coopérer avec la GHF, dont les plans contredisent les principes humanitaires.
L’obstination des autorités israéliennes, confirme leur volonté de réoccuper le moindre espace de Gaza, à l’abri des regards. Sous les objectifs humanitaires, des objectifs militaires.
I originally joined in 2017 as I some how heard about it and decided to check it out. It wasn't near as active then as it is now of course, so I didn't stick around.
Then I came back in 2022 like so many others.
Ran my own instance for a couple of years and eventually gave that up for various reasons.
I don't really know. I know I had an account before I went to Xitter, but didn't put enough effort into it, didn't understand it - or perhaps there were just too few people here.
Then, ofc. I lost my account data... 🙄 and I came back 2021.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is facing severe backlash from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the White House for comparing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to neo-Nazis on Wednesday.
In a major breakthrough that could finally bring long-awaited answers to the American people, federal investigators have recovered Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era phones and electronic devices, which could include data crucial in determining whether the former architect of the federal pandemic response lied to the public and to Congress. FBI Director Kash Patel, working alongside congressional investigators on the origins of COVID-19, revealed the bombshell during his appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”... pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025…
Russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children.Not a metaphor. Not a mystery. A war crime.More than 20,000 Ukrainian children have been taken from occupied territor...
Please be safe. Fight back, but keep your eyes peeled and fly if things go awry. If there's something even more dangerous than a scared fascist is a scared fascist that has access to the repressive forces of the State.
a lot of the videos we're seeing out of la understandably focus on the horrifying violence from today. but i also saw communities coming together to defend themselves, confronting and pursuing armed men even as they're fired on, and carrying that energy into spontaneous protest.
ICE officers faced chaotic scuffles on June 6 from elite-backed activists in New York City’s major courthouse as they picked up migrants for deportation.
I've learned that it's the choice of Desktop Environment that matters, and any major distro will work. I run GNOME with Flatpak on Fedora, Debian, and zypper on openSUSE, and don't really notice any performance difference.
Melbourne Pollinator Corridor: Restoring Biodiversity in Urban Landscapes
The Melbourne Pollinator Corridor (MPC), is 8km community-driven wildlife corridor that will link 2 large green patches that run along the Birrarung (Yarra River), Westgate Park and the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. The MPC focusses on native bees and other native pollinating insects, with the aim to bring 18,000 indigenous plants in 200 gardens by the end of 2024. It has been designed within local council constraints and with over 20 scientists and specialists. So far, they have turned over 480 square metres of barren public land into gardens filled with critters and beauty.
This is the first wildlife corridor like this in Australia, so not only are we seeing a project that will strengthen local flora and fauna and help everyone in the local community but it is also creating a precedent. And it’s all thanks to one person, Emma Cutting.
Guided by her profound concern over the increasing dominance of concrete and asphalt in urban environments and the urgent calls to action by leaders like Sir David Attenborough, Emma founded The Heart Gardening Project.
The Heart Gardening Project (THGP) exists for several crucial reasons: Firstly, there is a significant amount of public land that remains unused and neglected. THGP aims to transform these spaces into vibrant, purposeful areas that benefit the community.
Secondly, amidst the escalating Climate Crisis, there remains a glaring lack of efforts to expand diverse public plantings. THGP seeks to address this by engaging communities, enhancing biodiversity, and tackling urban environmental challenges.
Thirdly, the rapid decline of native pollinators underscores the urgent need to restore habitats that support their survival. THGP focuses on replanting native species to create vital habitats for these essential creatures.
Lastly, the pervasive disconnection from both nature and other humans contributes to widespread mental health issues such as loneliness and depression. THGP recognizes the healing potential of nature and aims to reconnect individuals with their environment and community through gardening initiatives.
The Heart Gardening Projecthas set ambitious goals for its future endeavors. By the end of 2024, THGP plans to complete 200 gardens within the MPC zone, paving the way for its expansion across Melbourne. Integral to this expansion is the establishment of robust maintenance systems to ensure the longevity and vitality of these green spaces. Using the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor (MPC) as a proving ground, THGP aims to showcase to communities across Australia, and globally, how urban biodiversity can be significantly enhanced through thoughtful public plantings. This initiative not only aims to bolster native pollinator populations but also serves as a model for creating similar pollinator corridors elsewhere.
Over the next decade, THGP intends to engage in citizen science initiatives linked to the MPC, exploring connections between indigenous cultural knowledge and western scientific practices. This approach not only enriches understanding but also fosters inclusive environmental stewardship. Moreover, THGP seeks to influence policy and guidelines pertaining to street gardening, advocating for supportive frameworks that encourage community involvement and sustainable practices. By fostering widespread participation and demonstrating tangible positive impacts, THGP aims to catalyze meaningful change in biodiversity conservation and mental health improvement on a global scale.
Designing a shared, open-ended process The Melbourne Pollinator Corridor consists of small street gardens created, managed, and maintained by local residents. Together, these gardens form a collaborative corridor that continues to expand in scope. This decentralized yet coordinated approach necessitates openness and flexibility. Rather than imposing a rigid design. The project offers loose frameworks that define the overall scope of the corridor while guiding individual garden designs.
Instead of a detailed masterplan, the corridor is conveyed through a diagrammatic drawing that captures the project’s ambition. This plan outlines a structure that facilitates coordination across gardens, enhancing the collective vision greater than the sum of its parts. At the garden level, Emma has developed design templates that provide guidance while encouraging personal interpretation – a concept she refers to as “tailored participation.” This approach allows each participant to contribute uniquely to the project.
Emma emphasizes that the project aims to support diverse approaches to gardening, fostering learning and encouraging community engagement. She explains, “The project is about recognizing that each person will approach their garden differently, empowering individuals to understand and contribute to the initiative.” By remaining open to interpretation, the project enables participants to shape their own experiences of involvement.
Overall, the MPC thrives because all gardens adhere to a shared set of principles and values, while remaining adaptable to evolving needs and forms throughout the project’s progression.
New modes of documentation, new ways of seeing the built environment Central to the project’s community-led approach are user-friendly and inclusive documentation methods that make design and technical knowledge accessible to non-designers. One such example is the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor Handbook, written by Emma, who describes it as “the handbook I wish I had years ago when I started my journey into street gardening and urban biodiversity.” The handbook serves as a visionary document, a field guide, and a comprehensive technical reference.
The handbook connects various fields of knowledge to create a comprehensive guide tailored for non-designers or gardeners. Emma consulted with over 30 scientists and specialists – including conservationists, entomologists, native bee experts, and ecologists – to compile the information. This resulted in an accessible eight-step process for planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining projects. The handbook also features extensive plant lists, supplier information, and advice on navigating regulatory challenges. Despite its complex content, it maintains approachability through a storytelling tone and supportive illustrations.
I finally got my hands on a copy of the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor Handbook, and immediately read it cover to cover. While it is specifically written for people involved the MPC it is packed full of information about bees and pants and chock full of great information for anyone interested in doing similar.
Check out The Heart Gardening Project web site, where you can donate to the project and find out more. theheartgardeningproject.org.a… All Images via The Heart Gardening Project web site.
The Melbourne Pollinator Corridor Handbook is a clear, factual, accessible and easy-to-use introduction to native bees, gardening for native bees and street gardening! This handbook is designed to be used— to be thumbed through time and time again, w…
Should we follow Bologna’s model for Participatory Urbanism?
In the early 2000’s Citizen Participation in Bologna Italy was at an all time low. Bureaucratic hurdles made it almost impossible for individuals to instigate civic ideas, with no clear pathways for implementing projects in communities. To address this issue, the city introduced radical new regulations aimed at simplifying and facilitating civic involvement. These changes enabled both citizens and private organizations to form collaboration pacts with the city to enhance public spaces. As well as these pacts, Bologna established innovation and collaboration labs throughout the city. The net result has been a massive boost in citizen engagement, with 100’s of new collaboration pacts being implemented and 10,000’s of people participating in projects. All over Bologna 100’s of public spaces will be improved though these pacts, thanks to the imagination and participation of citizens.
With so many benefits to an initiative like this, WHY IS EVERY CITY NOT DOING THIS? Benefits such as.
Enhanced Civic Engagement: By involving residents directly in the planning process, the initiative encourages greater participation in civic matters. This helps ensure that the voices of diverse groups within the community are heard and considered.
Improved Urban Planning: The collaboration between residents, local government, and other stakeholders can lead to more effective and tailored urban planning. Solutions are more likely to address real needs and preferences when developed with direct input from those affected.
Fostering Innovation: District Labs serve as experimental spaces where new ideas and solutions can be tested. This environment promotes creativity and allows for innovative approaches to local challenges, from infrastructure to social services.
Community Empowerment: The initiative empowers residents by giving them a direct role in shaping their environment. This can increase community pride, ownership, and responsibility towards local issues.
Better Resource Allocation: By identifying and addressing the specific needs of different districts, resources can be allocated more effectively. This targeted approach helps ensure that investments are used where they will have the most impact.
Increased Collaboration: The initiative encourages collaboration between various stakeholders, including local authorities, businesses, and civic organizations. This holistic approach can lead to more comprehensive and sustainable solutions.
Social Cohesion: Engaging in collaborative projects can strengthen community bonds and foster a sense of unity among residents. Working together on shared goals helps build trust and cooperation within the community.
Sustainable Development: The focus on local input and experimentation can lead to more sustainable and adaptive development practices. Solutions are more likely to be environmentally and socially sustainable when developed through a participatory process.
The Bologna Civic Imagination Office and District Labs initiative exemplifies how creative and participatory approaches can enhance urban development and community well-being.
In every city on this planet there are residents bursting with creativity and ideas on how to improve their public spaces. These ideas are not going to come to fruition in a “top down” bureaucracy. These ideas will never see the light of day, without a system in place for them gain public attention, discussion and possibly even implementation. In most cities there is just no sytem for this. If you want to improve the public realm then it’s just a trial an error process of contacting politicians, government workers, departments, councillors, journalists… Anyone and everyone in the hope that your idea might get through to “the powers that be.” There are funding grants, there are budget submissions and there are other approaches but no single system designed specifically for Participatory Urbanism, as they have in Bologna.
It was all born from a bench, because a citizen asked for permission to repaint a bench. We realised that in order to give permission to repaint the bench, we had to go through five different sectors of the municipal machinery — five different authorisations. We began to understand that something was not working.”
BOLOGNA MAYOR VIRGINIO MEROLA
I am left wondering, is this the big idea all Urbanists have to get behind? Is this the best way forward to improve the public realm. Should we all be writing to our MP’s, Senators and Councillors, promoting this idea, above all else?
The City of Bologna’s Civic Imagination Office and District Labs have been involved in many notable projects that highlight the initiative’s success in fostering community engagement and urban innovation. Some types of projects that have been instigated include;
Urban Gardens and Green Spaces: One of the key projects has been the development of urban gardens and green spaces across the city. These projects not only beautify the area but also promote community interaction and sustainable practices. Residents have been involved in designing and maintaining these spaces, enhancing local biodiversity and creating places for social gatherings.
Public Art Installations: The Civic Imagination Office has supported various public art initiatives that involve local artists and residents. These installations are often created through collaborative efforts and reflect the unique character and culture of different districts in Bologna.
Community-Made Playgrounds: In several districts, community members have come together to design and build playgrounds for children. These playgrounds are tailored to the needs and preferences of local families, fostering a sense of ownership and pride among residents.
Neighborhood Revitalization Projects: The District Labs have been instrumental in revitalising neglected or underused areas. Projects include the transformation of vacant lots into vibrant community spaces, as well as the renovation of historic buildings for new uses, such as community centers or co-working spaces.
Local Food and Market Initiatives: The city has supported projects aimed at enhancing local food systems, including farmers’ markets and community kitchens. These initiatives promote local produce, support small businesses, and encourage healthy eating habits.
Cultural Festivals and Events: The Civic Imagination Office has helped organize various cultural festivals and events that celebrate Bologna’s diverse communities. These events often involve residents in planning and execution, fostering a sense of community and cultural exchange.
Participatory Budgeting Projects: The city has implemented participatory budgeting processes where residents can propose and vote on local projects. This approach ensures that community needs and priorities directly influence how public funds are spent.
There is a lot more to this project than what I talked about above so I encourage everyone to go and do some further research. I’ve attached a few links below but there a ton more stuff out there on t’internet.
What If… we could reimagine our future as thriving, fairer, more resilient and more connected? How could that vision help us to move forward and take practical action towards a better future?
Transition Together have just brought out a free step-by-step guide to building a community vision, a great tool for making local change. The guide is designed to help groups and communities open up their imagination and start exploring what a better future could look like in their context. It helps to build a shared vision of what’s possible, a vital starting point to exploring how we can work together to make it a reality. The guide is for any group that wants to expand their vision of what’s possible in the future and explore how they want to work towards it. It is designed for starting conversations within a local community and to create a space to hear different perspectives and needs. The exercise can also be used to investigate a single theme or issue, like food or transport, or by a group which isn’t place-based but wants to reimagine the future of their area of interest – like the arts or youth provision.
If you are from a community group that wants to invite the wider community into this process you might like to do this exercise within your organisation first. This lets you become really familiar with it before running it with a bigger audience, but also allows your members to fully contribute and explore your priorities and focus in a deeper, richer way.
The guide is based on the experience of the Transition Movement, a network of community groups in 50 countries; people working together locally to address the big, complex problems of our time. They do this by reimagining our local communities, and then taking practical action to help them become thriving, inclusive, more resilient places for everyone. ‘Transition’ simply means change and how we get from one thing to another – from a damaging, polluting, unequal present to a fairer, more resilient, regenerative future for all.
There are some 300 local Transition groups in communities across the UK. They are supported by Transition Together in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and by Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) in Scotland. This approach to visioning was developed during the global coronavirus pandemic and is inspired by Rob Hopkins’ work around What if, and the 3 horizons framework (h3uni.org/). This framework was developed to help navigate situations where there is a high level of uncertainty and also a high level of potential for change. It’s an approach that has been tried and tested by many local Transition groups working to take action from the ground up, and helped them go on to make changes in their community.
I recently did a speech to my local Rotary Club about a Participatory Urbanism project I am working on. To my surprise, the audience appeared equally interested in the whole Participatory Urbanism concept, as much as the project itself. So I thought it would be good to put together a quick explainer, which I can point people to, if they are interested.
Participatory Urbanism is an approach to city planning and development that actively involves citizens in the decision-making processes, right from the start, to create more inclusive, responsive, and sustainable urban environments.
Urban planning, once the exclusive domain of architects, developers, and policymakers, is slowly opening its doors to the people who live in the neighbourhoods they are shaping. This movement—known as Participatory Urbanism—is about putting residents at the centre of urban change. Unlike what we see right now, where residents are on the periphery of any decision making.
Participatory Urbanism invites community members to co-create the future of their cities. It moves beyond consultation into real collaboration, where local knowledge, lived experiences, and collective imagination become essential tools in the planning process. Whether it’s redesigning a park, rethinking traffic flow, or creating more inclusive public spaces, the goal is to make cities not just more efficient—but more just, vibrant, and responsive to human needs.
This approach goes by many names. You might hear it called “collaborative urbanism”, “community-led planning”, or “co-design”. In digital spaces, it intersects with “civic tech” and the “smart citizen” movement, where data and tools empower residents to advocate for better services. In the physical world, it often overlaps with “tactical urbanism”—those DIY, grassroots projects that temporarily transform urban spaces to test new ideas.
What unites all these threads is a simple but powerful belief: the people who live in a place are experts in their own right. By making space for their voices, we build not just better cities—but stronger communities.
Right now we get community participation really, really wrong. Most civic systems are hierarchical, with decisions made by a few “experts” behind closed doors. Public participation is often tokenistic—last-minute, limited, and on the civic leaders’ terms. It feels disingenuous, formal, and uninspiring, excluding genuine input and creativity. The same voices dominate, while people are sidelined and are not truly at the centre of decision-making.
Participatory Urbanism ultimately means reimagining our cities as places shaped by the people who live in them. It shifts power from top-down planning to collaborative processes where residents have a real say in decisions that affect their daily lives. This approach fosters more inclusive, equitable, and responsive urban environments by valuing local knowledge, creativity, and lived experience. When communities co-create their neighbourhoods—whether through planning, design, or stewardship—cities become more vibrant, just, and resilient. Participatory urbanism is about putting people at the heart of urban change, ensuring cities are not just built for communities, but built with them.
There is no one single way to implement Participatory Urbanism. Lots of cities are trying to do it right now and we see lots of different ideas and models emerging. In reality there never should be one single approach/method/model because that flies in the face of the whole idea of consulting local residents. An approach that suits one city may not work in another. Fortunately there are lots of examples we can look at from around the world, and take inspiration from. I wrote about Bologna, Italy’s approach here: https://owgf.org/2024/08/02/should-we-follow-bolognas-model-for-participatory-urbanism/ There is also the Transition Network working on providing ideas for communities that want to organise, which I posted about here: owgf.org/2024/08/04/transition… Also a quick web search for “Participatory Urbanism Tools” will deliver more results than you can poke a stick at.
Our Wonderful Green Future will be a co-designed by the people, for the people.
Ein US-Gericht zwingt OpenAI zu einem drastischen Schritt, der europäische Datenschutzprinzipien infrage stellt. Millionen ChatGPT-Nutzer sind betroffen.
Was passiert eigentlich mit den Daten, die ihr bei ChatGPT löscht? Die Antwort auf diese Frage hat sich für Millionen Nutzer:innen gerade grundlegend geändert – ganz und gar unfreiwillig.
Google AI now mentions I'm a writer that was involved in a 'controversy'. And QLD parliamentary minutes accuse me of being sympathetic to 'terrorists'.
This is one reason it's unlikely the war between Russia and Ukraine will end anytime soon -- and may even become nuclear AND the beginning of WWIII . . .
Ukraine will join the EU by 2029 and Hungary’s veto won’t matter, says EU’s enlargement commissioner
Brussels will bend and break its own rules to ensure Ukraine joins the EU Marta Kos, the European Commission’s commissioner for enlargement, spoke to the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, where she made it clear that they want to complete the enlargement process for Ukraine by the end of the next EU term, which is 2029. “We must and will succeed in the next phase of European unification. We have a realistic chance of bringing one or more candidate countries to the finish line in this cycle,” said Kos.
Can't remember if I posted this previously, so apologies if I'm repeating myself. I blame my age.
One of the things I find very enjoyable when cooking is comparing different ways of making the same dish.
Quite often, I'll start with an "anglicised" version, and then once I've got an understanding of it, I'll move to a more "authentic version"
In this case, guajillo sauce.
As an introduction to chillies that I'd never used before, Rick Bayless's version was good; now that I'm more comfortable with the ingredients and techniques, I've found that Bricia Lopez's version is much better, and I find it more consistent (and easier to make, honestly)
I made enough from the recipe link to fill the jar, but I used some before taking the photo
Batch cooking - meat from here on out - pork and chicken
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What I now have, is a decent jar of sauce in the fridge, to turn into many different dishes.
Having scoured all my books, there's many that use a "guajillo sauce", from chilaquiles, prawns and steaks, to chicken thighs and thin cut pork.
In each one, the proportions of spices and chillies vary *slightly*, but, for my purposes as a home cook, I'm comfortable using the same sauce for each - this is the point of making a batch, after all. Whether it's 1/2 an onion or 1 onion, it's not going to be the end of the world. The advantage of having a pre-prepped sauce outweighs - for me - any disadvantage in terms of it not being "quite right" - and I wouldn't know anyway.
So, I currently have a couple of chicken thighs marinading in this sauce, plus roughly 700g of pork loin, which I've sliced to about 3mm thin before popping in the fridge for most of today.
Having got to a point where I'm happy with the base sauce, I've been making the various recipes that use a "version" of it.
As per the previous post, each version is very slightly different, but the variation is so small that it doesn't outweigh the benefit of batching the sauce in my mind.
The first two were for lunches - I had some leftover beef from some ribs, so I cooked it in the sauce, and had it with flour tortillas. In the second, I cooked some prawns in the sauce, and made "sort of tostadas" by simply baking some corn tortillas in an oven with some spray oil for ten minutes.
With a garnish of coriander leaves (cilantro) and maybe some lime juice, both went very well
For more substantial meals, I used it as a marinade for chicken thighs in the first photo - marinade for at least an hour (or overnight), and then cooked for 15 minutes on the grill (check it's cooked!); I ate it with some simple rice and sweetcorn.
I also did "pollo en barbacoa" - cooked a whole, jointed, chicken in the sauce along with some bay leaves (I think avocado leaves are the authentic version, but I can't get them) in a dutch oven for an hour - the chicken gets to "fall off the bone" tender, and the sauce reduced to a gravy.
Then, the second photo is for "Cecina Oaxaquena" - thinly sliced pork (I froze it for an hour, and then ran it through a slicer), marinaded for a few hours, and then cooked for about 5 minutes each side on my barbeque grill.
I had some difficulty with the translation for this - "Cecina" as a dish was new to me when I made it, and it appears that in different parts of Mexico, it can mean different things - whilst this one is pork, I've also seen recipes where "cecina" refers to a sort of air-cured meat (mostly beef, but pork as well), a little like what I'm used to as "jerky".
My recipe here is borrowed from a Oaxacan chef, so I hope I've got it right 😃 - please let me know if I haven't!
So, anyway, it's been a while since I was able to post a cooking thread - I've been exhausted for many reasons, but also needed to experiment.
To return to the original point - this is one of my "do a batch of something" - in this case sauce - "when you have the spoons, and then let's see how many different dishes we can turn it into?"
The dishes are minimal effort (marinade and then cook for a while, either quick on a grill, or long but with no baby-sitting in the oven or on the hob) - once you've made the sauce. And it lets you have a decent amount of variety.
One of the reasons I've been slow to post recently is that I've basically been cooking every single meal for a friend, who has had a terrible few weeks (see previous posts on "being hit in the face with a cricket ball and then blamed for not dodging")
But, if nothing else, it's allowed me to experiment with food, and it turns out that my rice and pork go down a treat with her kids, which I'll take as the highest compliment.
if you enjoyed this post and my walk-through on thought processes (gods, that sounds influencer-speak) around low spoons cooking for the masses, and fancy chucking me a few quid, I could do with it - cooking for others is expensive and time-consuming, after all.
I've made a "cheat's mole" once, using peanut butter and chocolate in a chicken broth with pre-ground spices - it was very good. I've got a few recipes in one of my books for moles, but the list of ingredients and amount of grinding is too intimidating for me at the moment.
"Chilli con Carne" was one the first dishes my Mum taught me how to make when I was 18 or so, so it has a special place for me in my memories.
Over the years, I've upgraded it slowly, adding in cumin, oregano etc (which were basically unknown the 90s in the UK), and then more recently using anchos and other chillies.
For me it's a "muscle memory" dish - I do it when I'm low, and need a few nights' worth of food. I don't think it's in any way authentic, and I don't even think that if it was authentic, it would be "authentic" (I've an idea it's Tex Mex), but it's delicious and that's good enough for me.
Alan Turing died by suicide on 7 June 1954. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce his libido. Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and barred him from continuing with his consultancy for GCHQ. He was denied entry into the United States after his conviction.
À l’heure d’écrire ces lignes, plus de 60 % des réservistes (soit 120 000 soldats) refusent désormais de prendre des armes pour retourner à Gaza. Déjà à la mi-mai, 140 000 Israéliens – militaires et civils – ont publiquement exprimé leur soutien aux initiatives des pétitionnaires et des objecteurs de conscience.
Début avril, 1 000 soldats de l’armée de l’air ont signé une pétition contre la guerre, parue dans la presse israélienne. Ce geste a rapidement été suivi
That’s cute, but wildly outdated. MAGA isn’t the party of country clubs and Koch bros—it’s a working-class, anti-elite populist revolt. The neocons and tech millionaires? They’re voting blue now. If you think gullibility is partisan, you’ve been sold a very old and flattering lie.
There are two types of people who support Trump, those who are easily manipulated and selfish multi millionaires. If you aren't sure which camp you are in Check your bank balance.
Terrorist "Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event" ───── The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right [...] founded in 2018 by a former Pentagon contractor [working with U.S. special forces on targeting and counterterrorism, as well working as FBI analyst] living in Russia and now suspected of Kremlin-sponsored espionage, once boasted close to 50 stateside members before the bureau made more than a dozen arrests in a years-long counter-terrorism operation. [...] Now, the Base has a presence in Ukraine, performing sabotage operations inside the country against the embattled government, and new and dangerous cells emerging across Europe, and it appears to be growing in the US, where the FBI under the Maga acolyte Kash Patel has signalled it isn’t prioritizing investigations of far-right extremism. [...] “The Base in [the] USA is preparing for an upcoming national training event,” reads one of its recent posts soliciting crypto donations. “This one might be our most attended training event in [the] USA in a while. [...]” ───── theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
was about to respond to a post my fag stalker on twitter made then i accidentally ctrl+ zoomed and twitter conveniently deleted my reply for me. it's a sign. do not reply to the faggot
Le parquet s’oppose à la libération du leader indépendantiste kanak ordonnée mardi par des juges d’instruction. La justice s’est prononcée, jeudi, pour son maintien en prison jusqu’à l’audience au fond sur sa remise en liberté.
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Bleeeeeeeeech~ this black coffee is too bitter and horrible. I ran out of milk and I am too tired to go to the store~ There has to be a way to make this tolerable.
tfw the trespass backpack it bought like a few months ago is already wearing through in places
any recommendations for getting a medium-size backpack (35-40l probably, something it can have for everyday use) that is actually built tough and gonna last? Would be nice to have something with MOLLE or similar webbing for attaching extra pouches and such.
(it is aware that there is tons and tons of military style "assault pack" backpacks which would fit this but it is not sure which are properly good)
Une excellente nouvelle passée sous les radars : il n'y aura pas de nouveaux forages pétroliers en Gironde.
Grâce aux militants qui se sont appuyés sur des rapports scientifiques pour peser sur la décision, l'Etat a déclaré "que ce projet vient à l'encontre de l'urgence climatique".
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Elon Musk is powerful because he has created vital national infrastructure. Now that he's fighting with Trump, he's making threats that show the dependencies he's fostered.
Toute cette gabegie n'est que pour forcer le contrôle général de la commission (fonctionnaires non élus, tous à la botte de VDL) sur les gouvernements. L'antipolitique, la dictature.
Dès 2020, le gouvernement engage par anticipation les crédits correspondant aux 40 milliards de l'enveloppe française. Les parlementaires prennent acte. Les évaluateurs peinent à dresser un bilan.
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Peterson’s longstanding bête noire has been the scourge of postmodernism, alternatively represented in the catch-all signifier “postmodern neo-Marxism.” Once again, the irony here is not just that Peterson’s own writing so regularly mirrors the worst stylistic tendencies of both post-structuralist academia and social media identity politics. It’s that his work and ideas are fundamentally postmodern in substance.
@Carter Braxton actually all of his old psychology courses from his University years were really quite nice and interesting. But I think celebrity made him stupid or something.
Unabhängiger Präsidentschaftskandidat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) hat Big Pharma und andere öffentliche und private Gesundheitseinrichtungen dafür kritisiert, dass sie von der rückläufigen Gesu…
The BBC is shocked when Israeli soldiers – illegally occupying Syria – identify its film crew, point guns at their heads, strip-search them, then blindfold and interrogate them.
Might it encourage the BBC to report the systematic murder of Palestinian journalists in Gaza?
The list of people who refuse royal honours and have said thanks but no thanks carries much more gravitas than those happy to get on their knees. Keep your royalist baubles. Robert Smith of the Cure says this perfectly. If you don't have the time or inclination to watch all 7 minutes, fast forward to 5 mins 22 and watch the rest of video from there. #AbolishTheMonarchy youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&…
Cliff
in reply to Cliff • • •I originally joined in 2017 as I some how heard about it and decided to check it out. It wasn't near as active then as it is now of course, so I didn't stick around.
Then I came back in 2022 like so many others.
Ran my own instance for a couple of years and eventually gave that up for various reasons.
Gorobar
in reply to Cliff • • •GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
in reply to Cliff • • •Rainer Zufall
in reply to Cliff • • •Cyber Yuki
in reply to Cliff • • •2017. I wiped my Twitter account because it started platforming nazis.
Never regretted it.
Radgryd
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in reply to Cliff • • •Tom
in reply to Cliff • • •It was '22 or '21. Not long before the first Twitter exodus?
I migrated from no social media. I thought the Fediverse ideals and the federation was something I could deal with.
But then I had the alpha version of Diaspora so probably more like 2009. Still have the CD in my cupboard.
Joost van Baal-Ilić
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in reply to Cliff • • •Liminal witch 🧙♀️ Sarah
in reply to Cliff • • •I don’t remember but it was before 2018-04-30 because I had account on witches.town
indieweb.org/witches.town
witches.town
IndieWebjesterchen42
in reply to Cliff • • •I don't really know. I know I had an account before I went to Xitter, but didn't put enough effort into it, didn't understand it - or perhaps there were just too few people here.
Then, ofc. I lost my account data... 🙄 and I came back 2021.