Fionn Pooler
@thepourover.coffee
Writer of The Pourover, a newsletter about coffee and how it connects to the wider world. Subscribe! 👉🏻 thepourover.coffee Posting about coffee, mainly, but also movies, Arsenal, and other bits and bobs. (It's pronounced Fin | he/him |📍🏴)
Very much not the point but the idea that blueberry shouldn't be a coffee flavour is very funny. If you buy a naturally-processed coffee from Ethiopia—the birthplace of coffee and how it was originally processed—the main flavour note will likely be blueberry. Blueberry is the ur-coffee flavour.
SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · 3h ago"I am living with the consequences."
The anti-Palestine chant for Manor Solomon by West Ham fans is gross and should be punished. It also reflects how football entirely washed its hands of responsibility over the genocide. Column. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
West Ham fans' Palestine chant is disgusting - and football is to blame
We should ask why fans believe they have the right to sing about the war on Gaza at all
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Here's an essay I wrote on the roaring twenties in Cairo, when the Egyptian capital was packed with dance halls, bars, and cafés where larger-than-life stars delighted local and foreign audiences alike. Learn about the drinks and bites that kept the shows running 🥂
A Taste of Cairo's Roaring Twenties
The city’s food was just as sensational as its nightlife, and the era’s celebrities had their favorites.
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Add destroying rare books to the list of things AI stans are cool with. It's kinda interesting watching these unbelievably fucked up things coming to light and still AI users don't care because they're lazy selfish pieces of shit.
404 Media@404media.co · 9h agoSCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
Got a ChatGPT ad on LinkedIn and it felt so good to mark it as AI slop.
*cake doing play-by-play of a football game* hes torn his meniscus
Annual reminder that the Community Shield used to be called the Charity Shield, but so little money actually went to charity that the government told them to either start making serious contributions or change the name. So they changed the name.
New article: “Cutting out the middleman” has become one of the coffee industry’s favourite buzzwords. But beneath the sloganeering, it’s worth considering the true nuance of intermediaries’ role within the supply chain—and whether their presence is really so easy to dismiss.
In Defence of the Coffee Middleman
Intermediaries, we are told, are responsible for many of the coffee industry’s ills. But that depiction doesn’t tell the full story.
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Another great read about the coffee business.
Fionn Pooler@thepourover.coffee · 3d agoNew article: “Cutting out the middleman” has become one of the coffee industry’s favourite buzzwords. But beneath the sloganeering, it’s worth considering the true nuance of intermediaries’ role within the supply chain—and whether their presence is really so easy to dismiss.
New article: “Cutting out the middleman” has become one of the coffee industry’s favourite buzzwords. But beneath the sloganeering, it’s worth considering the true nuance of intermediaries’ role within the supply chain—and whether their presence is really so easy to dismiss.
In Defence of the Coffee Middleman
Intermediaries, we are told, are responsible for many of the coffee industry’s ills. But that depiction doesn’t tell the full story.
thepourover.coffee
England's New Forest is burning But the New PM has absolutely nothing to say
Andy Burnham? Andy “Burn ‘em” (rhymes with “Burnham”) more like - given his frankly cavalier approach to climate change!! 1.2k reposts 18.3k quotes 179.4k likes
🚨Major bargaining update! 🚨 Our union has received Blue Bottle’s last, best, and final offer on wages. Blue Bottle’s offer is comparable to the economic offer recently gained by Blank Street workers in Boston. Read more about where we stand here: www.bluebottleunion.org/blog/august-...
August 2026 Bargaining update — Blue Bottle Independent Union
Dear BBIU baristas, Our bargaining team met with the company on August 11 and 12 to continue our negotiations for a strong first contract. The company provided our union with what they claim is the...
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Time to go sit down with my stupid flesh brain (that no tech company has figured out how to fully monetize yet) and write some of its ideas down. Like a fucking idiot
Favourite film for each year of the 1980s: 1980: The Shining 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982: Blade Runner 1983: Local Hero 1984: Stop Making Sense 1985: Back to the Future 1986: Aliens 1987: Raising Arizona 1988: Die Hard 1989: The Killer
Sylvie@slywit.bsky.social · last wk.Favorite film for each year of the 1980s: 1980: Hopscotch 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982: Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1983: Trading Places 1984: Choose Me 1985: Desperately Seeking Susan 1986: Highlander 1987: Moonstruck 1988: Women on the Verge... 1989: Shag What are yours? #Filmsky 📽️🎞️🎬
"When given access to a well structured large historical dataset" Oh, so in other words when someone else has already done the research for it?
Jim Clifford@jimclifford.bsky.social · 5d agoAre we ready for machine written history? When given access to a well structured large historical dataset, Claude’s Fable 5 can identify a topic, complete the research and write a strong and original draft research paper. This has the potential to break peer review, graduate school, & job searches.
Love to hear from my fans on Instagram.
Fionn Pooler@thepourover.coffee · 2w agoThe climate crisis is here. The world is getting hotter, and extreme heat is becoming uncomfortably routine. As heatwaves become ever more common, the coffee industry must reckon with the impact on all workers—including those who weren’t previously thought to be at risk. #CoffeeSky
This sounds like something someone who built a time machine using a train and is trying to cover their tracks might say.
Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · 6d agoThe man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
crushed to learn Nicholas Hoult exploded on the set of SUPERMAN and died and is now dead. deadline.com/2026/08/nich...
Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.
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"Okay this is it, I'm really going to start stretching more", I lie to myself again.
We should really work together, hand and hand, to focus all of our community’s poorly-suppressed and totally ruthless bullying energy on the single demographic we all agree actually deserves it: Harry Potter Adults in the year of our lord 2026
when reading an article or unhinged AI manifesto I like to imagine someone saying these things to me at a bar while I wait for the bartender to get around to me. ah okay man, for sure, I hope that works out, actually my friend is waiting over there I'm going to join them
On the one hand, American cultural soft power has definitely taken a hit in recent years. On the other hand, the young mechanics at the auto repair shop I'm waiting at in Perth are all singing along to Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus.
