Sometimes you need to buy a bunch of clams, mussels, chicken, chorizo, shrimp, and crab and then make a paella for dinner. Just needs to be done sometimes.
Sameer Vasta
@sameervasta.bsky.social
Unabashedly earnest. Unapologetically enthusiastic. Infinitely curious. (he/him)
my feelings on this are pretty straightforward: if you have a problem with poor people having greater access to less expensive food then you’re a fucking psycho.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.Weird how much discourse around the Mamdani grocery stores ignores the existence of the Green Cart intiative (launched under Bloomberg) that provides subsidized fruit and vegetable stands across the city under the exact same logic as the grocery stores
In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”
Mister Anthony
oxfordamerican.org
from Carmen Losa, a Spanish screenwriter: leave Ithaca, Penelope. the sea is also yours.
There’s a cheese from Québec I think about daily called Louis d’Or and every time I get to have some I’m immensely happy.
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
Exactly one year since my angioplasty, and I feel great. Amazed by how far I’ve come.
Erin is the best person to do this kind of work. Not only because she has the aptitude and care, but also because she is in the right place to both observe the clouds and report back to those of us on the ground. Everyone should throw money at her! https://www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-cloud-atlas/
Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.
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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
The City of #ldnont is working on a Multi-Year Accessibility Plan and is seeking community input to help determine priorities. I’ve chimed in about sidewalk installations and lack of proper winter maintenance. Provide your input here: getinvolved.london.ca/Accessibilit...
2027-2031 Multi-Year Accessibility Plan
Your feedback will help us identify, remove, and prevent barriers and improve accessibility across City services, programs, facilities, and communications.
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Spending some time exploring Castle Map, an interactive map of the world's castles, fortresses and palaces: thecastlemap.com
Castle Map — Explore 3,709 Castles, Fortresses & Palaces Worldwide
A free interactive map of 3,709 great castles, fortresses and palaces across 131 countries — each pinned with its photo, founding century and story.
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In theory, the moral clarity and steadfastness demonstrated in this statement condemning Israel’s war crimes should be the bare minimum. But in the meantime, Mamdani is a giant among cowardly politicians.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoBenjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]
Every photo I have of my birthday celebrations when I was younger is of me holding a piece of fried chicken. I look ecstatic in each one. www.inthemargins.ca/sixth-birthd...
Cardiovascular disease. But also audibly complaining about my knees and back to anyone who’ll listen.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2w agoWhat's your old person trait?
As a Canadian-American, I am granting @jamellebouie.net honorary Canadian status for this video
It is time to stop treating Donald Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric like a joke
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The AQI has been over 500 all day today (sitting at 586 right now) so I’m taking my decision to not spend any time outside in the pool today (something I do almost every day in the summer) as a smart decision.
I’m sure there have already been a million jokes about how toronto’s sky is the colour of diffusion, tuned to a shitty generated ghibli knock-off, but here’s one more
Archaeologists found parts of Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Archaeologists found Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy
A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad used during embalming. The papyrus was identified as part of the fam...
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This orange haze enveloping the city feels oppressive and ominous. The air outside is heavy and fumy, hard to breathe. Feels like the end times.
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · last yr."The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
First step to reframing pedestrianization as street restoration vs. transformation is expanding planning language. Today, "street restoration" largely means roadway repair. Expand that definition, & the budget, to include restoring pedestrian infrastructure, trees, art, local commerce & social life.
"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best
Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w agoTV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.
Every day I wish @lpl.ca would print t-shirts (with the amazing designs they already have on their beautiful tote bags) so I could wear them everywhere I go.
Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.
the thing about llms is that they copy old work and have no ability to intentionally pursue lateral leaps of creative insight, so a world ruled by ai is a world of endless recycling of the past. imagine that. culture eating itself. imagine that. totalitarian nostalgia. imagine
anyone remember when gambling was illegal instead of the basis of the economy