nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch
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 |📍🏴)
I'm in Slate today with the tale of how a couple of invasive mosquito species have conquered the U.S., and what that means for our future (spoiler: it's not great!) Please read and share.
They’re the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don’t Know What They’re Going to Unleash on America.
They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.
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Demand for coffee is growing, and climate change threatens supply—yet consumers don’t want to pay more. In an intensified and unequal industry, however, someone always pays. @thepourover.coffee reports on why the coffee trade is so damn unequal. ☕
The Coffee Industry Is Unequal. A Marxist Economic Theory Explains How.
Demand for coffee is growing, and climate change threatens supply—yet consumers don’t want to pay more. In an intensified and unequal industry, however, someone always pays.
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The 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
Roasting Coffee in a Warming World
Coffee roasting generates a lot of heat. As the climate crisis takes hold, that’s becoming a significant problem—and a growing threat to worker safety.
thepourover.coffee
Old Looney Tunes with YouTube thumbnails like Yosemite Sam TOTAL MELTDOWN over Varmint
wild way to frame one of the most aggressively anti-trans bathroom bans in the developed world
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 15h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
As a human rights law academic, I'm ashamed of this country today and I'm ashamed of our supposed equality commission.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 15h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
Coffee has also gotten exponentially better in the last 40 years. Even mid range chain store coffee is better quality today than the shit Folgers etc used to sell in the 80s. Starbucks wasn't a national thing until the 90s.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate https://theonion.com/small-towns-make-out-point-purchased-by-multinational-make-out-conglomerate/
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: unionise the CIA Starbucks. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
The CIA Has Its Own High-Security Starbucks
Even spies need their morning coffee
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The 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
Roasting Coffee in a Warming World
Coffee roasting generates a lot of heat. As the climate crisis takes hold, that’s becoming a significant problem—and a growing threat to worker safety.
thepourover.coffee
But I didn’t want Cadburys to taste like shite, that’s been imposed on me. Mondolez made $2.4 billion last year they could have swallowed some of the higher cocoa costs, but didn’t, and more importantly, now costs are lower, they won’t reinstate the quality will they?
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
Don't miss my interview with Fionn Pooler. He writes one of my favorite newsletters, The Pourover —about coffee and so much more! @thepourover.coffee
Journos on Journos: Fionn Pooler
This edition of Journos on Journos features Fionn Pooler, a Scotland-based independent journalist who publishes one of my favorite newsletters. Fionn calls The Pourover "a newsletter about coffee," but that's only part of the story. He covers issues most industry magazines won't touch, demystifies the behemoth industry'
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I feel sorry for the God of War writers. It must be hard to come up with a new god afterlife name when there's absolutely no way to top Terry Pratchett's Dunmanifestin.
GameRant@gamerant.bsky.social · last mo.Setting God of War Laufey in the Everywhen, aka the afterlife of the gods, opens the door to a ton of returning dead deities from the franchise.
Every time I go to one of Scotland's municipal recycling centres I come back and look up whether they're hiring. There's something absolutely fascinating about them. I used to feel the same way about scrap metal places in the US. Maybe it's the mystery of what happens after it's all collected? Idk
It's very weird to be on the other side of an interview, but I had a chat a while back with @thejennchen.bsky.social for her newsletter and I think it went okay? digest.jennchen.com/in-focus-fio...
🔎 In Focus: Interview with Fionn Pooler, writer of "The Pourover"
"The reader should understand where I'm coming from, but also that these ideas that I'm presenting to them are measured and have been thought through."
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He was a 10/10 signing because it meant we weren’t offering that other guy a new contract, I’ll always remember Norgaard for saving us from that
Mitch🦦@mitchpeotter.bsky.social · 4d agoUncle Norgaard, Arsenal legend🫡
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
Thinking a lot about the way that my skill set (and if you are a thinking human being, yours too) is basically anti AI. @olivia.science's remarks about "frictionless thinking" are really important here in that a lot of productive thought is wrestling with productive friction til you understand.
There’s no getting around it: Roasting coffee requires substantial heat. Until someone invents a way to cold-roast coffee, determining how to adapt to an ever-warming world will become a point of growing urgency—for individual roasteries, for workers, and for the industry at large.
Roasting Coffee in a Warming World
Coffee roasting generates a lot of heat. As the climate crisis takes hold, that’s becoming a significant problem—and a growing threat to worker safety.
thepourover.coffee
just occurred to me that some of you might not know about face agates
Firefox just popped up a little notification that said I could shake my phone to summarise the article I opened. It was an article I wrote ffs.
Huh.
ASA cracks down on Exhale Coffee’s longevity claims
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Exhale Coffee breached advertising rules by making unauthorised longevity, anti-ageing, DNA protection, telomere, gut health and brain hea...
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Fionn Pooler@thepourover.coffee · 3w agoNew article! On the marketing claims of "clean" and "mould-free" coffee brands and what they imply about the rest of the industry.
There’s no getting around it: Roasting coffee requires substantial heat. Until someone invents a way to cold-roast coffee, determining how to adapt to an ever-warming world will become a point of growing urgency—for individual roasteries, for workers, and for the industry at large.
Roasting Coffee in a Warming World
Coffee roasting generates a lot of heat. As the climate crisis takes hold, that’s becoming a significant problem—and a growing threat to worker safety.
thepourover.coffee
Absolutely humiliating from @amnestyuk.bsky.social - who have displayed that they simply cannot be trusted to stand up for our rights in the face of billionaire interests. They'll fold and grovel when faced with pushback.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
One of those moments where you feel like maybe, at some point, someone should have written our Constitution down.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6d agoJust sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com