City of the dead, part two
“... (a symptom of the malaise: the spellchecker on my computer is happy with the word ‘urbanization’ but not ‘ruralization’).”
When, I wonder, are we going to get to the art/culture arguments in favour of cities. Those are what have kept me urbanised for the past many years. Irrationally, perhaps, but the result is the same.
Slightly puzzled by Epilogue for MB for those of us who do not have a paid account. Does it feed my timeline, eventually? If it does, I might consider PESOS rather than indiebookclub and POSSE. Also, two way traffic, to open someone’s link in MB would encourage conversation.
Finished reading: Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane, ISBN: 9780393358094
Currently reading: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, ISBN: 9780143037071
From regenesis to re-exodus: of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism
George Monbiot illuminates and infuriates in equal measure, although I suspect, after reading Chris Smaje’s review, that I will not be paying much attention in future. I have not read Regenesis, so will say nothing about it myself. Two quotes from Chris (of many others I could have chosen):
“[A]n alternative, perhaps counterintuitive but more plausible argument [is] that low food prices in fact are a fundamental cause of global poverty.”
“[T]here’s no such thing as ‘an inexorable economic logic’, there are just political games with winners and losers – a point the old George Monbiot once understood.”
Yup.
"You begin the book a sober reader, calmly appreciating the complexity of historical causation, and you finish it a raving wheat monomaniac."
Glad to know I am not alone. Fine review of @nelsonhist's book in the NYRB
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/07/21/wielding-wheat-oceans-of-grain-nelson/
The tragedy of the climate commons and one way I tried to fight it | Small Farm Future
Interesting account of a single piece of civil disobedience and its aftermath.
Thank YOU @nelsonhist for doing the work and being happy to talk about it. Today, Grain and Empire closes the trilogy, leaving a lot still unsaid. Oceans of Grain is a terrific read that sheds light on so many disparate topics, all connected by wheat.
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Splendid piece by a splendid broadcaster. Only one thing to push back against:
Music helps. Sound beds help. Clear simple writing helps.
Clear writing, obviously. But music and sound beds? This is much more culturally determined, in my view, and I don't know how best to cope with it.
I see Jason using what looks like the AT 875 short shotgun mic as his desktop mic, possibly for podcasting and conferencing, and wonder how that compares to a less directional mic like my Electrovoice R50.
@TimDee4 More to it than spring and autumn. Thought to be a coded guide to the long-term storage of grain, known to the Ancients and then forgotten until rediscovered in the late 18th century -- without which there would be no global wheat trade. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/grain-persephone/
@jblanca42 And finance. This week, @nelshist explains that wheat warehouses were the first banks, how the grain futures market emerged from the US Civil War and how Russia robbed the widows and orphans of France.
https://https://eatthispodcast.com/finance-grain
Next week, empire!
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Abracadabra!
Here, have a webmention in recognition of this bold leap.
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Whoa! New artwork, parts of which look just like the leaves on my cannas. @cdevroe
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Quite hard.
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So many vowels
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No coalmines around here.
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Indeed it is!
A bookmark with a fixed number of sticky tags on it is a brilliant idea. No more tags? Stop reading and write notes on the things you tagged.
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Another easy one
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Nice an' easy
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Not too hard
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot - review by Dan Saladino
“For Monbiot to highlight the complexity of soil but ignore the complexities involved in nutrition doesn’t make his faith in a protein techno-fix convincing.”
“It’s not clear, though, why a shift in attitudes won’t lead us to increase our intake of beans, nuts and lentils instead.”
Thank you Dan Saladino, especially for that final “Nevertheless ...”
@ECLLD Very happy to see my dreams come true. I don't understand why my reader failed to pick up the feed automatically, but I have now added it and will look forward to seeing updates as they happen.
Very disappointed that Lets Liberate Diversity @eclld does not offer any kind of feed from its website. I would much rather follow a feed than any other way.
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Pure luck
“Republicans are now preparing a Fascist coup while Democrats wring their hands and dither.”
It is a worry, to be sure.
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Twice is coincidence ...
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Another bad guess.
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Bah! Rubbish performance today.
Subterranean Blogging
I dunno, maybe an underground garden (blog) isn’t such a bad idea. Maybe, in the scorching heat of social media we need a cooler, darker space for connections and discussion. Where things grow more slowly but still bear fruit 25 years later.
Makes sense to me
@neilbuttery Agreed, blackcurrant leaf tea is delicious. Right now we also have an abundance of mint that will all die back in a couple of weeks. What other leaves are good to steep fresh?
Now for the third time, after checking out the dev branch, upgrading to PHP 8.1 and running composer.phar update, let us see whether we can post a new status update here.
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OK, this is weird, but I find it hard to believe that yesterday's word and today's came up purely randomly.
@cll2606 This is annoying. It seems that my install of WithKnown is not playing nicely to POSSE Twitter replies. It might be something to do with Quilll, but I doubt it. More likely to be accumulating cruft in WithKnown. I want to keep using it, but ...
I try to make my site look good on mobile, but that isn’t my primary concern. Not too difficult with so many good responsive basic packages available.
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Nearly missed this one.