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  1. theguardian.com/environment/20

    “[Cardoons] would be a dream crop – if only people liked eating them.”

    At one time — in pre sobriety days — the late Clarissa Dixon-Wright did cookery demonstrations in Notting Hill's Books for Cooks.

    (1/2)

    #food #farming #cooking #FunnyStory

  2. theguardian.com/environment/20

    “[Cardoons] would be a dream crop – if only people liked eating them.”

    At one time — in pre sobriety days — the late Clarissa Dixon-Wright did cookery demonstrations in Notting Hill's Books for Cooks.

    (1/2)

    #food #farming #cooking #FunnyStory

  3. Get a head start on 2026's allotment of geopolitical existential angst with Correspondents' Look Ahead from the World Service.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8vbw

    #Politics #Radio #Journalism #2026 #TwentyTwentySix

  4. The thing here is not really the crime or the accused but the regimes apparent desperation to make political theatre out of the judicial process.

    #Politics #Justice #DOJ #Trump #LuigiMangione #BrianThompson

    threadreaderapp.com/thread/201

  5. Flatbread for lunch.

    Because the unflat bread was still in the oven.

    #food #cooking #bread #flatbread

  6. Tried to make flakey rosemary and garlic flatbreads. Didn't quite work.

    Another time I think I'd infuse the garlic in hot oil rather than incorporate it directly.

    #Food #cooking #bread #flatbread

  7. Flatbread made with sour* milk and sugar. Tasty.

    * Not soured, just sour from too long in the fridge. 🤣

    #Food #bread #flatbread

  8. Today turned out to be a bad day for a yeasted loaf — stuck horribly to the pan; but a great one for unleavened flatbreads which were light and soft and tasty.

    #cooking #baking #BreadMaking #bread #flatbread

  9. FFS, how many times does it have to be said? DO NOT use Lithium Ion for static installations. They don't need the energy density and we don't need the fire risk.

    LiFePO₄ is cheaper, inherently less risky and available in grid scale quantity.

    Sodium is likely to be even better in some respect.

    nature.com/articles/s41598-025

    #ClimateCrisis #Energy #BatteryStorage #LithiumIon #LithiumIronPhosphate #GridScaleStorage

  10. « a 250-mile journey to a GP, costing the Home Office £600. »

    1. Don't send people 250 miles for a GP.

    2. That could buy a week's bus pass for an hotel's worth of asylum seekers.

    3. How does that level of stupidity arise?

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjn2y

    #IK #politics #asylum

  11. I made matzah. Sort of.

    Interesting? Yes.

    Worth it? Absolutely not! Buy a box instead. 🤣

    #cooking #food #mazzah #matzo

  12. This evening I learned, to my great surprise, that Eärendil was a marina.

    I was going to make some comment about different patterns of lexical stress exposing Americans attempting British accents but after that revelation any remark would be superfluous.

    #Tolkein #LotR #Audiobook #books

  13. The old lumieres lasted 1950–2024 and might have gone on much longer had Management simply replaced the incandescent lamps with LED equivalents.

    But no, they went for shiny. The new ones don't have replaceable lamps. So this one is being entirely replaced after only 9 months.

    #waste #electrician #lighting #LED

  14. EV people.

    Is there an electric truck that isn't just an SUV with a shelf on the back but actually prioritises load space over cab space, that could have been bought in the US early this year?

    I'm not in the market. It's for a thing.

    #EV #BEV #ElectricTruck

  15. Looks like making savings that they hope few will raise an outcry over.

    However such savings will be trivial in financial terms but could be devastating in social and cultural consequences.

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6247p

    #arts #libraries #LevelingUp #Leeds