@etp @missiongiraffe @crochet @textileart I usually use hyperbolic crochet to make bath poufs and cat toys...

@etp @kerravonsen @crochet @textileart

This is not something I had heard of, and now it is something I really want to try!

I took my BirdNet-Pi on a little holiday and was delighted with the results.

https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/birds-in-the-countryside

#BirdNET_Pi

I hate to say I’m desperate, but I haven’t had work in *months*. If anyone’s looking for a #freelance senior #wordpress #developer, please keep me in mind. I do full, custom theme builds, specialize in #accessibility and #semantic code, and am a great communicator about time estimates and budgets! My full portfolio is www.amberweinberg.com

If you don’t have any work, I would appreciate a boost 😊

#frontend #frontendDeveloper #development #WPJobs #needwork #hireme #hire #getfedihired

How many click-bait articles does it take to change a light bulb?

The answer may shock you.

Once again, I didn’t have my great camera with me. But I had one. And that’s the best one you could ask for.

#bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography #everydaylight

19 April 1920 | A Pole, Kazimierz Smoleń, was born in Chorzów Stary. Arrested for resistance activity in Chorzów area.

In #Auschwitz from 6 July 1940.
No. 1327
After the war a co-founder & long-time director of the Auschwitz Museum
He passed away in 2012.
http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/kazimierz-smolen-1920-2012,890.html

So many good people are still publishing on #substack. It makes me weep. Mostly because I'm missing out by not reading it.

@airshipper
Seconding Claudia Roden, adding that one can apparently buy split hulled fava beans from bin inn.
Roden is definite they need to have the tough skins removed before grinding, a friend does not bother, I haven't got round to experimenting yet.
One can also substitute other legumes, though a purist might object to the flavour difference. I've used both marrowfat peas and yellow split peas
@etp

For the first time, I did a gauge swatch for my next project, although I don’t really see the point as I will be measuring it against my head as it goes.

#crochet

@etp @404mediaco

My work is done https://cogdogblog.com/2026/04/stealing-your-webinar-as-a-service/

As I dial back from many of the more nefarious platforms on the web, I do not regret the gazillion or so hours I've spent on them.

I would not have met many of you if I hadn't been chatting across these places.

@etp @404mediaco I'm not breathing.

I am ready to pummel her back with those messages spammer send me like "i case you missed it..." or "I know how busy you are but if you could review my proposal"

@etp @sus I often get the response oh man, that data is absolutely crucial to get, we agree! We just won't be the ones funding that. They can make their materials very wishy washy so they can exercise a lot of discretion about whether the application is in scope for them

Eat This Newsletter 300

Yup, what started as a little way to entertain and inform between podcast episodes has reached 300 issues not out.

Aside from blowing my own trumpet, this time I look into the cultivation of morels, “Achieving Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Diets,” a real man making quiche, and part of the whole truth about whole grains. Plus, a cartoon that made me laugh.

Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-300-seriously-300/ and while you are there, consider subscribing.

#food #newsletters

@etp @djh @geohashing woops, missed this notification, I will look into this asap, probably add a header to the request that fetches the tiles

When I did some reading on the current situation, I found a lot of sites out of Australia that were repeating this "base load" idea, in the context of nuclear power.

I suspect that this is fossil-fuel propaganda.

Fossil fuel companies love promoting nuclear power because they know it takes decades to get a reactor built (if it gets built at all), and in the meantime, everyone keeps using fossil fuels.

It's the perfect way to cripple renewables without being obvious about it.

@etp @adapalmer
The Latin word is older than that person, so no. The Romans got it from Oscan “gwrutos”, which goes back to a time long before the Romans.

A record year for dam removals reconnects US rivers. 100 dams were removed in 2025, reconnecting over 7,900 km of rivers, the largest single-year total on record. Many of the structures were obsolete or unsafe, and their removal is already restoring fish migration routes, reducing flood risks, and reviving ecosystems. American Rivers https://www.americanrivers.org/2026/03/100-dams-down-2025-a-big-year-for-reconnecting-rivers-in-the-u-s/
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Just started reading @adapalmer wonderful Inventing the Renaissance and already I have questions.

Does our word brute derive from Lucius Junius Brutus, or is that me thinking wishfully?

#etymology