https://youtu.be/S3NPZ_8lsw0 keny arkana illegal street gig in geneva, years ago, during the struggle against squat evictions

Fuck this lib shit. Friday, after my 10 hour shift working the line in a factory packing fucking beer, someone told me I wasn't pleasant enough, and that my tired and neglected demeanor gave the space we were in an 'unsafe feel' and could be interpreted as 'politically hostile' (insinuating, in this context, that I was probably racist and sexist, just because I did not smile enough at the woke artist after my shift ). She was clearly disheartened by my amount of pushback against this attempt at opening my eyes to all the oppression my sad overworked ass was creating in the world. Stop with your fucking guilt trips posing as politics. This is empty calvinist bullshit.

Têtes de moine come from the region of Saint-Imier, just like the anarchist split from the 1872 International Workingmen's Association. It's anarcheese.

Lebanese vegetarian plate. Falafel, hummus, toum, warak enab, fattayeh, babaganush, tabulleh, flat bread. And a baklava as a gift.

we ate ducks, the kind you feed stale bread at the pond. prepped in the bathtub. stewed with herbs. nice and gamey, easy to catch. would do it again, even if that makes me just as bad as an outdoor cat.

Letter to a Teacher from the children of the school of Barbiana

I love Paris-Brest. It's a chou, filled with hazelnut praline butter cream. Pretty technical to do, but very rewarding. But what I discovered during quarantine is the right crust for lemon curd pie: it's called 'pâte sucrée' ( sweet short crust ) and it's a game changer.

Bánh cuốn, bo la lot. And the pig ears salad.

Chè. Yum

travelling through the south i was really amazed at how fucked up bodies were in general. as an outsider, you feel like you're facing a collective psychosis were everybody pretends that being 300lbs is OK, and believes that 2000 calories of carbs with fatty meat - and a soda on top - is a decent portion of food for a meal, or that you have to take your F150 everywhere . it feels like a whole nation of enablers stuffing each other's mouth with tater tots. so yeah, there are definitely economic factors (even though, eating less costs less in the absolute) , and nutritional deficiencies, but also a general culture (some kind of contemporary version of the american way of life) that seems deeply toxic and almost unavoidable. and how the fuck can you change that without a very strong involvement of the state?

And geneva got a minimum wage. Good stuff. Covid helped on that one for sure.

I just realized that I never look at them since the smartphone era. Before I used to love watching the slight delay when the minute was full.

What's up with the fighter planes? Did we get them or not?

They should ally with the asylum seekers stuck on the island and form a trans-species commune.

That shit is hard. Speaking as a native speaker, honhon.

From English?

Russian, I love how it sounds and that the script is different, and it got good literature to read. Bahasa indonesia \ melayu because it seems doable and it's an underdog language. Hundred of millions of people are using it but nobody seems to speak it outside of it being their mother tongue.

love buttercup, hate spaghetti

i remember participating in a niche irc video ripping scene in the early 00s and it was funny, strangely harmonious for the dorks we were. i met some of the people irl and they were great, oddly balanced and healthy. and today some private torrent trackers forum are decent. when you're driven by a specific shared goal, it sometimes works.

we did a collective experiment on rice cooking some years back. the finger method is good, but if you do not have a rice cooker i also recommend the boil off method (put rice, water around 2 times the volume of rice, you don't have to be precise about it, heat to a boil, let it boil until the rice shows up above the water, you can stir so that the bottom does not burn, cover, stop the fire, wait 15 min. traditional method for basmati rice. ) or the oven method (rice, boiling water around 2 times the vol of rice, mix in an oven pot, cover with foil, put in oven at 220 f or 100 c for 30 minutes, it's done. best technique for texture, gives you nice dry and fluffy rice)