Jeremy Cherfas

Odd. The buyer of the Razoni’s wheat cargo has refused to accept it, “citing a more than five-month delay”.

Polarnet still moored, Riva Wind still at anchor, Rojen passing Athens.

No further departures I can see.

New issue of Eat This Newsletter out now, with raw material provided by @kitchenbee @historicuk @minimaxir and a minor kerfuffle in the august pages of @PNASNews.

Read it at buttondown.email/jeremyche… and feel free to subscribe, for free.

Razoni still at anchor. Navi Star at anchor in Istanbul. Polarnet tied up in the Gulf of Izmit. Rojen on its way through the Marmara Sea. Riva Wind heading for the Bosporus queue.

Doesn’t look like there have been any further departures from Odessa.

Many good thoughts and conclusions.

Riva Wind left Odessa this morning for Istanbul. No word yet what it is carrying.

Navi Star, Polarnet and Rojen all in the queue for the Bosporus.

Razoni at anchor near the Turkey/Syria border.

Biggest mistake I ever made was starting a “free trial” of @RealVNC because now my original Home VNC Viewer no longer works and I cannot find a way to revert.

Not surprised that only 25% of people found this useful help.realvnc.com/hc/en-us/…

@SheilaDillon It could never be simple, not if you want to cover the externalities of both products in adequate detail.

@bonjouryannick You might want to look at indieweb.org/Micropub which has a few examples, libraries etc that you can modify or, depending on your system, adopt directly.

Latest issue of Eat This Newsletter is about to drop, racing through the backlog so normal service can be restored ASAP. There’s hops, heritage grains and climate change, plus agricultural policy in South Africa and the US.

buttondown.email/jeremyche…

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@decarola Devo trovare l’ora dell’ultimo treno a Roma, ma sicuro m’interessa.

“… (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

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.