Jeremy Cherfas

Finished reading: Weatherland by Alexandra Harris, ISBN: 9780500292655

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Interesting to see someone else dithering about how to present smaller, stream-like notes and longer articles. I have not resolved this to my own satisfaction, nor have I found a home I control for my newsletter. I have a domain, I just don’t know how best to make use of it.

Top tip from a Park Tool video: use an old toe strap to keep centre-pull brakes close while you fasten cable. Worked a charm. We now can stop. Next: new chain and gear setting so we can go.

My treating Wolf like a branding problem would be about as off-brand as I could get.Fascinating read, and now I am trying to think whether I have ever mistaken the Naomis.

Thanks to Ton for the reminder about isochrones. I have been thinking along similar lines and may well try to adapt the isochrone mapping tool to my needs.

Barbie was great, apart from the ending before the ending.

Currently reading: Weatherland by Alexandra Harris, ISBN: 9780500292655

Currently reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, ISBN: 9780571368709

Always a thrill when I have to delay publication of Eat This Newsletter to respect an embargo. Sign up now to have it drop into your inbox at 17:00 CEST tomorrow and be the first to read about the truth of microbiome studies.

Coincidence, I’m sure, to be mentioning an author and his book on the same day seven years apart.

• An Extended Moment of Joy
• In the mind of the body politic

Criticising the likes of Bill Gates and his infernal foundation shouldn’t be that controversial a move on the left, yet it suddenly feels a bit dangerous, as if it aligns the critic with dumbass right-wing conspiracy theories about vaccine nanobots or suchlike against the supposedly scientific certainties of technocratic governance.Chris Smaje, on the money. Again.