Jeremy Cherfas

Apologies for Top Albums spam; gonna wait and hope for the automated version to roll around.

New issue of Eat This Newsletter.

• Botanists in the newsletter
• Diversity in the field
• Milk in the cupboard
• Georgia in the news
• Olives in the ground
• Rice in the bank

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”It’s a lunar calendar trifecta: the start of two fasting seasons, Ramadan and Lent, and the end of the painful year of the snake. I’m hoping, aren’t we all? that the year of the horse brings us better news.”

From a newsletter (on Substack) that I devour. naomiduguid.substack.com/p/farewel…

WooHoo! Updated to WithKnown 1.6.3 with nothing untoward. Kept my updated Checkin plugin templates as I know they work.

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”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.https://eatthispodcast.com/lewisburg

• On foot* 41.8867, 12.4664* 9 February 2026* 428.77 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapHow very pleasant. Today’s quest was just to the side of what some people cite as the jewel of the Renaissance architecture, Bramante’s Tempietto. I couldn’t get any closer today, though I have been inside on other occasions.

This IndieWeb-first WordPress theme is an interesting development from Khürt Williams. Might have to give it a spin to see how well it does with ClassicPress. I don’t actually need to convert another site, but I also could, I think, without losing much. Depends on how it does images.

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