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aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 11:29 pmIndia vs Pakistan Asia Cup match hit by ‘no handshake’ controversy
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rebeccmeister) wrote2025-09-14 07:02 pmThe theme of the weekend is: entropy [projects]
In the midst of our market shopping, we also popped over to the hardware store in Troy. Now, S has been keeping an eye out, for months, for decently large kiddie pools. He wants to use one to apply Evap-o-Rust to the underside of rusty vehicles; he will put a moderately-sized fountain pump in the pool to apply the Evap-o-Rust, and then the pool will recapture what drips back off of the vehicle's irregularly-shaped underside. The trouble is, the hardware store we visit more regularly has only had the small kiddie pools, and the small kiddie pools are too small.
So naturally, the one in Troy had the larger kiddie pools. Finally! Thankfully we had brought along a bike trailer and had adequate straps and rope to lash the larger kiddie pool to the top of the trailer. Unfortunately I did not take any action photos.
In the afternoon, after some additional bike errands (grocery co-op and credit union), I worked on sawing a large sheet of plywood into smaller pieces, to eventually build a new charging station for more of the rowing club's electronics.
Now I will get to figure out how to actually square up the edges I sawed. They don't need to be perfect but they could stand to be better. The box is going to be far stronger (and heavier) than necessary, so with any hope it will make up for those deficiencies by being a better size and configuration than what we used to have.
In the evening, I finished patching and mending a pair of jeans. This was an interesting mend. One of the main reasons I bought the book make thrift mend when I was in Berkeley in July is because it included a set of instructions on how to mend holes that result from thigh rub, and that's exactly where my pants tend to get holes, as is true for many other people. (the author noted it's the most common repair she teaches!)
Anyway, back in the grad school days of the Farmer House, I'd tried to do this same type of repair, but in that case I sewed patches with a sewing machine on the outside of the fabric, and the jeans I tried to repair at that time really didn't last all that much longer. So at that point I basically gave up on trying to patch jeans (plus I had decent access to thrift stores in AZ).
The mending book suggested using sashiko thread and putting the patch on the inside of the pant leg, then attaching it in a very systematic fashion. I liked working with the sashiko thread, which is closer in thickness to embroidery thread than to sewing thread. So we'll see how this patch goes. So far it is comfortable, at least.
Today I spent the afternoon down at the boathouse. First, we hauled some things down, including a new set of safety steps:
I was worried about how we would get the steps onto the trailer, but they fit very well, and the trailer load was manageable.
Down in the boatyard, S and I drilled a couple more holes in one of the rowing units so it could be repositioned to the center of Petrichor to row her has a single instead of a double. Then, S went out to mess around in Petrichor while I worked with my regatta co-organizers to paint a whole bunch of tiny trophy shoes:
It felt good to make progress on a number of things, although somehow or another *stares off innocently* I did not get any grading done. So I'll need to tackle that tomorrow. It is going to be a very busy week.
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aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 10:33 pmIs there any prospect of ending Russia’s war in Ukraine?
aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 10:22 pmIsrael kills 53 in Gaza, flattens more towers as toll from famine rises
apiphile) wrote2025-09-14 11:16 pmMan who grew up with back issues of Permaculture Magazine has strong opinions on agriculture lol
A couple of notes:
1. interestingly the populations that suffered the least from agricultural adoption were ones involved in "wet rice farming"; Neolithic Thai and Japanese civilisations didn't have the tooth problems than were present at the Dicksons Mound civilisation at the equivalent developmental period or at Aşlıkı Höyük. No word on any South American cultures but it does rather put a hole below the waterline on the ~Tumblrite Morality Inversion~ mentality of New World Civilisations Did Everything Right, Only Evil Europe And Evil Adjacent Areas are wrong at things.*
2. You inherit caries from your mother. As in your oral bacteria are transferred through "prechewed food and maternal affection" as an infant so you end up with your mother's bacterial microbiome, in the same way that vaginal birthed children receive the faecal microbiome of their mothers by uh. being in the poo? I think? IDK because I was a Caesarian back when those were uncommon.
3. It's set me thinking again about how much environment and resources shape the development of cultures and the "speed" at which they reach specific "milestones" in their history. Scare quotes because environment and resources and the culture that develops also dictate what people value, what their purposes are. AS a loose example: woven cloth is not a high priority if you live in a place where it rots off your body in a month. The effort/reward ratio is just not worth it. Writing is held up as another one, but as multiple cultures in Australia have demonstrated, you don't necessarily need writing when you have a continuous intergenerationally-checked oral cultural memory stretching back possibly 40,000 years.
4. In partnership with what I was reading last night while I was tracking down the etymology of "Gunyah": agriculture has been tried most places where people live, independently of external influence. Some places abandoned it, some places did it for only alternate years, some places had more regenerative variants (floating gardens, food forests, etc), and nowhere, not even in Evil Europe Which Does Everything Wrong, did people completely abandon hunting and gathering as a full culture--not even during industrialisation--until the advent of the 20th century.
lawyersgunsmoneyblog_feed) wrote2025-09-14 10:21 pmThey will back down
There is a lesson to be learned here:
Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
— James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) Sep 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Admittedly, in some cases institutions have agreed to the terms of shakedown because they’re collaborationalists rather than cowards. But for institutions that do not seek to be regime-aligned the move is obvious.
I would also say that Pritzker has impressed me the most of any blue state governor in 2025.
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aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 09:45 pmFather reunited with family in Sudan after Al Jazeera news report
flemmings) wrote2025-09-14 05:14 pm(no subject)
Equally I would like to go to some upcoming concerts hereabouts. Ballets Trocadero, or a candlelight and surely truncated Magic Flute. The latter is at a local church where I could enquire about how disabled seating works with first come, first served. The former is way down Yonge St and pricey, and I have these dental bills still piling up. But I'd like to be out and about again because this crippled mindset is getting me down.
Will I read Boneland? Am disinclined, especially if I'm supposed to think that all of the preceding books is Colin's dying hallucination, or Colin refusing to remember being raped, or something equally unpleasant.
aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 08:31 pmGlobal Sumud Flotilla sets sail from Tunisia to break Gaza blockade
aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 07:57 pmFormer boxing world champion Ricky Hatton dies aged 46
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aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 07:30 pmIndia beat Pakistan by seven wickets in Asia Cup 2025
aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 06:56 pmForeign doctors say Israel systematically targeting Gaza’s children: Report
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lawyersgunsmoneyblog_feed) wrote2025-09-14 06:57 pmGutting the Government
I’ve been saying it for a while on social media. Project 2025 has within it the seeds of its own destruction.
The theme throughout is “Fire all the libs and replace them with loyalists.” Of course, the “libs” are everyone in government. Elon Musk speeded that up, along with his theft of government databases, and Russell Vought found Musk’s actions to fit in his goal of demoralizing whomever was left in government.
But there are not enough loyalists to replace the libs. Another of Project 2025’s objectives is to decrease the numbers of people employed by the government, but Project 2025 needs some number of operatives inside the government to carry out their program. It appears that they have not figured out that number or wildly underestimated it.
Government is a funny thing. When it’s working well, we’re not aware of it. We just collect our Social Security checks, or drop stuff off at the Post Office, or don’t get deadly diseases, most of which we don’t see. So what are those people doing in those offices? Waste, Fraud, and Abuse! But it’s what they are doing in their offices that keeps the Social Security checks going out, the mail running, and the deadly diseases away from us.
Tyler Robinson saved the FBI embarrassment by surrendering. Kash Patel owes Robinson’s father. But the early actions by law enforcement stand in their naked incompetence. Utah’s state FBI head, Mehtab Syed, was sacked by Patel. It was obviously something he had to do: she has a Pakistani name and is a woman. Her absence probably made a difference, along with the reassigning of FBI agents to hang out at Home Depot parking lots to pick up day laborers to make the numbers for Kristi Noem and Tom Homan.
Across the government, actions are taken in one fiefdom with little consideration of how that will impact ongoing work or a need to surge capability in an emergency. There are numbers, there are goals. There seems to be no consideration of what to do if the first plan goes wrong. It’s been claimed that this is because the current group thinks they won’t be leaving, but it looks more and more like an inability to plan past today. Another suggestion this morning on Bluesky was that since they believe that their actions will bring the Second Coming of Christ, there is no need to plan further.
That stovepiping was obvious in the ICE raids on the Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. A MAGA candidate for a local office decided to get some glory for a mass deportation, and called ICE down on the people who were preparing the factory for jobs for the locals. ICE had to make their numbers! But Trump had just accepted tribute from South Korea in the form of a promise to invest in the US, which South Korea is now reconsidering, along with the factory and other investments in the US.
Trump intervened after the workers had been arrested to say they could stay on. South Korea said no. The workers were shackled and humiliated, as have been many other workers picked up to make ICE’s numbers.
There’s an attempt to walk it back.
Employees of the State and Commerce Departments, along with representatives from Georgia, may be able to turn things around to open the factory. If we want to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, that’s a bunch of money, along with what the ICE raid and detainments cost, that shouldn’t have been spent. Or they may not be able to turn it around. Trump take jobs in Georgia.
Patel and his sidekick, Dan Bongino, will represent the capture of the assailant as their triumph and the media will consign the first 24 hours after the murder to the memory hole. But we need a competent FBI, and indications are that that may no longer be the case.
The lack of competence and coordination that the administration has brought on itself is a potential weakness to exploit. But it can’t be depended on to bring down the regime.
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aljazeera_feed) wrote2025-09-14 06:07 pmHaaland runs rampant as Man City beat Man United 3-0 in Premier League
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oursin) wrote2025-09-14 06:40 pmCulinary
This week's bread: the Country Oatmeal aka Monastery Loaf from Eric Treuille and Ursula Ferrigno's Bread (2:1:1 wholemeal/strong white/pinhead oatmeal), turned out nicely if perhaps a little coarser than the recipe anticipates (medium oatmeal has been for some reason a bit hard to come by).
Friday night supper: ven pongal (South Indian khichchari), v nice.
Saturday breakfast rolls: eclectic vanilla, texture seemed a bit off, possibly the dough could have been a bit slacker?
Today's lunch: the roasted Mediterranean vegetable thing - whole garlic cloves, red onion, fennel, red bell pepper, baby peppers, baby courgettes and aubergine (v good), served with couscous + raisins.