This Week’s Bookmarks - Nachos, Seth Rogen, Satellite Pollution, Radical universities, Internet history, Photo Awards, Book bans - Items of interest from the past week - https://louplummer.lol/2025-week16-bookmarks/ #Bookmarks #Links
This Week’s Bookmarks - Nachos, Seth Rogen, Satellite Pollution, Radical universities, Internet history, Photo Awards, Book bans - Items of interest from the past week - https://louplummer.lol/2025-week16-bookmarks/ #Bookmarks #Links
“Which [UK] MPs have received donations from people and companies linked to the private healthcare sector?”
via EveryDoctor.org.uk @UKLabour
“The Labour Party received four times as much in donations from donors linked to private healthcare as all other political parties combined between 2023-2025, according to our analysis of the MPs’ register of financial interests”
Morel mushrooms grow in India? Yes, indeedy. They are called Gucchi in the Northern regions.
An evocative article with a great recipe.
Vanika Chaudhury makes a Gucchi Pulao
The recipe, passed down through at least three generations, is a vessel of cultural preservation, much like the jars of pickles that line the window sills of her home.
"Gucchi, the elusive morel mushroom, is the star of this dish. It is foraged in the high-altitude regions of Jammu and Kashmir, appearing only when spring’s first thunderstorms awaken them from the earth.
The Gujjar women, indigenous nomadic foragers, are the first to find these treasures, venturing into the forests after a night of thunder and rain. They carefully gather them, their knowledge of the land and its bounty passed down through generations. The fresh gucchi mushrooms must be eaten within two days, but drying them ensures their preservation for the year ahead."
https://www.goya.in/blog/vanika-chaudhury-makes-a-gucchi-pulao
I’m going through our events page on the Small Technology Foundation web site¹ and porting the entries there to the new version of our web site that I’m building in Kitten² and it’s depressing how many event sites have just disappeared.
Thank goodness for archive.org.
I like the look of this recipe for bitter citrus as it boils the fruit first. Normally I prefer not to cook things before pickling, but makrut limes can keep their bitterness even after allowing the pickle to mature. So I am going to try it, but using the Ramdev Aachar spice mix that I spoke about a while ago.
https://gayathriscookspot.com/2016/01/naarthangai-oorugai-kafir-lime-pickle/
It is quite common to use oil in Indian pickles in this way, and in fact it can help with preserving qualities (see one of the comments on the recipe).
I have a lot on this arvo but hopefully I will get to it this evening.
If you are cooking lentils, don't throw the lentil water away - use it to make rasam.
Or Osaman, the Gujarati version of rasam.
This Week's Bookmarks - Anti-Fascist Films, Ancient Graffiti, White House Rumors, 1995 and The Web, Best Browsers, Middle-Class Income Needs, Apple and Developers - Interesting links from around the web for the week that just passed. - https://louplummer.lol/week-15-bookmarks/ #Bookmarks #Links
Remember I posted this a little while ago, and promptly put 2 packs of tofu into the freezer with 2 marinades I had on hand?
https://foodwithfeeling.com/marinated-tofu-recipe/
We had one of those packs last night, steamed instead of sauteed, and it was delightful!
@angeldruckt @Reinald @nyca @BlumeEvolution
Die berüchtigte "Mitte der Gesellschaft" ?
Eigentlich dürfte doch nach den letzten Aussagen (Spahn) dieser vermeintlichen Mitte und der Zusammenarbeit mit rechten Faschisten doch nur noch #Links als wissentlich und demokratisch gelten.
Friday Links 25-05
Many podcasts this week. I really loved the one with Cyndi Lauper.
I did enjoy the one with Kent Beck and basically all the engineering and leadership ones.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/04/friday-links-25-05.html
#leadership, #engineering, #environment, #urbanism, #friday, #fridaylinks, #links
"Wir entwickeln mit den Ländern eine Strategie zur konsequenten Verfolgung und Bekämpfung linksextremistisch motivierter Straftaten und Strukturen." - so steht es im Koalitionsvertrag von CDU/CSU/SPD.
Politsprech ist das eine, die Praxis das andere. Wenn aber schon eine Klimaaktivistin mit Berufsverbot bestraft wird, u.a. weil sie Begriffe wie 'Profitmaximierung' verwendet, dann bleibt abzuwarten, wie die künftige Regierung mit den aus ihrer Sicht als Feinden markierten Bewegungen und Menschen umgehen wird.
@links_12_23 oder wer auch immer das sonst wissen kann:
Wo kann ich mich vor der #WienWahl informieren, wer für #KPÖLinks in #Hietzing antritt?
Hab werder bei #KPÖ noch bei #Links auf der Webseite was dazu gefunden. Bei beiden zählt Hietzing quasi zu #Meidling.
Oder heißt das, dass ich euch in Hietzing nur auf Stadt-Ebene wählen kann?
Ich wähl zur #WienWahl @links_12_23.
Willkommen im Fediverse!
#pressefreiheit #afd #links
Linke Wochenzeitung »Kontext« muss ehemaligem AfD-Mitarbeiter Schadensersatz zahlen.
Infos im Bericht.
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1190397.linke-wochenzeitung-prozess-gegen-kontext-teure-niederlage-fuer-die-pressefreiheit.html
Wer spenden kann, hier lang:
https://www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/ueber-uns/kontextunterstuetzer.html
It's been lurking in my profile for a couple of months now, but I never told actively about it:
I made a small link blog where I share all kinds of links around privacy. It is basically a curated mirror of my bookmarks.
Hope you like it!
This Weeks's Bookmarks - Monetized Spirituality, Victims of AI, No Brave Browser, iPhone Settings, Bad Accessories, Trump Tariff Formula, Goodbye to Democracy in NC - A collection of interesting and helpful stories from around the week from this week - https://louplummer.lol/week-14-bookmarks/ #Bookmarks #Links
I always sigh a little when I see non-Indians cook dal to a thick paste instead of a wonderful, spicy, warming, free flowing dal that can grace beautifully cooked rice, or even eaten on its own
But here you are, all you thick-dal makers! A wonderful Huli from Karnataka*. Enjoy.
* Not all Huli recipes are this thick.
#FactFriday
A variation on a theme this week - #HowTo #safely #report #facts - i.e. #leak / #whistleblow - to #journalists
First up, an #article which crossed my path today, which prompted the idea https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/
And to add to that some #links for some other available methods (with thanks to @phocks for assistance with finding the links)
#Hushline blog post - https://hushline.app/library/blog/newsrooms-and-journalists/
Contact ( #Australian ) #ABC #ABCTV #Investigations - https://www.abc.net.au/news/confidential-tips/