Leafing through dismal opinion polls this morning, three words characterise Tory supporters: ignorant, complacent, unpleasant.

“Smart Home” technology would be a lot better if it actually worked.

All they have got, the TINA neoliberals, the handmaidens to the rentier class, is racist dogwhistles. That’s it. Nothing else.

Currently reading: How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil 📚: Man likes chicken.

Not really needing my vegan burgers to have added artificial blood.

Lagrange is a nice Gemini browser, with an opinionated UI. Amfora is a good looking Gemini client for the terminal.

I stumbled across Project Gemini, a lightweight internet protocol pitched somewhere between Gopher and HTTP, with a Markdown-lite document format.

Currently reading: Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott 📚- Reading in short busts to avoid hurling the Kindle out the window.

PM weds at “secret” ceremony with friends. It’s in all the papers. Words used to mean something.

Picnic, early May 2021

To Eat

Baby potato salad with steamed green beans, lettuce and tomato, mint, quails eggs, capers and smoked olives
Tumeric roast cauliflower and onions with za’tar
Steamed white asparagus with mustard vinaigrette and chopped, soft-boiled eggs
Heirloom raddish and cucumber with chilli oil and black sesame seeds
Labneh
Baba ganoush
St Marcelin cheese
Rye sourdough
Dragon fruit and raspberries with lime and a twist of hot red chilli
Wasabi peas for snacking