Scythes or #Stihl weed whackers? Scythe for me #asknostr #pollerama #growstr

First stage of dream catcher day with my daughter. I've made the frame out of olive wood, and contributed a couple of chicken feathers. We might be able to find an eagle feather too. She is a real artist and I have no doubt will make it all look rather nice. It is our little contribution to a fantastic nativity scene, believe it or not. A very politically incorrect interpretation of a universal message. Been 7 years in the making, I reckon it is going to make international news, it is that good. As an idea, this is the dream catcher for Chief Joseph! Imagine how big he is, and there's life-size camels... It's amazing. #artstr #spain #olive #christmas

AOVE EVOO Our industrial food society has a knack for over-egging at one extreme, or squeezing the joy and poetry out of tradition at the other First pressing of freshly harvested olives, or Extra Virgin Olive Oil ad ee now call it, is one example. EVOO which started life known sinply as Olive Oil was once pressed at room temperature using stones and maybe water or donkey power. Now we call that "Extra Virgin olive Oil", because with progress, what producers now call "olive oil" is the lesser grade second pressing. But it's worse than that. Cold pressed Extra Virgin olive oil can be pressed at up to 60C " room temperature". So how to differentiate the purest form of oil from the one reinventing the boundaries of purity? I guess we are down to marketing and pretty pictures. Except plain and simple olive oil the old way, liquid gold, super nutritious oil with as many taste subtleties as a fine wine, s now called EVOO in certain circles. In Spanish that is AOVE, celebrated by top chefs, lauding oil done the proper way as something special. So now the purest oil is hidden behind the equivalent of WC , desemanticised. The EVOO in supermarkets is for sure not cold pressed from this year and likely is pressed at the legally stipulated 60c max for "cold" and is 2- 3 years in a stainless tank waiting for the right price And that known as "olive oil" in supermarkets, who knows what it is. For sure it is second pressing and has been cut with sunflower oil or whatever is going cheap. Is it a better bet than than straight rocket fuel seed oil? I'd hope so, but olive oil as our not so distant ancestors knew? Not a chance. So that's what little producer people like me are up against. Extra Virgin Olive Oil should not be hidden behind acronyms, not sidelined by mass produced lesser grade versions, and must prevail for international health reasons, for cultural and societal reasons, and for environmental reasons. Small scale producers can't make ends meet without perverse incentive subsidies. That's why developing a mobile chicken farm amongst the olives is so important to me. To prove that there is a way to generate regular cash flow from an "unprofitable" olive grove, while negating the need for subsidies which require farmers to plough up the land and make it look tidy. Some things shouldn't be condensed, rushed, commoditized out of existence. Something like that :) #foodstr #olives #oil #aceitedeoliva

Ghost turns all headings into a class which you can link to easily for precise anchor text linking in a document. So disappointing to realise so few websites use this system. Missing a huge trick.

some good info in this freedom tech community

Satellite

satellite.earth

Is it fair to say that if the internet ran on Tor, it would make privacy a lot easier for everyone? I never saw this explanation before of the time Proton "shopped" a French activist. Proton legally had no choice, as a law had been broken, but they said if the activist had used Tor, Proton could not have helped the police in their enquiries. Apparently Proton could have also suggested all users access their accounts via a VPN to cut out Proton's access to any usable IP info, but I guess as a VPN provider they thought it politically incorrect to say that publicly at the time!!

Ars Technica

ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy

Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user's IP and browser fingerprint.

Interesting

Been a really hard 12-18 months on the ground cover. Rainfall right down, winds up. Finally a sign of life, hopefully not a false autumn dawn.

Fig trees grow out of walls.

Just asked Venice.ai for a photo of a chicken on a motorbike. The rather bizarre response was a motorbike running over a chicken. Oh well, I guess that's why there is a warning, "May contain offensive material" :)

finally, threads with followers as expected. In Primal. Amethyst just isn't getting it right still.

working on a website running on #ghost Between following my nose and the help forum I have pretty much got it exactly as I want. At some point I will morph it to npubpro, but one step at a time. Compared to Wordpress which I was wed to for years, the Ghost workflow from blogs and pages to settings is literally circular. Very clever ergonomics Just the concept of Code Injection instead of WP voodoo talk of orphan themes says it all, or at least speaks to educating us simpleton users away from dicking around with core theme files to make aesthetic changes. Not sure why they are wed to Stripe. especially pumping tips via Stripe. Alternatives are available ( lighting Zaps page is trivial to add) I'm paying €11 a month, which I hope for Ghost sake comes down because it's a chunk of change.

#asknostr Ever come across #brixton motorbikes?

Brixton Motorcycles | Felsberg 125 XC

Brixton Motorcycles: Built in the image of a classic enduro, the Felsberg 125 XC has a bigger front wheel and sturdy fender.

Scrolled through the global feed expecting to experience a seething cauldron in the human underworld. I guess I struck lucky because all I saw was neutral to positive. I like the world according to Nostr. Maybe everything else is the matrix.

#asknostr Im not so sure about Nostr being a reliable posting house. Since dabbling in relays last week Nostr has been weird. every day my profile shows a different nonsense follower/following count. My follower group is listed unfollowed, so I follow and next day all unfollowed. rinse repeat. Upshot, I get to see one or two people's posts in my feed. At the moment it is Dr berry, all very interesting but I'm not that into diet. Has everybody I have been talking to unfollowed me and I'm not getting it? I'm posting from primal, been on amethyst, satellite. it's clearly a nostr not client thing. Would appreciate some help to understand why my nostr experience has gone from great to excluded!

#zaps Where did the term originate? Watching La Femme Nikita the classic dark French original, 1990. Zaps mentioned several times before the opening carnage. I'm sure a smart Nostr #memestr could do something with that.