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@calmeilles.bsky.social

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🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @[email protected]

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · Jan 31

What do you do about fascism?

In my early teens I learned about Hitler and Chamberlain and Churchill in a formal education setting.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1h

Keira Knightley sounds like she liked the size of the cheque.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 3h

Appoint him governor of the Pitcairn Islands.

It would be apt.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 4h

I generally don't. Hence the experiment, because I was curious.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 5h

Sunday dinner; fried chicken thighs, new potatoes, braised cabbage and onion gravy.

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#Food #Cooking #dinner

Plate with 2 small, boned chicken thighs, fried crispy, a moderate pile of boiled new potatoes, 2 wedges of the cabbage with very dark edges from the pan and in the centre a puddle of gravy with visible onion in it.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 8h

Conclusions:
Sourdough is nicer.
Yeast is easier.

Extra strong Canadian (14.9%, £1.53/kg) is not practically different from

Waitrose strong (14.9%, £0.93/kg) and both are only slightly easier to use than

Lidl strong (11.7%, £0.80/kg).

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#cooking #baking #bread #flour #sourdough #yeast

Slices of the loaf baked yesterday fanned out to show a fairly open crumb typical of a sourdough.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 11h

"Irresponsible leaders across the globe are not cautious enough"

Sarah Paine on fascism.

youtube.com/shorts/tiuuI...

#politics #fascism #GlobalInstitutions #US #China

Fascism - Sarah Paine

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 13h

I hate it when it turns into a guess the single letter game. 🤔

Wordle 1,576 6/6

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#games #WordGames

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 14h

The midterms are a year away. So he gets free reign at least until then.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 15h

If you had a House willing to lay articles of impeachment and a Senate willing to convict on them.

But you don't.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 15h

You're going to have to let us into the secret: which film were you talking of, since as far as I can see 'Sower' has become an opera and a graphic novel but not yet made it to celluloid?

Screenshot of the post showing that the earlier post it quoted has subsequently been deleted this making the text nonsensical.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 15h

Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war!

BlueVoter @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 1d

United we ribbit, divided we croak. 🐸🐸🐸✊ #activism

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 16h

Never give to the Salvation Army.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 17h

No surprise.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier in the week I made some onion gravy but misjudged the roux, ending up with onion wallpaper paste.

So this evening I caramelized another onion, added a pint of stock, the wallpaper paste, a glug of vinegar and a dash of Worcestershire. Sossidges now needed to go with.

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#food #cooking

Half litre plastic food container fullt to the brim with brown gravy.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

I quite like "the accused."

But "the jailed convict" would have an even better ring.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Base Power hauls in $1B for mass deployment of huge home batteries.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

Base Power hauls in $1B for mass deployment of huge home batteries

It’s a standout fundraise for the current cleantech market. The Texas startup will use the money to beef up manufacturing and install batteries even…

www.canarymedia.com

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

Is there legislation to provide a regulatory framework?

Most places in the US you can't be grid linked and have a backup mode at the same time because there's no standard for switchgear that stops island mode installs backfeeding the grid and so endangering linemen working to fix a fault.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

Beam Valley Parklands again, 3.5 miles (5.63km), 1h 40m, 2.01 mph (3.23kph), 76% of Google's estimate, not helped by the terrain or my dawdling.

I could have just gone 800 yards up Rainham Road. 🤣

#exercise #walking #UrbanParks

Aerial photography map of part of Dagenham with a walking route marked in blue from Church lane, south through Beam Parklands to New Road then north through the Beam valley to the railway and Underground lines turning west to Rainham Road South and Dagenham East station.

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Skog @skog100.bsky.social · 1d

true story ..

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

Extra strong Canadian bread flour experiment part II, sourdough.

Flour, hydration and baking kept exactly the same as for the yeast in part I but varied the technique for sourdough. Recipe in image description.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough

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Round loaf, golden brown with paler flour markings from the banneton and wide spread from crossed scores.

In the morning feed the starter with 100g water and 143g flour — preserving it's 70% hydration.

When it's at it's peak activity mix:

100g enlivened starter
565g Canadian extra strong bread flour
365g water
12g salt

Which preserves the proportions 600g flour and 67% hydration of the previous yeasted version.

Rest 20 mins
Bowl fold until it shows some strength developing then ball and put into a clean bowl.
Rest 40 mins then 3 or 4 coil folds. Repeat for 4 times in total.
Cover well and bulk ferment in the refrigerator overnight.

Next morning (about 14 hours later) tip out the dough, shape and set in a floured banneton to prove. This got about 5 hours.

Preheat the oven to GM 9 / 240°C / 475°F. Tip risen dough into a baking tin, score, add ice and a foil cloche. Bake sealed for 30 minutes, turn the oven down to GM 7 / 220°C / 425°F and bake uncovered for a further 205-30 mins.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

Also it's an almost perfect translation of page to screen — something that is vanishingly rare.

www.gaytimes.com/films/why-br...

#film #drama #movies #LGBTQIA

Why Brokeback Mountain is still a landmark of queer cinema, 20 years later

From the casting, production, writing and acting, Ang Lee's queer classic Brokeback Mountain has stood the test of time.

www.gaytimes.com

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation would be built into the upstream point of the island in 1962.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting scheduling.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#Washington #Nixon #conspiracy

All the President's Men

Two Washington Post reporters uncover the Watergate scandal - a conspiracy to cover up abuses of power by President Nixon.

www.bbc.co.uk

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 2d

Ameliorating the climate crisis should be the first consideration in every issue in any way connected with it.

But capitalism demands profit now, damn the planet, damn our future only profit now matters.

Specific to the article for capitalism read oil, gas and coal.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 2d

If you substituted Republican with fascist which of them would be wrong?