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sharon

@sharroness.bsky.social

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jan 29

I made the mistake of asking a foodie friend what the difference is between a ragu and a bolognese and I’m getting sent like eLearning course shit

Of course it’s regional. I should’ve known it’d be regional.

An infographic titled “Italian Ragu Varieties” from TasteAtlas showcases different regional Italian ragù recipes, listing their key ingredients and traditional pasta pairings. It includes six varieties:
1. Ragù alla Bolognese (Bologna) – Minced beef, diced pancetta, onion, celery, tomatoes, carrots, red wine, stock, and milk. Served with tagliatelle.
2. Ragù Toscano (Tuscany) – Minced beef, sausage pieces, onion, celery, tomatoes, carrots, and red wine. Served with pici.
3. Ragù Napoletano (Naples) – Minced pancetta, prosciutto, beef chuck, pork ribs, tomato purée, piperna (a type of herb), basil, and red wine. Served with ziti.
4. Ragù alla Romagnola (Emilia-Romagna) – Minced pork, minced veal, onion, bacon, celery, tomatoes, carrots, and white wine. Served with tagliatelle.
5. Ragù d’Agnello (Foligno) – Minced lamb, garlic, tomato purée, rosemary, and white wine. Served with tagliatelle.
6. Ragù alla Pugliese (Apulia) – Diced pancetta, diced beef, diced lamb, sausage pieces, chickpeas, onion, garlic, tomato purée, tomato paste, chili peppers, and white wine. Served with orecchiette.

Each ragù is visually represented with an image of the dish, a small map highlighting its origin, and corresponding pasta.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 23

There is a sustained effort on part of the young to build communities with silent book reading clubs, painting dates, knitting circles and I think they will succeed in dismantling disinformation and control platforms without bartering in very precious things to humanity in exchange, like cognition.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 22

We want to make deals with the devil; in exchange we want truth, freedom, justice and fairness. Hmm.

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · Jan 22

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 22

This is a generational gap right here. My generation doesn't use online as a social tool. With all of this, my original post remains about the ills of relying on online and what it is doing to us. There is no balance, and we are being used as tools for disinformation, and fragmentation.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 22

the "fraternities" and "sororities" and the alums. Buying into the very same order or striving to attain it is probably not the way forward in creating an equitable world but then some of us just need step-holds, perches, and not hammers.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 22

And funnily enough, you will find these networks converging at ivy league colleges from where its leader stock is forged. The same as in UK. College alumnus, and academic certificates go much further, and that's where the world order will first have to be examined. The degrees...

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 22

soldier stock and a deep network of entrenched "society" families. This is why you dismantle power structures and create a system based on merit. The world suffers its politics and presidents, it is a pity and a suffering. The idea of America funnily prevails. +

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 22

America's long line of leadership has seen slave owning confederationists, a poker master, war mongers, functionaries, war "heroes", an embezzler, imbecile, senile, and a megalomaniac with strings tied to an evil madman because they all either came from privilege, old moneyed families, +

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 22

Think I hear that from older people. They like the internet for the same very reason. I get that offline is becoming rarer. Also know that the youngest generation is eschewing online in favour of finding activities offline so it takes them away from online so much since they were born to it.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

proximity and frequency. Sure you can join a lot of activities and have a great evening but that is not community or shared lives. And that imo is what is missing. Making a date with a friend, just shooting the breeze or doing chores/ errands together. Organised meets prob can't give you that ease.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

Meetups are not always connections. Allow me to explain.

You briefly meeting, chatting but it does not grow and is fleeting, at times. But mainly people who sustain us see us often, hang out and make an effort to be there, don't just come in and out of our lives. Loneliness is dispelled by +

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

For you, I completely get it and understand where you are coming from. I had a recent conversation about loneliness with a friend, and this what we have here cannot replace connection in the real world. But as long as we are here, it's easy, needs little effort but it does not sustain us.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

Selecting the information we share, questioning how much we share, and how to share is basic training for a journalist.

Since we all have journalistic powers and tools, it's a basic thing we need to learn about the responsibility to an audience. We need to care for another person's time.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

also wrote, 'The Distracted Mind', who has written several pieces on what he calls a cognition crisis. Our ancient brain was not built to break down so much information. We are coping badly. We need to protect our fragmented minds now. Be selective. Be mindful.

www.resilience.org/stories/2018...

Dr. Adam Gazzaley: “The Cognition Crisis Reverberates Across all the Crises we Have”

I’m writing a piece now framing this essentially as a cognition crisis that we are facing. I think the negative impacts are very broad.

www.resilience.org

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

So here's my argument. We don't need to migrate from X to BlueSky or anywhere. In fact, it would be in our long term interests to not be on any social media. We should consider X, a lesson on how it pans out eventually. Also, here's an interview featuring Dr. Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist, who +

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

Think we need to make stuff for ourselves, our own joy, and try practicing not putting it out. This is my controversial opinion about what plagues humans right now.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

Ppl need to make other stuff. We don't need more social media apps, or apps.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

Even as I RT these arguments about cow pee, COW PEE, it makes me question, what and why we as human individuals on earth are expending energy on pee of any kind. It really makes me feel an existential crisis, exuding from geographical pressures, that this is my world.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

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sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

feel flimsy, like a hobby

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 21

This place still feels like Instagram, not going to lie. Albeit with more words.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 20

Context for non-Indians: An Indian billionaire's heir has a private animal facility where he is acquiring and transporting animals from the wild, which is illegal in India. He posits it as a sanctuary but the fact is that he is being allowed to keep wild species captive.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 20

No one is interested in my theories but have platform will post like all normies. My theory about Ambani child's zoo is a Noah's ark of sorts while govt decimates habitat. What other explanation🤷‍♀️

Interested in your theories, if any.

sharon @sharroness.bsky.social · Jan 20

Yes, a bit low on energy and time. But better placed this year, I think. Got some fragrant flowering creepers (juhi and one more), a mega size bamboo, betel leaf and bougainvilleas. Very standard stuff. They didn't have the shankapushpi I went for lol...