Fionn Pooler
@thepourover.coffee
Writer of The Pourover, a newsletter about coffee and how it connects to the wider world. Subscribe! 👉🏻 thepourover.coffee
Posting about coffee, mainly, but also movies, Arsenal, and other bits and bobs. (It's pronounced Fin | he/him |📍🏴)
Posting about coffee, mainly, but also movies, Arsenal, and other bits and bobs. (It's pronounced Fin | he/him |📍🏴)
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What Does Success in Coffee Look Like? (Republish)
Denver’s Amethyst Coffee closed in 2022, two years after raising prices to better compensate staff. But that doesn’t mean the project was a failure—in fact, it still offers lessons for the industry to...
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I first published this piece in 2022. I'm revisiting (and revamping) it now because 1. I've been sick this week and couldn't face writing something from scratch and 2. I think it has remains relevant to the current coffee industry re: tipping, worker pay, and alternative business models. #CoffeeSky
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My only football opinion is that I love Homer's line read here.
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM
My only football opinion is that I love Homer's line read here.
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Arsenal are going to win the league and it’s going to be a miserable experience whether you love us or hate us.
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Arsenal are going to win the league and it’s going to be a miserable experience whether you love us or hate us.
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If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
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Seen in Minneapolis this morning
January 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Seen in Minneapolis this morning
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I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
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I first published this piece in 2022. I'm revisiting (and revamping) it now because 1. I've been sick this week and couldn't face writing something from scratch and 2. I think it has remains relevant to the current coffee industry re: tipping, worker pay, and alternative business models. #CoffeeSky
What Does Success in Coffee Look Like? (Republish)
Denver’s Amethyst Coffee closed in 2022, two years after raising prices to better compensate staff. But that doesn’t mean the project was a failure—in fact, it still offers lessons for the industry to...
www.thepourover.coffee
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I first published this piece in 2022. I'm revisiting (and revamping) it now because 1. I've been sick this week and couldn't face writing something from scratch and 2. I think it has remains relevant to the current coffee industry re: tipping, worker pay, and alternative business models. #CoffeeSky
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As someone who uses ChatGPT for zero things whatsoever, the fact that they're putting ads in it is extremely funny
January 17, 2026 at 6:31 AM
As someone who uses ChatGPT for zero things whatsoever, the fact that they're putting ads in it is extremely funny
Oh man you must've just missed them, I think they closed on Halloween.
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Oh man you must've just missed them, I think they closed on Halloween.
I first published this piece in 2022. I'm revisiting (and revamping) it now because 1. I've been sick this week and couldn't face writing something from scratch and 2. I think it has remains relevant to the current coffee industry re: tipping, worker pay, and alternative business models. #CoffeeSky
What Does Success in Coffee Look Like? (Republish)
Denver’s Amethyst Coffee closed in 2022, two years after raising prices to better compensate staff. But that doesn’t mean the project was a failure—in fact, it still offers lessons for the industry to...
www.thepourover.coffee
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I first published this piece in 2022. I'm revisiting (and revamping) it now because 1. I've been sick this week and couldn't face writing something from scratch and 2. I think it has remains relevant to the current coffee industry re: tipping, worker pay, and alternative business models. #CoffeeSky
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Unlike other businesses in Minneapolis, Starbucks is allowing ICE agents into stores against the concerns of baristas and our community.
That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.
That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.
January 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Unlike other businesses in Minneapolis, Starbucks is allowing ICE agents into stores against the concerns of baristas and our community.
That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.
That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.
Lol that is the perfect goal for Gyokeres. On a plate.
January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Lol that is the perfect goal for Gyokeres. On a plate.
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photo essay because sometimes words are insufficient
It’s been one week since Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, sparking intense local and national reactions. Thousands have taken to the streets in protest and remembrance. www.wired.com/story/photo-...
January 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
photo essay because sometimes words are insufficient
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Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
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JK Rowling's Wario
The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. https://bit.ly/4sEbdYv
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $45 million to LGBTQ+ youth hotline organization, The Trevor Project | Fortune
“I literally could not believe it and it took some time. I actually gasped,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project.
bit.ly
January 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
JK Rowling's Wario
Me, half asleep, watching Twisters (2024): wait is that Tunde Adebimpe??
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Me, half asleep, watching Twisters (2024): wait is that Tunde Adebimpe??
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Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful
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you know what's beautiful, and it can be easy to forget, but the people. the people are beautiful.
Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 AM
you know what's beautiful, and it can be easy to forget, but the people. the people are beautiful.
1) this fucking sucks
2) you run a library app, USE ALT TEXT YOU FUCKERS
2) you run a library app, USE ALT TEXT YOU FUCKERS
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January 13, 2026 at 9:34 AM
1) this fucking sucks
2) you run a library app, USE ALT TEXT YOU FUCKERS
2) you run a library app, USE ALT TEXT YOU FUCKERS
Yes it was definitely one of the more blatant union-busting efforts from coffee companies that I've seen in recent years.
January 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Yes it was definitely one of the more blatant union-busting efforts from coffee companies that I've seen in recent years.