The Kitchen, Before Plov Sukhbat Aflatuni Translated by Naomi Caffee Carrot and onion, well-washed rice. Fire, impotent for now, Burns grains of cumin-scented air; a greasy heat. Great-grandfather's four chairs Drawn up, a basin on a bowl. Lamb's blood beckons all the wasps And flies and furtive spirits. Gas flows up from underground To die in a sultry ring-around-the-rose, Beneath the big black belly of the pot. 2003
plov poem alert
the upshot of this story is that daisy’s diner has existed for 40 years and the interviewee bought it 2 of those years ago and is now doing that classic new restaurant owner thing of completely failing to understand the business he is now responsible for
"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."
It’s a social media problem, not a teenager problem.
So this bill and ones like it would just further the surveillance of not just minors but people in general, meanwhile social media remains predatory and abusive and we pretend that’s just the nature of things.
Bob from Bob's Red Mill
The only CEO that ever saw heaven was Bob Moore from Bob's Red Mill and that's because he retired and gave the employees the company but he'd been doing profit sharing since 1990.
starbucks barista: good m-
melania: allow me to set the record clear, i am absolutely not a friend of jeffrey epstein. i would not call him a friend. i spend several pages of my book, Melania, not calling him a friend, or anything at all.
Again I’d like to point to all of the high school student walk outs that have been happening for months
In Los Angeles even the middle school students are involved
idea for bluesky UI update: much like there's a setting that prevents you from posting an image without adding alt text, there could be a setting that prevents you from quoting a post without first opening the link in it. we can't force people to actually read but maybe we can get them halfway there
A fascinating look into this mentality. Why do you need to compete with a Fortune 500 company? You are a diner! The number one thing I want to see is photos of YOUR food, not a generic AI burger or your mac and cheese animated beyond recognition
Pro death, pro injury administration
vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him
no, sorry. I meant MY Cambridge (MA, US), where you will be!
I do khapra beetle trapping in warehouses that import grain products from countries where it's known to occur. Any find of one in a trap would be an all hands on deck situation. (fun fact: the traps use a pheromone lure and organic wheat germ as bait)
Recently a woman brought a dog to our restaurant & complained that she had been kicked out of another restaurant for having the dog. We let her sit at a two-top away from everyone and then after she left she wrote us an email saying we hadn't been nice enough to her dog
you hated them while they were happening!!!
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It's shit like this that make me comfortably smug as a cat person
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Read this thread and then remember that this horrific facility exists in the middle of a suburban office park
This is such important content to me and I'm not joking
I am so angry about this.
we cannot live this way.
Both parties are not the same, kids
Hi @nytimes.com please explain how sending missiles into apartment buildings full of families is most accurately described as “continued attacks against Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.” Use your words! I’ll wait.
If you live in the state that was once represented by Charles Sumner and you wear or fly or stick Confederate symbols on your car, other Bay Staters have the right to shake a can of Moxie good and hard and spray it in your face.
Thank you Mike - and I sure would like more Democrats to stop falling for this horrible age verification shit.
Normalize this instead of Share the Road
posting this shit when you’re owned by a billionaire is basically a recruitment ad for socialism
The unanimous bipartisan consensus in American foreign policy is that Israel needs to have the right and ability to launch airstrikes on any target they wish within 500 km at any time for any reason, and that this is a foundational bedrock for achieving regional peace and stability.
