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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • The longest I’ve kept a stew is a week and a half. Since we do home butchery and get insanely busy sometimes the same thing just gets reheated and enhanced with new ingredients. No health complaints. I’m sure I could keep doing this for longer but I get tired of every meal having a similar taste. In summer it would be difficult without a fridge, not sure how the medieval innkeeper would have handled it.



  • Not sure if Smilax aspera (the variety growing here) is toxic, and Smilax glabra (the sarsaparilla used in Chinese medicine and producing beverages) is not. Or if in both, just the berries are toxic. I’ve also found that often a plant deemed toxic on one continent is consumed in another, and that young shoots of toxic plants sometimes can be eaten safely. All this has changed my perspective on toxicity a lot. The available information can be confusing, and changes sometimes.






  • I’m not in or from the US. In my country people didn’t rebel when camps were built, when people were disappeared, when they were sent to war. The world used to think that something was especially wrong with us. Turns out the average person in every country is just too poor, too exhausted, too distracted to oppose the fascists. We sit still and hope that we’re not next. If you introduce the hardships slowly enough people will not complain.

    My advice is ‘Rot the system from the inside’. Be extra slow, be really inefficient. Be obtuse. Have your work gear break often. Make small mistakes. Be stubborn. Appear stupid. And if you want to gather and organize: Don’t gather in one location, gather in many locations, but gather. Don’t meet with the purpose of politics, but start with mutual aid, neighborhood support, hobbies, … Maybe don’t call your organization anything like “Anarchist Antifa Violent Liberation Front” but go for “Neighborhood Support Club” and remain accessible to all who are not total arseholes. Now it’s about getting shit done - anything on the scale of growing vegetables to Luigi that isn’t writing yet another manifesto. Be kind to another.