Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.

Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.

I haven’t tried it myself yet, but you can get yeast improvers , a powdered ‘mother yeast’ that claims similar results to sourdough.

I have a starter in the fridge that I only use once every two or three weeks, and have not had any mould problems; perhaps you just have to be only a little less lazy to keep a viable one, and feed on that sort of a schedule?

I agree though, that making sourdough bread can be a nuisance time-management-wise until you find some sort of rhythm that suits you.

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

(Samuel Beckett)

I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:

• I don’t know what that thing is.
• There is a thing, but I don’t know what it is.
• There is a thing such that I don’t know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.

I have a Xerox colour laser printer that I’m very happy with: accepts off-brand toner, speaks postscript, good quality printing, no problems at all. I’ve also been very happy with Brother laser printers in the past.

Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.

Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what’s current with my children’s generation (South London): it’s a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it’s what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.

These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don’t think these are imported from the US, as they’ve been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?

It reminds me of Vermeer’s Milkmaid. Not Renaissance either, but a beautiful photograph never the less. Accidental Baroque?

Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal updated to the 21st century.

This opinion looks a little question-begging to me: do all businesses who declare these kinds of things do so as branding? I myself, don’t believe they do as many would be doing so for advocacy for minority groups, for example.

Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It’s as good as the image itself.

But wouldn’t ‘leery’ make sense there? It means something close to ‘suspicious’ after all.

That looks a promising start. I’ll have a look into it when I have some time. I hope some others do too!

I don’t know Rust either, but it does appear to be relatively easy to understand; could be worse anyhow.

It would be nice to have a fully documented API to work from: probably not a priority for the lemmy devs right now, I’d imagine.

Thanks, yes that’s a more useful source than my one.

I think this would be the best way to go.

Myself, I’d love to be able to interact with Lemmy through Gnus, but it would be great to have a general emacs API for flexibility so you can choose the front-end.

It looks as though the api for a client is defined in api_common.

Ian’s Shoelace Site has 25 different ways to tie your laces. I’ve been using the eponymous Ian knot for years.

You can unblock communities and users in the web interface: settings > blocks. Can’t see a way to do it using Jerboa, though.

Thank you. He did owe him a (trifling) mina of silver, though; how much copper is that worth, I wonder?