A little while ago, I translated from Polish, edited the English text, and, together with one of my best comrades @rhyddical.bsky.social , designed and typeset a book titled Freedom or Death: The War in Ukraine and the Refugee Crisis. 1/4

Chocolate habaneros are some of the prettiest chillies I’ve grown.

Also, a dead fascist is always the best outcome, and a life-saving one.

I can’t even begin to explain how strongly familiar this experience is. Thanks to the author for this text, and to @freedompress.bsky.social for publishing it.

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/09/02/t...

The guardian of my chilli plants

When I die, my "legacy" will be how-to lists

Let me just post this again.

Catalonia offers some top-tier child literature.

First barefoot beach walk of 2025.

In a rather unexpected turn of the culture war, yesterday I left a very large sourdough baking FB group. People share their baking there and someone posted this. Naively I didn't think about this post too much until a few hours later when I saw it got hundreds and hundreds of comments.

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It seems that my response to the general state of this world, and in particular the latest season of America, is to try to stay a decent person, share what I can, be ready to punch a nazi when I see one, and escapism by excessive baking to keep sane.

Pictured: pitta baking night at my house.

Today’s baking: whole orange cake (well, more accurately 4,5 whole oranges cake) and seeded bread. Good day so far.

I’m just warning that I will out-bake you all ;)

In 2024, I learned how to bake a decent sourdough bread, not so much because I’m a hipster, but because I’m Polish and living in a country with unacceptable bread, as far as I’m concerned.

Tweets that didn’t age well eh.

It’s a great, and rare these days, feeling to wake up to some amazing news.

Syria is now free of the murderous dictator Assad. It is a truly historic moment that hopefully concludes decades-long dictatorship followed by the most brutal of wars. 1/

You are right, from experience (it is an experience of Eastern European migrant), Americans use it too, so do others if they consider themselves from “better” parts of the World. But in Guardian’s books the term is reserved for Brits exclusively.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains or Soundgarden

Good morning and can I have some woke fillings please.