We have a game when we cook something nice of estimating what it would cost if eating out (not that our sometimes wonderful creations would be available).
So we keep finding (on occasional forays out) our prices are too low. E.g. City centre, for 2: 2 plates of indifferent ravioli, a bowl of olives and 2 glasses of wine pre-theatre came to more than £80!
Dining out ‘under pressure’ as Britons cut back due to price rises, says YouGov | Hospitality industry | The Guardian
Our #prediction series is announced, Mattering Press 2025 👋.
There is power in prediction. In the first volume of the Predictions series, a set of #sts authors makes a case for engaging with practices and cultures of prediction. From speculative ethnography to sci-fi.
dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…
A notorious flesh-eating fly
that once wreaked havoc on U.S. livestock
is inching closer to California again.
#NewWorldScrewworm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025
It still amazes me that you can be arrested for holding a small paper sign that says you are against the wholesale murder of an entire ethnic group, but seemingly not for actually doing the murdering.
I don't normally do advent calendars because I don't enjoy eating chocolate.
But then I was in the supermarket today and they had a cheese advent calendar and now I'm like a 10-year-old excitedly impatient for December to arrive just so I can start!
#Cheese