@dwalbert We used to call that Gill-over-the-ground, a lovely folksy name. It spreads enthusiastically so we had a lot of it. Pretty spring flowers, as you note.
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\nUpdate: I asked the internet. The additives are fermentation by-products that make the butter taste more flavorful, like cultured butter. (Apparently, pure unsalted butter is very bland). Some say the additives act as preservatives, which salted butter doesn’t need. I’d been moving toward buying salted butter anyway, and this gave me a little extra shove.
@ReaderJohn Given the content I wouldn’t bet that he even knew it was Easter.
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\n>Inventors are rarely able to see their inventions objectively, just as parents are rarely able to see their children objectively, but Berners-Lee seems particularly impaired. His focus on protocols and codes may be understandable for a programmer, but it has blinded him to a deep and uncomfortable truth about his invention. The web wasn’t corrupted by outside forces. The corruption was there from the start, latent in its design.
\nI think that Carr, in his turn, is a bit over-optimistic about anti-trust fixes etc.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/87465880","date_published":"2026-04-02T13:49:58+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 13:49","date_timestamp":1775137798,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87462633","content_html":"@mwerickson I like his writing a lot, though (a) his strategy of publishing many short books can be frustrating, and (b) there’s a lot of overlap. I’d love to see a big, thick, well-edited single-volume B-CH Reader! Non-Things might be my favorite. I think I’d get more from him if I were better-read in philosophy. He often argues with thinkers like Arendt & Heidegger, and I miss a lot because I don’t know them. He seems to be shifting steadily from a social-critique stance to a more spiritual one, interesting to watch.
\n@ablerism
@ReaderJohn @tinyroofnail My little Light Phone has voice-to-text & I use it fairly often (the “keyboard” is tiny). Almost always I have to edit the text in some way before sending, but it’s still a convenience. No complaints.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://abbamoses.micro.blog/2025/08/21/im-drifting-toward-being-one.html","date_published":"2025-08-21T20:17:16+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-21 20:17","date_timestamp":1755807436,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69868116","content_html":"Bill Kauffman on artists spurning state sponsorship:
\n\n\n\n\nConscientious objectors who wish neither to wield nor submit to power are as impractical as unemployed poets, whiskey priests, and dandelions.
\n
The libertarian/anti-statist view has never had much of a constituency, but I’ve been thinking about how rapidly it seems to be losing ground these days.
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