Rebecca Solnitās book āA Paradise Built In Hellā should be required reading for everyone. Basically: people are generally good & in disaster situations self-organize effectively & often joyfully. Itās when authority tries to ārestore order,ā that shit goes off the rails.
Is it just me, or would Made OF Beer work better, here? That'd give the same vibe of simple / unfancy / "not craft" that I assume they're going for ā and Made FROM Beer seems worryingly close to saying "it's piss".
Women battling against the wind while crossing a Wellington city street, November 1959. Ref EP-Science-Meteorology-Wind and tornadoes-01 National Library of New Zealand.
Gods save me from people who claim (loudly) they know everything about beer when it's in fact just their personal opinions they're spouting.
Yeah Mike. The current young generation have been responsible for the global fmcg supply chain for the last 100 years. Probably wanna put their bloody pronouns on the bottles amirite
Just learned about the existence of Joe Spreadsheet, the beefcake 80s spreadsheet software mascot a la Mavis Beacon
Have you done this yet š” wait for the build m.youtube.com/watch?v=S70x...
Why is Joel from the Spinoff the only Wellington journo doing any actual followup to bullshit quotes from business owners? thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/1...
A cafe chain closed down and the owner blamed cycleways ā but none of the cafes were anywhere near one. What's really going on?
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of good writing about beer and pubs with notes on the colour bar, the Isle of Man, and micropubs in Darwen, among other things. šŗš» boakandbailey.com/2024/09/news...
Hereās all the writing about beer and pubs that grabbed our attention in the past week, from collabs to club singers. First, some minor news that nonetheless strikes us as significant: Adnams has coll...
Anyone want a 1963 Austrian PSA for their lock screen? It says, roughly, to drink beer moderately. Via Wien Bibliothek.
