Reposted by Jesse Harberdr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 27/05/2025The American/British food debate is played out. The real hot button topic is Sephardi or Ashkenazi food 361
Reposted by Jesse HarberNatalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 24/05/2025A philosopher has hitherto only interpreted a diaper in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. 320723
Reposted by Jesse HarberOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Dads make diaper changes, but they do not do it as they please; they do not change diapers under self-selected circumstances, but respond to diaper circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. Remnants of past feedings weigh like a nightmare on the diapers of the living. 2277764
Reposted by Jesse HarberDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/05/2025What is the Jewish relationship to places that expelled us or made us flee? I don't even know. But it's not nothing, you know? 2231
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 14/05/2025Extraordinary to see the gap between how both pro- and anti-Trump Americans are talking about Afrikaners, and how almost anyone talks in South Africa. Antis, I know you think you’re helping but we generally frown on racial abuse in South Africa, even against your political opponents. 011
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 25/04/2025IIRC this was a signature Noah Smith opinion. In the same tweet as saying Cuba was better off under Batista than Fidel. 010
Reposted by Jesse HarberNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This is revisionism. The US government was one of the biggest supporters of the South African apartheid regime. There are important things that USAID has done in SA since 1994 - including on HIV mitigation - that perhaps include funding civil society and dismantling initiatives after 1989. 35222
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 27/01/2025I just finished this and it absolutely slaps. Just fantastic near-future SF. 121
Reposted by Jesse Harbermatthew du plessis @mattduplessis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025oh no the nap has become the territory 0186
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 22/01/2025It’s kind of interesting that, apropos Musk, I keep seeing people here talk about apartheid South Africa like some kind of unknowable hermit kingdom as opposed to a place where I and many others remember* and can talk about in some detail *only a little in my case 020
Reposted by Jesse HarberDr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Do any of my contacts know someone who works for the #Fisheries Department in #CapeTown (or #SouthAfrica more broadly)? 329
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 08/01/2025I would ask the fire ecologist I once met, but that happened when her dog savaged me in the street. So perhaps not. 000
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 08/01/2025As a resident of a city perched against a dry, windy, fire-prone mountain, I’m wondering why Cape Town’s fires don’t seem to be as destructive as the ones in California. Is it more proactive management? The simply larger scale of CA fire country? Some other innate advantage of geography? 010
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 04/01/2025To be a dad is to finally and frequently get that crucial question answered. I am, indeed, chopped liver. 000
Reposted by Jesse HarberRRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Toby Young becoming a Lord has reminded me of this incredible exchange 141445265
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 20/12/2024It’s this sort of petty provincial tribalism that makes it hard to see Europe ever modernising 000
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 20/12/2024This has no business slapping as hard as it doesyoutu.beGunsteling - Keith Juluka (Lyrical Video)YouTube video by Keith Juluka 000
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 20/12/2024Our downstairs neighbour has, very politely, said she is woken by a loud bang some mornings around six. We’re up with the baby so it’s plausible it’s us, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. It’s driving me (and I guess the neighbour) nuts. 000
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 19/12/2024Something I’m not sure I’ve seen discussed is the prospect of a real knock-down fight between fractions of capital. Trump’s patrimonial mercantilism is going to be a lottery, with effects on stability and legitimacy *even among capitalists*. What happens when capitalist unity is eroded? 131
Reposted by Jesse HarberDr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 18/12/2024Yep. For all that applying the rules is my job 😆, also this: 1123888
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 17/12/2024Can’t wait until Grok is given millions of people’s private correspondence and also their password recovery emails. 020
Reposted by Jesse HarberAnine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Have a look at Oslos street design manual, translated to english. I made that illustration with the roundabout, and several others in the guide 😇 416124
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 13/12/2024It is easy to forget that to a certain generation/disposition of traffic engineer, this concept is bizarre and repulsive. It’s a Kuhnian paradigm and the epicycles would make your head spin. 000
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 13/12/2024Heating this take up: a bunch of these effects are going to be cognitive and behavioural. That subclass is going to be increasingly marked by odd speech patterns and glitches. 100
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 11/12/2024The intersection of solidarity and not paying enough attention: I have been maintaining the NYT Games and Cooking boycott for a month like that Japanese soldier still fighting WWII in the 70s. 000
Reposted by Jesse HarberBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too. Great pic via @JBPssx 302288421
Reposted by Jesse Harber𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 08/12/2024THIS IS AMAZING! This is the planned bike path network for the #Paris region for 2025. It will involve 450 kms of lanes. Not just #Paris intra-muros (within the Périphérique) but Grand Paris—a true regional network, incorporating long-neglected banlieues (suburbs). Via @emmanuelspv.bsky.social 611127
Reposted by Jesse HarberBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 09/12/2024This one was also perfect. I thought it came out in 89 until I looked it up just nowpitchfork.comPortishead: DummyPortishead's 1994 debut is a masterwork of downbeat and desperation. They invented their own kind of virtuosity, one that encompassed musicianship, technology, and aura. 141133
Reposted by Jesse Harberrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/12/2024i don't actually need to have any factual opinions on whether trans people are who they say they are in order to believe that their assertions deserve my respect 528123
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 06/12/2024My Spotify Wrapped is almost exclusively the super chill album we used for the lad’s wind-down routine for a couple months. 83 bedtimes. 120
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 06/12/2024I hate these zombie newsletters. I haven’t taken a dutch train in 12 years. There’s no way to unsubscribe. I don’t speak dutch. And they’ve got my name wrong. 010
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 05/12/2024Totally. The only people allowed to loathe a person for writing a PhD is themselves. 040
Reposted by Jesse HarberThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024üpdate: the hog has grown to be much larger than the sun. bröther, may it have this final öat? 472356370
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 05/12/2024Just out of a public meeting on our NMT strategy. Strong consensus that the major cause of pedestrian injury and death is people not knowing to avoid it. 020
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za · 05/12/2024Coal power was already unaffordable and now it’s unconstitutional. But coal miners and mineworkers are major constituencies of the ANC. 000
Reposted by Jesse Harbercait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/12/2024i'm sorry but i do not understand how or why people use chatgpt for literally any reason. any benefit it could possibly have is overshadowed by the fact that it just straight up fucking lies to you! 23911100
Reposted by Jesse HarberDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Reminder that the Guardian staff are on a 48 hour strike against the sale of Observer. If you wouldn’t cross a picket line in real life, don’t do it virtually. 8455257
Reposted by Jesse HarberCL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 02/12/2024TV and my country are hilarious. *Wild Carribbean pirate beach* Cape Town *Weird alien habitat* Cape Town *Strange alien horror plant* Protea *Ruined dystopian city* Joburg *Unnamed African country at war* Joburg 6246
Reposted by Jesse HarberMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 22/11/2024nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish 204110923890