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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard

@howardvaan.bsky.social
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I like food and drink and music and geopolitics. I live in Basel.

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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 8h
Trump’s remarks are stupid. Russia’s reserves are headed for the global market, not for the US
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 8h
This has been true for a long time. Chef presses are popular because of smash burgers. Other equipment had filtered down, because they’ve been simplified for home kitchens (e.g. Anova for sous vide).
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 8h
Their breakfast is great, especially the chilli cheese toast and bacon naan
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11h
The President vs. every member of Congress COMBINED. Guess who made more personal financial trades? Donald Trump — with 28,000+ trades. Stock trading by top government officials should be illegal—no owning, buying, or selling stocks.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 9h
Hopefully European (including UK) intelligence can fill the gap somewhat.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 9h
The GOP agenda was to damage credibility in (Federal) government. His joke appointments serve this end.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 9h
Trump’s “diesel deal” is stupid and mistold. The amount being release is less than 1% of US oil use and is being released in to the world market (i.e. not straight to the US)
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 9h
Trump is clearly a Russian asset (and an idiot). The sooner he’s gone, the better.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 9h
Trump is clearly a Russian asset. Just imagine if the US was invaded: Would they countenance a loss of territory?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When someone at last gives whales a chance - they’ve been recording them for yonks
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When the deciding committee gets enough gottles of geer
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If the Economics Nobel Memorial prize ever gets upgraded and the subject remains ‘dismal’
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Perhaps they should just rename NATO the Axis? :-/
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What sports do you think were around in 1066?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It was delicious
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bratwurst and mozzarella pasta bake. Pasta is paccheri. Tomato ragu with onions, bell peppers, sausage, fennel seeds, smoked salt, gochujang, gochujar. Mozzerella pieces poked in. Topped with young Gouda
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No beardos?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social as in three day eventing - the horse riding competition
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not so long ago a referendum in Switzerland delivered a ban on minarets en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sw.... Ten years ago referendums were used by far right anti-immigrant groups and they boosted the SVP
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2009 Swiss minaret referendum - Wikipedia
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Today UNROOT not accepted
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is this a fucking blade I see before me? The slings and arrows of fucking outrageous fortune
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elon Musk as he really is and he is pissed about it. boingboing.net/2026/09/25/o...
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Official trailer for "Musk" documentary
If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest…
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Stephanie Simoes @critikid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Developing the questions for the new puzzle app we're building is a workout for my brain! The first version (a web app) should be out in a day or two.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I read the whole article yesterday. I read it again today and I still don’t see a good reason to find analog alternatives to smartphone functions
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What on earth is wrong with using a digital format? Content is the most important thing, whether it’s words, music, pictures or moving pictures!
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kinder Küche Kirche . . . Not good
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Also, Ukraine is part of Europe
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What exactly has happened to our defence today?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’ll put up a tree with lights on it
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
David Lynch.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Russia would have invaded Ukraine even without Brexit. Just look at all the other countries he invaded before.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 15/09/2026
Sep 14-15 poll of 3,564 U.S. adults (±1.9 points) Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling AI? 28% of U.S. adults approve 55% disapprove, including 44% who strongly disapprove yougov.com/en-us/daily-...
YouGov survey results among all U.S. adults for the question, "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling artificial intelligence?"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/09/2026
Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown ft.trib.al/Q4kiCJJ
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Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown
Warring tech bosses unite behind warnings that humans could lose control of the technology
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Made some zero sugar, high protein choc chips cookies. Choc are Vahrona feves.
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He does saying and doing anything disruptive
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Happy Sundaes
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A) what has this to do with the Dr Who clip B) I’m guessing you mean the US government rather than the UK government?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ooh. Is there a Wicker Man cartoon?!
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/09/2026
Group linked to Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly donated to Reform UK ft.trib.al/mMRrU8F
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Group linked to Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly donated to Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s party received total donations of more than £5mn in second quarter according to Electoral Commission figures
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Last month I made a cottage pie and added red lentils to increase the amount of fibre in the dish. The lentils changed the texture and flavour slightly - but in a good way - lentils absorbed flavour from the beef stew
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Setting a hard three season limit seems almost arbitrary. Surely it should be judged case by case, taking into account things like character and story arcs, quality of writing and show running etc?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not even Mad Men or the Sopranos?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How can you tell?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I had huitlacoche a few times on my trip to Mexico (2016) - best was a simple taco in Oaxaca
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Duck sausage roll with mirabelle ketchup (same batch as Sunday. Shake of milk, banana, whey powder, added fibre, ice and mango zero syrup
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What do you mean by “autumn sniffer”?
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I suspect he’s trying to make himself available for international NGO positions, e.g. future Secretary General of NATO
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard @howardvaan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@mooseallain.bsky.social I guess there could be argument for non-binary options . . . i.e. degree of cyborgization
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