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oakfarmWith the ASD group we visited a cafe I don’t like to visit since the cafe chain is owned by JDE Peets, one of the companies that’s on Ukraines list of companies doing business in Russia. Speaking of that, the local hospital has stopped buying things from Mondelez International for the same reason. They want to stop buying from Nestle, but they can’t find alternatives to Nestle owned companies. If I dare to write one more example, Swedish chocolate maker Marabou is no longer a purveyor to the court since they are owned by Mondelez.
But back to the cafe, we saw a man who was brave enough to wear a kippah, I liked that, the problem is of course that Europe has a problem with muslim anti-semitism. Or if that’s too controversial, I could just be non-political and write that I had a cream cheese bagel and mineral water, not coffee since I already had had that with Victor, the published author and filmmaker. I forgot to ask him if he’s going to the literature festival in town this year?
Lastly, a visit to a cafe or bar nowadays might also include a discussion about how different it’s now than during the pandemic, and many countries turned that into politics from the first day.
But back to the cafe, we saw a man who was brave enough to wear a kippah, I liked that, the problem is of course that Europe has a problem with muslim anti-semitism. Or if that’s too controversial, I could just be non-political and write that I had a cream cheese bagel and mineral water, not coffee since I already had had that with Victor, the published author and filmmaker. I forgot to ask him if he’s going to the literature festival in town this year?
Lastly, a visit to a cafe or bar nowadays might also include a discussion about how different it’s now than during the pandemic, and many countries turned that into politics from the first day.
Google’s algorithms obviously knows what language I speak and that I read about aquaculture, therefore it recommended to me a radio show from the Åland radio about technology for collecting sludge from fish farming. Hope you don’t think I talk down to you if I explain that Åland being a Swedish speaking archipelago, belonging to Finland, in the Baltic sea. (International politics going back to the League of Nations explains why those Swedish speakers are Finnish.) I can toy with the idea of working with aquaculture in Åland. Midlife crisis and change of geography. Ok, it won't happen. Or international politics says it’s not named the Baltic sea anymore, it’s NATO Lake.
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I have written, maybe too many times, that I live in the North, and we have a pop culture genre called "Weird wild west". I’m surprised that if I google “weird wild north” I only get eight results and four of them are me using the phrase. I was first with that? Anyway that was related to the idea of writing fiction about two things from last year's headlines: gang warfare and the rare earth minerals found in the north. Gangs fighting about richness from rare earth minerals. I also happened to watch Gangs of New York that mention Hellcat Maggie. Add some biotech and in the Weird wild north we'll find Hellcat Linnea, with tiger fur transplanted to her arm.
1. Warning: don't try tiger fur transplant at home.
2. Yes, AI only draws attractive people.
3. Had to use the name Linnea, since it’s connected to biology. It comes from the flower Linnaea borealis named after Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) the father of taxidermy.