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Phil Vasquez

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Culinary musings and history. Observationist appetisers. Writer. Cook. Filmmaker. Covid Conscious.

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Thank heavens for that... Ridiculous phrase.

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In solidarity with my friends in France hoping we can all avoid the Farage-ification of the French Assemblée. Stay strong, friends.

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No, we don't disagree faktiskt. I like THIS one here only and it simply reminds me of Sacré-Coeur. However I learned years ago about Sacré-Coeur and I've never liked Thiers' using it as a means of erasing the Communards. So, find me a petition and I will happily sign to have it torn down. 😊🥂

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The Most Classic Game of all time

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A religious building so stunning, it can even make this architecture-loving atheist swoon.
Though Sacré-Coeur in Paris in its Neo-Byzantine-Romanesque style is different, I can never stop thinking of it when the Oratory catches my eye like Sacré-Coeur did when living in Paris.
#architecture #history

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This was the precise moment that encapsulated Conservative hubris, uncouthness, and entitlement in UK Parliament and began the very deserving decline.

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Strange.. whoever this is, I've blocked them.

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A match can be fun even if it's going to be a blow out. Sure, it's more fun when you're cheering for one team to lose than one to win, Labour being far from perfect. Like watching Brasil get picked apart by Germany in 2014, this will be fun... (But, must we sit through the insufferable Ed Balls.🙄)

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Helt riktigt. And since 'B' is a predilection I don't possess, 'C' eliminates several cheeses and other delicacies, and 'A' being essentially a fantasy, I think I'll need to judge places by other criteria. I'd still pick Sweden or Canada. ...for now.

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Ever seen this one?... Hang onto your eyebrows....

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Phil Vasquez's avatar Phil Vasquez @themontrealer.bsky.social
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Please stop using "narrative" if you don't understand what it means.

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If the entire Star Wars universe had been set in a Mucha/Art Nouveau world I'd have possibly gotten into it.

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Almost as horrendous as classic baseball stadium Comiskey Park in Chicago, home of the White Sox and named after baseball legend Charles Comiskey, being renamed "Guaranteed Rate Field" in 2016 after a mortgage company.

US sport commercialisation has never stooped so low.
@ekenskis.bsky.social

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Staples.

For daily cuppas.
For help with amateur detective analysis through year after year of Midsomer Murders episodes.
For working through video games with.
For studying recipes with next to a sous-chef cat.
A tea home is a tea home. Even when it isn't British.

#tea #cuppa #brew

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The fact that Trump after his first term, after the Capitol incident, after the convictions, and after the grotesque uncouthness could still be even tied in the polls with Biden tells you all you need to know about the average American voter. Because it's not a tiny group behind him, it's millions.

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You want a miracle solution to the weight of AI on power grids?

Stop bloody using it and learn how to actually create, film, photograph, design, paint, draw, sketch, compose, write, edit and research things.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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For me it was always "Ordinary People". Just brilliant. A loss of a dying breed. ❤️🇨🇦

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1st US amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

Meantime in Louisiana, further enshrining all that 'land of the free' business...

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/u...

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Like it or not..

"We need to be very, very firm with our messaging that there is no such thing as a mild SARS-Cov-2 infection that does not have prolonged consequences"
- Dr. David Putrino, Dir. of Rehabilitation Innovation at Mt Sinai Health System.

#covidcautious #covid

youtu.be/heT5myyBkNA?...

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Good grief... Weather report seems to be calling for frost in Hell. In other news, pig farmers are reporting some of their stock are growing wings.

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This is tragic in so many ways. People don't want to admit long COVID is real. The worst is not wanting to acknowledge that it happens to children. What's wrong with us humans? Where has our compassion gone? I lament the loss of humanity and sympathy.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

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A timeline of New York's destruction of public health.

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Kids are losing 'huge chunks' of their childhood to long COVID. Too many are being told it's 'all in their head.'

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These flavours go as well together as with anything else. Watermelon, diced feta (ideally sheep and/or goat's milk), extra virgin olive oil is the most incredible contrast with the natural sweetness of the watermelon, and a drizzle of balsamic glaze. The torn basil you throw in just at the end.

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A mandoline is only a tool for cutting things into shapes or slices. Not a peeler. 😊👍

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Mandolins are wonderful for very particular tasks but ONLY the kind that have a hand guard.

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Graters (microplanes ideally) are far better for zesting for most culinary purposes. Zesters are only really useful for strips for cocktails or jams. But ultimately, whatever each cook wants is what they should use. The result is just more useful for cooking from a microplane. You get less pith.

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Visit any cafe that serves "Miscela d'Oro" coffee. Failing that, find a shop that sells their "Gran Crema" ground or as beans to take home. Fantastisk, du kommer gilla det. ☕🤌

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Many of us are going to need to start accepting the very un-human-centric fact that animals are infinitely more intelligent, sensitive, and aware than we've led ourselves to believe for the convenience of doing what we please with them without feeling guilt or shame.

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I thought things were going in a concerning direction when I left France in 2016. But this... this is a development in France I was not expecting to happen quite in this way.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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U.N. Sec General António Guterres:

"the richest 1% on the planet emit as much as two-thirds of all humanity. We cannot accept a future where the rich are protected in air-conditioned bubbles, while the rest of humanity is lashed by lethal weather in unlivable lands,”

fortune.com/2024/06/05/c...

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We are living in an age of denial. Denial of a genocide. Denial of an ongoing pandemic. Denial of a climate crisis. Acknowledging reality is an act of rebellion.

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Love this almost as much as I love ads in vintage cookbooks.

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This is what has killed (for those of us with artistic ambitions) our ability to create projects. Even if I don't do film or writing projects for money, to have the promise of absolutely NO money isn't easy either.

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Well the job looked done for Sweden, but "Russia" just made things complicated with 30 seconds left. Det här blir rena kriget. 🏒

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I saw this the other day... I mean, as if the avoidance of proper measures wasn't already enough. Good to see you here 😊

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I guess not enough teams have been able to cheat their way to the top and FIFA haven't been able to influence who they want ending up at the top of the tables. Time to scrap the only fair officiating system the sport has ever had. Profit over logic. Every time.

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