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Ivan Morison and Heather Peak's project Soft Machines has been working on me over the time it's been up. My first reaction wasn't completely positive, I felt like they were kind of Telly Tubbies, and then when I read the blurb about them it just seemed tiresome and that might really have said more about my mood than any objective or even fully subjective response, just a reaction - nope.

I'm glad they're where they are because now I've seen them several times from different angles and in different weather. Taking the dog onto the Lawns in the morning they've become like friends who say 'Yoo hoo!' and now I feel like I don't want them taken down. I know that the materials are temporary and if they weren't taken down they'd wear away, but we already have the West Pier, and are somewhat habituated to watching a wearing away.

They're still a bit Telly Tubby, but in a way that I have become fond of.

I stumbled across this book from another post recently that completely changed how I think about food.

We’re so used to fridges, supermarkets, and next day delivery that I honestly never stopped to think about how people actually ate before all that existed. This book is basically a collection of old recipes that were designed to last months or even years without refrigeration. The same kind of food our great grandparents (and great great grandparents) relied on.

What surprised me most wasn’t even the recipes, it was the mindset. Everything was about making food stretch, using what you had, and not relying on systems that could disappear overnight. Reading it made me realize how dependent we are now compared to even a couple generations ago.

I’ve tried a handful of the recipes so far. Some are definitely outside my normal rotation, but a few were genuinely good and oddly satisfying knowing they’d keep without power or fancy storage.

It’s less of a cookbook and more of a little history lesson disguised as one. Made me appreciate how resilient people used to be, especially when it came to food. I wanted to make this post as a bit of a shoutout to the creators for putting it together and the person who shared it here a couple months back (I couldn't find the old post to go back and comment).

Here's the website I bought the cookbook from, it's a pretty niche book so I don't think it's available on any mainstream platforms - survivalsuppers.com

There's a whole load of red ribbons with keys and QR codes attached along the underpass from the train station. I'm really curious but feel like scanning the QR codes too risk. What do you think? Marketing? Social action related? Aliens???

There’s filming going on on Palmeira Square. I assumed it was Grace (it’s nearly always Grace) but unless it’s an unexpected time travel episode it’s not. Also the fire truck says London Fire Brigade. So it looks like Palmeira is playing London. The fire truck doesn’t look contemporaneous to the car, but I assume my casual opinion is not the same as whatever research they’ve done. When I was walking the dog this morning she stopped for a poo by the car and when I went to pick it up (the poo not the car) I noticed the car door was open a crack.

I made these concept designs for a hoodie and t-shirt to show my love for Brighton! They're a spin on the famous 'Virginia is For Lovers' ad campaign and I made my own version after thinking a lot about the far right nonsense that is happening at the moment. The response from the Brighton community has been so powerful, and it makes me proud to live here. These are a reminder that Brighton is a place for lovers, not haters! Ps, I'm not selling these, I just wanted to share them with Brighton's Reddit community! I may print some in the near future and donate the money to charity if people like them! You can find me on Instagram: samueljarchive for updates :)

So it looks like Southern Water has dumped sewage in the Sea again today. What I'm struggling to wrap my head around is how they can justify it, it barely rained in Brighton and Hove today in the early morning, at .4" of rainfall in total with a maximum of .1" each hour between 6-8. This amount of rainfall falls into the category of light rain/drizzle. In view of this, how can Southern Water justify dumping sewage in the sea, are they claiming that their infrastructure can't handle a couple of hours of light rainfall? From my experience of living in B&H, it seems like the sewage overflow is activated basically any time it rains, is this normal for B&H? Looking for some answers here as last time I checked, half my water bill was "wastewater" related, but it seems like I'm just paying for polluting the sea every time it rains a little. https://datahq.sas.org.uk/sewage-data-hq/is-it-safe-to-swim/

See alerts https://ibb.co/k6rmcZGz

See rainfall from weather app https://ibb.co/jZvG4L0K

https://www.bikeregister.com/stolen.../cube-nuride-e3472f96

£100 Bounty for anyone who can recover my stolen bike, or I’ll split that evenly between anyone with vital information that leads to the recovery of it.

It was stolen on the 29th of April from the car park of Varndean School, around 18:00.

Please spread this post like wildfire as I really need this back if possible (unlikely I know but I'm still going to do everything I can).

Thank you

Sunset….but where?