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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 58m

Two #stories from childhood days.

Sky at sunrise and sea, with pictures of food on the horizon: fish, two cherries, a bunch of bananas, a cut open piece of watermelon. Title: The joy and tragedy of food. neenamaiya.substack.com

neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 1h

Mawnin’. Have a happy Sunday. I plan to dig up in the garden.

neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 1h

Toothbrush from sage, I mean.😁

neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 1h

I do prefer the brooms made of palm leaves. Some enterprising person should start up a biz and call it eco-friendly.

Sage (the plant) can grow big and the stems can be pounded until they look like brushes. There’s a tree in the backyard here, I might try it out. I could make a video.

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 4h

Mum told me that in the old days, they made brushes with sage sticks.

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 15h

Whoa. This is sooo cool!! How’s the toothbrush?

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 21h

It depends on if the cook makes it with lots of pepper. My mother didn’t because some of us hated spicy food. Too much pepper can spoil the flavour of the stew sauce, I find.

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 21h

Catch me on neenamaiya.substack.com tomorrow.

A yellow sweet pepper cut in half, looks like a wide open, angry mouth with frowning seeds. Message: coming up tomorrow: 2 food folktales.

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Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social · 1d

Here in Jamaica we could do much more with bamboo (using the non-native, invasive species).

UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 1d

Bamboo can be more than a crop when grown the right way.

This new UN World Restoration Flagship is using bamboo to help communities reduce poverty, create livelihoods and has already restored 200,000ha.

Congratulations to this #GenerationRestoration initiative! https://ow.ly/X6Cu50Xesyo

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 1d

Planning to read this. There are soooooo many things we can do with bamboo. I’ve seen fabulous bamboo houses online (before AI😀) I once mentioned on Twitter (when it was Twitter) that someone should start making toothbrush handles with bamboo.

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 1d

I would say pepperpot…an Amerindian stew. The sauce is made with cassareep (boiled down cassava juice).

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

"AI is creating a generation who can produce passable work but don’t have any usable knowledge or understanding of the material"

Humankind has proved itself to be stupid enough without any help from machine learning, thank you

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

www.theguardian.com

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone, everywhere, loves talking about #food but, I can assure you, no other people can out talk the people of #Guyana when it comes to food. 😅

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 1d

Free rollercoaster ride: taking care of my elderly mum. Yesterday, upset, today, wake up, heartbroken. This video cheers me. When she comes out from the bathroom, I will show it to her. (I’m always looking for happy videos to show her.) #caregiving

youtube.com/shorts/orheQ...

Was not expecting this 😭😭

YouTube video by Plumes

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 3d

Food is life.
Food is land.
Food is roots.
Food is memory.
Food is a right, not a privilege.

On this #WorldFoodDay, as we mark #FAO80, let's all walk together #HandinHand.

Honour our roots and cultivate innovation. Harvest a better future for all.

#4Betters #BetterTogether

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 3d

How does food, lack of food, affect you and the people around you? (Coming up Sunday, two food #stories…)

#WorldFoodDay

Note paper with food graphics: corn, bread, egg, carrot, plantain.
Today is
World Food Day.
The theme is:
"Hand in Hand for Better Food and a
Better Future".
They wrote "Foods' but I can't bring myself to say "FoodS'.)

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 4d

"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit."
P. G. Wodehouse, born on this day in 1881

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 3d

😂😂😂

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