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These Maple-Miso Smashed Cucumbers are a crunchy, no-cook summer side dish with Persian cucumbers, vinegar, white miso, maple syrup, sesame oil, red pepper flakes, and sesame seeds. Salting the cucumbers first keeps the salad punchy instead of watery, making it perfect for cookouts, picnics, and easy weeknight meals. The post Maple-Miso Smashed Cucumbers for a Crunchy Summer Side Dish appeared first on Store-Bought Is Fine.

As long-time readers of this site will know, I have a fascination with television pilots. Let’s be specific about what I mean, here: a true pilot isn’t just the first episode of a TV show. It’s something made separately from the rest of the series, as a first attempt at an idea. I find those […]

The polite version of China’s economic debate goes like this: optimists emphasize institutional capacity and monetary sovereignty; pessimists emphasize real constraints and debt; reasonable people occupy the middle ground and wait for more data. This framing is not wrong so much as it is cowardly—a description of positions that serves everyone’s professional interests and nobody’s analytical ones. The evidence, read without career anxiety, points somewhere more specific:...

After a digression to the interior last time – which will be revisited in a post or two as the exterior heads toward completion – we’re back watching the exterior of the Equitable Trust building at 15 Broad Street inch forwards. As of July 12, 1927, the frame looks to have been topped out. Note […]

The drift from skeptical user to autopilot, and the discipline I built to fight it.

5th May 2026 The real reason we need rules and procedures in public administration * It is a paradox that in the weeks and days before an election people tend to become less interested in law and policy. The focus instead turns to politics and personalities, and the soap opera of who is up and … Continue reading The purpose of processes and policies and law in government is not to make things better, but to stop things being even worse

Three months ago we noted a reference to the City and Guilds sell off scandal during a meeting of the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen. The scandal hasn’t gone away but as what we quoted from the council meeting illustrates, our local authority has attempted to keep its discussions of the matter private. The fact that the City council appears to treat appointments of its members to ‘outside bodies’ rather lightly is a good reason to stop the practice. Nonetheless our...

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