Mill Glen
@millglen.bsky.social
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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1️⃣ Under Mayor Ada Colau, Barcelona completely rewrote the rules of urban space: reclaiming a million square metres for pedestrians, tripling its cycle network to 273 kilometres, adding 80 hectares of green space, halving car traffic, and cutting street-level air pollution by 20% in just eight years.
December 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
1️⃣ Under Mayor Ada Colau, Barcelona completely rewrote the rules of urban space: reclaiming a million square metres for pedestrians, tripling its cycle network to 273 kilometres, adding 80 hectares of green space, halving car traffic, and cutting street-level air pollution by 20% in just eight years.
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Whenever anyone from a rural place in the UK visits London, the main thing we marvel at is the ability to hop on the tube any time and travel miles across the city. I've seen it over and over - people from villages gushing about the novelty of not having to wait hours for public transport.
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Whenever anyone from a rural place in the UK visits London, the main thing we marvel at is the ability to hop on the tube any time and travel miles across the city. I've seen it over and over - people from villages gushing about the novelty of not having to wait hours for public transport.
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Small businesses fail all the time because there's only so many customers that can physically get to them. People are isolated because they and their neighbours have to commute at unsociable hours (for which their workplaces don't compensate them). "Walkable cities" is only one part of the puzzle.
December 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Small businesses fail all the time because there's only so many customers that can physically get to them. People are isolated because they and their neighbours have to commute at unsociable hours (for which their workplaces don't compensate them). "Walkable cities" is only one part of the puzzle.
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A reminder that Arctic sea ice is one of the key tipping points. White ice reflects sunlight, dark water absorbs it. once that sea ice goes, we won’t get it back. No ice at the North Pole. And the Earth’s capacity to absorb energy from the sun will increase even faster.
Arctic sea ice *lowest on record.*
2 million km2 below the 1980s.
The Arctic may be going first, but everywhere else will follow.
2 million km2 below the 1980s.
The Arctic may be going first, but everywhere else will follow.
Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) 🛠️🧪
• about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A reminder that Arctic sea ice is one of the key tipping points. White ice reflects sunlight, dark water absorbs it. once that sea ice goes, we won’t get it back. No ice at the North Pole. And the Earth’s capacity to absorb energy from the sun will increase even faster.
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Groups and artists you wish had made Christmas albums:
Tindersticks
Sigur Rós
Max Richter
Matmos
Hania Rani
Tindersticks
Sigur Rós
Max Richter
Matmos
Hania Rani
Groups and artists you wish had made Christmas albums:
Jonathan Richman
Cocteau Twins
Bobby Hutcherson
The Everly Brothers
Blossom Dearie
Jonathan Richman
Cocteau Twins
Bobby Hutcherson
The Everly Brothers
Blossom Dearie
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Groups and artists you wish had made Christmas albums:
Tindersticks
Sigur Rós
Max Richter
Matmos
Hania Rani
Tindersticks
Sigur Rós
Max Richter
Matmos
Hania Rani
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A Kranky Christmas Gift For You: released circa 1998 and featuring GYBE, Stars Of The Lid, Labradford, Tim Hecker etc stretching traditional festive fare into horizonless winter whiteouts, aided by a guests including a Sinking Of The Titanic-style brass band
December 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A Kranky Christmas Gift For You: released circa 1998 and featuring GYBE, Stars Of The Lid, Labradford, Tim Hecker etc stretching traditional festive fare into horizonless winter whiteouts, aided by a guests including a Sinking Of The Titanic-style brass band
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Current* conditions near Allouez Township, MI:
December 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Current* conditions near Allouez Township, MI:
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Happy Christmas. Here is Anois, Os Ard's 30 favourite Irish releases of 2025 ✨
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AOA’s Best Irish Music of 2025
A personal overview of the albums and EPs that made 2025 such a significant year for Irish music
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December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Happy Christmas. Here is Anois, Os Ard's 30 favourite Irish releases of 2025 ✨
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anoisosard.substack.com/p/aoas-best-...
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Step 1: Manhattan.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Step 1: Manhattan.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
Step 2: Everywhere else.
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Good Day!
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Good Day!
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
A Moonlit Winter Landscape by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Date unknown
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
Always had a soft spot for Chris Rea, in a Dire Straits kind of way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-...
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Chris Rea - The Road to Hell Pt 2 (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chris Rea
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December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Always had a soft spot for Chris Rea, in a Dire Straits kind of way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-...
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I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
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If we're to turn the tide on nature loss, we're going to need a government that treats it with the level of priority that was given to holding on to the nitrates derogation
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Habitats report a stark contrast to nitrates decision
Biodiversity collapse is not a lost cause, but Government failure to prioritise it is devastating for all those working on nature restoration
www.irishexaminer.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If we're to turn the tide on nature loss, we're going to need a government that treats it with the level of priority that was given to holding on to the nitrates derogation
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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New substack: why so many people are content with economic stagnation: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wallowing-...
Wallowing in poverty
Why we're not bothered about economic growth.
chrisdillow.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
New substack: why so many people are content with economic stagnation: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wallowing-...
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Current* conditions near Whitefish, MI:
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Current* conditions near Whitefish, MI:
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Chuffed to see the inclusion of the Birds In The Brickwork EP 'Coastal Study #1' in this lovely article from Stationary Travels!
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
2025 in Review: A Sense of Place and Time
The act of creating a sense of a place or capturing a moment in time is a relatively common motif in the realm of instrumental music, especially in the ambient and adjacent genres, but this co…
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December 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Chuffed to see the inclusion of the Birds In The Brickwork EP 'Coastal Study #1' in this lovely article from Stationary Travels!
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
Again, loads of stuff I've yet to discover too.
Have a look!
stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/2...
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Your 'doom quote' for today:
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer-updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irrep…
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December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
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My Brian Wilson memorial for @mojomagazine.bsky.social is now online. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
"Music takes what’s inside me and puts it into the world..."
MOJO celebrates Brian Wilson: a true genius who hymned the American dream and its shadow flipside with raw spirituality and symphonic sophistication.
www.mojo4music.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My Brian Wilson memorial for @mojomagazine.bsky.social is now online. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
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Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?
Yeah, as I was saying...
Yeah, as I was saying...
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?
Yeah, as I was saying...
Yeah, as I was saying...
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'Cobbled Bridge' by Trevor Grimshaw (1947-2001).
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
'Cobbled Bridge' by Trevor Grimshaw (1947-2001).