Also, when you move in with somebody who also has all their books on an ereader, you don't double your collection...

Love books (the ones I like, anyway), just want to point out a secondary benefit: shelves of books are also excellent sound dampeners - rooms without them can sound hollow, echoey.

@techaltar.bsky.social just posted about his interview with the CEO of Vanmoof, could be of interest!

I was wondering about the typical European delivery van / minibus, like the Ford Transit or Opel Vivaro, which don't feel like they contribute to bloat. Is their cab-forward, stubby-hood design a factor, or are there just too few of them to constitute a societal danger?

Wait, what - they're banning... oh, I see: Internal Combustion Engines, not the trains. Phew!

Thanks for raising this! I'm not in Ireland, but a relative there recently went so far as to try joining the Green Party, who are completely out of touch with the issue. Politics / politicians need to be be woken up and deloused (I mean de-lobbied) for change to happen. Good luck, power to you!

There's a statue to the Russian Prince Alexander Obolenski, WWII fighter pilot and then England rugby international, in Ipswich news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news... Or do you mean people who helped to *form* the armed forces?

That essay by Jay Griffiths - just wow. Thanks for sharing and for writing so openly and persuasively about... all of this.

100%. Perhaps @carolecadwalla.bsky.social could chat with @caseyjohnston.bsky.social about reasons and solutions?

www.platformer.news/why-platform...

It's gone again. But it still got me thinking, perhaps an opportunity for a refresh...!

As an occasional blogger now moving to a new provider, it's been shocking to see how many of my links from just ten years ago are now to error messages. I guess I'll have to do more screenshot and description work on my future posts, so they still make sense ten years from now...

Will there be a setting to turn off autoplay?

One word missing from the article is "city": these appear to be largely liberal islands amidst a broad swath of "countrysidists" with deeper historical roots