(btw: second photo is England, rather than Ireland. it's the cover photo from the Hull Playing Out group: www.facebook.com/groups/17160...)

The Town Hall Square used to be full of cars too: e.g. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

… and that's not even counting the extra parallel lanes for parking / access to the buildings and garages, e.g at maps.app.goo.gl/WNeFm7dxTvnu... where you could conceivably count 10 driving lanes, plus parking, plus foot/cycle-paths

www.ft.com/content/0e24...

htmlq (github.com/mgdm/htmlq) should install cleanly from homebrew, and lets you extract by any CSS selector. "Find all the links in a page" is one of the examples given (though doing it recursively would be a bit more involved.)

Some of the semi-standard custom feeds can be a good middle-ground between the political firehose and taking time to build up your own. Quiet Posters bsky.app/profile/why.... hits the sweet spot well for me

Oh, that's a spectacularly fun read. The opening description of him "a Belarusian adventurer, international swindler and pretender who attempted to seize the monarchy of the Principality of Andorra" would certainly have lured me in, but it barely does justice to the story at all

Yep, and multiple studies have shown that, on average, people ride more often and further with e-bikes, leading to increased overall physical activity.

Sticking to custom feeds can help a lot, though discoverability of them is pretty terrible. "Quiet Posters" usually hits the sweet spot for me (after getting all the rage posts du jour out of the way via "Popular With Friends")

Perhaps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thief... ?

Heh, thanks. It's likely I enjoy writing it more than anyone else enjoys reading it, but rest-of-the-world news is getting drowned out more than ever, and people actually losing office turns out to be useful frame for getting beyond the kabuki

And since last month, Kaliningrad is now also cut off from all external electricity supply.