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Yes, it took about a month to enable free links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Aha! I used to cycle past one of those in Siston, just off the Bristol-Bath Railway Path, but I was pretty much entirely unaware of what it was.
People of all ages and abilities wearing regular attire ride sturdy, upright bicycles on the streets of central Osaka.
People of all ages and abilities wearing regular attire ride sturdy, upright bicycles on the streets of central Osaka.
People of all ages and abilities wearing regular attire ride sturdy, upright bicycles on the streets of central Osaka.
People of all ages and abilities wearing regular attire ride sturdy, upright bicycles on the streets of central Osaka.
With 29% of all trips made by bike and 64% of bike trips made by women, Osaka is a cycling city beyond compare. What makes it even more remarkable is these gains were made in spite of very little dedicated infrastructure. So what can we learn from a place that didn't build it, and they came anyway?🧵
(btw: second photo is England, rather than Ireland. it's the cover photo from the Hull Playing Out group: www.facebook.com/groups/17160...)
Tallinn Raekoja Plats full of parked cars in the 1970s
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
"Arguably the most lucrative innovation to come out of Silicon Valley in the past decade and a half has been a willingness to break the law. "
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Today, Bolivians will vote to decide the fate of their democracy.
"[Bolivia] is a nation rich in strategic resources, sitting at the crossroads of the Andes and the Amazon, and increasingly targeted by authoritarian powers. What happens here will ripple across the region."
Copy of the book 'Designing Inclusive Public Toilets' in front of white bathroom tiles. In the foreground is a rubber duck.
My book is published today 📚. It’s called Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People, written with @jo-anneb.bsky.social. It’s part inclusive design guide, part manifesto for better public toilets 🚽. Buy copies for all your friends! 🎁. Here’s what you’ll find inside 🧵
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
By far my favorite part of South Korean elections: election night graphics. SBS television station kills it EVERY. TIME. They play these clips all night and they get more and more unhinged and creative as the night goes on.
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
Ooh, the pope has appointed a new Bishop of Urgell: press.vatican.va/content/sala...
Which, because crazy history, means a new Head of State in Andorra: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-prin...
Yep, and multiple studies have shown that, on average, people ride more often and further with e-bikes, leading to increased overall physical activity.
I completely missed this story at the time, but en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ch... is setting off all my "Rabbit Hole! Rabbit Hole! Back away quickly!" alarms…
In this new guest post for Moldova Matters Jules shares his experience and impressions of biking around Moldova. Through stories and (amazing) photos he describes the hospitality and beauty of this small country.
open.substack.com/pub/moldovam...
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")
Tracking down info on someone who's vanished from the Government of Myanmar website was difficult enough without getting sidetracked by idly wondering why we still call the language "Burmese"… and then deciding to find out. 30 minutes later, I've learned enough to understand much less than before.
The judges of the National Superior Court found that Humala and Heredia received almost $3 million in illegal contributions from Odebrecht and the government of then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
apnews.com/article/peru...
I'm not sure if it's more shameless or less if it's not actually Patreon, but it's been a while since I plugged Shuffled — the weekly guide to what's going on everywhere else in the world, told through the lens of the political defenestrations that rarely get international coverage. So duly plugged.
I just need everyone to watch this and understand I have been laughing about it for 24 hours
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
Spent a while at the weekend wondering where all the new Shuffled subscribers were coming from. Turns out it was this week's webcurios (thanks @mattmuir.bsky.social) [Beware though: even with claimed reading time of 37 minutes", that's likely an order of magnitude low if you start following links…]
And since last month, Kaliningrad is now also cut off from all external electricity supply.
What if you could explore Wikipedia on a map?
A little project I've been building with a friend over the past months!
wikiexplore.org
Yes please. There's a huge amount of interesting and important news from the rest of the world, and it's all being drowned out. Though even at the tiny scale of what I'm doing with Shuffled, it's almost impossible to completely filter out the US as they have disproportionate effect everywhere.
I fully admit that I'm biased when it comes to Ukraine. I fully admit that I'm emotional. That's why I tried to use a variety of sources in this rather long article and keep it as factual as possible. I hope I've succeeded.
open.substack.com/pub/ireneken...
