Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
These little hardback editions from Simply Foxed are just gorgeous.
Do electric vehicles use more water than petrol cars?
As ever, it’s not just about switching to EVs - it’s about the source of the electricity you use.
Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚
Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
Om Malik with the headline of the day there.
We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities.
Good fences and all that…
The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken up and privatised. These images are from a meet they held in Edinburgh, back in the late 80s.
Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1
Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚
Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And all the other huge platforms. There would still be one global town square left. It’s called the web. The web itself IS the global town square.
Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo labs.
The first update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support.
Wondering how many readers will get the joke that I called @ianbetteridge “lawfully chaotic” in my latest newsletter/post…
Don’t get sloppy with AI — make sure whatever you do is intentional, and audience-focused.
When a Guardian journalist asked climate experts what they expect to happen. The results are terrifying:
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south,” said a South African scientist, who chose not to be named. “The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”
Why are so many journalists still wary — or even ashamed — of the word “blog” after 25 years?
Lovely tribute to CJ Sansom and his quiet faith in the ability of humans who can walk the middle path to improve the world.