Even aside from the environmental expense and the financial expense of driving a car, people who drive everywhere must miss out on so much. Another joy of living in a walkable, bikeable city – you're constantly falling across the most random stuff that adds delight to the day. Stuff you’d never see from a car.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 06:08:29 JST Ciara -
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 18:06:26 JST Ciara Apparently there’s a conspiracy theory that 15-minute cities are urban prisons where residents must wear QR codes that track their restricted movements. As opposed to the reality: mixed-use neighbourhoods so handy that signposts can use walking minutes as the unit of distance to the library, theatres, cafés, community services, museums, parks and shops.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 17:26:45 JST Ciara Børsen, the 17th century landmark former Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, is in flames. Nobody injured, thankfully. But a cultural tragedy.
Because there are no casualties, I hope it won’t seem flippant if I note that I got the breaking news that Børsen is burning through Mastodon when @nichobi posted a live photo. I remarked on it to a few colleagues. They hadn’t heard about it yet. So here we are. Getting our live news through the Fediverse, the way Odin intended.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 03:49:27 JST Ciara -
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 16:45:42 JST Ciara @me :-)
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 16:33:55 JST Ciara @me Welcome to the neighbourhood! And congratulations on building your own home - I hope you are very happy in your new, own instance. :-) Have a lovely weekend.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 22:13:40 JST Ciara We need a word for real-life enshittification caused by online culture. Like being unable to find an organisation’s info because they’ve Instagram but no website. Or panicked people being sent a videolink to download to their phone when they ring for an ambulance. Or being excluded from residents' association news if you're not on Facebook. Or having cash payment refused. Or staff in the business you’re physically standing in telling you to find the answer to your question on their website.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 16:25:45 JST Ciara Apparently I’m a ‘menace’ to walk around with in other towns because I keep assuming I have the right of way. I’m used to streets where cars are allowed, but they must yield to pedestrians and cyclists. So I unthinkingly wander in the middle of the road in other cities too, gathering cars behind me like a pied piper until a sighing friend pulls me aside. As I stand with all the other people forced aside to let 1 driver in 1 car pass, I wonder: who’s the real menace here?
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 19:30:25 JST Ciara The cure for cockiness: write AltText. Nothing reminds me quicker how little I know about anything. 'What are those weird indentation thingys? What do you call those fancy edges? What's that shape that’s like a rectangle but has an arch on top? Wait, is it oblong? Wait, what’s the difference between an oblong and a rectangle? Is the window in a belfry, is there a bell? Oh no, maybe it’s a door not a window and I'm just spreading fake news in the Fediverse.'
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 19:30:24 JST Ciara I love the fact that AltText makes me look closer and better and harder at the world that’s in front of me. I see details that I just glanced past before. I notice facts about them, but I also notice the way things make me ‘feel’.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 05:38:33 JST Ciara “It's absolutely fantastic that as a citizen, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.”
Librarian’s remark after Göteborg Main Library was accidentally left unlocked at Halloween and 400 people wandered in. ‘People sat reading newspapers. There were families in the children's section and people looking books up in the database. 200 books were borrowed and nothing was damaged.’
Thanks to @mrsostberg for sharing this. Am sharing in English as it’s so nice.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 07:22:54 JST Ciara I need a word for the feeling you get when you see someone you’re close to chat away in a second language that you don’t understand. This person you know deeply is having a casual conversation with other people. You recognise their gestures and facial expressions and the way they punctuate with smiles. You recognise their ums and ems, hums and haws. But you don’t understand a word they are saying. It's a particular feeling. A mix of ‘uncanny’, ‘admiration’, 'fascination' and 'parallel universe'.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 21:03:50 JST Ciara “Did you get around to reading it?”
“Borrow the books you didn’t get around to when they first came out.”
Thank Odin for librarians, out here championing older and overlooked books. Reminding you about that book you meant to read when it was new and talked-about, then forgot about.
Not only do we not need to bring money to the library, but the librarians aren’t trying to convince us all the time that we always need the newest shiniest product. Socialism rocks.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 17:51:35 JST Ciara @aral Thank you for the kind perspective. I try to keep both tracks in mind - we need major and drastic collective change, and we each need to contribute too. Now you have me wondering if anyone on a private jet chastises themselves about their flight and I think you're right, they don't even think of it.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 17:30:37 JST Ciara I vowed off #FrivolousFlights several years ago. With the exception of one journey to immediate family that isn't possible by train and ferry on an ordinary budget (time and money). I was just wondering if there's a word for this, for someone who pledged not to fly, except when it's unavoidable, and realised there is. The word is 'hypocrite'.
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 20:42:20 JST Ciara A wet saddle? This made me realise that I’ve lost the habit of putting a rain cover on my saddle every time I park my bike. I’ve always done that, all year round, unthinkingly.
When did I stop doing that? A few weeks ago? A few days ago? How quickly did a period of drought become so normal to me? My personal baseline is Danish and Irish weather, for pity’s sake. When did I stop taking it for granted that water might fall out of the sky on any given day?
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 22:10:18 JST Ciara Okay, new rule
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Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 11:00:39 JST Ciara Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.