Accessibility notes from your headache-prone friend
TIL that ”the curb cut effect,” which I was familiar with, is “also known as the « i want subtitles on my favourite show because even though my ears are just fine, i like to eat crisps while watching » rule”.
My ears, by the way, are not fine.
Peasants are not revolting. Farmers are revolting
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That’s my take on the agricultural unrest happening across Europe.
Of course we would not be here if we still relied on peasant farmers and the meagre surplus that could be extracted from them without actually killing them. Nevertheless, today’s farmers are not their descendants.
Just one item in the latest Issue of Eat This Newsletter.
2024-02-24
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240224-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.8765579, 12.46266
* Saturday 24 February, 2024
* 423.34 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
In the garden of a nunnery.
2024-02-23
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240223-B-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.895401, 12.453739
* Friday 23 February, 2024
* 423.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
NB: The bicycle quest was a lot closer than the walking quest, but it was still a good long walk of 7.5km round trip.
Also, while the quest itself was visually boring, it was very close to the Russian Orthodox church, which is less so.
I'm not going to be deleting any drafts on 29 February, because I don't have any. Well, maybe a couple for ongoing client work. All my own "drafts" are just notes that may or may not end up as published things, so they don't represent any kind of drain or debt, for me.