Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for April 14, 2024 - GoComics
Incentives are (almost) everything.
IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024
Very interesting write-up, echoing many of my own feelings from IndieWeb camps. Sorry to have missed discussion of the evolutionary history of camels.
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.
Putin's genocidal myth, by Timothy Snyder
Not that it will make any difference ...
How green are Europe's railways? - Jon Worth
I am always impressed when people with really deep knowledge make it easy for me to understand what they are saying, and Jon Worth's railway analyses are a recent discovery in that realm.
A railway trip is green. But the railway sector as a whole in Europe – due to a combination of factors within the industry and political problems – is incapable of making a step change in terms of modal share. In the middle of a climate crisis that is not good enough.
He offers reasons why this is so and ways to fix it, but little hope.