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Undecided with Matt Ferrell As a UI/UX designer by trade, I explore how sustainable and smart technologies impact our lives. And I try to dive deeper into those topics to provide context. Topics like electric vehicles, solar pa...

Matt Ferrell's channel Undecided is good too
www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF

Just Have a Think This channel seeks to understand the issues that face our civilisation in the 21st Century and focusses on the potential solutions that will save as many lives as possible and hopefully bring about a...

Not a podcast, but very informative well researched videos by Dave Borlace www.youtube.com/@JustHaveaTh...

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity! How This Small City Tripled Its Cycling In Just 11 Years

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpWm...

I don't have (can't afford) any subscriptions. I'd love to be able to support all sorts of creators, but the best I can do is keep buying books.

Thank you. Lovely shot (now fraught with added context and meaning).

YouTube video by Lily Alexandre The Psychic Burden of Being Watched

Yes, but the same video is here on YT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gStj...

Thanks so much for what you do @lily-is.online
Two things.
One: I loved that you got the laundry in movement with the failing light shot.
Two: Any chance you can share that wire photo for those of us not on IG? Please?

If you've never watched a @lily-is.online video essay, firstly you are missing out. Secondly, this is a very good (and very relatable) one to start with.

Phrase/ idea of the day: MOTIVATED REASONING
The process by which individuals distort incoming information to align with their prior beliefs, often driven by a conflict between the motivation for accuracy and the desire to reach preferred conclusions.
www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psych....

Walter Macken - Flight of the Dubs.
Or given the amount of time spent waiting, Beckett should get the arrivals or departure hall, with a dedicated Giacometti tree.

Climate: Imagine how different things would be if politicians had to use public transport Long lead-in times, a lack of sustained policy commitment, and start-stop approaches to big projects all contributed to where we are now

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

I've been to people's homes and accepted offered coffee and had to deal with a foul brew cut with chicory. Noxious stuff/acquired taste.

Calculators were never designed to replace mathematicians, and never have and never will. LLMs are from the outset designed to imitate and ultimately replace humans and are already costing people their livelihoods (artists, editors, translators, coders, traders ...)

link goes to "electrict" (sic) literature dot com

Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Torrey Peters, and Samanta Schweblin are among our favorites of the year

here's a link that works
electricliterature.com/electric-lit...

YouTube video by Thomas Flight Why AI "Art" Feels So Wrong

AI is to art what UPFs (Ultra Processed Foods) are to cooking. You CAN consume them, but the process by which they are made and the satisfaction and benefits that they give are not the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...

YouTube video by Shanti Shree Pariyar Launa ni bhaiya लौन नि भैया - Shanti Shree Pariyar • Paul Shah • Anjali Adhikari• New Teej Song 2081

If you want to know what Nepal's jeep taxi drivers are currently listening to at a million decibels while negotiating scary hairpin bends on landslid mountain roads (what am I saying IF? Of course you want to know). The video is great too.
#visitnepal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKHC...

black t shirt: Hating traffic on top of 4 hands "pedestrians" "Cyclists" Drivers " Transit Users"

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Thank you Julian

With my brainfruit

Signed copies of Lime Pickled and Tropical Madness, now available at Gerakbudaya bookshop, Penang.

Somewhat forgotten visitors to Vietnam Episode #714: Gerald Scarfe (1967-1968) The British illustrator Gerald Scarfe came to Vietnam for about a year in the mid 1960s. Here's what I know about his time in the country, which he toured with the journalist Richard West.

A story from @connla-stokes.bsky.social
connla.substack.com/p/somewhat-f...

Be there, or be somewhere else

Thank for sharing

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If you happen to be in Penang next Friday, or know someone who is.

Well this aged well. My razor is still going well. Meanwhile Lecornu's prime ministership is already over. I could have bet a lettuce.

Tauthali celebrates curd-splashing festival Locals mark centuries-old ritual with curd-throwing and tantric worship.

Some great photos here
kathmandupost.com/visual-stori...

People could shed their skins like snakes?