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I know most people aren't vegetarian, and I promise I am not judging anyone for what they eat. Life is both too complicated and too short for that. But, I am surprised when new hip-looking restaurants open with hardly any vegetarian options on offer. I guess it's a reminder that the hipster […]

@moof Telephone number is not required. They imply everywhere that phone or email is necessary but in the fine print of the legal page it says:

“Each piece of luggage left on the train must be able to be identified as belonging to a passenger, visibly bearing the surname and given name of the […]

For the next Biking Barcelona video I wanted some footage from the Netherlands of a particular kind of bicycle – pedestrian intersection to contrast it with the solution used here. I asked my brother but…the town where he lives has such nice road design that they have essentially eliminated this […]

17th November I release my #CrossChannelRail report on the future of the Channel Tunnel. In person in Brussels, and online.

Do sign up for the launch event! […]

The right is obsessed with virtue signaling culture wars and disrespecting our history. — The current HQ of the Spanish National Police in Catalonia* is located in what used to house the Political-Social Brigade, the fascist dictatorship’s secret police. During that time the building was a […]

Israel just arrested the person who leaked videos of (absolutely horific) prisoner abuse for smearing Israel's reputation and this is being treated as a way bigger deal (especially by Bibi &Co.) than the abuse itself…so dark.

Close up of two cups of coffee, one with latte art and the other just plain, on a stainless steel table.

Bicycle locked up outside to a Sheffield style rack. The one in front is a Dutch style city bike with chipped red paint.

Coffeeneuring 4 of 7. Today's route happened to mostly follow this video I once made for YouTube and recently uploaded to PeerTube: https://tube.todon.eu/w/xcSPssoPfa7Ao25k6XSg4B … also, I filmed footage for the follow up video to that one on coffeeneuring № 2 and […]

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La castanyada és 3,5 graus més càlida que ara fa 100 anys La temperatura a Barcelona ha pujat el dia de la castanyada. Les dades de l'Observatori Fabra ens mostren que menjar castanyes amb fred és cada cop més complicat.

@cdamian apparently it was the warmest castanyada on record! https://beteve.cat/medi-ambient/castanyes-temperatura-clima/

A football stand with a large tifo that reads Palestina Vencera and an image of a face wrapped in a keffiya against a background of the Palestinian colors.

Another night of local neighborhood football here. Let's go #CEEuropa!

There is also an ultra group whose logo contains the british rail double arrow. They appear to be called the outsiders but I have yet to find an online presence. I don't know if they are train fans, or just Brits, or if it's just coincidence.

A football stand with a large tifo that reads Palestina Vencera and an image of a face wrapped in a keffiya against a background of the Palestinian colors.

Another night of local neighborhood football here. Let's go #CEEuropa!

Photo of two cups of coffee, one with milk the other without, and a brownie.

Photo of the outside of glass shop window. There is a panda face logo on tbe glass. People are sitting at tables outside drinking coffee and inside you can see someone ordering at a bar.

Coffeeneuring 3 of 7! We headed over to Sant Andreu, which is a neighborhood that I have passed by/through from time to time but never really stopped in. It's very friendly. Barcelona is so much more than Ciutat Vella + Eixample!

A very schematic hand drawn map on a small index card made up of lines and abbreviated street names.

About to head out another #coffeeneuring. Because it's within town it feels silly to pull out the Garmin Edge I use for bicycle touring. But, going to a part of town I don't usually frequent (which is part of the point/joy of this exercise!) so even though I know […]

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@ekes ah thanks, fixed!

Game changing. No need for the evil overlord. `about:translation` is right there! (I'll see how it does with more complex texts but it seems at least adequate.)

https://metasocial.com/@trs/115467075855938295

@cdamian Wilders &co. basically have no policy plans beyond "be mean to immigrants". It's the first thing in their party platform. The rest is a hodgepodge of economic and social policy that is mostly knee-jerk populism. What frustrates me is that the left failed to clearly say, "People are […]

A data visualization showing how people who voted PVV in 2023 voted this year. 52% stayed with the PVV. 11% did not vote. 9% voted VVD. 8% voted JA21. 6% voted FvD. With increasingly smaller percentages voting for other parties.

To the extent that the PVV "lost" those voters went to "didn't vote", the VVD (hard right), JA21 (far right), and FvD (far right). This was not a shift to the left. The PVV had their chance to govern the past 11 months, and mucked it up very badly. People want a […]

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It's good that Wilders will (probably) not be part of the next government, but… This election does not feel like a victory but only a stay of execution. Although W's party lost 11 seats, the other far right parties collectively gained 12. PvdaA/GL (labor) lost 5 seats, and SP (socialists) & Volt […]

Sometimes I don't know what irks me more, intellectual dishonesty or intellectual laziness.

#NotASubToot

One more one last thought… As I have said, voters turned away from Wilders because of his ineffectiveness in government and not out of repudiation of his positions. I think the left singularly failed to make the argument that it's not that the PVV is incompetent but that it's fundamentally […]

One last #nlpol thought: Who the hell is voting for 50PLUS? There is so much at stake and you go vote for a party without ideology. But then, looking at their campaign program (which is difficult because their website is somewhat borked) it's basically "we want nice things but we don't want to […]

A data visualization showing how people who voted PVV in 2023 voted this year. 52% stayed with the PVV. 11% did not vote. 9% voted VVD. 8% voted JA21. 6% voted FvD. With increasingly smaller percentages voting for other parties.

To the extent that the PVV "lost" those voters went to "didn't vote", the VVD (hard right), JA21 (far right), and FvD (far right). This was not a shift to the left. The PVV had their chance to govern the past 11 months, and mucked it up very badly. People want a […]

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It's good that Wilders will (probably) not be part of the next government, but… This election does not feel like a victory but only a stay of execution. Although W's party lost 11 seats, the other far right parties collectively gained 12. PvdaA/GL (labor) lost 5 seats, and SP (socialists) & Volt […]

A data visualization showing the average household income by census district in Barcelona. It is clear that the north west is by far the wealthiest, followed by the area around Passeig de Gràcia. Peripheral areas in the west and north west are the poorest.

I'm a luddite. I'm not in tech and I don't particularly love computers but… the fact that I can just access this data and write a few lines of code to visualize it is neat-o. This is average household income by census tract in 2023. I won't end up using it for what […]

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Een oranje envelop met een adres in Den Haag voor kiezers in het buitenland.

Ik heb ook gestemd … weken geleden eigenlijk omdat ik mijn stembiljet per post moest versturen.

#nlpol

… but then another customer had to come around to properly take payment because the system is in Portuguese (and the organization idiosyncratic) and she couldn't find the right drinks.

As I was writing this the owner/barista was so busy talking with the ceramics guy that another regular jumped behind the bar to make coffee for the guitar shop guy who came in for his usual.

My local coffee shop has a very social atmosphere where we regulars know each other and everyone chats with everyone. But, I think we needs pins with "my preferred language is…" or something. We usually default to Spanish, but with so much Catalan, Portuguese, English, and other I often feel […]

I support abolishing day light savings time, if only because the four legged friends don't understand it and are demanding their meals at inconvenient times.

@jon This is the content we want!