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Dank Pluslife ist es uns nun schon zum dritten Mal gelungen, asymptomatische Infektionen bei Freunden oder Famlienmitgliedern (😥) aufzudecken und so die Infektionskette zu durchbrechen 💪

Es funktioniert!

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

In late 2023, Amsterdam introduced a 30 km/h limit. A large number of arterials were lowered from 50 km/h, 4,500 signs installed, 140 lights reconfigured, and 200 km of markings adjusted. Aiming to improve safety, liveability and accessibility, 80% of the road network is now at this critical speed.🧵

Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’ On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrent The mayor of Hiroshima has led calls for the world’s most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb. As residents, survivors and representatives from 120 countries gathered at the city’s peace memorial park on Wednesday morning, Kazumi Matsui warned that the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East had contributed to a growing acceptance of nuclear weapons. Continue reading...

Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’

Ein besonderes Gedenken in Hiroshima Eindringlich warnten Überlebende und der Bürgermeister Hiroshimas vor den Gefahren der atomaren Aufrüstung.

Ein besonderes Gedenken in Hiroshima #Hiroshima #Atombombe

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

Well, I'll be damned.

It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.

newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Riesige Regenbogenflagge, ausgebreitet vor der Freitreppe zum Reichstagsgebäude, gesäumt von vielen bunt gekleideten Menschen

Vor dem Bundestag heute Abend!
#CSDBerlin
#Vielfalt
#Pride

In case you are open to other opinions on this, here is someone saying it better than I can:
bsky.app/profile/davi...

Totgeschlagen, totgeschwiegen.
Vor Beginn des #CSDBerlin gedenken wir der von den Nazis ermordeten queeren Menschen. Für viele derjenigen, die überlebten, war 1945 die Unterdrückung nicht zu Ende. Auch in Erinnerung an sie alle gehen wir heute auf die Straße, zum CSD: #NieWiederStill! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Three more months until People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust comes out @uoftpress.bsky.social and translated @williamrossjones.bsky.social
you can preorder below.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Excellent article about how LLMs perform their feats of "magic" by exploiting the same psychological hacks that psychics do when performing cold readings.

::Chefs kiss::

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

There's an upcoming election in Somerville, and the claws are out There is fierce feline competition in the race to elect a new bike path cat mayor.

I keep walking by and hoping to meet one of the candidates. No luck so far.

www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Neue IRENA-Bilanz: Der beschleunigte Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energie kostet die Konzerne 467 Milliarden Euro Asien, Afrika und Südamerika profitieren am meisten vom fossilfreien Strom: Die internationale Erneuerbaren-Agentur IRENA spricht von riesigen Kostenvorteilen für viele Länder.

Bericht: Der weltweite Erneuerbaren-Ausbau bewirkte für Unternehmen in 2024 bereits 467 Mrd. US-Dollar weniger Ausgaben für die Bereitstellung fossiler Brennstoffe. PV war mit 41 % günstiger als die billigste fossile Stromquelle und Onshore-Windkraft die wirtschaftlichste Energieform. #Energiewende

Vietnam setting bans on gasoline motorcycles next year, followed by cars Vietnam is taking bold steps to clean up its streets – and quiet them down. Starting next summer, the major...

Big things happening in Vietnam.

"Starting next summer, the major downtown areas of Hanoi will ban all gasoline-powered motorcycles as part of a program to cut down on emissions."

"City officials have confirmed that it will extend to gasoline-powered cars in later phases."

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

...and wouldn't you know it, those people are making most of the pronouncements! 🤔

I used to commute through that stop.

Congestion pricing is great, but we've gotta do more to stop this.

Photo of a Nanboku Line 乗り換え 出口案内 (transfer and exit guide) on a station platform.

The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.

Just got off the phone with my rep's office; thanks for the post!

YouTube video by Streetfilms® In The City of London Bicycles Now Outnumber Cars

More than a few folks grumbled at first.
Too sweaty. Too hard. Too weird.

And then they tried it. They made the space.
And now?

youtu.be/OunBRdTIe3w?...

59 year-old Aboriginal trans/non-binary person in a selfie wearing a nonbinosaurus shirt.

Happy Non-binary People’s Daaaaaay!
Stuff:
- there are older people who are non-binary.
- there are Indigenous people who are non-binary (but we’re not your ‘proof of concept’).
- the binary is a key element of the colonial project of gender.
-we’re an integral part of our community.

I want to talk about my friend.

I met him at a summer camp for nerds when I was 12, pre-transition. We hit it off immediately, became SUPER close, and our parents would drive us back and forth for sleepovers for the next five years.

He was the first trans person I met. He transitioned in the 90s.

Fawaffle

Pizza Cheese Curd Tacos

Uncrustaburger

Chicken Fried Bacon Fries

It's New Foods at the Minnesota State Fair day, and there's some solid innovations in the Fair Food space here

www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/

🎬 📉The full version of the BBC documentary on degrowth is finally out!⁠
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The piece features ICTA-UAB at the center of the conversation, with insights from our researchers Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel, Isabelle Anguelovski, Panagiota Kotsila and Joan Martinez Alier.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=596d...

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

Turns out that LTNs in London ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’. And without any corresponding increase on the boundaries.
That's good for the victims, good for the NHS and emergency services, and good for the taxpayer too.
LTNs are a very good thing

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

From a certain perspective a successful political action is an incident. And incidents have contributing factors, not one root cause. It’s usually a more or less perfect storm. Is it busywork? Yes! But so is doing the dishes and chopping onions. All necessary for a decent meal

Huge, FREE covid safety resource list | Threat Model Get more from Threat Model on Patreon

Updated, because... you know. #Covid for doctors, hot new masks, voice amplification while masking, very accurate at-home tests, The #LongCovid Game (Haunted Woods), community connections, what to do if you catch Covid, clean air tools, testing tips, and more:

www.patreon.com/posts/huge-f...

Wer das Tempelhofer Feld „Freifläche“ nennt, hat noch nie die Grillwiese bei gutem Wetter gesehen. Oder den Hundeplatz. Oder den anderen Hundeplatz. Oder das Rollschuhfeld. Oder die kl. Tanzbühne. Oder die Community-Gärten. Oder den Biergarten… Öffentlicher Raum ohne Konsumzwang ist Lebensqualität.🤝

I said and meant *Great Lakes* should count – per Wikipedia, they have "long been referred to as inland seas."

With all due respect to the TVA, I had never heard of KY lake before, so I'm inclined not to count it.

Understandably defined for countries, but for states I too feel that the Great Lakes should count. They permit transit to other states and indeed other countries.

EU’s shift to a US savings model risks dismantling its social contract Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’

“All this means a quiet erosion of the social contract. In its place will come the American model: more housing, hospitals, care homes, even the pipes in the ground, becoming assets on a private equity balance sheet, ruthlessly milked for yield.”

www.ft.com/content/052e...