Rich, defensible, genuinely democratic, utterly unconcerned with the world outside its clearly-defined borders

Христос Воскресе!🕊️

How children draw their experience of travelling to school Driving on the left… walking on the right (Via Margrit Stamm)

Place des Vosges, jewel of Paris, between greenery and historic architecture

The failure of our planning system for rivers, in one photo. The River Roding through Ilford is in the worst state of anywhere on the river: canalised in concrete, covered in rubbish, polluted with sewage & road runoff & forgotten about. So when a developer was given permission

My favorite animal: takes no crap gives no crap; just don't mess with it.

The majority of people care more about their reputation than their integrity; they are scared of being labeled. This is the trick used by that "certain lobby group" to terrorize them into submission. But the trick fails with right wing excentrics such as Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸.

That doesn't mean you should let AI take over your life though. For example, you shouldn't let it do your writing for you. Writing is thinking, and you need to be able to do that for yourself.

There is a toxic type of person to avoid— the kind obsessed with hierarchy, constantly ranking everyone: net worth, IQ, number of publications,academic titles & citations, cycling FTP, 5K running speed, education, etc. They are miserable & want you to be miserable too.

Love this photo... A small Mobil gas station in Modena, Italy, by Luigi Ghirri (1973)

During Mass at the Cathedral of Albano, Pope Leo XIV reminds us that faith is born in silence. In a world full of noise and distractions, we need to recover our intimacy with God: “make room for silence, for listening to the Father who speaks and sees in secret.”

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Light pollution is one of the most radicalizing phenomena to me, in how it has robbed the majority of the world's population of one of the most beautiful parts of our planet's patrimony.

Many misunderstand what it means to be conservative. It does not imply opposition to social transformations, but rather a preference for a slower pace that allows for careful evaluation of potential mistakes.

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots, 1949.

If you think walking isn’t “real” exercise, read this: The Hadza walk 14x more than the average adult. They have almost no obesity, diabetes, or heart disease. The modern world has engineered movement out of our lives.