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I am hosting the IndieWeb Book Club for this month, in which everyone interested is invited to read and write a blog post about The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence [Goodreads link]. The book was authored by Ros Atkins, a BBC journalist whose...

@amble Congratulations on the new look for Rabbit Quest. One problem. When location is on, the zoom seems to be fixed. If I zoom out, it zooms back in automatically. Otherwise, I love the new look. Much clearer.
#Rabbit_quest

It's the first IndieWeb Fiction Carnival! This month's prompt: we've got to dream past it. The Prompt Five words. What yo...

Transportation modes would be great. https://mastodon.social/@dawarich/115992309474158318

It's the Feb 2026 IndieWeb Carnival! This month, the theme is Intersecting Interests. The Theme As Walt Witman so elegant...

Fell at the first. I have a Pi Zero, not a Pi Zero W2. I wonder whether my local seller is actually a shop that I can walk into, rather than only an online distributor. It would be nice if they were, but I cannot even try until Monday.

#birdnetpi

OK, let's do this.

Setting up a mobile BirdNET-Pi to eavesdrop on our feathered friends.

Surveillance as it should be.

#birdnetpi

Next week, Sa. 07.02.2026, I’ll be playing my first gig with Brutal Unrest in Aachen. If you want to know what this might sound like, the last album is on Bandcamp.

Gratulations to Florian for completing his third full year of daily photo posting. He has all the reasons to celebrate this by giving away zines and prints!

And he will keep going this time, so check out his photo blog.

A Celebration Is In Order.

at the @CSSWG.org (@CSSWG) F2F (face to face) meeting^1, hosted by @Apple.com (@Apple) in Cupertino. Not counting at #w3cTPAC, the prior #CSSWG F2F meeting I went to was 2.5y ago, also in Cupertino, and before that 2019 in SF. Good to see so many longterm colleagues in-person.#W3C #CSS #webStandards^1 https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/cupertino-2026

I wrote about a way round the EU directive on single-use plastics

Would you actually put them in the dishwasher and re-use them?

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/plastic-loophole

#plastics #greenwashing

I was having lunch with a friend and colleague at a highly rated local tavola calda. I expressed some sadness that although the food was wonderful, each of us was generating a small mountain of waste plastic -- plates, cutlery, cups, everything. My friend informed me that in 2019 the EU had implemented a directive to reduce single-use plastics, specifically to protect the environment.

But in front of use were our two small mountains. How come?

Ah, she told me, in Italy, many packages of plastic plates etc. are labelled saying they can be re-used. Problem solved.

I wonder how many are actually washed and re-used, or even re-used dirty. And do other EU countries crawl through the same loophole?

A medieval pushmi-pullyu
https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/115976858388253903

Spero Che anche Roma si fa
https://poliversity.it/@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/115971331639329426