This is Sisters, a beautiful restaurant and café in Kutaisi, Georgia.

"Uninsurable areas refer to places where property insurance has become either impossible to get or to afford. This can happen because insurers are not offering coverage in a high climate risk area (due to coverage limits or market withdrawal), or because they offer insurance at premiums so high […]

Back in March, I spoke with a researcher from Interfaced about Leave X, digital democracy, and the fight against disinformation. https://www.interfaced.eu/leave-x-digital-democracy-and-the-fight-against-disinformation/ I met an @edgeryders collaborator while trying to catch @bjoernsta at […]

Le Parti du Travail Belge lance une class action contre la réforme des pensions du gouvernement Arizona. Tout le monde peut y prendre partie. Info : https://www.procespension.be/ #pensions #belgique

Just walked into an Italian restaurant in Brussels, where I had not been before. The waitress greeted me directly in Italian, before I could say a word. I guess I wear my origin engraved in my features! #it

I have just returned from walking St James’s Way. It is perhaps the most famous of the medieval pilgrimage routes: for twelve centuries pilgrims have walked it to reach the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, and they still do. Read the complete post […]

I have just returned from walking St James’s Way. It is perhaps the most famous of the medieval pilgrimage routes: for twelve centuries pilgrims have walked it to reach the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, and they still do. Read the complete post […]

[Long thread/4] RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116634199902488204 Does anybody know how @pluralistic posts in this form ("Long thread/n" followed by "Show more/Hide post")? Is it some form of content warning? And: what is the logic? He worries people will be annoyed by long threads? Are […]

New study: the majority of Belgians is in favour of the regularisation of paperless immigrants who work. The Belgian government has pledged to NOT do it. https://www.lesoir.be/748176/article/2026-05-22/migration-une-majorite-de-belges-soutient-la-regularisation-des-sans-papiers-q

Calling #CrossBorderRail people. The @EUCommission has opened the consultation on the Citizen Omnibus. If I understand it correctly, it includes the files on rail passenger rights, "single ticket", competition in the rail transport sector. So, question: is anyone organizing civic participation? […]

Heat wave in India, eh. Are we in "The Ministry for the Future" yet? #climateemergency #sciencefiction https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sxzkxdrwpawhc22emsyec2rq/post/3mmlqqdvma22d

Remember, don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

"Any decent individual could imagine himself free from all responsibility for acts of compulsion on the part of a state which he, personally, rejected; or for economic suffering in society from which he, personally, had not benefited. He was “paying his way,” was “in nobody’s debt,” and was […]

YOU GUYS!! We live on a planet where the perfect combination of chemistry, atmospheric temperature and pressure, and geometry means that this ridiculously beautiful thing just HAPPENS sometimes!!! Earth is so damn neat! We have the best planet!

What do people do when they are (relatively) free from need? Some reflections inspired by walking St. James's Way, featuring John Maynard Keynes, Iain Banks's "Culture Series" and Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" […]

What do people do when they are (relatively) free from need? Some reflections inspired by walking St. James's Way, featuring John Maynard Keynes, Iain Banks's "Culture Series" and Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" […]

"Socialism is, essentially, the tendency inherent in an industrial civilization to transcend the self-regulating market by consciously subordinating it to a democratic society." That's a beautiful, compact definition by Karl Polanyi, "The Great Transformation", 1944 #socialism #economics

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/116597059259069823 Cool meme.

Does anyone have a pointer to an open access academic reference for the number of days worked in a year by peasants in medieval Europe? #askfedi #history #economics

My #cohousing group in #brussels is committed to openness of information, in the spirit of making it easier for the people who will come after us to form and successfully run cohousing groups. It's already difficult enough as it is, without having to redo the work that can be taken from […]

Many reports are rarely read, including high-quality, useful and interesting ones – my own bibliographies are full of reports, often more timely and specific than peer-reviewed journal articles. This is a waste of brainpower. As long as you write a report, why not make use of the digital […]

Many reports are rarely read, including high-quality, useful and interesting ones – my own bibliographies are full of reports, often more timely and specific than peer-reviewed journal articles. This is a waste of brainpower. As long as you write a report, why not make use of the digital […]

I just jumped through about 10 hoops to be able to buy a RER ticket to Charles De Gaulle airport. IDF Mobilité wants all of my data and a picture and a strong password and 2FA and enter a validation code sent by SMS and now another one sent by email. And in the end it glitches in registering my […]

Yesterday was #pride in #brussels ❤️ #polyamory

This, on the gear to cover (or attend) a real protest, holds up after some years. https://medium.com/message/dressed-for-excess-47a89d343a06

no post has ever made me feel more seen than this one.

"Actually, the gentlemen of England judged all persons poor who did not command an income sufficient to keep them in leisure. “Poor” was thus practically synonymous with “common people,” and the common people comprised all but the landed classes (hardly any successful merchant failed to acquire […]

This is an excellent point: climate #adaptation is happening in silence, as farmers, forestry workers, doctors, teachers and basically everyone else change their ways in response to extreme weather. This takes place under the radar, and is not usually called "climate change adaptation" by its […]

Why the extra security on #renfe trains? I don't remember them x-raying luggage and jackets ten years ago. It slows things down big time. Did anything happen in the past few years to trigger that change? Is it doing anything, or is it just security theatre?

In for two more days of #CrossBorderRail . I had to plan last minute due to a minor injury, so it ended up being very inefficient. The main problem was that I could not find ANY seat in northbound TGVs a mere two days in advance. Colour me surprised, #sncf. So, day one: Burgos-Madrid […]

"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine […]

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

"One journey, one ticket" #passengerpackage Yeah But no https://jonworth.eu/one-ticket-or-more-than-one-ticket-for-my-international-train-trip-more-than-one-with-passenger-rights-is-the-simpler-solution/

Not sure that there's a better illustration for the relationship between capitalism and the commons than searching for "Wikipedia" in the app store and being presented, above the Wikipedia app, with a paid knock-off app that seeks to monetize the volunteer labor that makes Wikipedia possible.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Just now, in Nájera. #caminodesantiago

Ok, Fediverse experiment. I am currently walking the Camino de Santiago. Is anyone else? Would be fun to meet up if itineraries allow. #caminodesantiago #caminofrances

For all its many faults, the European Union is a powerful symbol of hope for a great many people. You don't see this stuff for the International Monetary Fund or the World Trade Organisation. #europe https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116545492723600059

Calling all you #rail and #CrossBorderRail experts in the Fediverse! I am walking the Camino de Santiago, and plan to leave it at or near Leon. How do I get to France and then to Brussels? Should I aim for the Euskotren from San Sebastian to Hendaye? RailEurope wants me to go through... Madrid […]

One for @jon Les chemins de fer allemands en déroute - https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/les-chemins-de-fer-allemands-en-deroute/00118395?utm_campaign=sharing&utm_content=appShare Let me know if you want a copy-paste, might be paywalled.

#immigration #population "Ranked: Where the World’s Migrants Live Today" #demographics #migration #society #opportunity #trend #socialscience #Education #civilrights #Safety #USA #un UNESCO #EU #Europe #Africa #Asia https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-countries-where-migrants-live-today/

Happy International Labour Day!

Buone letture di mia madre, 88 anni e zero fucks given. #resistenza #25aprile

Won't you look at that. It seems we have liftoff for an *economic* transition away from fossil fuels. The transition needs to be economic, because some poorer countries rely on fossil fuels to service their debt. So debt cancellation is part of the package […]

#greece crosses the minimum threshold for passing the European Citizen Initiative calling for the suspension of the EU's Association Agreement with Israel. It is the 12th member state to do so (the minimum for an ECI to be successful is 7). In this thread I explained what this ECI is and why […]

How wonderful to be in Geneva at the unveiling of the Roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth, a community effort led by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. Fully booked, but you can attend online (2,000 people already are) […]

"Systematic appropriation of European funds." Transparency International calls for EU anticorruption watchdog OLAF ti investigate Belgian MEP Philip Claeys, secretary general of the far-right "Patriots for Europe" parliamentary group […]