This article by @pluralistic@mamot.fr is very good and I agree with most of it. I ran across it after just buying his book ENSHITTIFICATION, and while looking into why he isn’t on Bluesky, where I’m active and have helped build what I think is the biggest and best community of urbanist and city-builders of social media.
I like Mastodon a lot for the reasons he stresses, but I’ve been at 17k followers here for several years. My efforts to grow here have failed. 1/2
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Understood well by any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-christmas-eve-says-denying-help-poor-is-rejecting-god-2025-12-24/
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people.
I’m sure North American, Australasian, etc vehicles are similar.
Sound efficient to you?
HT @circulareconomy on Twitter. #carculture #cardependency #cars #evs #transportation #mobility #cities #energy #climatechange
Brent Toderian