@ownohmanny Ha yes. Nice!

Each time I see cycleways & paths still treacherous hours after the roads have been cleared, I recall this 99% Invisible episode.

"In Sweden, the council reversed its approach and plowed side-roads & paths first. It had a huge impact, reducing number of people admitted to emergency centres, particularly women. It had an economic impact from lower healthcare costs. Driving through a few inches was less dangerous than walking through snow, particularly if pushing a pram."

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/

Two-tier society

@monstreline We are spoilt, having this lovely local library. Even without the ice, it's amazing.

Taking a wooden footbridge across a sea of ice feels like the right way to enter a library

#Aarhus
#Libraries
#Icetodon

@geekmomprojects Amazing sight, amazing photo

@geekmomprojects I needed to look at your penguin photos. They are delightful.

@rhempel There’s a disclaimer in the Alt Text.

It's Monday. But for the first time in 17 years, it's not a Monday in January. So that's something, at least. Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.

@eclectech The weather gods fighting it out there.The light is magical.

@dancingtreefrog @hoare_spitall Great example of the pointlessness of the overreaching upgrades-for-the-sake-of-upgrading.

@raymaccarthy The constant app updates are truly dementing and almost always pointless in practice.

@kbm0 Good point

@Ellegaarddk Beige.party is a server that seems to have a generally lovely atmosphere. Shortly after I joined the Fediverse, I noticed that quite a few of the people I started to follow were all on the Beige Party server. They are often kind and chatty and cool and funny. And witty. Both about nice things, like flowers, and awful things, like Trump.

@katzenberger @hoare_spitall Mine too - it's perfectly put and perfectly pinpoints the problem.

@Flatus Agreed. And even more so every day, with all the GAI content.

@hoare_spitall This resonates. I have anecdotally noticed that especially younger people tend to equate 'new' with 'better'. Whereas I find that new digital products are now worse. They will have been enshittified in at least some unturnoffable way. And any feature which does ostensibly improve something, like audio or video quality, will have improved it in some environmentally-unfriendly, human-useless marginal way. That only hawks can see and dogs hear, as you say.

@jeroenvanbergen Interesting idea. I wonder if such a tool exists somewhere.

New Beige Party-tooters are another group that do a good mutual introduction when they arrive, I find. They usually have a bio and avatar and toot an introduction right from the start. They've usually even learnt to say Beige Bless in their intro.

(It's not that I'm stalking Beige Party. I just happen to follow a lot of people who are members of Beige Party. I live in fear that the Rulers of Beige Party will notice this and remove me for not being cool enough to follow members of Beige Party.)

I'm idly curious about the difference in ‘arrival culture’ among people when they join the Fediverse, depending where they're arriving from.

Anecdotally, I’ve noticed a contrast in some sets of new arrivals. Almost unfailingly, Forkiverse newcomers toot an intro, have a photo & bio and use Alt Text from the start, before following people. Almost as unfailingly, new Denmark-based accounts tend to be empty. No photo, intro, bio or toots. Which doesn't encourage people to follow back or interact.