@fynn1 @Pepijn That is horrendous. Scare tactics and misinformation and disinformation and enshittification all rolled into one sign.

Well, well, well, if it isn’t my old friend Monday again. Glædelig mandag. Here’s a postcard from ⁨#Aarhus⁩, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.

@fynn1 @Pepijn I will keep an eye out in Århus too. It's depressing to see their deliberately misleading signs.

It’s a year since I posted the ninth of 17 murals that promote the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. I was just lulling you into a false sense of security. This thread ain’t over yet. Here’s the 10th.

#10 Reduced inequality. Mindre ulighed.

‘Life on the edge’ by French artist Mantra. On Frederiksgade.

“What we've lost is represented by a multitude of dead butterflies. What remains is a single butterfly. Life still weighs heavier than death.’

#17Walls #StreetArt
#Aarhus #ClimateDiary

@Pepijn They're testing check in/out points on the buses here (Aarhus) at the moment. I must wave my phone towards one next time I'm on a bus and see if it starts shrieking. If it has misinformation like that draped on it, giving people the impression that travel will be app-only in the future, I'll start shrieking myself.

#SilentSunday

#SilentSunday

It is Monday. And so it goes. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from ⁨#Aarhus⁩, just to wish you a good, calm week.

Mopeds allowed for weekday commuting, but not at the weekend when it's a purely recreational space.

Cycling allowed, but not right here, please walk your bike through.

Every time I see a common-sense rule for using shared space, I’m reminded of how simple it can be. We can easily work with and around one other in our shared public spaces, once you take cars out of the equation.

#Aarhus
#LiveableCities

This memorial keeps coming to mind as I watch the US become openly fascist. This broken person sits among the ruins of St. Nikolai church in Hamburg, bombed by the Allies in 1943. When I first saw it, it struck me that this helpless, hopeless, despairing figure could be either kind of German who survived - a victim, unable to comprehend what was done to them, or a perpetrator, unable to comprehend what they did to others.

#USPol

@sorensorensen

"A new card called Basiskort. It must always be possible for people in Denmark to purchase tickets for public transport. We know that approx. 10% of travelers either do not have a smartphone, feel digitally insecure or wish to remain fully anonymous and they cannot use apps. The new ticket solution is designed for them so they can still buy a ticket when the physical Rejsekort is phased out in May 2026."

https://www.rejsekort.dk/da/basis?sc_lang=en

Digital coercion bothers me greatly. I avoid apps. I have a travel card & code generator. It bothers me that they nudge everyone towards the 2FA app and ticketing app. They don’t advertise the non-app solutions loudly. We shouldn’t do their work for them, telling each other that the non-app alternatives don’t exist. Then people will get the app, thinking they’ve no alternative, which makes it look like fewer people want non-app solutions, which makes it easier to justify downgrading them.

This is a Kodeviser. A code generator for the Danish 2FA system. It is free. You activate it on a website. You do not need an app or smartphone to access digital services in Denmark.

This is a Rejsekort. You tap it to pay on buses & trains. The new ticket system will include a card. You do not need an app or smartphone to travel on Danish public transport.

I keep seeing a viral toot that says you’re excluded from 2FA & public transport in Denmark if you have no app or phone. This is not true.

I hope everyone had a nice weekend, but especially the anonymous nice people who have been leaving buckets of apples from their garden on the street for any passer-by to share.

@bojanland Interesting! And in the context of peace or anger, still in the general 'fight, make a fuss, don't fight, keep the peace' sense.

@iamdavidobrien @jwcph Yes, it's not quite the same, right enough. Contronyms have two opposing meanings but in the same language, like 'cleave'.

The Fediverse is lovely. I saw a nice photo on my timeline and threw out a random remark about something that struck me. And now my timeline is a delight of funny, learned, cheeky, fascinating anecdotes & knowledge. Much of it steeped in your experience from all the languages you all speak.

I haven't been able to catch up on all the replies yet. I look forward to catching up when I log back on later. Meanwhile: thanks to my neighbours here in the Fediverse for great information & entertainment.

@faduda It does indeed. That's a great example of another linguistic variety - the same word meaning the opposite (or close to the opposite) in the same language, depending on which regional variation you speak.

@HenkvanderEijk @cassana

@cassana @HenkvanderEijk Eng eng eng eng - deilightful. I didn't know 'eng' meant 'scary' in Dutch. That has an opposite feeling too, compared to the calm of the word 'meadow'. Now I'm reminded of this descriptive dissonance from Douglas Adams. I've been using the phrase 'like getting mugged in a meadow' for relevant situations ever since I first read this.

'The Galaxy, which had been enjoying a period of unusual peace and prosperity at the time, reeled like a man getting mugged in a meadow.'

@rubbel @jwcph Correct! It's still a nice opposite - 'nice' to Danes, 'peculiar' to Norwegians.