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THE BEST OF WORLD SF: VOLUME 1 is only like £15 on Amazon right now amazon.co.uk/Best-World-SF-… I feel everyone should have a copy of this on their shelves.

Not just a required weekly dose f sanity, also a small insight on how liminal parts of Austin Texas are responding to climate extremes. Prepper dreams of edgeland wine fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/prepper-drea…

Interesting if true

ALL DAY AND EVERY DAY 💯❤️

Heavy metal butterflies and hot summer metamorphoses, in this week’s Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/the-maypops-…

.@farmerama__ on @BBCRadioScot right now talking about Landed and the future of family farming... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

New Field Notes up just now, with a Saturday night paddle in the shadows of the new Tesla plant: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/spider-babie…

Low-traffic schemes halve number of road injuries, study shows theguardian.com/world/2021/jul… (this is twice the effect that reducing speed limit to 20mph produced)

Not something you often see. Route of the Tour de France temporarily blocked by llamas in fog. Photo from TdF Race Radio.

Here is @farmerama__ your dose of inspiration, hope and resilience. Communities coming together to grow food cc. @shoreditchtrust pca.st/episode/ae00ad…

It may have taken many years to finish the design and engineering work for this in between so much other work, but we finally got it done!

Finally send out InfoDesign Newsletter 2021.1 to more than 6,000 subscribers. You can subscribe too. ~ informationdesign.org/news-flashes/

🌱 Part 1 of Landed is here! Join us as we follow a young farmer’s return to his family land, as he grapples with the farm's challenges. Could the idea that “the family farm is a colonial concept” help to understand his problems, & find solutions? Tune in: buff.ly/3A2nXwQ

Interested in ephemera? Apply for our Fellowship in Ephemera Studies. typography.network/2021/06/15/res… @UniRdg_SpecColl @jjcollephemera @UniRdg_Research

In a better world this statement would disqualify you from holding this man's post. twitter.com/whazell/status…

@hypothes_is announces a new Coalition for Social Learning Across Content web.hypothes.is/blog/a-coaliti…

So much this. In fact any APIs or services from Microsoft, Google, Facebook or anyone else who doesn’t have open, transparent and robust governance in place. Don’t generally see this in risk assessment models either. Stupid and irresponsible.

PSA: if you feel like you want to say "learnings" you can just say "lessons" instead