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"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

"As two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – we have long puzzled over the stark contrast in how winter is experienced inside our homes in the north of England (Sheffield) and southern Sweden (Lund)."

#Energy #Heating #Sweden #UK

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden
https://theconversation.com/cold-and-expensive-v-hot-cheap-and-eco-friendly-the-contrasting-histories-of-home-heating-in-the-uk-and-sweden-275417

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

My goodness this is interesting. https://www.terrygodier.com/current

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own "This has, in effect, handed Trump a kill switch that Europeans should fear."

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own "This has, in effect, handed Trump a kill switch that Europeans should fear."

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own "This has, in effect, handed Trump a kill switch that Europeans should fear."

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own #AiArtificialIntelligence #EuropeanUnion #Computing #DonaldTrump #Internet #Ecommerce #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #UsNews #Technology #Europe

"Living in Europe is no protection against Donald #Trump bricking your digital life."

#DigitalSovereignty

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own

“I can easily imagine a situation where the USA will demand #Greenland from Denmark and will threaten to deactivate our weapons and let #Russia attack us when we refuse. Buying American weapons is a security risk that we can not run.” -- Rasmus Jarlov. Chair, Danish parliament’s defence committee.

He's not wrong. The US is no longer our ally.

#DigitalSovereignty
#DigitalIndependence
#Killswitch

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own!

The French judge Nicolas Guillou knows exactly how deep Europe’s dependence on US tech is. Guillou and his colleagues at the international criminal court are under US sanctions. They can no longer use e-commerce, book hotels online or hire a car. Their home smart devices ignore them. Credit cards from European banks no longer function, because Europe has still not developed its own EU-wide payments system, so most electronic purchases go through Visa and Mastercard. Converting euros to foreign currencies is extraordinarily difficult because everything passes through dollars. Living in Europe is no protection against Donald Trump bricking your digital life.

This dependence is not limited to mod-cons. Last year, the chairman of the Danish parliament’s defence committee said that he regretted his part in Denmark’s decision to buy US-made F-35 fighter jets: “I can easily imagine a situation where the USA will demand Greenland from Denmark and will threaten to deactivate our weapons and let Russia attack us when we refuse. Buying American weapons is a security risk that we can not run.” He is not alone. Spain has abandoned plans to buy F-35s.

Perhaps the danger should have been clear a decade ago when it was revealed that US spies routinely record the phone calls of millions of Europeans and bug the phones of European leaders. But across Europe, governments, militaries, businesses, doctors, professors and teenagers alike continued to trust US technology. Sensitive state policies are drafted in Microsoft software. Health and tax records live on Amazon’s servers. Important decisions are made over video systems run by Microsoft, Cisco or Zoom. Young Europeans view the world through a lens distorted by Snapchat filters and YouTube algorithms. Europe’s news organisations rely on Google ad auctions.

Despite all this, Europe possesses a path to digital sovereignty. Loosening the US grip on the word processing, video conferencing and “enterprise software” that companies rely upon is not technically difficult. As veteran tech investor Roger McNamee told me, most of this tech was perfected in the 1990s and 2000s and has since become “enshittified” due to monopoly effects. Investors are selling software stocks because they fear these products can be too easily built by new coding large language models. Now is a good time for Europe to build better.

Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority. France has moved its 5.7 million public sector workers to Visio, an alternative to Zoom developed by the government, running on French infrastructure. And the European Commission is building a system based on Matrix, a European open-source technology that enables communication across different apps and servers, without surrendering control of conversations to a single company.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own

Guardian: Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan
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#Ai(artificialIntelligence)MEWS #EuropeanUnionMEWS #ComputingMEWS #DonaldTrumpMEWS #InternetMEWS #E-commerceMEWS #GoogleMEWS #AmazonMEWS #MicrosoftMEWS #UsNewsMEWS #TechnologyMEWS #EuropeMEWS #MEWS
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By trusting the US, we handed Trump a kill switch. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own

"Living in Europe is no protection against Donald #Trump bricking your digital life."

#DigitalSovereignty

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own

SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million #satellites to power data centres in #space.

The proposal envisions satellites operating between 500 and 2,000 kilometres in low Earth #orbit. Some of the orbits are designed for near-constant exposure to sunlight.

The approval process for these satellites focuses almost entirely on the limited technical info companies have to submit to regulators.

Cultural, spiritual, and most #environmental impacts aren’t taken into account – but they should be.

At this scale of growth, the night #sky will change permanently and globally for generations to come.

In 2021, astronomers estimated that in less than a decade, 1 in every 15 points of light in the night sky would be a moving satellite. That estimate only included the 65 000 #megaconstellation satellites proposed at the time.

Once deployed at a scale of millions, the impacts on the night sky may not be easily reversed.

#astronomy
https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

An exciting new (future) feature for Mastodon!

> we are ... building capabilities into Mastodon that allow users to donate easily without leaving the app.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

cc @Edent

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

Connecting the world through thriving online communities https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

Esto es lo que @Mastodon dicen que van a hacer próximamente:
- Ampliar la gobernanza. Están acabando un modelo para que todes nos sintamos consultades e informades sobre el desarrollo.
- Asegurar que cumplen regulación europea (esto es aburrido y quizá conlleve decisiones polémicas, pero parece obvio que es lo que toca).
- Mejorar la usabilidad y la capacidad de encontrar personas o contenidos entre plataformas. Probablemente lo que más echamos en falta a nivel UX, ¿no?
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Regarding various news sites blocking the Internet Archive because someone, somewhere, might be using it to train AI.
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers." "When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite."

#LLM #WaybackMachine #InternetArchive #archiving

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/ #news #preservinghistory #internetarchive #waybackmachine #journalism #libraries #archives #scraping #ai

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
⁠
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/

#internet #TheWeb #cyberculture

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #WebDesignHistory

1994: Cool Site of the Day and the rise of curated web design - https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/?ref=feedle.world

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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads

#web #internet #socialmedia #blogging

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @protocolsforpublishers.com@bsky.brid.gy event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: werd.io/building-tru...

Building trust in the open

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the Protocols for Publishers event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @team #protocolsforpublishers event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @team #protocolsforpublishers event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @team #protocolsforpublishers event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @protocolsforpublishers.com@bsky.brid.gy event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: werd.io/building-tru...

Building trust in the open

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @team #protocolsforpublishers event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @team #protocolsforpublishers event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: https://werd.io/building-trust-in-the-open/

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson
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#WomenMEWS #SocietyMEWS #MenMEWS #RaceMEWS #GenderMEWS #MEWS
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Many women reading this will have experienced something similar: a warning that sharing public space isn’t a man’s job, it’s a woman’sWhat motivates a stranger to push a woman in public? That’s a question I’ve been s...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

A couple of weeks ago while cycling home I witnessed a male rider ahead of me shove a women crossing the road out of his way.

He placed his hand on her back and pushed her away.

Absolutely appalling behaviour.

I wanted to yell at him but he was much faster than me.

Women should not have to put up with this.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

#ViolenceAgainstWomen #GeneralNews

Funny, I got into an altercation with a man at the pool yesterday who wouldn’t move out of my way.
Some men ALWAYS expect women to move. So, out of principle, I NEVER do.

Friend and I once tested some behaviours. If you look distracted and not at them, they are more likely to move. If you look right at them as you walk towards them, they won’t. Silly dominance games.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

As a shortarse who has been barged out of the way while walking on more than one occasion, this article lands close to home: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

Over the years I’ve developed a Frogger-like approach to walking along a pavement, but one thing changed a long time ago: I no longer step into the road to get out of the way.

Which is interesting in cases where a group of men are across the width of the path. I stop walking and let them pass, which often leads to shoulder bumps or insults.

Guardian: A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger #Women #Society #Men #Race #Gender

A couple of weeks ago while cycling home I witnessed a male rider ahead of me shove a women crossing the road out of his way.

He placed his hand on her back and pushed her away.

Absolutely appalling behaviour.

I wanted to yell at him but he was much faster than me.

Women should not have to put up with this.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

#ViolenceAgainstWomen #GeneralNews

As a shortarse who has been barged out of the way while walking on more than one occasion, this article lands close to home: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

Over the years I’ve developed a Frogger-like approach to walking along a pavement, but one thing changed a long time ago: I no longer step into the road to get out of the way.

Which is interesting in cases where a group of men are across the width of the path. I stop walking and let them pass, which often leads to shoulder bumps or insults.

More coarsening of (male) behaviour. Entirely unacceptable.

"“Don’t let that prick ruin your day,” a woman said, after the incident. She appeared – and it is always a woman – like an angel to offer support and solidarity. But it did ruin my day. I walked around feeling heavy, ruminating on how anyone could behave like that, how he could break the social contract so completely.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger