"My New Year’s Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envys, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”
— Patricia Highsmith
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"The goal of the #BanCars movement is not to render cars obsolete. It’s to give ppl the choice to live a life where car ownership, & dependence are unnecessary — regardless of socioeconomic status or physical ability to operate an automobile." 😎 MUST-READ https://t.co/5iEPryWx52
Google N-gram showing the frequency of usage of the word “terroir” in books published between 1980 and 2008 in American English.
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Cycling in Los Angeles today.
Which I mostly do on sidewalks.
Google sez to take official bike route (complete with apotropaic #sharrows) to left.
Think I'll pass.
#bikinginLA#noboddybikesinLA
@tomflood1 👆Well said (as usual) Tom.
People are often mystified when they meet safety campaigners who don't promote protective & reflective gear for people walking & cycling.
We have our reasons ...👇
https://t.co/uItxIAHfgz #pedestrianblame#bikehelmets
"For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?"
https://t.co/Y6KvwnYF9k #speeping#history#sleephistory