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Currently reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, ISBN: 9780571368709
Coincidence, I'm sure, to be mentioning an author and his book on the same day seven years apart.
* [An Extended Moment of Joy](https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/an-extended-moment-of-joy)
* [In the mind of the body politic](https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/in-the-mind-of-the-body-politic)
Two lefts | Chris Smaje
Criticising the likes of Bill Gates and his infernal foundation shouldn’t be that controversial a move on the left, yet it suddenly feels a bit dangerous, as if it aligns the critic with dumbass right-wing conspiracy theories about vaccine nanobots or suchlike against the supposedly scientific certainties of technocratic governance.
Chris Smaje, on the money. Again.
Here's another of my climate emergency rants from back in the day, this day in 2007 as it happens.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/ruminate-on-this
I do not see anything at all that could rightly be considered controversial.
Rome-Munich direct is of immediate interest (I'll be doing it with changes in October) although all 10 projects will make life easier for train travellers in Europe.
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/connecting-europe-train-10-eu-pilot-services-boost-c...
Take precautions: global warming deserves it | Jeremy Cherfas
On this day, 17 years ago, I linked to an article by James Hansen about the urgency of taking climate change seriously. We are still not taking it seriously.
Somewhat pooped after a long drive, Rome to almost the tip of Salento, made tolerable by a delicious lunch with friends at their new house along the way and the restorative nap that followed.