Maps and fiction, two of my favourite things. Really enjoying this site: readingmaps.com
Reading Maps - Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films
Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.
readingmaps.com
looking back on it, AOL was right. Thirty hours of internet is all we need every month
Trying to get into Substack I guess, here’s some fun things I’ve been looking at this week. Featuring fonts and sounds and plushies. open.substack.com/pub/gemdavis...
Week 5 fun.
Game font library.
open.substack.com
Tax aside, this is objectively a very sad end to Rayner’s political career: a teenage single mum from a deprived family who went onto be deputy prime minister. The right wing press detested her for not knowing her place. Their glee at her downfall will be palpable in tomorrow’s front pages.
Good article on what it’s like to be a designer at the moment. www.itsnicethat.com/articles/pov...
POV: Designers are facing upskilling exhaustion
Why is lethargy growing among designers? Creative director, designer and SEEK/FIND founder, Tabitha Swanson, discusses where our collective exhaustion to upskill and “grow” has come from.
itsnicethat.com
Exactly my thoughts whenever I've had to use gen ai for work, you're just rolling the dice to see what you get.
carly ayres@carlyayres.com · last yr.“If you know what you want to build and you care about exactly how you get there, it's not a vibe. It’s a nightmare.” I spoke with developers and designers about what happens when coding becomes more conversation than code: www.figma.com/blog/double-...
The two places Trump wants - Greenland and Canada - share a land border. They fought the so-called Whisky War over it for almost half a century, and it was basically adorable.
![In 1984, Canadian soldiers visited the island and planted a Canadian flag, also leaving a bottle of Canadian whisky.[10] The Danish Minister of Greenland Affairs came to the island himself later the same year with the Danish flag, a bottle of snaps, and a letter stating "Welcome to the Danish Island" (Velkommen til den danske ø).[11][12][13] The two countries proceeded to take turns planting their flags on the island and exchanging alcoholic beverages.[14] In 2005 a Canadian man and an unknown source on the Danish side also posted advertisements on Google to "promote their claims".[14][15][16]
The minor border dispute was often considered humorous between the two nations, with diplomats displaying good humour. Despite the serious official nature of the matter, the manner in which the conflict was prosecuted was light-hearted, demonstrated by the length of time taken to settle the dispute, if nothing else. The two nations are on friendly terms, and are also founding members of NATO.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:abgvvtq35ocdxplvcpi7yjce/bafkreig7t5xgy5njclpmuf6pb5qf2mnnfyotwc2totd2mnxj2ulm3vqate)
‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
JD Vance: "Peace can only be arrived at with diplomacy." Proceeds to cause huge diplomatic incident live on air.
We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
James Barr@jamesbarr.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom the FT the other day. I had no idea.
my magnum opus according to the amount of tumblr notes and likes on twt lol #GoodOmens #Aziracrow #IneffableHusbands #Crowley #Aziraphale
