Mastodawn

I often joke that Brittany is the most left-wing region in France - and has the highest number of cafés and bars per capita... but perhaps the two aspects are more closely linked than I thought.

This article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/27/progressive-paris-far-right-french-capital-food-culture-community-extremists - links the increasing number of car-free and non-commercial social spaces in Paris with its continuing extraordinary left voting record - and suggests that the well documented disappearance of such spaces in the US and elsewhere may be a factor in the rise of the extreme right.

Progressive Paris has many weapons to fight the far right, but the best? Spaces where you can simply hang out

Drop into any of the French capital’s ‘third places’ and you’ll find food, culture, community – and an antidote to the disaffection extremists feed on, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

The Guardian

Katie Wells Apr 23

Inken Stabell Apr 13

Nebelkrähe (Hooded Crow)
A recent etching I finished, available now in my store!

Katie Wells Apr 6

The Rundown Mar 3

Can we build a less car‑dependent future? Tonight at 8pm, co‑authors of "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile" Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon (@brooklynspoke) — hosts of the @thewaroncars podcast — make the case for real options in dense cities with @celllisss

Katie Wells Feb 22

David August ❌👑Feb 21

#USpol #Norway #taxes #tax

Katie Wells Feb 20

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202602/the-replacement-fallacy

"...contemporary civilization often seems to behave as though the hierarchy is inverted—as if the biosphere exists to serve the economy, and the economy exists to serve the technology. We treat the largest, most complex, most irreplaceable system—the living Earth, with its 4-billion-year-old architecture of feedback loops, nutrient cycles, and biodiversity—as a mine, while treating a 5-year-old large language model as an asset."

The Replacement Fallacy

Personal Perspective: We cannot compute our way out of a planet we have consumed.

Psychology Today

Katie Wells Feb 20

A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC Feb 19

No comment needed

Katie Wells Jan 16, 2025

Dan Hugo (แดน)Jan 14, 2025

This is competence.

Champion of the 99% and it´s entirely possible that most of them had no idea.

Tagging fellow Lina Khan fan @pluralistic but we should all be Lina Khan fans…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHn9R_T2R8

FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Exit Interview: What’s Next for Antitrust Enforcement? | WSJ

YouTube

Katie Wells Dec 26, 2024

Brent Toderian Dec 26, 2024

Remember, when Barcelona eliminated 3 lanes of vehicle traffic & converted this street into a 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid, businesses sued. They actually won. But by decision-time, the businesses had decided they actually like it. citylabbcn.org/the-legal-at...

Katie Wells Dec 13, 2024

Paul Hebert Dec 13, 2024

I made some tests prints for a lino-cut holiday card design. Some aspects of the design turned out a little sloppier than I'd hoped but overall I like it.

#Art #LinoCut #Printmaking

Katie Wells Nov 7, 2024

Lost (she/they)Nov 7, 2024

Since stress knitting was my main coping mechanism last night, I finished and blocked the Alpine Bloom sweater I’d been working on for the past week. I won yarn chicken with only 2 grams of main color yarn to spare. I’m delighted by the sleeve length as well as the softness and drape of the main yarn, which blocked out beautifully. It was such a satisfying project that only took eight days to make. It’s so different from my first Alpine Bloom sweater that I think it will serve a very different role in my handmade wardrobe. #knitting #handmade