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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
11 hours agoThe loneliest people at any gathering are almost never the ones standing alone by the wall. They're the ones laughing in the middle of the group who will drive home afterward in complete silence and not call anyone about it. - Silicon Canals
Loneliness often stems from being surrounded by people who believe they know you, rather than from physical absence.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThere's a version of loneliness that only arrives inside a crowded room full of people who like you, and it comes from the slow realization that what they like is a performance you can no longer remember choosing to start - Silicon Canals
Loneliness can persist even in social settings, stemming from a disconnect between one's true self and the persona they project.
fromDesign Milk
1 day agoSabah House NYC Pays Homage To Set + Setting
Sabahs are made entirely by hand from 100% leather in either Texas or Turkey—two regions with distinct yet deeply rooted relationships to the material. The result is a shoe that varies subtly from pair to pair, even within the same size.
Brooklyn
Alternative transportation
fromStreetsblog USA
2 days agoFlorida Town Gives New Residents Free Golf Carts to Replace Their Cars - Streetsblog USA
Babcock Ranch incentivizes residents to drive less by offering free golf carts with new home purchases, promoting a community focused on alternative transportation.
Writing
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoI've spent my entire life being described as "the strong one" - and last month I sat in my car in a parking lot and cried for 45 minutes, and the thing that made me cry hardest was that there was no one to call - Silicon Canals
Feeling isolated and vulnerable can be overwhelming, especially when one has always been the strong support for others.
fromTasting Table
4 days ago6 Benefits Beer Brings To Your Garden - Tasting Table
A beer trap is another brilliant way to protect your plants. It may not completely rid your garden of these pests, but it does have benefits. For one, the beer trap traps and drowns slugs. The other is that, in the process, you are enticing them away from crops you want to protect.
Beer
London startup
fromComputerWeekly.com
5 days agoDatacentre developers tout benefits to local communities, but do they deliver? | Computer Weekly
Datacentre developments are causing challenges for local businesses, raising concerns about energy consumption and community impact despite potential local benefits.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoThere's a version of strength that only develops in people who had to figure out the rules of a place nobody explained to them. They don't talk about it because the people who had the rules handed to them wouldn't understand what was hard about it, and the people who also had to figure it out don't need the explanation. - Silicon Canals
Onsighting in climbing parallels navigating social systems, emphasizing perceptual capacity over resilience in understanding unwritten rules.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
4 days agoI moved to a small Midwestern city for a job. Although I miss my fast-paced life on the East Coast, I'm surprisingly happy.
Growing up, I expected to live the fast-paced life of a performer. I'm a Jersey girl with a New York City spirit. My dreams were set on being a principal actor on Broadway.
NYC music
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoThe person who always offers to drive, always picks the restaurant, always plans the trip is rarely the controlling one in the group. They're the one who learned early that if they didn't organize the connection, the connection simply wouldn't happen. - Silicon Canals
The organizer in a friend group often acts out of learned necessity to maintain connections, not from a desire for control or leadership.
fromArchDaily
2 weeks agoThe Illusion of Lightness: Designing Civic Voids for Public Life
The original intent of pilotis was to create a sense of lightness that would allow circulation and light to flow beneath a structure, but contemporary requirements render thin columns insufficient for large-scale civic projects.
Renovation
Relationships
fromPortland Monthly
1 month agoFrom the Editor: Building Community Isn't Always Fun. Do It Anyway.
Proximity-based community organizing builds solidarity across differences through sustained engagement and shared material goals, fostering understanding that transcends initial disagreements.
fromBrooklyn Paper
1 week agoWhere are Brooklyn's "recreation deserts," and what can be done to fix them? * Brooklyn Paper
"Brooklyn has always been a place where movement is part of daily life. But today, Brooklynites, like all New Yorkers, are moving less, feeling more isolated and dealing with elevated rates of chronic diseases."
Brooklyn
Typography
fromItsnicethat
2 months agoWork-Form's practice has its roots in participatory design and place-making
Work-Form combines teaching and studio practice to produce research-led, community-centered graphic design emphasizing immersive processes, participatory methods, and playful typographic experimentation.
Alternative transportation
fromStreetsblog
1 month agoUrban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation - Streetsblog USA
Fifteen-minute cities enable convenient living without car dependency, while decades of car-centric policies have deliberately created sprawl and reduced walkability, homelessness correlates directly with insufficient housing supply, and wider roads increase crashes and traffic rather than reducing congestion.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months agoThe city that swapped parking for green space
Though they're individually tiny, parking spots quietly play a dominant role in shaping urban landscapes. Most US cities dedicate at least 25% of their developable land to them. Some, even more. That land usage doesn't only determine the way a city looks. It also means covering large swathes of urban areas in heat-absorbing asphalt, which contributes to making summers hotter and heightens the risk of flooding since it prevents drainage during storms and heavy rainfall.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.npr.org
2 months agoWant to be part of a village? You might need to get out of your comfort zone
People say it takes a village to do difficult things: raise a child, sustain a community, build a barn. But we don't often talk a lot about what it takes to be a villager. What does it mean to not just be in a community, but to help create one? Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, says the key is to put yourself out there, even if it's scary.
Relationships
Online Community Development
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoNo One Is Coming to Help-Except Your Neighbors
Building community-led resilience networks and mutual aid groups nationwide enables neighbors to support each other through overlapping crises including climate change, inequality, and government violence.
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