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Matt Kelland
@mattkelland.bsky.social
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Work: consultant, ghostwriter, marketer The real me: writes stories and a blog about neuroscience, loves cooking, hiking, & audio dramas, has eclectic tastes in music, books, & movies, makes vintage model kits, does tai chi & yoga, and plays viola badly.
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Ouch. I guess I'm used to US cost of living, where rent for a single room is usually over $1000, and much more in some places. Unless you're in one of the major cities public transport doesn't exist, so you need a car. Add health insurance on top, and that's before you get to food or utilities.
Honestly, the offer isn’t that great. €325/week isn’t enough to live on, but it’s enough to make a big difference. But here's the kicker: for every euro invested, society got €1.39 back. Investing in the arts isn’t an indulgence, it’s sound economics.

www.creativebloq.com/art/shall-we...
Shall we all move to Ireland? Their plan to support artists sounds incredible
Ireland is giving €325 a week to artists. Honestly!
www.creativebloq.com
One year of U.S. mine waste contains enough lithium to power 10 million electric cars, enough manganese for 99 million EVs, as well as enough cobalt, germanium, and other rare metals to all but wipe out U.S. imports.. Sadly, extracting it is not trivial.

www.zmescience.com/science/news...
U.S. Mine Waste Contains Enough Critical Minerals and Rare Earths to Easily End Imports. But Tapping into These Resources Is Anything but Easy
The rocks we discard hold the clean energy minerals we need most.
www.zmescience.com
Yeah - I was more than a little surprised when I found that out!
Today's unexpected musical discovery - The Utopia Strong. Electronic krautrock trio featuring snooker legend Steve Davis. Not boring at all.

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Doperider
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That's excellent - thank you.
I love looking out of my office window to see this.
I'm spending the next couple of weeks catching up on audio dramas while I make models - and discovered, to my very great joy, that there are four Space:1889 shows!
I love this idea. I really do.
Okay new idea for a library service: leave a hobby take a hobby. When people get bored with a hobby they can come and leave their supplies and books and half-finished things, and exchange them for someone else’s supplies and books and half-finished things. Hobby swap.
I hate to think how much electricity I consumed in my recent AI-based project. A lot.
One of the things that always bugs me is when I get book recommendations that loudly proclaim “Over 1700 5-star reviews on Amazon”.

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How many stars?
How I rate books on Goodreads
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I actually LOLed in my office.
Fucking amazing.
“Doth thine box rolleth on wheels?”
“It doth not, good sir!”

( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )
Wait... this is a real thing, it affects 20% of migraine sufferers, and I'm not completely losing my mind? (It happens rarely to me, and it never lasts long, but it's seriously disturbing when it does.)

www.brainandlife.org/articles/wha...
What is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
In Alice in Wonderland syndrome, also called Todd's syndrome, not everything is as it appears.
www.brainandlife.org