this stuff is hard and there is exactly zero reason to make it harder on yourself than it needs to be. Congratulations on your one month!

Thank you. I’m coming up on three years in a couple of months.

A company called Notch. The alcohol-specific ones are here and they support a UK charity called Alcohol Change here in the UK.

I have “Sobriety rocks” in gold, then the various day count ones, and IWNDWYT 😁in purple, and “get your calm back 2022” in gold.

Mine are all on a loop attached to my keyring, but they do a couple of other ways of holding them as well.

Rewards are important. I don’t have coins but I do have these on my keyring - metal discs for 30 Edit 31, 60, 100, 365 and 1,000 days

That connection to the Other goes under many guises. Always has, always will. Thomas Aquinas referred to “the Prime Mover”, Thomas Merton referred to the many paths up the mountain.

Alcohol is a poison, it’s not rewarding yourself to poison yourself.

Have a good dinner and watch a film, instead.

I like cycling, and my other option, taking public transport, entails having to deal with far too many other people in proximity first thing in the morning, so I found a way that works for me. I get my bag with my work clothes ready the night before, and put my cycling clothes out, so everything is ready when I wake up.

Black coffee and baked eggs with mixed vegetables, done in the pressure cooker. I usually cycle to work and ten miles with nothing but coffee inside me would be bad, so I managed to find something I like, and because I’m in the UK I can leave the eggs out on the counter so when I fall out of bed and into my cycling gear and stumble through to the kitchen for coffee, the eggs are there, the pressure cooker is there, and it’s a two minute job to get everything cooking while I make coffee.

the instance hosted by you. I go to that link and put my instance details in

he’s committed no crimes,

Apart from several offences under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Most subway lines were dug after the city they go under was built, and, for example, there’s a whole lot of London on top of the London Underground. Very difficult to dig upwards, very expensive to dig downwards. In the above ground sections you’d have to rebuild all the road bridges.

Much easier and cheaper to run the most efficient service possible with a high throughput of trains.

The office where I work in central London, UK has bike parking for 300 and only eight vehicle parking spaces. We also have a fitness suite. There’s two (male and female) locker rooms with showers, towels provided, a drying room.

At least one of the green building standards doesn’t give you the top rating unless you have provision for active travel, institutional investors won’t buy your shiny new building unless it’s rated “Excellent” or “Platinum”, tenants are looking for added extras which encourage their staff to come to the office rather than WFH.

And Westminster Council charges business rates (property tax) on parking spaces.

The bike probably has a chain guard and wheel guard.

Grant Shapps is going to be furious and there’s nothing he can do about it. 😁

I think the legal problem is how to fine Lime when it’s the end user who ‘litters’ the bike, and how to know whether the name on the payment method matches the end user. I’m sure if councils could legally seize and fine/destroy, they’d be doing it.

And I don’t know if Lime have updated the security but it used to be quite easy to override the locking mechanism and ride without paying, you just had to live with the really loud clicking noise the bike made. So if it’s been stolen and then dumped, Lime have no comeback against anyone.

Plans get lost, stuff gets bricked up, there were a number of bombs fell in that area during WWII (http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.5187/-0.1039), it can mean expensive surprises when doing building work.

When they were building the Eurostar tunnels down the road from me they found a load of disused wells that nobody had any idea existed, with unfortunate results.

the New World Order, the World Economic Forum, you won’t be allowed to leave your neighbourhood because 15 minute cities are coming with guards and checkpoints.

Why not use oil lamps or candles in wind-proof lanterns? Red glass for rear, clear glass for the front. My grandparents rode bikes back in the days before reliable battery lamps were a thing and that’s what they used.

I use YNAB for budgeting

Plan to Eat for meal planning.

Unfuck your habitat for cleaning.

Different political parties.

Red = Labour (new governing party).

Gold = Liberal Democrat.

Blue = Tory (former governing party).

Grey = Independent (but he used to be Labour and was leader of the Labour party for a bit).