#introduction
In 2020, we started by opening a community grocery store in #lisbon, with socially and environmentally responsible products, but today we are a multisectoral #cooperative with six active sections:
- Consumption: manages the grocery store
- Culture: manages the Cave Cultural
- Services: manages the Co-Work Space, provides self-employment services and hosts the Malha Cooperativa project
- Housing: Habirizoma
- Agricultural: urban #agroecology projects
- Handicrafts
🏰🇵🇹 The Grande Palácio. Memories of an abandoned Neoclassical palace in Portugal
The most beautiful area is the symmetrical stone staircase. The walls are painted in the grisaille style, a shading technique creating an illusion of 3D sculptures and columns. A bright red carpet covers the stairs. A black metal lantern is suspended from the centre of the ceiling.
Abandoned for 40 years. Now it is under #renovation
#Portugal #Palace #Photography #Travel #Lisbon #Stairs #Neoclassical #Urbex
🏰🇵🇹 The Grande Palácio. Memories of an abandoned Neoclassical palace in Portugal
The most beautiful area is the symmetrical stone staircase. The walls are painted in the grisaille style, a shading technique creating an illusion of 3D sculptures and columns. A bright red carpet covers the stairs. A black metal lantern is suspended from the centre of the ceiling.
Abandoned for 40 years. Now it is under #renovation
#Portugal #Palace #Photography #Travel #Lisbon #Stairs #Neoclassical #Urbex
#introduction
In 2020, we started by opening a community grocery store in #lisbon, with socially and environmentally responsible products, but today we are a multisectoral #cooperative with six active sections:
- Consumption: manages the grocery store
- Culture: manages the Cave Cultural
- Services: manages the Co-Work Space, provides self-employment services and hosts the Malha Cooperativa project
- Housing: Habirizoma
- Agricultural: urban #agroecology projects
- Handicrafts
After 3 years of living in Lisbon, I’ve learned that the best city secrets are found when you skip the tourist queues and step across unexpected thresholds. 🚋🇵🇹
I teamed up with 12 other experts to build #LisbonInABox—a collaborative @Flipboard Storyboard. 📦✨
We’ve included local hacks for mastering the yellow trams and why the ferry to Almada is the best "cruise" in the city. 🛥️
🔗 Step inside: https://flipboard.com/@sidewalksafari/lisbon-in-a-box-local-secrets-expert-recommendations-for-your-next-trip-dtolhate6087s5h1
Featuring: @2foodtrippers @Boundlessroads @everybodyhatesatourist @ormypath @LoredanaPascal @janettespeyer @careyontravels @lasmaplone
#Lisbon #TravelInABox #SlowTravel #Portugal #Flipboard #Travel
After 3 years of living in Lisbon, I’ve learned that the best city secrets are found when you skip the tourist queues and step across unexpected thresholds. 🚋🇵🇹
I teamed up with 12 other experts to build #LisbonInABox—a collaborative @Flipboard Storyboard. 📦✨
We’ve included local hacks for mastering the yellow trams and why the ferry to Almada is the best "cruise" in the city. 🛥️
🔗 Step inside: https://flipboard.com/@sidewalksafari/lisbon-in-a-box-local-secrets-expert-recommendations-for-your-next-trip-dtolhate6087s5h1
Featuring: @2foodtrippers @Boundlessroads @everybodyhatesatourist @ormypath @LoredanaPascal @janettespeyer @careyontravels @lasmaplone
#Lisbon #TravelInABox #SlowTravel #Portugal #Flipboard #Travel
Enshitification is a real $h!T
Great talk "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" by @pluralistic at #websummit2025 #lisbon
Free and Open Source #floss really contributes to a free internet.
Although it is very good to have #ngi0 grants and support (among other initiatives) it is still not enough.
We need to work together, as a society.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/12/sorry-to-bother-you/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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We literally just said, "Aw, c'mon, please?" and it gave us the private info. A couple texts later, we had it sorted out.
This is a very funny outcome: the support chatbot sucked, but in a way that turned out to be advantageous to us. It did that thing that outsource call centers were invented to prevent: it actually *helped us*.
But this one is clearly an outlier. It was a broken bot. I'm sure future iterations will be much more careful not to help...if they can help it.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/athena-club/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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This is a book bursting with monsters - the final novella, "The Secret Diary of Mina Harker," is a beautiful vampire tale that remixes Dracula to great effect - food, humor, subtle emotions and beautiful premises. It's got Oz, and Burroughs' Barsoom, and King Arthur, and so much else besides.
This was my introduction to Goss's work - I'd heard great things, but the TBR pile is always 50 times bigger than I can possibly tackle. I'm off to read a *lot* more of it.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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A business that can only secure its sustained operations by shifting risk to its workers is a corporation that only exists because the workers who produce its profits assume the risks for its managers' blunders.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in Burbank (TODAY!), #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams
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