Based, full name Base Democratica, is an Italian movement for direct democracy. Its founder asked me to give it a logo

On October 26, 2024, I was in Naples to speak at Linux Day 2024. I also had a few hours to see the city

The railway station’s clock: A number plaque

A number plaque: Spooky typography: Poster against war

A little tower: Blossoms: A passage to the sea

5elements is an Italian agricultural corps which grows plants and sells products made with them. Its olives are the tastiest I’ve ever eaten...

Outside the Ferrari museum: A park: A logo

I will soon be hosting a discussion about entropy and its evil characteristics. The talking will go on both in Italian and French

The innards of a traffic light button: “Life doesn’t last all life. Life lasts while you’re young”

Less than a month after changing trains at Mestre, I unexpectedly got to see the real deal: Venice proper

A heart: The barber: Number plaques

Poggio and Bussana Vecchia are Sanremo’s outlying hamlets

The seafront in Nervi: The benches have movable backrests. I haven’t seen this anywhere other than Genoa...

Screens with menus: The lamps look like big coffee cups—not bad

Outdoors: A number plaque: Accidental modern street-art

My poster was present at a pro-freedom demonstration in Sanremo, Italy

Ducks in the river: What’s that dent in the top part of the sky? A cloaked extraterrestrial craft, perhaps?...

I do indeed think about the Roman Empire every day

A foregate: A door: A sticker: One of the few good graffiti

Just four stills from Mestre. I was changing trains and didn’t have enough time to reach the canals