i dont give a FUCK any more man this has gone TOO far i'm deleting ALL the exclamation points from my work emails. that's right. i hope you have a good weekend. and no more than that

Things that would make people watch more F1:

• More accessible races (both online and in person)
• Fewer paywalls for the actual races (including free practice and qualifying)
• Accessible, non-paywalled archives so people can go back and watch older races, or races that they missed within a continuing season
• Races at better and more interesting tracks (fewer Tilkedromes, fewer paint by numbers street races, especially in Europe and North America)
• More races in Asia, South America and Africa (bring back Sepang)
• Rotating tracks so the calendar changes each year to keep things interesting (we do not need to go to Barcelona and Madrid in the same year)
• Fewer races in a season to spread the races out and make each race an actual event rather than a continuing chore that people may easily get bored of
• Greater media freedom for the teams (let the teams make their own content again so people can get to know the drivers that way)
• Regulations that bring the cars closer together in performance terms
• Clear and consistently enforced regulations that allow for proper racing but don’t reward nonsense
• Cheaper tickets for actual races so people can experience F1 for themselves

Things that will not make people watch more F1:

• Fewer practice sessions
• More sprint races
• Shorter races
• Tickets so expensive only corporations can buy them or gift them to influencers
• Filming all races in portrait to make tiktok edits easier

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One of the closets in the archive of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes, in Barcelona (Catalonia).

This archive keeps the most important documents related to the monastery since it was founded in the year 1326 by the Queen of Catalonia Elisenda de Montcada.

Almost 700 years later, the monastery has been active until when I wrote and queued this post. Soon after, the Catholic Church decided that the nun community was not allowed to live there anymore and they would be relocated, since there were only 3 nuns at this point. The Church has not listened to the complaints of the nuns, who have called this beautiful monastery their home for decades of their life and don't want to leave, nor the neighbours, who want the monastery to keep having its use (the monastery is already open to visitors when the nuns live in it) and not just become an empty building.

The nuns were forced to leave on February 25th 2025 and have been relocated to a monastery in a different town. Next year, the monastery and its nun community would have turned 700 years old.

Source: Monestir de Pedralbes, El Punt Avui.