#Music on #Blue-Cosmic-Monkey
#BruceFoxton 9/1/1955 #Birth English bassist ( #TheJam)
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#Bruce-Foxton - This Is The Way ( #1983)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.Remember The 80s (YouTube)
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I shut my laptop with a snap.
I’m still in a meeting.
What is this in-person nonsense?
#Atlantic #SocialMedia #USA #Gullicism
The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same timeAdam Serwer (The Atlantic)
Great video. Watch it!
(This is Prof. Ada Palmer @adapalmer)
#Music on #Blue-Cosmic-Monkey
#JuniorBraithwaite 4/4/1949 #Birth Jamaican singer (The #Wailers)
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#PeterTosh, #BunnyWailer, Junior Braithwaite & Vision Walker-Nice Time Never Ending #Wailers #Session
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Yesterday I saw someone boast that as a designer he can just feed his figma file to an AI and “instantly get a working product”. “It’s not vibecoding”, he wrote on LinkedIn, “I am guiding the software”.
This saves him so much time he now has time left for freelance work! …
What is it with these who people think their expertise is the one thing AI can’t do, while shouting from the rooftops it can do everything and replace everyone else? 🤪 is this how some people mentally deal with this stuff?
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‘Vergeet niet wie de Palestijnen ontmenselijkt en wie daarvoor de ogen sluit’
Na het bekijken van de docu Gevangen in Palestina weet columnist Nadia Bouras één ding zeker: alle ogen zouden hierop gericht moeten zijn. Niet op binnenlandse moddergevechten, maar op de medeplichtigheid van Nederland bij de mensenrechtenschendingen door Israël. ‘Voor de Nederlandse regering is wegkijken een beleidskeuze.’
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Volgens columnist Nadia Bouras moeten we de regering blijven aanspreken op medeplichtigheid.Maartje Luif (OneWorld)
La joie des travaux, c'est d'avoir les langues du monde dans l'oreille. Cette fois-ci, le malgache fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgache.
Il m'est arrivé d'avoir des Moldaves échangeant en russe avec un Ouzbek, lui-même s'adressant en arabe à un voisin algérien qui passait par là.
Ça ne compense pas le chant de la perçeuse, mais ne boudons pas notre plaisir.
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Cartooning for Peace heeft een nieuw rapport gepubliceerd: 'Under Pressure' kijkt naar dreiging voor cartoonisten wereldwijd tussen 2023 en 2025. Gisteravond vertelde ik bij Met het Oog op Morgen over hoe het is gesteld met de positie van politiek cartoonisten: nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/nos-me…
Het rapport is hier (gratis) te downloaden: cartooningforpeace.org/en/even…
De beroepsgroep van cartoonisten staat onder druk en niet zo'n beetje ook. Er is nu een alarmerend rapport verschenen van onder andere de organisatie Cartoonists For Peace over de positie van cartoonisten wereldwijd in de afgelopen 3 jaar.NPO Radio 1
Wow, the government's draft report on how it is meeting its ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) obligations is a long dry summary of all the ways it's failing to do so by eroding our rights and liberties.
And that's even with it trying to put the best light on some issues like the terrible Biometric Code!
Read as a whole it's a shocking indictment.
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Find and participate in consultations run by the Ministry of Justice.consultations.justice.govt.nz
Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”: rishi.baldawa.com/posts/review…
[My prediction: A lot of orgs will *not* do smart things about this and will suffer disastrous consequences in the near future.]
AI tools are flooding PR queues and the instinct everywhere is to call review the bottleneck. I think that’s the wrong question. The reviewer is the last sync point before production changes.Rishi Baldawa
@petrillic That's certainly my concern. I'm in security, so mostly watching this from the sidelines, as I listen to execs essentially pushing for "vibe-code to prod".
It can only become worse when making changes to programs, since it won't be incremental change. Instead, it'll be, "no, do the thing, but not like that." The old fluff will be thrown away, and so the new version will be whatever it is, possibly completely different from last time. How do you review that?
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Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically 👏.
No IT config needed. 🔥
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
⚠️ Warn → 🚫 Block → 🗑️ Wipe
Let your help desk and security teams know.
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If your mobile device OS has been jailbroken, rooted or otherwise tampered with, you may find that Microsoft Authenticator will no longer work. Learn what that means for you when trying to sign in.support.microsoft.com
This is gonna catch some folks out 😅
Microsoft Authenticator is about to wipe work accounts from jailbroken/rooted phones automatically 👏.No IT config needed. 🔥
3-phase rollout starting Feb 2026:
⚠️ Warn → 🚫 Block → 🗑️ WipeLet your help desk and security teams know.
🔗 support.microsoft.com/en-us/ac…
Jailbreak/root detection in Microsoft Authenticator - Microsoft Support
If your mobile device OS has been jailbroken, rooted or otherwise tampered with, you may find that Microsoft Authenticator will no longer work. Learn what that means for you when trying to sign in.support.microsoft.com
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Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up – Anyone given refugee status in the UK will only be offered temporary protection, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced.
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Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.Iain Watson (BBC News)
> Under the new rules, asylum seekers' cases will be reviewed every 30 months, after which they could be sent to their country of origin, provided it is deemed safe to do so.
I don't see what's wrong with this. Surely a country that's deemed safe after a period of being unsafe enough asylum/refugee status comes into question would really need people moving back to help rebuild.
@budududuroiu
DEEMED SAFE BY WHO??
The US is deporting people to places where they've been tortured and people are still waiting to kill them.
Sure, a lot this may SOUND halfway reasonable on the surface, if you haven't been paying a lick of attention to HOW it's actually being implemented by evil fascist jerks.
As someone who came to the US as a refugee with political asylum I can't overstate how cruel this is. I was already terrified and had nightmares every day. And here they're telling you that you didn't get to safety after all that, that they will reverse your status on a whim, if they deem it safe for you to return. As Warsan Shire wrote, no one leaves home unless home becomes the mouth of a shark.
Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up – Anyone given refugee status in the UK will only be offered temporary protection, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced.bbc.com/news/articles/cp32ddzd…
Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up
Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.Iain Watson (BBC News)
I'm trying to put together basically the capsule wardrobe of board game collections (one really perfect example of each type/genre/mood) and I feel like nobody in the hobby is doing this because, (Seattle Bias Alert! 🚨) it's kind of still a masculine-coded hobby for techies with a lot of spare cash to throw around.
So there's this impression that the "right" way to have a collection is to have a big one, and that's how you manage the diversity of options: simply own all of them.
Being habitually kind of skittish and risk-averse is a thing that gets criticized a lot of the time in women (and poc, and people who grew up in poverty) because it can hold you back professionally, and in terms of your ability to farm hipster clout by "discovering" new media.
But like, when bringing home a dud costs so much more than just playing games you already have, it's just good sense.
I think it's important to be daring with your taste, but only in so far as you know yourself, you know what you like, you know what you want, and the "daring" thing is for you, even if it's not for everyone else.
Like, there's an elegance to perfectly personal curation, to assembling exactly the perfect things you want to surround yourself with, no more, no less.
And that's not a thing people who can just buy whatever is popular right now have to consider. They can afford carelessness.
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Let me predict the future for you:
- Oil stays above $100/barrel for a few days
- Trump panics as his poll numbers continue to drop
- Trump claims military victory via insane, rambling 2am Truth Social rant
- U.S. troops withdraw from Iran
- Mysterious day-old accounts somehow predict the exact day on Polymarket and make millions
- Israel is left holding the bag in a forever war with Iran which your tax dollars continue to fund
- Ayatollah's son gets a 40 year reign courtesy of your tax dollars
- Trump and Hegseth bomb Cuba next
- Trump starts claiming he "ended 9 wars" now
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The gameplay of Pokepath TD follows the familiar tower defense formula but introduces a unique Pokémon twist. Players begin each run by placing Pokémon along a fixed path where waves of enemies travel. These Pokémon automatically attack approaching enemies, preventing them from reaching the end of the route.
As waves progress, players earn gold and experience points. Gold is used to upgrade Pokémon during the run, increasing their power, attack speed, or special abilities. Experience allows Pokémon to level up and eventually evolve into stronger forms.
Positioning plays an important role in survival. Some Pokémon perform better near corners where enemies remain in attack range longer, while others are best used as support units that slow or weaken enemies. Choosing the right placement and timing upgrades correctly often determines whether a run succeeds or fails.
Another key element of gameplay is managing resources during waves. Players must decide whether to spend gold immediately to strengthen defenses or save it for more powerful upgrades later. This constant decision-making keeps the gameplay engaging and strategic.
"The study found that the reasons given by officers for subjecting black people to the controversial power were more likely to be vague, with examples including that a black person gave a “furtive glance”
#Racism #MetPol #London #Policing #StopAndSearch
Black people up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in richest areas of London | Stop and search | The Guardian
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Research found extreme disproportion in use of police power in districts such as Richmond-upon-ThamesVikram Dodd (the Guardian)
Nieuwe besluiten van Trump en consorten, en nieuwe fallout. Een overzicht van dag 414. – Trump zegt dat Democraten mogelijk […]Kirsten Verdel (Reporters Online)
De VS.
44% goedkeuring Trump. Trump meer positieve beoordelingen dan Harris. 41% steunt de oorlog met Iran.
Krankjorem.
Au Liban, d’une guerre coloniale à l’autre et du droit de résister
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"Le 2 mars 2026, une nouvelle guerre d’ampleur a commencé au Liban. Dans ce texte, Ghassan Khoury propose une analyse de cette guerre coloniale en la réinscrivant dans l'histoire libanaise du conflit avec Israël et en éclairant la genèse et le rôle du Hezbollah comme mouvement anticolonial libanais.
L’article Au Liban, d’une guerre coloniale à l’autre et du
Le 2 mars 2026, une nouvelle guerre d’ampleur a commencé au Liban. Dans ce texte, Ghassan Khoury propose une analyse de cette guerre coloniale en la réinscrivant dans l'histoire libanaise du conflit avec Israël et en éclairant la genèse et le rôle du…Ghassan Khoury (Contretemps)
My musical 2025 review
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You can give it RSS feeds, mastodon, bluesky, or reddit URLs, and it will even build a scraper for you for sites without proper feeds.
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Natural Gas is such a dumb energy source.
It's incompressible bullshit that needs to be frozen to negative a million degrees to become liquid.
Otherwise you need to transport it in pipelines which need to be built out everywhere.
And the only reason anyone messes around with this dumb shit is because it's way cheaper than anything else.
It's more expensive.
CO2 is a meme, but air quality where powerplants are located near populated areas is an important consideration.
But at this point, it's even more expensive than like propane so it's pretty dumb.
Anyway, countries just need to get off their collective behinds and build nuclear generation capacity. This business of mining, shipping, and burning is mega dumb.
This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany. Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design.
Found in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg.
📷 me
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#association #association Loi 1901 #gouvernance #fonctionnement #juridique #publication site wwwcdorg #wwwcdorg
Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO 
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After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.Bluesky
A venture capitalist, you say? How surprising.
Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEObsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2…
A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky
After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.Bluesky
We've been exploring avenues of monetization other than traditional advertising, and have raised a seed round to support our mission and growth.Bluesky
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High'n'Dry is the best Def Leppard album.
That is all.
Carry on.
Hoy el Chorlitejo Patinegro / Corriol camanegre / Píllara das dunas / Txirritxo hankabeltza / Kentish Plover (Anarhynchus alexandrinus)
21 Nov 2025
Salinas del Cabo de Gata, ALmería, España
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#BirdsPhotography #birds #aves #bird #birding #pajarear #nature #naturaleza #NaturePhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photography #txoria #paxaro #fedipajareo #birdsOfMastodon
Influenssa on influenssavirusten aiheuttama hengitystieinfektio, joka alkaa usein äkillisesti. Influenssaa esiintyy vuosittain epidemioina, ja A-influenssa on yksi sen päätyypeistä.Potilaanlääkärilehti.fi
French AI developer Yann LeCun raises €900 million for his new AI firm which wants to develop a different kind of AI, moving beyond LLMs. www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
Yann Le Cun lève 900 millions ...
Valorisée 3 milliards d’euros, AMI, la nouvelle entreprise de l’ex-directeur de l’intelligence artificielle chez Meta, ambitionne de créer une « nouvelle branche » de l’IA relative au monde réel.Alexandre Piquard (Le Monde.fr)
About the ps Command’s Options
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Contents About the ps Command The Origin of ps Option Styles ps Option Categories Which Processes Should ps Display? Selecting Fields Formatting ps Output ConclusionAlex Bochannek (Alex’s Blog)
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 09 - 6 Mar - Szeged - Subotica - Beograd
New borders:
None
Borders already crossed:
Röszke 🇭🇺 - Horgoš 🇷🇸
My first trip on the Chinese built line Subotica – Novi Sad – Beograd. OK, it’s a very early start in the morning, but you cannot win them all!
Today's routes on the routes map:
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Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.uMap
Here's this morning's #CrossBorderRail intro video, still half asleep as it is far too early!
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Morning previews of the day ahead, and evening summaries of what I learned during the day. During Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail Spring Tour 2026.#CrossBorderRail Live Streams (Netzbegrünung PeerTube)
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 31 of 86
R 7300
05:23 Szeged - Subotica 06:55
MÁV, Srbija Voz
Train type: Metrowagonmash DMU, 2 carriages
⛽️ (although line is electrified)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ❓ (theoretically possible, but it's so hard to get up into it hell knows how)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔
🧳: 😐 (ok once in, hard to get in)️
🧽: 😐 (️it's orderly, but it's grimy and worn and poorly maintained inside)
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
R 7300
05:23 Szeged - Subotica 06:55
Distance: 45.6km
Average speed: 30km/h
8 stops:
Szentmihalytelek
Röszke
Horgos
Backi Vinogradi
Hajdukovo
Palic
Subotica Jav. Skladista
Subotica
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.uMap
First light at Röszke 🇭🇺
We’ve been here 40 minutes for border controls
But it took 5 minutes to check the half a dozen people on board
A Srbija Voz DMU at Horgos, heading back towards Szeged
Eventually my train might move towards Subotica
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The Architect of Shadows: How Epstein Used Genius As Raw Material
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"I. The Myth of the Senile Scholar In February 2026, the intellectual left was hit with a curious form of damage control. Valeria Chomsky issued a public apology for what she called a “grave mistake” on behalf of her husband, the 97-year-old Noam Chomsky. She characterized the couple as “careless” and “naive,” depicting an
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Savez vous que parmi les 36 VPNs connus, 25 appartiennent complètement ou partiellement à #Israël, qui les utilisent pour espionner et hacker les téléphones des utilisateurs.
Israël s'est lancé récemment dans des opérations de rachat d'autres VPNs.Voici leurs VPNs:
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 07 - 4 Mar - Almere - Utrecht - Arnhem - Duisburg
New borders:
None
Borders already crossed:
Emmerich 🇩🇪 - Zevenaar 🇳🇱
Speech at RailTech Utrecht, followed by a meeting of European Rail Passengers Union. And then onwards to Germany to end the day, to be able to make a early start tomorrow towards Hungary.
Today's routes on the routes map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.uMap
Here’s today‘s #CrossBorderRail intro video, sorry for loud train noise behind!
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Morning previews of the day ahead, and evening summaries of what I learned during the day. During Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail Spring Tour 2026.#CrossBorderRail Live Streams (Netzbegrünung PeerTube)
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 18 of 80
RE 4925
08:24 Almere Muziekwijk - Utrecht Centraal 09:05
NS
Train type: Bombardier SLT 2400 EMU, 2x 4 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (not the best - poor racks, needs more space in vestibules)
🧽: 😐 (windows grimy)
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
RE 4925
08:24 Almere Muziekwijk - Utrecht Centraal 09:05
Distance: 42.4km
Average speed: 69km/h
6 stops:
Almere Poort
Naarden-Bussum
Hilversum
Hilversum Sportpark
Utrecht Overvecht
Utrecht Centraal
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.uMap
My workshop about #CrossChannelRail is first, at 10:10
There aren’t many people in the hall yet. And do people who care about track fastenings care about this? We‘ll see 🤔
No live stream though sadly
Quick escape from RailTech and walk into Utrecht
Utrecht Centraal is both rather uncharming and amazing. The amazing passenger/rail/bike capacity here is impressive
Ah
Imagine you’re going to Düsseldorf
Is it 1 train (NS info) or 3 (DB)?
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 22 of 83
IC 3075
20:54 Utrecht Centraal - Arnhem Centraal 21:29
NS
Train type: Talbot VIRM EMU, 4 double deck carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (ramp on platform)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (not the worst design, but still a mess with big bags)
🧽: ☹️ (covered in grime)
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
IC 3075
20:54 Utrecht Centraal - Arnhem Centraal 21:29
Distance: 56.7km
Average speed: 97km/h
3 stops:
Driebergen-Zeist
Ede-Wageningen
Arnhem Centraal
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.uMap
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 23 of 83
RE19 (21235)
22:45 Arnhem Centraal - Emmerich 23:05
VIAS Rail GmbH
Train type: Stadler EMU, 6 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc, 25kV ac, 15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️ (installed but broken)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
RE19 (21235)
22:45 Arnhem Centraal - Emmerich 23:05
Distance: 30.9km
Average speed: 93km/h
3 stops:
Zevenaar
Emmerich-Elten
Emmerich
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.uMap
Morning previews of the day ahead, and evening summaries of what I learned during the day. During Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail Spring Tour 2026.#CrossBorderRail Live Streams (Netzbegrünung PeerTube)
🎉 🎉 🎉
It’s so damned late that the Bundespolizei has gone home. So #schengen works!
🎉 🎉 🎉
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 24 of 83
RE19 (20043)
23:08 Emmerich - Duisburg Hbf 00:15
VIAS Rail GmbH
Train type: Stadler EMU, 6 short carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂️
🧽: 😐 (end of the day, quite a lot of rubbish inside)
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
RE19 (20043)
23:08 Emmerich - Duisburg Hbf 00:15
Distance: 68.2km
Average speed: 61km/h
13 stops:
Praest
Millingen(b Rees)
Empel-Rees
Haldern(Rheinl)
Mehrhoog
Wesel Feldmark
Wesel
Voerde(Niederrhein)
Dinslaken
Oberhausen-Holten
Oberhausen-Sterkrade
Oberhausen Hbf
Duisburg Hbf
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.uMap
Ah, problems ahead #CrossBorderRail
What do I do?
Change in Nürnberg, get the diverted ICE via Ingolstadt and Passau instead?
Stay on, assuming they will add a Betriebshalt in Ingolstadt, and still get the ICE to Wien there?
Stay on to München and hope it all works? 🤔
“may” not be possible 🤪
That’s optimistic dear ÖBB!
☀️ & 2x 🐹 in Nürnberg
Only issue: I’d not intended to be in Nürnberg
Depart Plattling
4 guys, plain clothes, stand by the door
That'll be police I thought
They come through the train
The control first a guy with his neck covered in tattoos (there are no ethnic minority passengers in view)
And then they control ME
(Translated here into English, but discussion was in German)
First, to make it clear, these were Polizei Bayern, NOT Bundespolizei
Police, showing his ID: "Gruß Gott!" (Bavarian hello, means Greet God! - always makes this atheist annoyed). "Identity check!"
Me: "Could I ask, why are you controlling?"
P: "This is a train to Austria!"
M: "Yes, we are LEAVING Germany!"
P: "Yes, but it is still a border!"
M: "But sorry, I am leaving. Why are you checking?"
P: "But we are checking for illegal migration! As the Bavarian police law allows us!"
M: "So is this a border control then?"
P, stumbles a bit, realises what I am trying: "It is, errr, an identity control"
M: "OK, that was the right answer." and I hand him my ID.
His colleague: "We are allowed to control"
M: "Yes, I know, and this is not your fault - this is decided by Berlin and to some extent München, it's not your decision."
P colleague: "But why is this a problem?"
M: "Look, I work on railway policy, and my background is in EU politics, and I see this over and over. In the EU I find this annoying."
P: "But the controls are only temporary, so they are legally compliant"
M: "Yes, temporary for six months, renewed every six months. How many times do we have to renew before they are permanent?"
He realised he was not going to win this, and it was all impeccably civil.
P: "But why are these controls actually limiting your freedom of movement?"
M: "Well, to give you your due you are doing this in a moving train. That is not the case at every German border!"
P looks confused.
M: "At Kehl for example, they stop and delay every train for 15 minutes - that is a limit on freedom of movement."
P nodded.
Anyway, it makes me hopping mad this sort of thing is happening. WHY THE HELL DO WE NEED 4 DUDES GOING THROUGH ICE TRAINS DOING THIS? 🤬
But at least they knew the law, and were friendly and polite, and I wished them a nice day.
Reminded by @Sobex of a #Schengen argument I had with the Budespolizei in Puttgarden
I wrote a blog post about it here:
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And that was 2013! 😳
I have been arguing with border guards for more than 13 years. FFS
Today I'm at least as angry at myself as a blogger (who was not adequately prepared) as I am about yet another breach of EU law and Schengen.Jon Worth
And the one that started this whole #Schengen arguing with police on trains thing was in 2012, in St Jean de Maurienne jonworth.eu/non-schengen-compl…
And there are quite a few blog posts! jonworth.eu/tag/schengen/
Four French police boarded the front carriage of the 0749 Paris Gare de Lyon – Milano Garibaldi TGV at St Jean de Maurienne on 9th October. The train was running with a delay of around 55 minutes, hence departing from St Jean at around 1230.Jon Worth
Oooof
ICE comes to an abrupt stop in Amstetten
Police called
They found what looked like a package of drugs in a toilet! 🤯 I saw police removing it
Anyway, as the doors were open I hopped off, and onto a Wien-bound InterCity!
The lady who found the package was sat near me. We chatted.
“Shall I jump out and take the IC?” I mused
“They’ll think you’re the suspect!” she laughed in reply 😀
I also presume the lost package of drugs didn’t have a SNCF luggage label on them? 🤔
N’oubliez rien!
It’s amusing these tiny Jenbacher railbuses still serve Wien Hbf
The best railbuses ever built though
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The obvious question: if you can make a song out of the SNCF jingle, has anyone done the same with MÁV jingles?
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Les keke-boys, un remix de la SNCFMaxime ROUXNicolas ROUXJulien ROUXMerci pour vos abonnements et vos likes🇫🇷 Live Twitch : http://twitch.tv/Snooz_live 📬E...Snooz_live (YouTube)
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Meanwhile in France there’s a problem with invasive passengers travelling without reservations. And SNCF employees think liberalisation is to blame!
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Ces derniers jours sur la ligne de TGV Paris Nantes, les travailleurs de la SNCF ont eu la mauvaise surprise de voir apparaître des cafards dans le wagon bar où ils travaillent.Thomas Matera (Révolution Permanente)
Right then, the assessments, finally!
Now everything is re-mapped and re-planned...
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 26 of 86
ICE 1221
10:39 Nürnberg Hbf - Amstetten (via Ingolstadt) 14:55
DB Fernverkehr, ÖBB
Train type: Siemens, Alstom ICE T tilting EMU, 2x 7 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (needs lift on platform)
🛜: ✅ (slow, but it worked)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (it looked knackered, but it was clean)️
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
Top score!
ICE 1221
10:39 Nürnberg Hbf - Amstetten (via Ingolstadt) 14:55
Distance: 448.5km
Average speed: 105km/h
7 stops:
Ingolstadt Hbf
Regensburg Hbf
Plattling
Passau Hbf
Wels Hbf
Linz Hbf
Amstetten (unplanned stop - police called to confiscate a suspicious package, presumed to be drugs)
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 27 of 86
IC 647
15:06 Amstetten - Wien Hbf 16:03
ÖBB
Train type: Stadler EMU, 6 double deck carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅ (vending machine and coffee)
🧳: 🙂 (as good as a double deck design can be)
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
Another top score! These Austrians are doing something right 🙂
IC 647
15:06 Amstetten - Wien Hbf 16:03
Distance: 124.9km
Average speed: 131km/h
4 stops:
St. Pölten
Tullnerfeld
Wien Meidling
Wien Hbf
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 28 of 86
EC 149
16:42 Wien Hbf - Budapest-Kelenföld 19:04
MÁV, ÖBB
Train type: Siemens Taurus locomotive, 6 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac, 25kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift on platform in Austria, use of on board lift in Hungary)
🛜: ⛔ (not in my carriage)️
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 😐 (narrow corridors, but OK once in)️
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
EC 149
16:42 Wien Hbf - Budapest-Kelenföld 19:04
Distance: 246.4km
Average speed: 104km/h
5 stops:
Hegyeshalom
Mosonmagyarovar
Györ
Tatabanya
Budapest-Kelenföld
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 29 of 86
R 3511
19:16 Budapest-Kelenföld - Köbanya-Kispest 19:31
MÁV
Train type: Stadler EMU, 4 short single deck carriages
⚡️ (25kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows, otherwise an on board lift)
🛜: ❓ (didn't check)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂️
🧽: 🙂️
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
R 3511
19:16 Budapest-Kelenföld - Köbanya-Kispest 19:31
Distance: 11.4km
Average speed: 46km/h
2 stops:
Ferencváros
Köbanya-Kispest
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 30 of 86
IC 718
20:06 Köbanya-Kispest - Szeged 22:16
MÁV
Train type: Siemens Taurus locomotive, 6 carriages
⚡️ (25kV ac)
🚲: ✅ (loads of bike spaces)
🦽: ✅ (lift on board in one carriage)
🛜: ⛔ (not where I am sat)️
🍽️: ✅
🧳: ☹️ (super high steps, narrow doors - hellish)️
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
IC 718
20:06 Köbanya-Kispest - Szeged 22:16
Distance: 179.2km
Average speed: 83km/h
8 stops:
Ferihegy
Cegled
Nagykörös
Kecskemet
Kiskunfelegyhaza
Kistelek
Szatymaz
Szeged
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Today's #CrossBorderRail I've had:
Track repairs - +10 Frankfurt, but I continued
Medical emergency on another train - forced me to re-route via Ingolstadt-Regensburg instead of München
Extra unscheduled stop at Amstetten - police called to confiscate a package, presumably drugs. And I switched to a different train
And - despite all of that - I am ONLY 1 hour late, 45 mins from Szeged!
End of the line for today: Szeged 🇭🇺
It’s a super city. I can highly recommend visiting it. Few tourists. Good food. Lively.
But not for me this time - onwards to Serbia 🇷🇸 tomorrow!
Here’s today’s #CrossBorderRail summary video
A lot happened today 😀
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Morning previews of the day ahead, and evening summaries of what I learned during the day. During Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail Spring Tour 2026.#CrossBorderRail Live Streams (Netzbegrünung PeerTube)
**🇪🇸🇪🇺 FLASH INFO | La vice-Première ministre espagnole Yolanda Díaz a critiqué lundi les propos de la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen sur la guerre en Iran **:« Nous devons exiger le respect du droit international. Tout autre comportement relève de la barbarie […] C’est pourquoi les propos d’Ursula von der Leyen sont insuffisants. […] Cette guerre est illégale. Elle viole la Charte des Nations Unies, par conséquent, je demande à la présidente de la Commission européenne de défendre le droit international. »
🚨🇺🇸LE SCOOP TRUMPSTEIN ‼️🔴Ivanka #Trump et Jared #Kushner ont travaillé avec des frères promoteurs immobiliers, aujourd'hui reconnus coupables du viol d'au moins 60 femmes.
Oren, Tal et Alon sont de « fervents partisans de Trump » qui étaient « présents » le soir de l'élection et ont assisté aux réceptions à la Maison Blanche.
🔴Certaines victimes ont reçu des drogues et ont été emmenées d'un État à l'autre, avant d'être physiquement immobilisées et agressées sexuellement.
Oren, Alon et Tal Alexander ont été reconnus coupables des 10 chefs d'accusation, y compris de complot en vue de commettre un trafic sexuel et de trafic sexuel par la force, la fraude ou la contrainte.
#DonaldTrump #EtatsUnis #TraficSexuel #AbusSexuel
Israel’s Dahiya Doctrine: Terror and Collective Punishment by Another Name
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"The U.S.-Israel approach to their war on Iran has reminded many observers of Israel’s Dahiya doctrine. The doctrine is named for Beirut’s southern suburb (often spelled Dahieh, which simply means suburb in Arabic), long recognized as a stronghold of the Iran-aligned Shia militia group Hezbollah. “The
Hmmm 🤔
Rowenta X-Force Flex handheld vacuum from a neighbour here in Ravières
Charger is broken - €30 for a new one
But then if it ALSO needs a new battery… 🤔 Risk it?
Device is €200 new, which also strikes me as a lot!
Damn. That’s not a simple battery!
And it smells burned
I assume you can separate circuit from cells?
#PsychologyToday All the red flags you’d expect to see, and then some: pedo, rapist, felon, bleach-peddler and #Epstein’s buddy #Trump exhibits elevated psychopathic traits
[…] So why do people keep getting duped by dark personalities? Why do we fall for narcissistic lovers, award promotions to pathological liars, and elect full-blown psychopaths to government offices? One answer is that humans are naturally trusting. Most of us try not to tell lies or knowingly stomp on people’s feelings, and we usually expect the same from others.
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#psychologytoday #trump #uspol
Autocrats can have dark personality traits and perform poorly. Why do people vote for them?alumni UBC (UBC Magazine)
The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy
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"The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that More
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I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway. It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people. And what to do about it.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Save the Children…From ICE!
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"ICE currently detains hundreds of migrant children, many for over 20 days, and if you thought Kristi Noem’s deserved firing from the Department of Homeland Security would improve things for these kids, well, think again. Her departure has not been accompanied by any mass exodus of the under-12 set from federal detention. In fact, expect More
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'Sounds familiar': how the US-Israeli war in Iran parallels russia's invasion of #Ukraine
🖊️ Pjotr Sauer
Both campaigns have been framed differently at different times, with dubious claims of defensive action and a curious reluctance to label it war
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L'Éducation nationale prolonge un contrat (4 ans de plus pour plus de 150 millions d'euros maximum) avec Microsoft (contre ses propres consignes et celles de l’État).
Beau geste pour la #souveraineté numérique !
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Injonctions contradictoires, manque de cohérence, mauvais signal, non-respect des préconisations de l'État, stratégie numérique illisible, on n'est plus à ça près…
#Yolo
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Le ministère de l'Éducation nationale vient de renouveler un contrat avec le géant américain Microsoft, révèlent nos confrères de Médiapart et ce, en dépit de ses propres consignes et de celles de l'État qui recommandent d'utiliser des solutions info…France Inter
The Dubai Decompression Loop
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"The mountains always felt close when the aircraft lifted out of Kabul. During the Afghanistan war, Dubai became a strange airlock between two worlds—where the conflict seemed, briefly, to stop. That illusion has grown harder to sustain. After savage US and Israeli strikes on Iran, followed by vicious retaliatory missile and drone attacks across the More
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It's a long shot but it's worth a try I guess
Is anyone out there in Sydney hiring helpdesk staff, admin staff, data entry or live events/AV staff?
I have a degree in broadcast media and several years of experience across helpdesk, data recovery and admin in general. I've done live events AV stuff through uni and through fandom conventions as well.
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Another post in an attempt to troubleshoot federating issues.
Group says more military units have just been activated for deployment than the public knows aboutSean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
🔻 aetios 🇪🇺
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