A recap of main events today (while i was working on a completely different story so details to come later):
-emergency government and war cabinet formed in #Israel
#Gaza 's only power station stopped working, leaving the territory without main electricity
17 Brits, including children are dead or missing after #hamas attack in Israel
#Israel 's military #IDF says its latest air strikes in #Gaza are aiming to destroy a network of #tunnels that has for decades served as an operations centre for #Hamas , built over the years since Hamas took power in Gaza in 2007
"The Israeli Air Force has been striking a lot of neighbourhoods in Gaza. What we are doing is prioritising striking commanders, senior leaders of Hamas in all echelons," an IDF spox said.
"Whatever it is, if it belongs to Hamas, we are striking it."
Montenegrin police began an investigation after robbers tunnelled into the Higher Court’s storage rooms in Podgorica, where trial evidence including seized drugs and weapons was reportedly being kept....
Posted another blog post about getting #Bookwyrm ( @bookwyrm ) installed on my local Synology NAS at home. I used Cloudfare tunnels to bypass the port forwarding issue, and to make the SSL certificates easier to deal with. I’m still finding my way around Bookwyrm, but feel free to find me at https://books.cdrum.social/user/cdrum
Today a friend joined me in testing out a walking route I put together about the rail history of Oakland and the inner East Bay. A once extensive network of trains and streetcars served #Oakland and its neighboring cities, fueling their growth during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The network was gradually motorized line by line until it vanished altogether, replaced by a bus system that was put into the hands of AC Transit @RideACT in 1960. Those trains are long gone but nonetheless left behind many enduring traces and physical imprints, if you look in the right places. This walk route is about history hiding in plain sight, highlighting features and quirks of the built environment that reveal the rail of yesteryear.
The route is 12 miles long and begins, fittingly enough, in Oakland's Laurel District, a neighborhood that, before it came to be known by its present name, was branded as "Key Route Heights." (The real estate industry has long had a penchant for coining lackluster neighborhood names.)
Here's a bicycle ride I did that I called the Three Tunnels Ride. It visits either ends of the Caldecott, (car) Redwood Peak (Sacramento Northern, train) and Kennedy (car) tunnels.
Robbers dig tunnel to stage break-in at Montenegro Higher Court (balkaninsight.com)
Montenegrin police began an investigation after robbers tunnelled into the Higher Court’s storage rooms in Podgorica, where trial evidence including seized drugs and weapons was reportedly being kept....