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Fietsen, dat zouden meer mensen moeten doen.
Dagtaak: “Watching as the world burns”.

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taylorlorenz, to random
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For when you want that AI aesthetic 😂

mrtnsnp, (edited )
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@taylorlorenz Ideal if you need to ‘prove' in court that the photo was AI-generated.

quixoticgeek, to random
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There needs to be an Amsterdam to Milan night train... Or better yet. All the way to Rome.

One to Venice would be good too...

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek Last Year I had a conference in Taormina. All suggestions used unrealistic transfer times in Germany, so we figured out that the Bolzano/Bozen to Rome night train was the way to go, over the Brenner pass. From Rome it was still another 9 hours or so to Taormina, with the train on the boat for the crossing.
On the way back we took the night train to Milan, stayed there for a night to avoid frequent delays on that train (which of course ran on time down to the minute). 1/2

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek From Milan we took the train to Basel and from there the ICE to Utrecht. Switzerland deserves a train with daylight (and early autumn is very beautiful).

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek The base tunnel route is unavailable for quite some time. So that either gives time to figure out how, or gives a limited opportunity to travel the old Gotthard route, as I think some trains are running that route now. Current estimate is September 2024 before the base tunnel will be open again.
And the truly beautiful route is via Tirano-Bergün-Chur, and then the night train from Zürich.

quixoticgeek, to random
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I'm no expert. But that can't be good...

https://todon.nl/@haayman/111436760957879175

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek Part of the area meant to get flooded with high water. Working as designed, and to prevent flooding of areas that really matter.

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek @haayman Certainly upstream, rivers are rather high at the moment.

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek @haayman This is the normal scheme: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomerkade We're just transitioning into the winter situation.

garius, to random
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Imagine Cameron having to meet all the EU leaders.

Like when that one manager comes back after an "extended absence" where everyone knows EXACTLY what he did, but HR have banned you all from talking about it.

mrtnsnp,
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@garius @quixoticgeek I imagine a Fawlty Towers episode: “Do not mention pigs”.

jon, to random
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Also if Latvia and Lithuania DO manage to re-establish a passenger train connection, that will leave only 2 internal borders of the EU where there are rail lines but there are no passenger services

🇫🇮 🇸🇪 Tornio-Haparanda
🇬🇷 🇧🇬 Sidirokastro-Kulata and Ormenio-Svilengrad

mrtnsnp,
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@jon With Sweden-Finland there is of course a track-gauge issue.

jon, to random
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deluxe

Aachen - Welkenraedt is running 😎

mrtnsnp,
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@jon Heritage material.

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 29, 29 Oct, Hendaye - Paris - Mannheim - Berlin

Today I’m crossing these borders
Euskotren - Irun Ficoba 🇪🇸 - Hendaye 🇫🇷
Saarbrücken 🇩🇪 - Forbach 🇫🇷

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#6/48.115/5.801

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-29/

mrtnsnp,
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@jon But are the vertical levels of hte TGV and ICE at least the same? In other words is there a platform height that will cater to both?

taylorlorenz, to random
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Joe Cox got a hold of internal documents that provide deep insight into GOST, a system used by ICE to find "derogatory" speech online.

Analysts can use a "thumbs up," "thumbs down" decision on the material, and feed it into visa decisions and immigration enforcement https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-database-derogatory-information-giant-oak-gost/

mrtnsnp,
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@taylorlorenz last Monday I visited the Stasi museum in Berlin. The GOST system sounds like Erich Mielkes wildest dream.

quixoticgeek, to random
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In an unusual role reversal my housemate is cooking tonight, using my recipe for stamppot boerenkohl. Said recipe includes a bit about smoked sausage. Upon sending the recipe over, I suggest ignoring said section about the sausage, it's the worst part...

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek a little smoked paprika can be a decent substitute.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Wondering if I know anyone who has a kiln (or similar oven), that could cook a couple of items for 2 hours at about 550°C ...

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek can ask a colleague (next week). Had pottery oven, not sure how accurate they can maintain a lower temperature.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Win. Came down stairs from platform and there's a place selling sausages. Which is the wurst luck... So we've order one... And some Pommes.

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek half of the worst kaas scenario.

davep, (edited ) to random
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Please retoot for reach:

Looking for an old Irish friend called Kieron O'Connor who lived around the Elephant and Castle from the eighties until nearly two decades ago (specifically Rockingham and Borough). He moved back to Ireland (Cork?) and I'd love to get back in touch. Probably about 65 now.

Mastodon hive mind, can you help?

#mastodaoine #ireland #london

mrtnsnp,
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@davep I think that @aral may have a decent reach in Ireland.

notjustbikes, to random
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I've made a very rough map of every street in Amsterdam that will be changing to 30km/h on December 8th.

The lines in green are changing from 50km/h to 30km/h.

Are there any surprises here for you?

I was surprised by Rooseveltlaan, for example. It's quite wide today!

I'm going to get out to film the "before" case this week (and hopefully livestream the ride, too!)

mrtnsnp,
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@notjustbikes Amstelveenseweg. Realistically you could never do 50 there to begin with, but I din’t expect that to be reduced. The short racetrack between the hospital and the Olympic stadium seems silly. Similarly the on-off-on sequence on De Boelelaan is weird.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Oh. No blondihacks this week.

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek At least we got a picture of Sprocket.

mrtnsnp, to random
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Today is day. What stripes, you ask? The warming stripes of course! The creation of @ed_hawkins, the stripes show how temperature has changed wherever you live around the world. Here are the stripes for the Netherlands. Find yours and share them too: https://showyourstripes.info credit to @kathhayhoe

Coloured vertical stripes ranging from blue to red showing the temperature change relative to the 1971-2000 mean for the Netherlands from 1850 to 2022. This graphs has a vertical scale as well. We are in the deep red now.

arstechnica, to random
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites add to astronomers’ light-pollution woes

Scientists search for solutions as Amazon plans to launch 3,200 satellites.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/amazons-project-kuiper-satellites-add-to-astronomers-light-pollution-woes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mrtnsnp,
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@arstechnica wait, named after Gerard Kuiper? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Kuiper
That is almost an insult.

quixoticgeek, to random
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For the first time in decades. I've bought an advent calendar. Was surprised by the size of the box it arrived in. Now to work out which arbitrary event to count down to for 25 days...

Cookie for anyone who can guess which calendar I went for.

mrtnsnp,
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@quixoticgeek The Wera one?

carnage4life, to random
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I speculated a few days ago that advertisers returning to Twitter were spending the bare minimum so that Elon wouldn’t send his fans after them but even then I didn’t expect that to be $10 per quarter. Yikes. 😬

mrtnsnp,
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@carnage4life So twitter is now an unsuccessful racketeering outfit.

mrtnsnp,
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@WhyNotZoidberg @carnage4life But above all unsuccessful.

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 18, 5 Oct, Wien - Bratislava – Wien, onwards on night train

Today I’m crossing these borders
Rusovce 🇸🇰 - Rajka 🇭🇺
Nickelsdorf 🇦🇹 - Hegyeshalom 🇭🇺
Kittsee 🇦🇹 - Bratislava-Petržalka 🇸🇰

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#7/48.358/14.489

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-18/

mrtnsnp,
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@jon “On track to seamless international rail ticketing” would have been the optimistic but subject-accurate title. Missed opportunity there.

jon, to random
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I’m at today and tomorrow

These ticket platforms are here:
Raileurope
Trainline
Trip.com
All aboard

Tell me what international train trips you’ve struggled to find or book - and I’ll ask these platforms why they can’t solve these problems!

mrtnsnp,
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@jon Not one that you'd actually want to ride (no night train, or repeated changes on local trains throughout the night, or no chance of arriving given expected delays).

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