She’s the star of my moms quilting project

There’s like 6 people on this platform you should just ignore it, it’s completely irrelevant (this is why I like it)

The same randomness that makes LLMs bad at chess (I’m sure if you actually pretrained a model it would be decent) makes them good at language tasks. Tis an interesting outcome of the math

germany is so annoying with only half legalizing marijuana. just fully legalize it weirdos

Stephen's argument that we should probably all be banned from social media is underlined by the fact that I obviously spend too much time on YouTube: I automatically assumed that the next sentence after this was going to introduce the sponsor of today's column, Surfshark VPN.

Most likely the next chancellor* of Germany :( *or the largest single party in parliament

Turns out there is a downside to the governments around the world negotiating profit out of pharma R&D: the US became the only profitable market on earth, and so if the US says we don't want vaccines, nobody gets any more vaccines. Will it happens for other drugs? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

Kagame got to meet his favorite guy in the world www.newtimes.co.rw/article/3335...

The poster of doom

Absolutely ridiculous stuff from both Amtrak and ConnDOT that will ***slow down*** service between New London and New Haven.

Train travel is so civilized. A 5 hour train ride is so much better thwn a 5 hour flight

I guess as an American living in Germany, I find idea that the department of defense doesn’t need diplomats beyond ridiculous. I am happily living in a country we nearly completely destroyed! Because of diplomacy US-Ger is one of the strongest relationships in the world

We’re I the United Kingdom, a country which has some of most trusted and widespread cultural influence via the BBC world service I would probably fund it since it can only help my country

Derailments like this where a train hit a huge snow bank after coming out of a tunnel are things that AI systems on security cameras would be ideal at recognizing

Omg I forgot the Stuttgart S Bahn trunk line is closed from July to September this year. I’m gonna lose it since it affects when I have tk actually commute

Having a train beer

The renovation of the hamburg - Berlin railway has been delayed due to the extreme snow and cold this winter presented the construction works

On the sprinter from Berlin to Stuttgart. I’m technically fare evading by getting on at the wrong Berlin station to get a seat

Berlin north cross (gesundbrunnen) station, Including Plattform snow removal

Checking out the new bike parking garage at Potsdamer Platz Station. It had a good mix of open and free spots, along with paid and fully enclosed ones. It’s very clean and because it’s also a passageway to a mall/office there’s a decent amount of traffic

Hell yeah brother. Better trains and warmer. The best snow bird move possible

Taking the new dresdener Bahn to drop my gf off at Berlin airport. It’s a. Really good railway and really highlights to me how transformative a long series of small improvements like it will be for German railways

I really wish Germany had more new subway lines. The new U5 stations are so nice and tasteful

So many stations use the historical track numbering in Germany. You’ll get 1-2, then 6-7, then 3-4. because that’s the order they were built in. Very frustrating and it shows a lack of care for passengers

Stuttgart not having a good bakery chain is actually evil. Every other region has some. Rostock has junge die Bäckerei, Berlin has Steinecke, Niedersachsen has hier backt Hermann, etc.

Man with illegal nuclear weapons speaks about not allowing more illegal nuclear weapons

White Berlin

What America did through ideology, the UK does in order to get a budget projection that we don't even really care about

Austria had 152 measles cases in 2025 Germany, 8x as many people had 233. what’s going on down there

Montreal is one of the few cities where I think taking the metro should be a stop of its own on anyone’s itinerary in the city

RE: https://zug.network/@moritzkraehe/116079189337044529 To what extreme will you go to avoid transporting anything on rails through France? Stadler: YES!

I know the cost of 4 items: oalty per liter (2.55 or 1.79), farmers salad (1.49), a loaf of bread (0.99), and a 10 back of nespresso pods (3.49) Anything else could fluctuate wildly and I’d have no idea

Grassy* tram tracks *mostly mud

I wonder if it’s possible to make an open - By - default gate that is adequately hard to hop for European trains

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San soucci palace and its train station

A mixed light industrial/residential Vietnamese neighborhood

Premier jour de service commercial des nouvelles rames BOA du métro de Lille. Depuis le temps qu'elles sont attendues !

Im learning and improving on past mistakes @chittimarco.bsky.social

it's worth asking why swiss coops can afford 20 elevators and 3 and 4-bedroom homes in 4 story buildings, when all we seem to afford are single aspect 280sf microstudios with 1 or 2 elevators for a hundred units

What’s up with Brandenburg and it being so much more expensive to eat in st a bakery instead of takeout

Deutsche Bahn Wins again

Today T6 Nord tramway opened in Lyon. The project isn't very big (just 5.5 km) but the timeline is just impressive: the project was launched in 2020, 3 years for planning, design, public consultation, permitting and contracting and less than 3 years for construction. youtu.be/XiJesxVJXFo?...

BART’s Customer Satisfaction has grow to 88% based on our Passenger Environment Survey. Our investments in cleaning, policing, and new fare gates are improving service.

Went to the dome of the Reichstag. Very pretty!

Pepperdine???

The Grüne in Würzburg are running fantastic ads laying out their vision for the city. In this video, they propose turning a city centre car park into a vibrant oasis for people, not vehicles. youtu.be/RygpLQFkNTc

Some examples here of how European planning’s fear of exceeding 19th century heights has led to declining housing quality as ceiling heights shrink to try to squeeze extra floors into the same height

Buildings

Trying LAP Germanys most controversial coffee shop