Some of the best advice I can give someone for a jet lagged day 0 of their Europe trip: Find a ferry. Get on the ferry. Go where the ferry goes. Beer is optional but highly recommended. Zurich absolutely delivered on this.

okay hi Americans I don’t know who else needs to hear this but ‘nonce’ is not a catch all insult for someone you dislike. it does not mean dumbass. it does not mean asshole. it means paedophile. that’s why we call him Prince Nonce. thanks for coming to my ted talk

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It’s gone from 15°C to 30°C in a couple of days - or as the Scots say ‘going on my summer holidays to Ibiza’. Germans complaining of Kreislauf, while Scots are partying all night.

Titanic Completes Mostly Successful Maiden Voyage

Someone posted a non-paywalled version as a response to the thread. I reread it every summer to refresh my memory

Aiguilles de Chamonix tonight ! 🤩

What’s with the explosion of snack vending machines in Germany recently? Or is this just a thing in Bayern because of our lack of spätis/kiosks? We now have whole ‘shops’ of vending machines, and they seem to be on every street corner.

Looked at the local football club score at 88min and they were losing the Toto Pokal 0:1. Wondered why it was so noisy (we can hear from our balcony) and realised they equalised in 90 +1 minute and it went to penalties. Which Würzburg won!

Remember my favourite mug that broke last week? Well, husband was in the Rhön today, and look what he brought me. (Also a platter which was the perfect size for my banana bread).

This is brilliant: the re-introduction of beavers in the nature reserve next door has basically eliminated flooding at Greenford station on the Central Line. They could perhaps now set the furry engineers to work on getting the station’s inclined lift to work more reliably.

The funniest part of this is that no one seemed to realise how unlike Kara Swisher the Kara Swisher quote sounded. From the linked NYT article:

Still a PC Werkstatt. He’s put it back together and it’s not switching on. Joy.

Born in a barn was one that always confused me. Aren’t barn doors normally closed?

O-Ton aus the inside of the CDU: „Es glaubte doch jeder von uns, dass die Wirtschaft von ganz allein loslegt, wenn die CDU und Merz das Land führen. Weil Wirtschaftskompetenz. Wir dachten, das löst Optimismus aus und dann investieren die. Wirtschaft ist doch zu 90% Psychologie.“

"Söder hat leichteren Kampf gegen AfD erwartet" Wer hätte auch ahnen können, dass Grünen-Bashing und Wurstfressen nicht die Demokratie rettet.

Wusstet ihr eigentlich, dass ihr mit #endometriose die Pille als Kassenrezept bekommen könnt? Weiß ich auch erst seit gestern, dass ich die letzten 15 Jahre nicht immer für ein Privatrezept hätte zahlen müssen 🤓

Very rare example of "tucked away" being an entirely fair and literal description of a property, rather than just marketing bollocks. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

You know when something is very not funny, but also…

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

Apparently it's #WorldTurtleDay! 🐢 A #Roman enamelled copper alloy fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments) in the shape of a #turtle. Dating 2nd century AD. On display at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien 📷 me

I’ve just realised that we used this term differently in our house. My parents used it to express displeasure at every light in the house being on. Cause the screens at Piccadilly use so much electricity. Google says it means it’s incredibly busy.

Just said ‘It’s like Piccadilly Circus in here!’ and my son asked ‘What’s a Piccadilly Circus?’ Does he have to hand back his UK passport?

If you're ever in Birmingham, England - pop into The Queens Arms pub and buy this Irish barman a pint for being an absolute legend ✊ He booted Ryan Bridge, who's the co-founder of the bigoted group 'Raise the Colours' out of his pub along with several of his bigoted minions - twice! Legend ❤️

Welp….

Me: Is this going to be on my dining table for a week? Son: Only till tomorrow Me: Where am I supposed to have breakfast? Son: 🤷

This is a good point - what changed between building the Eurostar and today? Anyone have insight?

Peak German engineering. What we Franken would call a ‘vollautomatische LKW-Maschine‘. W for ‘Weck‘. That’s what we call bread rolls in southern Germany - and I think Switzerland. For non-Germans, LKW is an amusing name for this meatloaf sandwich cause it also means ‘truck’.

heute verlegung von 25 #stolpersteinen in 📍heilbronn. meine dritte mitlaufrunde. das konzept finde ich klasse: eine schulklasse aus dem verlegeviertel übernimmt die patenschaft. mit unterstützung des stadtarchivs und internationalen registern recherchieren die schüler den weiteren verbleib. 1/3

Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass es so bald so weit kommt, aber ich muss vorbereitet sein. Daher: Kennt jemand von euch einen guten Anwalt für Arbeitsrecht? Gerne in Westberlin. RP erwünscht.

Terry Pratchett bears witness at the American Visionary Art Museum.

My son was so annoyed with us cause we bought him Geox shoes and they ‘didn’t work’. No matter what he did, steam didn’t come out of them.

Home. Cup of tea on the balcony - where my roses are flowering.

On our way home. Familiar sights - taking the time to drive the Romanische Straße. Never done that before, despite living 35 years in Würzburg!

Sometimes when a plan goes wrong, you discover something completely different - like this hotel in the middle of nowhere where we stopped for the night.

Made it to Nördlingen on our VespAlpen tour. Nice wee town with a lot of timber-framed buildings.

Flop: Die Dinge auf meiner To-do-Liste tatsächlich erledigen. Hot: Ein kompliziertes System mit Python-Skripten, Google Cloud und KI bauen, das meine To-do-Liste anhand von Priorität, verfügbarer Zeit, Deadline usw. bewertet und sortiert.

Sadly, we had to delay our Vespa trip - shortly after taking this picture, I came down with a terrible stomach bug. Thankfully, we were in a nice hotel so stayed a bit longer than planned. Feeling better now, but annoyed that I can’t quite enjoy the amazing breakfast buffet!

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

I think what you meant to write was ‘… a shift that will make it more crappy than it is today, and immensely crappier than it was 5 years ago.’

Day four of our VespAlpen tour. And finally we saw the Alps!

Ravensburg is a lovely town, but the one-way traffic system is weird. I’d love to know how much extra emissions are caused due to people having to go the long way around.

Opened a fortune cookie this morning the abomination. Capitalism ruins everything.

Berlin peeps

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Was ist mit den Schwaben los?, Je weiter wir nach Süden fahren, desto arschlochiger ist das Fahrverhalten. Heute haben bei riskanten Überholmanövern Autofahrer mehrmals unser Leben riskiert. Dabei gehen wir regelmäßig aus Seite um schnellere Autos vorbeifahren zu lassen.

No photos of our VespAlpen tour today cause the weather wasn’t great so we didn’t stop anywhere nice. It was all about getting to our next hotel. Greatest excitement of the day was the Vespa elevator.

First day of our VespAlpen tour. Würzburg to Schwäbisch Gmünd - what a gorgeous town.

If you only read one thing this weekend, this would be the one I’d recommend for what it’s worth…