and then [okay this is for old people; bear with me] remember the failed promise of web 2.0 with pipes and services talking to each other. this was fragile because each service can break the entire thing and has to expose API. here there's no API because we just aggregate from files. RSS was right

What if shared transactional email with atproto labelers & @roost.tools? “Like Let’s Encrypt but for mail server reputation”, says @scottlanoue.com I told Scott it felt like the right kind of weird. He’s done a full write up in the community forum discourse.atprotocol.community/t/cooperativ...

I keep reading people saying pacifism is bad because you need to fight and stuff. Come on! Pacifism was never putting the other cheek, but rather refusing to abuse others and being eager to discuss!

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

When I'm using coding agents and LLMs extensively in some tasks, I feel way more resistance to grappling with difficult, uneven problems in others. As if I get recalibrated to expect ease, effortlessness, velocity in everything. Not good! Curious how you deal with this, if you feel it too.

It's not just that we live under private government of the monopolies, but it's private government by casinos. #Rebuild

I think we’re going back to Lindy anytime now

Do you make drag-and-drop interfaces? Or do you wish you did, but they're just too hard? We're working on a new way to drag & drop! Wanna try it out? Join our study – we'll ask you about your drag-and-drop experiences, and get your hands on the prototype. Join here: forms.gle/J82tFtu6DqS8.... 🙏!

10m documentary film on the local-first software movement! www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...

Y'all, I'm super excited to announce that a workshop we've been planning is finally slated to happen at this year's CHI. The topic is the Science and Technology of Augmenting Reading (STAR) 📖 💫 chi-star-workshop.github.io

Back to iron

Gaurko zinta @berria.eus n, @gorkabm.bsky.social ren zebrak.

@gusiluztrenes.bsky.social Sabes si, técnicamente, ¿es factible hoy en día que algunos Euroduplex de SNCF lleguen hasta Figueres V. o necesitan ASFA también? Lo inverso (AVE hasta Perpignan, entiendo que no es posible tanto por señalización como electrificación). ¡Gracias!

Let’s Save the #NightTrain to Malmö! The IGöV public transport interest group, the VCS transport club, Pro Bahn, the Green Party +BoT Switzerland have sent an open letter to the Federal Assembly calling on it to approve funding for the #Basel #Copenhagen #Malmö night train. 👉 tinyurl.com/33hwd27f

The network was set on the principles that BR through its EPS and ENS subsidiaries would be able to make an 8% return on investment through the routes. Such a constraint had put paid to motorail services (Kensington-Narbonne etc) but sleeper trains were still seen as feasible.

Here's a fundamental problem for real expansion of (night) international trains in Europe: a cheaper, quicker access to suitable trains.

Are those firms capable of seeing beyond the end of their own noses to sort out some sort of consortium or joint purchase? HELL NO Is the EU capable of working towards this sort of solution? ALSO NO (because the state owned railway companies want the EU to work on high speed instead)

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy, (i) states rot from the centre-right (ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

✈️ NEW: Spain could raise up to €2.8 billion extra for sustainable aviation by matching the taxes other Europeans put on airline tickets with simply a small surcharge per ticket. 🧵⤵️

We desperately need brighter visions of the future

Really can't stress this enough: When a city has 1,000 self-driving cars, they might seem like fun, innocuous novelties. But at 100,000+ it's another story entirely.

Israel bombade ett sjukhus igår. En av de 20 dödade var brittiska Independents journalist Maryam Abu Daqqa. Här är tidningens framsida idag: Remember Maryam, defender of truth and a free press. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

I would add, anyone doing business as usual with Israel is morally broken, and will find soon that they were necessary complicits with the worse that humankind can produce

This is a summary map of boarding practices for the European cities for which I received answers. If you know how they board buses in a city not on this map, or if you spot an error, please add the info in the replies! 🙏 (other continents will follow)

The new EU-US trade deal opens the door to more harmful fossil gas in Ireland, and Europe. This isn't energy cooperation—it’s climate backsliding. We need to get rid of fossil fuels, not commit to importing more gas than ever before. We need more renewables. www.thejournal.ie/eu-us-deal-e...

Aske ez da inor, denok izan arte. – Fannie Lou Hamer

It's not a bug, it's a feature. It's a major reason why there is an endless flow of capital directed at AI endeavors: AI is a potent mechanism for influence and control at network scale.

Twitter-like microblogging has a root problem: It decontextualises conversation. By removing the weight of atuning to the context (including participants’) it lowers the barrier of expression and finding others at the cost of many cases of people talking past each other and getting pissed off.

Luzerako trenentzako dirulaguntzak noizko? Voloteari 4,4 M€ emango dizkiogu astero hirutan Bartzelona eta Madrilera joateagatik. #LevelPlayingField esaten diote. www.noticiasdealava.eus/alava/2025/0...

Por ponerlo en contexto, daremos a Volotea 4,4 M€ por 3 conexiones semanales entre Gasteiz y Barcelona/Madrid www.noticiasdealava.eus/alava/2025/0... subsidios para un transporte de alto impacto climático mientras seguimos no considerando la larga distancia ferroviaria como servicio público.

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

Hang out with me for two days drawing colored lines on maps! Our two day intensive course in public transit network design comes to Portland this Oct 30-31, right after the Mpact conference. See here: humantransit.org/2025/07/new-... Please share!

@renfeoperadora.bsky.social Galicia/Salamanca – Barcelona retrasado, una vez más. He subido en Gasteiz y los coches estaban numerados al revés (coche 1 en cola), y no se han visto en puertas hasta que no ha parado. No hay info de ubicación del coche en andén (ni en papel, que también se puede).

By mixing structure, content and presentation, Google Docs has successfully recreated all the glitches and weird formatting situations of Microsoft Word

A Pattern Language (C. Alexander) can be used broadly as a cultural artefact—as in the book—or narrowly as a project frame—see "Battle", the other book. In this narrow form, it captures parts of the existing system = people's needs and wishes and the site's reality, into a developmental sequence.

This got me thinking about how C. Alexander’s fundamental process compares to the (double…) diamond model.

C. Alexander’s fundamental process in condensed form: Run up and down a system looking for trouble. Feel it. Then make it better. If it’s costly or risky, build the minimum that allows you to feel the change before consolidating. Repeat.

I wonder if classification yards would have any chance of emerging in the current European rail ecosystem.

Wild idea: classification yards for 750m passenger night trains, made for connecting ends of radial networks.

Gaztelania hutsa kalean entzutera ohituta gauden bizkaitarrontzat Euskotren oasi bat da

🕑📚 Guia d'horaris de tren 2025 Ja està disponible la guia que ho té tot! 🔸 Tots els horaris de ES i PT 🔸 Actualitzada a juny de 2025 🔸 Inclou tots els operadors 🔸 Amb mapes zonals Ideal per a planificar viatges en tren i tenir un històric del servei en paper. Interessats, escriviu per DM📩

For my thesis, I read a lot of papers about classification yards and sorting of wagons. Many European authors persistently misunderstand why and how wagons are classified onto trains and blocks (groups of wagons in trains), so in this thread I'll try to provide insights into classification yards

Leioa-Barakaldo tranbia noizko?

I've been hacking away in the evenings on a little piece of JS you can drop into any page and let someone add comments. State is stored in the URL, and the plan is for me to use this to get feedback on my posts. I give them a URL, they send it back. No server, no fuss.

We’ve survived to dystopian visions in the past. We need to keep imagining different.

Rappel des gestes simples pour se protéger des vagues de chaleur : ➡️s'hydrater régulièrement ➡️rester à l'ombre ➡️Démanteler l'industrie des énergies fossiles qui entasse les profits en organisant le chaos climatique. Simple, basique. Force et courage à toutes et tous.