5️⃣ Despite the French town Breil s/ Roya having 1 line to France and 2 lines to Italy, and all lines being operated with PSO contracts, SNCF cannot sell tickets from France to Italy there 6️⃣ As majority owner of Eurostar, SNCF has been the main driver of the sky high prices, low offer model […]

And here follows a quick list of how France is buggering up #CrossBorderRail (these are just the ones that spring to mind) 1️⃣ Is cancelling Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains from December, leaving France without any international night trains 2️⃣ SNCF is the main barrier to fixing regional cross […]

Meanwhile ÖBB has confirmed the Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains are no more. "Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dezember 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." […]

Do you pebble? I didn't know but i do!

Use Proportional Representation at the next General Election - Petitions https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/728017

#til: in Australian English, the colloquial verb for urination is gendered https://mastodon.sdf.org/@lardmotel/115274574332138635

Happy #caturday! #cativitypub #catsofmastodon

And today's bad #CrossBorderRail news: the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train might be axed from December What's happening, and why SNCF never really cared about this train, but why alternatives are tricky, explained on my blog 👇 […]

As a European, the changes in the DMA have had zero negative impact upon me, or indeed anybody I know, except for the ways in which Apple chooses to selectively apply the laws to punish its users and developers. Where Apple complains about 'developers accessing notifications', I see news […]

So @sotolf reminded me of something I kind of love. The Japanese "30-hour system". Used in nightlife, broadcasting, and transport, the time extends the day past midnight to keep late-night events grouped with the same calendar day. So a club open from […] [Original post on velocipederider.com]

Seen in a local supermarket. It looks like, after some 6 years, the Swedish corridor of acceptable dairy-product opinion has shifted back to encompass Icelandic-style curd cheese. #skyr

My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs. Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings . Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" […]

Ah, Bluesky, my sweet summer child. You're going to enforce your "rules against harassment and toxic content". And then you'll discover that it's the same set of people doing the toxic shit. And those toxic people are connected to really powerful people from a specific political party. And […]

Finally read this excellent article about @signalapp and @Mer__edith We need these pockets of resistance (like mastodon) more than ever […]

Recent piece about my favourite style of coffee, in a UK publication. I did notice this year in Europe that I had to explain 'long black' less often than in the past. #coffee #uk https://www.theuktimes.co.uk/will-the-long-black-soon-be-the-uks-favorite-coffee/

Happy #caturday! #cativitypub #catsofmastodon

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

In light of @pallenberg having content about Jimmy Kimmel removed from LinkedIn, I've written about the topic of Europeans problematic use of US commercial social networks in the era of Trump […]

Lucy holds the football again: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115220648949187881

In Japan, a grifter set up a political party telling people they don’t need to pay the TV licence fee, and advising them to forward their invoices to the party. Thousands took him up on this. Now they’re receiving hefty bills with compound interest, and the party (which is not legally a party […]

"Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape" https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/ Truly, we live in an age of absurdly wasteful wonders. (Although the vapes aren't running Android. Yet.)

An invitation to see ADHD and autism not as “defects” to be fixed but as cognitive strategies shaped in ancestral contexts and now trapped in rigid school and work systems. From “neurocognitive mismatch theory” to inclusive education: changing the environment may be more effective than changing […]

It's Sunday, so here's your Jesus-related cat content. #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books. p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at www.tomgauld.com

Brian Kilmeade makes a great strudel! #firekilmeade #foxnews #USpol

found shitpost, current events through Disco Elysium dialogue

Is there also a downside? https://mastodon.social/@bruces/115196013146843896

I had missed some of these. The bromine poisoning guy holy shit https://aidarwinawards.org/nominees-2025.html

Happy #caturday! #cativitypub #catsofmastodon

That sounds like a @dnalounge drink name https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/115192545624825423

I've joked this before, but maybe it's time to think about bringing back the (really) old Democratic idea of "sortition," or choosing elected officials by some kind of lottery. The idea being that maybe the best candidate is someone who doesn't actually want the job. Considering how many people […]

(an Advisory Circle logotone intensifies) https://mastodon.world/@avavsystems/115191735937074331

Explain!! 😻😆 OK! Here it is: The Japanese text (ネコ飛出し注意) translates to “Watch out for jumping cats” or more literally “Caution: Cats dashing out”. It’s a local road sign sometimes put up in Japanese neighborhoods where there are many stray or outdoor cats […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Just cancelled my Guardian subscription after they posted a TERF opinion piece again.

In a cultural milieu with vaporwave, creepypasta and folk horror, this was inevitable: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/115185568287751093

A few years ago, I saw the US Coast Guard barque Eagle, a sailing ship used for training and diplomatic visits. It was originally built in Nazi Germany, but taken by the US after the war; the wheel still had its original name, the Horst Wessel, after a Nazi street fighter exalted as a martyr of […]

Is there already an app for this: adult #adhd friends & family relationship maintenance. Plug in a list of friends (ideally, select from contacts app) and automate reminders to schedule meeting up, calling, or scheduling group events, so you don't forget to see people for 8 years at a time

Given how many people can't afford a home in Spain due to tourism from other European countries, we can conclude that Europe is colonizing itself.

They're so close to a breakthrough...

The sky above the city was the colour of an iPhone 17 Pro https://sfba.social/@SutroTower/115174839638130877

It must be said that the chunky orange metal unibody iPhone Pro, with a cluster of dark lenses on its oversized camera ridge, does look like a device for a grim, tough age. It’s like something from a postapocalyptic video game. #AppleEvent

I suspect that the next step on from the wafer-thin #iphoneair is two of them with a hinge between them, forming a regular-thickness phone when folded, or an iPad Mini when open. Probably coming next year. #AppleEvent

Genlock: the iPhone now has what the Amiga 1000 had in 1985. #AppleEvent

On a tangent, it’s interesting to hear that Apple still have Brits working in product design, and that they still pronounce it as “aluminium”. #AppleEvent

The #iphoneair looks more like an exercise in technical bravado than anything else. The camera bump now only holds one camera —along with all the electronics; the rest of the device is just battery and screen. But did anyone really complain that phones these days are too thick? #AppleEvent

Also, as far as depending on Apple platforms for translation goes, they tend to only invest in the big languages. Which is great if you’re travelling in Japan or South America, but useless if you want to translate to/from a Scandinavian language. But hey, everyone there speaks English anyway…

The AirPods Pro live translation does look nifty. Wonder if it’ll be available with the previous version of the earphones; mine aren’t ready for the e-waste shredder yet. #AppleEvent

Watching the #AppleEvent. I must say, the opening montage of UX grace notes from Apple products is compelling. Whether it holds up for #liquidglass in practice remains to be seen, though.

Some sensible planning decisions in Naarm, opening a fast-track process for increasing housing density in well-connected inner suburbs without getting bogged down in lawfare by deep-pocketed NIMBYs. Though, of course, this is probably only possible because these suburbs’ traditional political […]