DEFINITION OF THE DAY dehydrate, n. A measure of how quickly Doctor Jekyll can return to normal.

The thing about polarising sunglasses is, you either love them or you hate them.

Steampunk Greenhouse sits hidden behind a shield of dense vegetation, tucked away inside an Italian country park. The elements have slowly reclaimed the site, rusting the elaborate wrought ironwork into a deep brown. Thick vines twist and contort their way up […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Tickets reserved for the Open Transport Community Conference #opentransport2026 I’m also provisionally down for the hackathon, though I’m not yet sure what I’ll be poking by then. I have some ideas, but it’s a few months and ADHD hyperfocusses away still…

I finally started reading The AI Con by @emilymbender and @alex and I already laughed out loud in the first few pages. "Racist pile of linear algebra" is my new favourite term for genAI.

It's always a good day and I feel like I accomplished something when I get one of their products to work properly. @moof

Today is dedicated to all the Hoopy Froods out there who really know where their towel is. The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation would like to wish you a Very Happy Day #towelday

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"the best way for an individual to have an impact on GHG emissions is to set fire to a billionaire" "I knew you'd say that, I'm not sure it would work" "How about a randomised controlled trial? We set fire to half the billionaires, and see what happens?" "Uh..."

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Warum schützt Arbeitsschutzkleidung nicht vor der Arbeit

OH: “We know someone who's just acquired a cis-species puppy, as in, they only speak one language”

.oO(we should call libraries data centres to get VC funding)

Step 1 of #degoogling: move one of my three main accounts to the new mail server. This one is only about 1GiB, so I'm using the venerable https://imapsync.lamiral.info to move the current email to the new server. Once that is done, I can then change the MX records. And a couple of days later […]

So I have a bunch of friends’ event calendars shared onto my iOS calendar, and it’s starting to make my own things difficult to find. Can anyone recommend a decent iOS calendar app that makes managing and switching between different sets of calendars easy?

[Lewd app idea] Railr: a clone of Grindr optimised for hookups on moving forms of transport

Today in YouTube explainers: this amazing map of Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXr-k8FYyVU&feature=youtu.be

I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this. The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nyanbinary/116602004807690540 I did this at my previous job, my colleagues pounced on what they thought was an unlocked computer. Then got very confused as to why they couldn't do anything with it. *Giggle*

Today we add the full range of Deutsche Bahn tickets, incl. all Sparpreis offers, to Railfinder Best of all, we built some smarts to automatically pick the best combination of tickets were multiple are available. For example, we show you Gothenburg - Milan on just one ticket, in just one search ⤵️

The full range of DB tickets are available on Railfinder starting today! Sooo much work has gone into this, including a lot of improvements under the hood to enable this and future tickets/features. Feels so good to finally be able to go live and see it all work in real life!

[And now, for a pallet cleanser] :3

I keep seeing videos and articles with titles like "noone wants to work anymore". That's not true. We never wanted to work, we do it cos we need to to survive in this fucked up capitalist system we unfortunately live in.

So, last night I discovered the hard way that #homeassistant does not verify that backup files are not corrupted, even when uploaded to Home Assistant Cloud. This is particularly annoying when your storage device is dying and corrupting files left, right and centre. I am currently attempting to […]

I’m sure there’s a better way to write that second paragraph… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_platform_height#Portugal

So Meta glasses are polarising, and with good reason. But if you are against them, have you considered that visually impaired people now use them for audio descriptions of their surroundings, and reading signage and documents?

Question for the #bahnbubble: Given it runs on rails, does the Rendsburg Schwebefähre (transporter ferry) that hangs off the Hochbrücke (high bridge) count as a Danglebahn? If so, what others am I missing?

Garak: What the fuck is wrong with you?! Odo: You could start with a 'good morning'. Garak: Good morning. What the fuck is wrong with you?!

Growing up English I was taught that the cold tap was fed from a crystal clear pristine Welsh waterfall guarded by the SAS, and the hot tap was plumbed to the bottom of a bin that'd sat in the sun

I’m thinking of writing an app that will be processing data based on configuration that is basically tabular. The canonical way is to do this with a database, but I am hoping to be able to version control this config data as json or csv in git. Ideally, I would like to also be able to have […]

"Packages that can't be rebuilt byte-for-byte are now blocked from entering Debian's testing branch." https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-makes-reproducible-builds-mandatory/

I am definitely too brainrotted. The background music in this cafe started played Earth, Wind and Fire’s September, and I was expecting a chorus of terrible recorders to cut in at the relevant point…

This essay is an interesting take on the difference between what the locals do and the tourists do. It very much correlates with experiences I’ve had. I live in a pretty tourist-heavy city, but most of my friends and acquaintances here haven’t done the touristy things. I, myself, tend to only […]

Great idea: A web page that simply shows you the info your browser sends about you and your system whenever you open a web page. https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken #privacy #surveillance

Live scenes from my weekly phonecall home

[Selfie] Private train! It is just me inside 🥺 No worries passenger of the ES475 I bring your train safely to Paris

I need go get to Paris and the Eurostar is fully booked, so I did the next best thing in the price range and ordered myself an 11 carriage private charter train for 4h 😅 Finally joining the ranks of monarchs and dictators and being in a more rare club than people who fly private jets 😂

On the rails again… #PutaRenfe Today @Darkskynet and I are heading to Vilanova i La Geltrú to visit the train museum. They are opening a new temporary exhibition called “Frikis! Bojos pels trens” - “Geeks! Crazy for trains” which sounded aimed exactly at me […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

@moof the time signature would be 10/10...

We all know “The Imperial March”. But what would The Metric March be?

Would you still love me if I were a WORM drive?

An InterCity train was unusually stopped at a regional station: "What is the InterCity doing there?" "It's intersitting"

UK beings: this is your reminder to go vote today!

Estoy intentando trapichear un poco con los datos GTFS de Renfe. Como se imagina, son un poco escuetos, y hay que masajear bastante para que den unos datos adecuados. Lo que más me está dando problemas son los datos de rutas/servicios. Por ejemplo, yo se que el servicio R3 de Bilbao a Santander […]

Responsibilities will enlarge until morale improves

This is an amazing, depressing piece of writing. “The Guy at the party is still waiting for an answer. I'm too drunk now to lie. I tell him: AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo, wearing a new mask. Tell […]

Estoy intentando trapichear un poco con los datos GTFS de Renfe. Como se imagina, son un poco escuetos, y hay que masajear bastante para que den unos datos adecuados. Lo que más me está dando problemas son los datos de rutas/servicios. Por ejemplo, yo se que el servicio R3 de Bilbao a Santander […]

Still valid: #javascript #programming #unix #meme

French railway unions want to strike on 10 June. https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/entreprises/transports/multiplication-des-drames-salaires-les-syndicats-de-cheminots-lancent-un-appel-a-la-greve-pour-le-10-juin_AN-202605060676.html