[CW-retoot: ukpol] RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116063397215901691

TL;DR on the new EU regulation on railway telematics: all information on railway transport, including fares, ticketing rules, timetables, realtime positions, etc will have to be made available under EUPL or Creative Commons terms […]

On the rails again… #Interrail #CrossBorderRail Today I am taking the now-familiar route home to Barcelona. I am hoping that the combination of the current speed restrictions and the winds that battered the city last night won’t affect my AVE too much […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

“Gah, that smoke alarm next door has been going off for HOURS.” “Maybe there’s a fire?” “No, I can see in the window.” “Well, smoke alarms work by measuring alpha particle decay from a piece of radioisotope, so if there’s no smoke blocking the particles, maybe the sensor is just tired” “So?” […]

Lol. Rofl, even. (Not the Onion: https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/enterprise-2030)

I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs […]

@moof I don't understand why Stadler split from their naming convention of KISS and FLIRT by going with Giruno for their high speed set. QUICKIE was right there...

On the rails again… #Interrail #CrossBorderRail Today I am crossing Switzerland, on an itinerary that is still in flux. I’m considering dinner in an Italian restaurant, but I’m also considering the possibility of a small trip on a rack railway, a Racklette […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

I’m considering having supper at an Italian restaurant tonight. By which I mean a restaurant in Italy. Yes, I think my sense of normalcy and scale is a bit off at the moment.

Watching a chess video, and the guy narrating it keeps asking "where do you think this piece goes?" And I keep wanting to respond. "That's right, it goes in the square hole"

On the rails again… #CrossBorderRail So, I seem to have talked myself into a long trip, full of pretty views, on the way home. Woe is me. Today is mostly a repositioning run, for me to get ready for a trip through Switzerland tomorrow. I will be staying in […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

In the process of migrating a domain from one registrar to another. This requires me to validate my email apparently. And the email they sent me is textbook phishing. It looked so much like a phishing email I actually emailed support of the new domain registrar and asked "did you really send […]

I now have plans for 22 hours worth of travel time over the next three days. …someone may need to talk me out of this

OH: Assigned Gemini At Birth

Congratulations to Julia Taubitz of #teamde for winning gold in the Women’s luge today. I wonder where my free travels will take me tomorrow?

Desde 2001 no se registraba un enero tan lluvioso. Se trató de un mes normal en cuanto a temperaturas: su promedio, 6 °C, coincide exactamente con el del promedio del período de referencia. https://www.aemet.es/es/noticias/2026/02/resumen_enero2026

"so what's the alternative to discord then?" "Unable to decrypt message"

@moof Frankfurt (No not that one)

@moof Frankfurt(Oder) implies the existence of Frankfurt(Scent)

On the rails again… Today I am going from Frankfurt to… Frankfurt If you look at any railway timetable, or signage, you’ll see that Germany’s 2nd busiest railway station is referred to as Frankfurt(Main) Hbf. The brackets imply there are in fact two, the […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

@moof Frankfurt(Main) implies the existence of Frankfurt(Yurs)

@moof Frankfurt(Main) implies the existence of Frankfurt(Bugfix).

Frankfurt(Main) implies the existence of Frankfurt(Lewd)

It feels like a real sweet spot that I'm notable enough to have my name appear multiple times in a Wikipedia search but not notable enough to appear at all in an Epstein files search.

On the waves again… Today I was a bit unsure of what I would do, other than some sightseeing in Konstanz Last night, I had worked out a route to Basel via St. Galen and Luzern, but then I checked, and Max Langenhan of Team DE had won Gold in the Men’s Luge […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

[Food] Ich bin ein Berliner

Hi #bahnbubble. I have a Probe BahnCard Gold 25. Today (Sunday 8th) Max Langenhan of Team DE won Gold in the Men’s Luge event. Does this mean I can travel for free on ICE tomorrow? Do I need a ticket? If so, how do I book it? If not, is there some way to get confirmation? The only official […]

If you had a universal basic income that was enough to cover your basic living costs (food, rent, bills etc...). What would you do with your time ?

A few hours ago I posted asking what people would do if they had a UBI. The thread has been full of hope and joy. People predominantly want to be more creative, help their community, care for others, care for nature. All except one person who thinks UBI only exists to impose digital ID and […]

On the rails again… We’re on a quest that’s bound to fall down, Today @darkphoenix and I are leaving the foggy heights of Freiburg am Breisgau and on a bit of a regional train adventure. We’re going to explore the Schwarzwaldbahn, and see two huge […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Clearly DB is engaging in anti-Swiss propaganda, they keep peppering their timetables and documentation with references to the fact that Basel is a bad boyfriend…

On the rails again… Today is a quick trip on an S-bahn, not normally worth a whole thread, but, well, it’s about where we’re going. Fedi, let’s be honest, we’re all adults here, and thus we can acknowledge that our guilty secret is finding unexpected lewd […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

OH: “This is water that was sparkling, like, a country and a half ago” #travellinglife #interrail

Self-OH: how is it Friday already? But I’ve only taken 3 ICEs so far this week!

No wonder people keep ragging on hosting Matrix.

On the rails again… After a very cold day doing a little sightseeing in Lübeck, @darkphoenix and I are now headed down to Würzburg via Hamburg on a couple of evening trains. This is going to be my first comfortably long ICE leg of the trip. Today’s Itinerary: https://s.moof.space/trip20260205

Trying to use the ripe website and just got a "your browser is not supported" why is ripe of all organisations perpetuating the idea of only supporting certain browsers, rather than making a standards compliant website that works in any standards compliant website browser? Ripe really should […]

The gritty reality of bike lanes on pavements

As a result of the current upheaval in the Spanish high speed railway network, two things have happened: ⁃ Four trains a day on the Madrid-Barcelona route—the last ones of the day—have been cancelled ⁃ Any tickets purchased after 31/01/2026 have no on-time guarantee ⁃ At least one airline has […]

They should have laundry services as part of the ICE offering. Got a 3 hour ICE plus delay? Get your clothes washed, dried, and folded whilst you travel…

No, Apple Music. The first movement to Tubular Bells is not the natural successor to be mixed in after Yello’s “The Race”.

Oh no. What little productivity I had is about to take a nosedive… Sid Meier’s Civilization® VII is out on Apple Arcade…

OH: that is a problem for future me. And unlike Tom Scott, I am not yet future me.

What is the go-to site these days to download royalty-free music for social media videos? Preferably one that pays artists fairly, and has a reasonable search by mood and style… I’m looking to put a backing track on some train window videos I’m taking…

On the rails… no, hang on. Zug fällt aus! #CrossBorderRail We start this morning with the news that our 10:52 Eurocity to Copenhagen is not running. This is quite annoying as I wanted to tick off riding this version of the Talgo 230 back in December after […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

A student was confused by the word “jargon” since she did not know what it meant. #scicomm

Truly there is truth in jest. #fosdem #homeassistant

Great news from @Mastodon at #fosdem: they're going to change the default server recommendation away from mastodon.social, to a geographically and linguistically appropriate instance for all new users. It'll be opt-in for server admins, too, which is great. ❤️

Odo: I’m sick of people romanticizing my autism. Odo: I’m going to sexualize it.

1213