Hello! And welcome to season 3 of Jet Lag: The Game - Hide and Seek. We’re calling this one the Tulip season, as we’re back in the Netherlands. Over the next 3 days we’re playing a country-wide game of hide and seek. Today, @quixoticgeek has had 3 hours to […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

You know you live out of a backpack or suitcase when part of your morning routine involves folding yesterday’s underwear #travellinglife

Tomorrow I shall be playing a game of #JetlagTheGame hide and seek with @moof and @darkphoenix#jetlagthegame this time it's my turn to be first to hide. I have to goto a station within 3 hours from Utrecht Centraal. Which conveniently narrows it down to every single public train station in the Netherlands […]

On the rails a- no, hang on. I’ve missed my train. #interrail #crossborderrail Due to a bit of a snafu, I have failed to make it to Gare du Nord on time to catch my 09:24 Eurostar to Rotterdam. So, um, let’s see what Eurostar can offer me when I get to the station…

On the rails again… #Interrail #CrossBorderRail Today Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG and I are heading up to Paris as the first leg of my trip to the Netherlands. Whilst I could have made it all the way in one go, I’m actually taking the opportunity to do have a […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Wrote up some thoughts on Anthropic's Project Glassing, where their latest Opus-beating model is available to partnered security research organizations only. Given the recent alarm bells raised by credible security voices I think this is a justified decision […]

This is not a time of wakefulness….No highly esteemed deed happens at this time….nothing is valued at this hour.

Hmmm #artemis2 has a 40 minute LOS. This is incredibly poor performance from NASA mission planning. The mission should have been planned to have a 42:50 LOS. This would give them exactly the right amount of time to listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon...

I’m looking at doing a silly trip involving finally catching the DSB Talgo 230. But when I attempt a reservation on that train, both DSB and DB say no. For any of the Talgos that day or the next. I wonder if those trains are that unreliable they refuse to sell reservations because they know […]

[GLP-1 Medication side-effects] This is now the third different type of GLP-1 agonist medication (Trulicity, Mounjaro, Rybelsus, though you may know it as Semaglutide or Ozempic) that I’ve had to start on, as we try to find the right medication for me, and it’s not a fun ride. I am on it for […]

It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard. I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display. Little did […]

VOLUNTEER TO HELP AT THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: After 35 years in the USA, the ceremony is moving to Europe. Anyone who would like to volunteer to help at the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (in Zurich in September) can meet with ceremony organizers […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

[Food] My egg cracked today. Make of that what you will

For those of you that celebrate it, happy delayed spring equinox celebration dedicated to Ēostre, goddess of fertility. May you copulate like bunnies and consume many chocolate symbols of the potential for procreation. Oh, and if you celebrate that, Happy Easter, too. You can stop being […]

There are 98 border crossings by rail between France and Spain on weekdays at the moment, and there will be another 10 or so when the R3 finishes its engineering works. The #crossborderrail problem here is that only 4 of them in each direction are long distance. Oh, and there’s currently […]

[Lewdness, AI, vibe coding] I’m told that sometimes Claude can be frustrating. I gather that interacting with it can be quite rewarding, especially when it creates passing tests in your programmes. But sometimes that dopamine rush is not quite enough. Maybe you need a bit of stroking of your […]

I’ve seen all of these approaches used in #JetLagTheGame @tomgauld.bsky.social#jetlagthegamehttps://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oflombnj6v6xyohhatfkbzyd/post/3mionxaf43c2b

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hey #bahnbubble - I'm considering a trip from Saarbrücken Hbf to Metz and then onwards. DBNav is suggesting a 14:16 RE18 with a 7 minute transfer at Forbach. How realistic is that? #crossborderrail

When will they invent some “find my glasses” hardware that can be beeped, and stop you making a spectacle of yourself when you’re trying to find where you put them?

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Results: probably autistic. Wittgenstein would have gotten the same result. https://german.millermanschool.com/

if you have avoided updating an iOS device because of some combination of hating the new UI or age verification nonsense, please be aware that a critical security patch has been back-ported to iOS 18 so you can install just the patch without a full upgrade. SCROLL DOWN on the Updates tab to find […]

Afterward, multiple people reached out to ask about our charts - we used Tamara Broderick’s “Distrosaurs” to illustrate statistical distributions. I’m delighted to share that the distrosaurs are available under a CC license: https://tamarabroderick.com/misc.html#

The DB is a machine that turns Sparpreis into Flexpreis with 50% refunds

Is there a name for necessary stuff that happens because of inefficiencies? Like, for example, exercise. If you're a dockworker in the 1700s you might have a bunch of health problems but "sedentary lifestyle" is not one of them. But if you become a dock crane operator in modern times, you need […]

fuck you, rotates your Umleitung

Genuine Interrail panic this morning The Interrail app wouldn’t allow me to add a journey 🤯 No journey means no QR code to show to train managers… Turns out: an iOS update broke it! You can’t SEE the Save button

Currently looking at firming up some travel plans. Anyone want to meet up in Hamburg, Köln or Aachen on the 14th-15th April?

@moof I reckon fewer banks per square kilometre than the square mile.

Useless railway facts: The Vatican is the country with the largest proportion of railway lines over area, at 1.956 km/km2

“Researchers measured autistic people against neurotypical expectations and called every difference a deficit. They tested empathy by measuring in-group preference and missed commitment to universal fairness. They measured creativity by counting the number of ideas and missed originality. They […]

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The official tender for the purchase of 30 350km/h trains by Renfe has been published... sort of. https://contrataciondelestado.es/wps/poc?uri=deeplink:detalle_licitacion&idEvl=dWAir59NsZPmnwcj%2BxbdTg%3D%3D The tender is officially registered, and exists, but the technical details will only […]

Anyone else using those fancy CAT6 cables? 😼

had an idea today to use commit hashes as color codes in `git-ls`, which really makes it pop out which files were modified most recently in the same commit. Going to commit and release it shortly The idea came from this post about coloring hex codes in a hex […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

On the rails again… #CrossBorderRail Today is a special day as Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG and I have been invited by Renfe to try out their new international service to La Rochelle. I’ve been itching to talk about this for weeks, as it’s a game changer - a […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Renfe has given up trying to run trains to Paris, I presume concluding (correctly imho) that the Talgo 106 series isn’t up to the task https://www.eldiario.es/economia/renfe-tira-toalla-francia-aparca-proyecto-alta-velocidad-paris-trabas-operar-trenes_1_13111908.html Trains to Lyon and […]

@[email protected] The only escalator going up is something that people who've never had a problem with their knees and/or balance think is a good idea. Climbing stairs is generally easier than descending them, it's prioritising laziness over access.

Trans and trains are all free (in response to fuel prices) from today in Victoria, and I’m going to ride so many trains, guys.

Have an Amtrack Midwest train picture from this afternoon in New Buffalo, Michigan. #michigan #trains

Mr. Chatterbox is a new 2GB nanochat model trained from scratch by Trip Venturella on "28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899" - I released an llm-mrchatterbox plugin which can run it locally on my Mac https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/

Hola #feditren - ¿Alguien sabe donde está publicada la licitación nueva de trenes de alta velocidad? No lo encuentro en el BOE o en la plataforma de contratación, aunque no descarto no saber como buscar en sus buscadores.

Sometimes it really is hard to justify to yourself the idea of taking a train ride to somewhere. I'm looking at getting to Porto via Vigo, and I’ll be coming in from Germany via France. By train, that's a 12-14 hour day, independently of whether I go from San Sebastian-Donostia (having crossed […]

Even #CrossBorderRail trips that should be SIMPLE are often hellish to purchase. Trying to get a ticket 11th April, Paris-Stuttgart, is a case in point as I explain here: https://jonworth.eu/paris-stuttgart-and-stuttgart-budapest-two-railway-worlds/ And thanks to @corentin#CrossBorderRailwho helped me solve this!

Today in cursed units, the manual for this machine has pressure measurements expressed in “cm H2O (hPa)” Yes, it’s American-made and sold in Europe, why do you ask?

“AI skeptic” is a title which is technically “AI first” which means by Klingon law you must now give me a twenty million dollar funding round at a ten billion dollar valuation

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test: (1) Two named Klingons (2) Talking to each other (3) About something other than honor