Reminder: the cowards are terrified of the truth, so they distort it, crossing fingers it will stick.

⭕️Près de 200 000 personnes ont envahi les rues de #Belgique pour réclamer la fin du génocide de #Gaza.

/2 Me: OK. Well perhaps your story could specify what court he filed in so I can find it myself? Like 90% of the Fuckin Reporters: I would prefer not to Me: you ink-stained wretch I shall fart unto your graves

cette campagne municipale que je vais mener dans le 93 va être sacrément rigolote dis donc... à suivre ici notamment : www.instagram.com/flo.ri.e

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of […]

#Myanmar #bangladesh #rohingya Rohingya : un peuple piégé et oublié entre le Myanmar et le Bangladesh Vous trouverez dans cet article un rapport de #MSF à télécharger intitulé « Derrière les barbelés : l’impact des stratégies d’endiguement et d’exclusion sur les Rohingya » (en anglais […]

#trump told the #military generals in the audience that the #us government has "brought back the fundamental principle that defending the #homeland is the military's first & most important priority." "Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the […]

And I wish Mazzola showed a little class. You don’t need to tell untruths to make your case against data sharing in railway ticketing.

And I’m at a youth event in the EP. I’m shutting up because I’m OLD. Who gives the longest rambling speech (also mis-quoting Eurobarometer) - Mazzola from Community of European Railways.

I am so effing sick of Community of European Railways blaming rail’s problems on everyone else having tax advantages rail doesn’t have. It’s not untrue. BUT rail has to get its own house in order!

Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/

I have long admired ourworldindata.org for its comprehensive data and analysis, much of which is the work of Hannah Ritchie. Her new book, Not The End of the World, synthesizes what she has learned over the past decade and delivers a credible, much-needed message of hope. I highly recommend the […]

SNCF press release on the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train cancellation. Basically "none of it is our fault!" https://www.sncf-voyageurs.com/fr/presse/trains-de-nuit-paris-vienne-et-paris-berlin

hiya! do u work in tech in Germany? if so, and you are anywhere adjacent to programming (by proxy or not), what languages do companies actually use right now?

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #dascdmx

NO ONE says "hon hon hon" NO ONE says "oui oui" NO ONE says "le <english word>" except for startup idiots the true french accent is: - not trying at all on the pronounciation - stressing the last syllable in every word - instinctively using a rising tone for every sentence - directly […]

The volcano is volcanoing. Dramatic steaming hot MAGMA is now burbling and flowing...someone bring the marshmallows. #geology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0tfYDxrUA

little known fact: computer chargers work better when plugged in

But #russvought had something #musk did not: He had done his homework. In the months since Musk fell out with #trump, Vought has at last begun to put his plans into action—remaking the presidency, block by block, by restoring powers weakened after the #nixon admin. His efforts are helping Trump […]

The threat has enraged many lawmakers, including some #republicans: Senator Susan Collins, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, called it #illegal. But as the deadline has neared, they have done nothing to stop it. #russvought is confident that the White House would win a #scotus […]

A #bioinformatics question: is there a program that can read both a multiple sequence alignment and a phylogenetic tree computed from it, and let me save to a new file a subset of sequences chosen from the tree (all leaves from a given node)? Bonus points if this program: runs on Linux, is free […]

Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry: I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]

Achievement unlocked: I have ridden a bicycle with square wheels. This is from earlier this week at our department's "block party" for our majors and interested students. I'm proud (and a bit intimidated TBH) to work in the same department as Stan Wagon, the […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

oh fck me. Two years ago I identified a problem and raised it w/ everyone important. "This will become a problem if we don't address it now". Then watched as the remediation ticket was deferred, and deferred again. Well now its a problem, shits on fire and I find myself in meeting after meeting […]

in the "oh wait, the housing market is completely broken" dept: Landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can scrape Workday and verify their income. https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/

don't require ideological purity from the candidates I vote for. Many I'll disagree with. But I still require the well known quote from Robert Jones Jr. > "We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist […]

“There is a credible basis to suspect that the Board and executives may have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty, care, and good faith by placing improper political or affiliate considerations above the best interests of the Company and its stockholders" Disney shareholders give CEO an […]

I’m the world’s slowest dot matrix printer

On Monday, internet-access advocacy group #netblocks said that live metrics showed connectivity in #afghanistan had “collapsed” to 14% of ordinary levels, with a near-total nationwide telecoms disruption in effect. “The incident is likely to severely limit the public’s ability to contact the […]

For decades, the #unitedstates had given shelter to #iranians fleeing their homeland, which has one of the harshest #humanrights records in the world. #iran persecutes #womensrights activists, #politicaldissidents, #journalists & #lawyers, #religious minorities & members of the #lgbtq community […]

In this video I discuss the drone sightings over Denmark, and where we are in Russia's hybrid war against Western Europe. https://www.logicofwar.com/hybrid-war-and-drones-over-denmark/

Some guy sued against gay traffic lights here in germany and lost.... What even are gay traffic lights you ask?

Four months ago, a blåhaj went on an adventure to Dallas for the ESL Impact Season 7 Grand Finals. Today, that shark is finally home ❤️ Huge thanks to Will (@KillerComet2) for going to IKEA the night before the match to buy the shark and making this whole […] [Original post on 333thats33s.cc]

"Estrella" sleeper services of Renfe were heavily-loss making. Hence their constant decline from 1992 until 2015. "Trenhotel" were making money until the 10s. But this didn't prevent Renfe from making very stupid decisions. E.g.: axing the"Antonio Gaudi" Madrid - Barcelona in September 2005. 🔜

Large language models are essentially solutions to nonlinear optimization problems to predict the next token in the output text. Mathematically, these problems are quite similar to problems we routinely face in physics, like finding the ground state of a quantum system. In these physics […]

German railways: right in theory, can be poor in practice French railways: wrong in theory, can be OK in practice (if you can get where you want to go on a TGV)

8️⃣ Is about the hardest country to use Interrail, and SNCF has now suspended selling Interrail reservations at its ticket machines 9️⃣ Is threatening the closure of lines FR-CH, and breaks of service there, despite Switzerland having financed infra investments French side of the border […]

7️⃣ France remains the only predominantly standard gauge European country where the Siemens Vectron locomotive is still not approved to run, thereby limiting operation of both international night trains and freight #CrossBorderRail

3️⃣ 16 months ago SNCF stopped selling tickets to most international destinations on SNCF Connect and at ticket offices, and still hasn't resumed 4️⃣ SNCF removed French signalling systems from 6 TGV Duplex, leaving them with just 6 TGVs for France-Spain operation, meaning they can run max 3 […]

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 […]

@jon FWIW Trenitalia have finally fixed ticketing on the Ventimiglia - Cuneo line so they can now do cabotage and sell tickets within France and between France and Italy The SNCF of course has ignored this :)

@jon It is silly that there is no night train from Barcelona to Paris. I basically have to get over the border first and then have a lie down.

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." […]

And that leaves France with ZERO international night trains. None. Aucun. 👏 Well done SNCF and the French Government 🤨 #CrossBorderRail

And I am preparing my slides for a #CrossBorderRail at DG REGIO of the European Commission on Wednesday "Can you cover the Balkans too?" they asked me Sure So in goes Bitola 🇲🇰 - Florina 🇬🇷 where the EU financed the renovation of the line, but no trains ran (I am going to make myself […]

Sub-toot Mastodon is really good a necromancy. Old posts from months ago are getting massive amounts of boosts and favs, and answers.

A US citizen & human rights defender identified as Rachel S. was abducted & beaten by ICE Trump regime forces in LA, then transported to the hospital and then a detention center, local rights defenders demand an investigation. She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"

Jesus was, in fact, a refugee. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*