Rest in power Marjane Satrapi

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

this article is one of the most salient and important pieces of writing i have seen regarding AI/LLM's. An absolute must-read

It's Pride and I want you to know I see you in all your magnificent glory. You are the sunlight glittering on water, the rainbow that embraces the mist filled waterfall. You are piercing beauty and feral joy and everything good about this world. And I love you so fucking much.

Happy Pride Month. I picked out a few of Roger Puta photos from across the county to share.

to kako se hrvatska ponaša prema bih je GROTESKA

After some rare good news for rail in BiH (weekend tourist line between Bihać and Bosanska Krupa in the summer), we're back to reality: ŽFBH cancels weekend trains between Zenica and Maglaj, and one pair of Sarajevo - Maglaj trains. That means that Maglaj is virtually disconnected on weekends.

Samo struja. Uočio jučer.

Ja sam ponovno jedina osoba u Hrvatskoj, EU zemlji s najguscim kopnenim prometom na vanjskoj granici, koja prati ovu temu pa vam za razliku od ovog nebuloznog "teksta" mogu objasniti da je uzrok guzvi uvodjenje Import Control System 2 (ICS2), procedure najave prijevoza tereta, koje je pocelo 1.6.

Vidi lipote

Digging more into the Una line, I'm less fascinated by the long distance international trains that used to pass there (like Stuttgart - Split) and more intrigued by local connections like the seasonal Split - Tuzla train!

I'm thrilled to see that this sidewalk to the village was built since the last time I was in Đurmanec 🤪

Saisonstart für den #Nachtzug EN 1273, der seit diesem Fahrplan-Jahr verkürzt von Wien nach Split fährt. Im Februar habe ich um knapp 90€ beim Verkaufsstart ein Single-Abteil im Schlafwagen ergattert. Nach einer Dusche am Semmering wird natürlich noch der Lokwechsel in Spielfeld-Straß begutachtet! 😁

The summer night trains are back!

Delaney Hall action call in NYC subway

RE: https://mastodon.vladovince.com/@mejs/116571792793544081 We're already seeing some shy, but clear positive effects of the 3 ex-HŽPP EMUs in Bosnia and Herzegovina - starting next Saturday, ŽFBH will reactivate weekend service on a tiny portion of the Una railway between Bihać and Bosanska […]

Good to see @velshi.com out there. This is fucking crazy.

A Porco Rossoesque surprise - we came back to Zagreb today and caught an air show from our balcony I feel very conflicted about military planes performing, but watching the CL-415 Super Scooper and Air Tractor AT-802 demonstrate their firefighting moves was pure joy

So about last night at Politics and Prose…first of all, most of my dad’s family passed before I ever published anything…

"The main question we want to answer: Why does the lead continue to press out, when the eraser is pressed and released? Let's take a closer look." 💚 mechanical-pencil.com/products/pen...

My new motto

🇷🇸 180,000+ people demand elections in Belgrade! While this was one of the largest protests, thousands of people have been taking the streets consistently during the last 1.5 years. Often met with police violence, tear gas and unlawful arrests. Democracy will not be silenced.

A brief venture onto the Iberian gauge

There are at least two solutions to this I can think of.

manji je stres iz zagreba putovati u norvešku ili švicarsku, nego otići nakratko do bosne.

Križevci is kind of great?? Once the neverending rail works finally wrap up this place will blow up.

It’s hard to overstate how up Marc Andreessen’s ass the media was in the early ‘90s. He was 24 on the cover of Time. I think it’s helpful to understand him like a child TV star or an athletic prodigy. A boy wonder for whom fame came early, & in the wake of it there is a hollow man.

everything AI touches turns to shit. especially in arts. LLM bullshit is the antithesis of creative and critical thinking. if you need an AI prompt to write, you don't even need to bother!

Since NYC.gov was moved off TeamSite, we've lost a number of URLs that document NYC's #civictech / #govtech / #opengov history. I have an old repo of the URL, but I did not capture the text or the screenshot of the page. Important context has been erased from the broader public record.

Europe rolls out the red carpet for AI data centres, as water‑and‑energy backlash spreads across America Read my latest in EU OBSERVER euobserver.com/217320/europ...

"the go the fuck to sleep baby is a they / them going to Bard, feel old yet???"

“Ma kakav bio moj rodni prag, on mi je ipak mio i drag. Prost je i skroman, ali je moj, tu sam slobodan i gazda svoj" www.portalnovosti.com/kolektiv-koj... #SFSN #muzejjugoslavije

Just wrapped up a 2 week road trip through my homeland. Land of incomprehensible beauty!

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

Fucking A! To sacrifice a minority population for some vague political goal is inherently fascist. Dems can dress it up all they want, but being anti-trans is fascist.

🚞🛤️Jučer smo izglasali Uredbu o jedinstvenom europskom željezničkom prometu, koja je velika pobjeda putnika na željeznicama diljem EU! 🍀 Mi Zeleni smo lansirali kampanju “Jedan kontinent, jedna karta” gdje tražimo jedinstvenu europsku kartu za željeznice! Potpiši peticiju na linku u prvom komentaru 🔗

Happy 20th birthday, Montenegro

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

Surreal developments on the busiest BiH - Croatia border crossing today. The old Gradiška bridge suffered significant damage and had to close down. The brand new motorway bridge and the new border crossing, which never opened due to inter BiH conflict, magically got approvals to start operations.

What luck! I unexpectedly came across this wonderful little cafe inside an old JŽ Baat train car, on the old Sarajevo - Dubrovnik - narrow gauge railroad (bosnabahn)

Bosnian women’s tattoos have lately made it to Eurovision, become popular in the diaspora, and even caused a brief spat with Turkish media. I wrote about how they fold back into familiar tropes about the Balkans, the Ottoman past, and Christian-Muslim relations: newlinesmag.com/essays/the-o...

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

People talk a lot about the social consequences of the Internet, and yeah it has drawbacks, but I have met the best people I know on the Internet, including my wife! And some of the best friends I've ever had. Remember that there is good with the bad and the world is not black and white

My goal of riding all the successor railways of Yugoslav Railways is almost complete - with Željeznički prevoz Crne Gore done, only Železnici na Republika Severna Makedonija and Trainkos remain (and these two barely have anything running?)

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

I had such luck to catch the Maglaj - Sarajevo express on its approach into Sarajevo this morning. Check out these iconic blue SJ carriages!

My bestie November has a new profile in The Needle that’s finally giving her some roses for being so awesome! theneedlenews.com/2026/05/nove... 💐🌸🌺🌹

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

A quick review of the HŽPP Mávags on ŽFBH - an absolute win win for everyone. Despite the graffitied exterior, today's unit was clean and well maintained inside. The ride was comfortable and there were lots of people going into Sarajevo. ŽFBH has […] [Original post on mastodon.vladovince.com]