@broadwell.eu
PhD candidate. Bike nerd. Train enjoyer. Possibly BlueSky's leading expert on outrigger monorails. Nuclear power is pretty cool. Support my research: https://www.patreon.com/m/BroadwellElectrics - https://paypal.me/luusb 🇬🇧🇳🇱
this shit has a name:
yield management
it can please fuck off and die
I like trains in general. I like high-speed trains.
It's very hard to make the argument for either when using them is an overcomplicated nightmare and you're paying a premium price for a decidedly nit premium service
also fuck this "flexible pricing" horseshit. a train ticket should have a predictable (ideally, low) cost. and stop steering me to expensive (airline-style, for some ungodly reason) HSR over slower and far cheaper conventional trains.
when I am in Paris next week then I am going to seek out my railway friends who are also communists and we are going to drink wine about it
with the NS you tap in and tap out and it costs exactly the same each time. there is one peak fare and one off-peak fare.
with SNCF you can no longer book a train directly with SNCF(?) they instead direct you to external agencies and it's shit
dutch friends bitching about NS don't know what a total clusterfuck the trains are everywhere else in europe
"can you be more specific"
no
"lindsay you are in tourist place"
yes
"what are you doing"
befriending trade unionists
Just finished reading this, and yeah it's excellent. It brought me back to the joy I felt when toying around with a new computer as a kid.
the red goggles are actual laser safety goggles btw, thank you @funranium.bsky.social
may have gone as Loremaster for halloween once
didn't have the robot arms tho
yes
Hey folks, there's a Games from Ireland event on Steam right now, which is the very first showcase of Irish games on Steam, and features a variety of neat titles made wholly or partly in Ireland! Just in time for St. Patrick's Day! Everyone go check this out:
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"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
What can the British Left learn from the Belgian Workers’ Party and the Democratic Socialists of America? In a new report published by the London Office of @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social, Joe Todd compares their structures, strategies and tensions between autonomy and control:
La Olla Express made one really good album, made it available for free, then dipped
and honestly, respect
www.jamendo.com/album/51155/...
blasting down mountains with obscure Spanish ska music on the bone-conduction headset == absolutely goated tbh
Of course it's bloody Meta. It means they don't have to clean up their mess by trying to off-load their compliance to someone else while simultaneously scraping more data.
The Government must publish the risk assessment of the Trump Drug Deal.
Support the campaign here: hey-mp.uk?c=USphar
As temperatures soar in Hong Kong, elderly people living alone in poorly ventilated homes are among those at greatest risk of worsening health conditions – and even death.
jack russells be good at this
This is very good news. I've long been of the opinion that Universal's 17 day window if a movie under-performs effectively means people just don't get out to see them in the first place. And cinemas need the help. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Documentarian Louis Theroux talked to @davidgilbert.bsky.social about his new Netflix manosphere doc and what a grift the whole thing is. I found this exchange—about why being a good person is bad for business—illuminating, if not surprising: www.wired.com/story/louis-...
National Highways completes restoration work on 19th century Riddings Viaduct | New Civil Engineer share.google/IasvnHEcg9Dg...
I’ve been practicing Mandarin with random kind people on rednote and it’s been genuinely touching. We help give each other names in our native languages (it’s useful in a number of settings) and there’s just something really genuinely touching about helping someone with self-determination like that
new renegade cut. 1 video. 40 minutes. infinite vibes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7C...
It takes a lot to break through in the news cycle these days, but blowing up an elementary school and then boasting “no stupid rules of engagement” has done it for me.
Congratulations, Hegseth, you all-time POS. Hell will be too good for you.
Imagine if a modern-day Enid Blyton had written The Worst Witch and it had been hugely successful, but she used the money to become a full-time bigot rather than a national treasure.
What a horrible thought. Glad I don't live in that entirely hypothetical timeline.
spanish burger king has the best vegetarian burgers. theeeee best.
Where do Japan and its nuclear energy ambitions stand 15 years after the devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake of March 11, 2011, a destructive tsunami, and an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant ground them to a halt?
Find out on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2026-03...