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Will
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It is better to educate yourself about the world than to live in fear of it. // Numbers. Travel. Stuff. // 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

📍Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Brrrr...
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Bordeaux's trams are 👌
Bordeaux was probably the French tram network that most resembled in its design the idea of modern french trams as "2D metros", i.e. with lines that are operationally independent.

It's now moving to a more interlined structure, as more and more French systems are doing.

youtube.com/shorts/17HtT...
À partir du 6 décembre, 2 nouvelles lignes de tram vont ouvrir à Bordeaux ! #bordeaux #tramway
YouTube video by Transit Explained
youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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bet this feels so good if you're a router
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I was tempted to buy this at Christmas, but after two years of terrible reviews and this... I suspect I'll continue to play the first one for a little longer.
Cities journeys on with a new developer at the helm. An announcement about the future of Cities: Skylines II:

You can read more about it here: pdxint.at/49QDwfo
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
😑
A notable north-south split in temperatures tonight 🌡️

Turning frosty for sheltered parts of Scotland but remaining much milder further south
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Sanna Nielsen's 'Vägen hem' from 2006 has made it to streaming. song.link/s/7K5ytvxxb5...
song.link
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Memories of running home after nursery to watch this. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Avanti West Coast if you try to use their WiFi:

#celebritytraitors
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The ending of the #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
That was exceptional. #thetraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Just came across the “bean soup theory” & feel resonance.
Someone shared a bean soup recipe online & people commented ‘I don’t like beans’ & ‘can I substitute the beans’.
It’s now become a byword for individualism & the self-centred internet. Not everything is about you.
Bean soup 🥣
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
There is a fabulous new Danish Netflix show called Legenden / The Asset. Trailer: youtu.be/_avz4qkXDms
The Asset | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Diana would’ve loved all this
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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My first analysis of ORR granting Virgin Trains access to Temple Mills (and rejecting applications from Gemini, Trenitalia, Evolyn)

jonworth.eu/orr-grants-v...

#CrossChannelRail
ORR grants Virgin Trains access to Temple Mills: the low risk option - Jon Worth
The UK’s Office of Rail and Road has today decided that Virgin Trains should have access to the Temple Mills depot in east London to maintain its future Channel Tunnel fleet, and has rejected applicat...
jonworth.eu
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
MNOs are up to no good again. Must be a day that ends in y.
O2's price hike feels like a mockery of Ofcom's consumer protection!
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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this but also people getting onto the tube/trains before people have exited. wait your fucking turn you selfish bastards, there’ll be more room if you do!!!
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I thought I'd take the opportunity to put together a website representation of these new Rail Clocks which launched yesterday.

railclock.davwheat.dev

Source code (MIT): github.com/davwheat/rai...

And, don't worry, it does have the special flourish every 12 hours!
Rail Clock
A reproduction of the Great British Railways clock
railclock.davwheat.dev
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Actual tears during this moment. 🤣
The subtitles on makes it even better #CelebrityTraitors
October 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Alan Carr is so consistently funny in this show. #TheCelebrityTraitors
October 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I wonder if the surprising content the Assistant might produce includes 'You could get these tickets cheaper on any of the literally hundreds of websites, ticket machines and offices that don't charge a booking fee.'
‘Surprising’
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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For fans of the undeniably best double decker train in Central Europe. And for everybody who likes subtle hints of railway design at home:

SBB now sells IC2000 moquette cushions! Mine arrived today and it's awesome! 😍

commerce.sbb.ch/de/sbb-remak...
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM