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Ben R
@reben.bsky.social
Interested in 🇪🇺🇨🇳🇩🇪🇹🇷 politics & ☕️✈️🚀🍜🚄, CEE/East Med.
Does media stuff.

Once upon a time a teacher in 苏州市
Port of Dandong enjoyer

https://boxd.it/efgrhG
As I understand it's a sort of hybrid of TGV-M and New Pendolino?
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
And this:
bsky.app/profile/jonw...

Oh no, we might get better services and profit from the learning experiences of other European countries. Terrible

Next, please send some Guardia di Finanza officials next . We could use their expertise.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
You mean the same guys that see a successful Italian financial group with pan-European operations taking over a middling German bank as a major threat to DE national sovereignty?
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🇨🇳 Consul General in 🇯🇵 Osaka Xue Jian (薛剑) wrote in a now-deleted X post in the evening of 8 Nov.,2025, threatening to cut off the head of 🇯🇵 PM Takaichi Sanae (高市早苗).
#China #Japan
www.sankei.com/article/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Oh god please none of that Bombardier Wanker nonsense. Maybe Alstom can reuse old Fiat tech.
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I'm just happy they stopped pursuing their hydrogen fever dream. Let them blow €1 billion on a tiny fleet of custom Mireo low-floor battery EMUs.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Good. I spend a few miserable years in Bayreuth as a student. Nobody should go there 🤭. Oberfranken proper (Bamberg & Coburg) have ICE-Services via Nuremberg-Erfurt HSL.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Yes, dear railway nerds my made up Bavarian naming scheme is a reference to China Railways naming conventions. The China Standardized EMU (Fuxing Hao) was the first independently developed Chinese high-speed train, before that it was indigenized imported tech.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_R...
China Railway CR400AF - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In theory? Nuremberg-Regensburg-Passau ( to Vienna). Bavaria has several regional lines that make successful use of (Diesel) tilting trains, like NUE-Bayreuth/Hof, Munich-Kempten. State gov plans to acquire a fleet of "Bavarian standardized BEMU🔋⚡️tilting-trains" by early 2030s. Newly developed ofc.
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
big boi
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I wonder who comes up with these terrible names.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Nah, the later Pendolino series (PKP EIP, Italo) are non-tilting.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I'd take those fancy AGV's in a heartbeat 🤪. Pendolino's are more likely I guess..
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
And for Airlines like Spirit experiencing severe financial distress it's also common to sell off and lease back assets like engines to raise cash.
And then there's schemes like Rolls-Royce's "power by the hour" where airlines will pay only for the time an engine has actually been operated.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I have her Sichuan cookbook yet never made the dish. Thanks for the inspiration.
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Recipe please
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Mit dem 2A7 findest du ja nirgendswo einen Parkplatz in der Schellingstraße
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Perfekt für den morgendlichen Stau auf dem mittleren Ring.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
bsky.app/profile/mthm... not sure they are active here, but Steph's and Chris's channel is a true gem of cooking wisdom paired with fascinating historical, cultutal sociological aspects of the "foods" covered.
bsky.app
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
And for the culinary aspects of Chinese immigration to Thailand around the early 1900s watch this video by the excellent Chinese cooking demystified channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQ0...
What is Thai-Chinese food? The case of Olive Pork.
YouTube video by Chinese Cooking Demystified
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
AMERICAN DIAPER [ FALL 2026]
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
European 5th gen?
Heavylift helos?
In-service maritime patrol aircraft?
Anti-Radar, cruise & AA missiles compatible with German platforms and available at the scale required for a peer conflict with Russia in 2030?
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM