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
Does media stuff.
Once upon a time a teacher in 苏州市
Port of Dandong enjoyer
https://boxd.it/efgrhG
Finally decided to become a diabetic cyborg. Diabetes tech has come far since i last had a pump 15y ago. First impressions very positive; small, great OLED, actually good UI (a rare thing in a medical device). Algo-based, fully automatic real-time glucose data insulin delivery here we come.
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Finally decided to become a diabetic cyborg. Diabetes tech has come far since i last had a pump 15y ago. First impressions very positive; small, great OLED, actually good UI (a rare thing in a medical device). Algo-based, fully automatic real-time glucose data insulin delivery here we come.
Brought to you by the Melitta Benz Ultras.
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Brought to you by the Melitta Benz Ultras.
Went to a catholic "megachurch" yesterday (for a concert remembering holocaust victims). US evangelicalism feels like a separate religion to me. How deluded you must be to consider yourself Christian while following a vindictive scam cult like practiced in prosperity gospel & maga-worshipping
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Went to a catholic "megachurch" yesterday (for a concert remembering holocaust victims). US evangelicalism feels like a separate religion to me. How deluded you must be to consider yourself Christian while following a vindictive scam cult like practiced in prosperity gospel & maga-worshipping
“Our vision is to have a hydrogen fuel station available
in the vicinity of the branches of the BMW Group in Germany by the 11th of May 2005." From a May 2000 press release.
EV engineers at FIZ likely curse their leadership every single day.
Beautiful pre-bangle 7 Series nonetheless.
in the vicinity of the branches of the BMW Group in Germany by the 11th of May 2005." From a May 2000 press release.
EV engineers at FIZ likely curse their leadership every single day.
Beautiful pre-bangle 7 Series nonetheless.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“Our vision is to have a hydrogen fuel station available
in the vicinity of the branches of the BMW Group in Germany by the 11th of May 2005." From a May 2000 press release.
EV engineers at FIZ likely curse their leadership every single day.
Beautiful pre-bangle 7 Series nonetheless.
in the vicinity of the branches of the BMW Group in Germany by the 11th of May 2005." From a May 2000 press release.
EV engineers at FIZ likely curse their leadership every single day.
Beautiful pre-bangle 7 Series nonetheless.
From a recent episode of bsky.app/profile/chin...:
“the fact that there's 100 million people that still live in China at basically a Botswana level of income, about $100 per month.”
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/w...
“the fact that there's 100 million people that still live in China at basically a Botswana level of income, about $100 per month.”
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/w...
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
From a recent episode of bsky.app/profile/chin...:
“the fact that there's 100 million people that still live in China at basically a Botswana level of income, about $100 per month.”
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/w...
“the fact that there's 100 million people that still live in China at basically a Botswana level of income, about $100 per month.”
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/w...
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
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.
I wonder who comes up with these terrible names.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I wonder who comes up with these terrible names.
Enabling fraud on a global scale is just normal business practice for them. Brussels should simply nuke meta from the orbit with fines under the DSA.
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Enabling fraud on a global scale is just normal business practice for them. Brussels should simply nuke meta from the orbit with fines under the DSA.
Ungodly amounts of cash spent on consultants and Twitter ads. Of course it would end up as a 1950s style retrofuturist pipe dream ala Sim City 2000. Just the infra alone necessary for local transit & hsr rail,water, waste, power, HVAC to enable life for millions of people along a desert corridor..
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ungodly amounts of cash spent on consultants and Twitter ads. Of course it would end up as a 1950s style retrofuturist pipe dream ala Sim City 2000. Just the infra alone necessary for local transit & hsr rail,water, waste, power, HVAC to enable life for millions of people along a desert corridor..
I’d love to take an ICE/RJX to Budapest and hop on a fast train to Bucharest. Meanwhile, this is the state of the infrastructure around Transylvanias major cities. The line from Arad has been modernized up to Sighisoara (160km/h & ETCS). But around Cluj? Sibiu? Brasov through the Busteni mountains?
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’d love to take an ICE/RJX to Budapest and hop on a fast train to Bucharest. Meanwhile, this is the state of the infrastructure around Transylvanias major cities. The line from Arad has been modernized up to Sighisoara (160km/h & ETCS). But around Cluj? Sibiu? Brasov through the Busteni mountains?
Coastal Asia Minor is European for all eternity (please see attached proof). Therefore Ararat is the highest peak of the Alps
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Coastal Asia Minor is European for all eternity (please see attached proof). Therefore Ararat is the highest peak of the Alps
Nicht unbedingt rein aufgrund der Wirtschaftskraft sondern weil sie entsprechende Produktionskapazitäten insbesondere für den Export von Verbrennern aufgebaut haben:
www.cfr.org/blog/will-ch...
www.cfr.org/blog/will-ch...
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Nicht unbedingt rein aufgrund der Wirtschaftskraft sondern weil sie entsprechende Produktionskapazitäten insbesondere für den Export von Verbrennern aufgebaut haben:
www.cfr.org/blog/will-ch...
www.cfr.org/blog/will-ch...
How he met his wife:
“I was trying to convince her why parents must spank their children. Being an unsaved girl from Europe, she had been brainwashed into […] socialism, feminism, humanism, gay rights […] she was definitely against spanking.“
Yes, the guy is entry banned from all of EU and UK
“I was trying to convince her why parents must spank their children. Being an unsaved girl from Europe, she had been brainwashed into […] socialism, feminism, humanism, gay rights […] she was definitely against spanking.“
Yes, the guy is entry banned from all of EU and UK
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
How he met his wife:
“I was trying to convince her why parents must spank their children. Being an unsaved girl from Europe, she had been brainwashed into […] socialism, feminism, humanism, gay rights […] she was definitely against spanking.“
Yes, the guy is entry banned from all of EU and UK
“I was trying to convince her why parents must spank their children. Being an unsaved girl from Europe, she had been brainwashed into […] socialism, feminism, humanism, gay rights […] she was definitely against spanking.“
Yes, the guy is entry banned from all of EU and UK
Went to the only Lidl open on random Christian public holiday in this 1.7m town and this was the sad result (don't judge vegetable section was completely ransacked). That now makes 3! supermarkets that open on Sundays etc. A true world class city ready to host the Olympics in 36 this is.
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Went to the only Lidl open on random Christian public holiday in this 1.7m town and this was the sad result (don't judge vegetable section was completely ransacked). That now makes 3! supermarkets that open on Sundays etc. A true world class city ready to host the Olympics in 36 this is.
A "workers party" which is very accepting of Waffen-SS tattoos. Well...
heres your choice then:
heres your choice then:
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
A "workers party" which is very accepting of Waffen-SS tattoos. Well...
heres your choice then:
heres your choice then:
They should have focussed on their core mission of publishing Sarrazins unhingend eugenicist diatribes. Instead it is foreign affairs “commentary” like this:
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
They should have focussed on their core mission of publishing Sarrazins unhingend eugenicist diatribes. Instead it is foreign affairs “commentary” like this:
Brothers in crime.
Red boat is the 🐐.
Red boat is the 🐐.
October 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Brothers in crime.
Red boat is the 🐐.
Red boat is the 🐐.
“One of America’s pre-eminent economic thinkers” - Reddit ca 2019.
October 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“One of America’s pre-eminent economic thinkers” - Reddit ca 2019.
"So how far out might Boeing executives push the 777X?"
Dominic Gates in 2012
web.archive.org/web/20150216...
Dominic Gates in 2012
web.archive.org/web/20150216...
October 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"So how far out might Boeing executives push the 777X?"
Dominic Gates in 2012
web.archive.org/web/20150216...
Dominic Gates in 2012
web.archive.org/web/20150216...
Or as the "smart" guys on Twitter always told me: "America innovates (crashes new planes full of passengers),
Europe regulates" (builds the most widely sold plane series in history).
Just get the A350-2000 stretch started already.
Europe regulates" (builds the most widely sold plane series in history).
Just get the A350-2000 stretch started already.
October 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Or as the "smart" guys on Twitter always told me: "America innovates (crashes new planes full of passengers),
Europe regulates" (builds the most widely sold plane series in history).
Just get the A350-2000 stretch started already.
Europe regulates" (builds the most widely sold plane series in history).
Just get the A350-2000 stretch started already.
First proper sunday afternoon walk after the move through Untergiesing and around Gärternplatz.
There are certainly benefits to the new place being five minutes from the Isar river. Gelato at Al Teatro a very bland 3/5.
There are certainly benefits to the new place being five minutes from the Isar river. Gelato at Al Teatro a very bland 3/5.
September 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
First proper sunday afternoon walk after the move through Untergiesing and around Gärternplatz.
There are certainly benefits to the new place being five minutes from the Isar river. Gelato at Al Teatro a very bland 3/5.
There are certainly benefits to the new place being five minutes from the Isar river. Gelato at Al Teatro a very bland 3/5.