Diego
@ryukyu-hsr.bsky.social
Southeast North-Rhine-Westphalia.
Blog: metrovelododo.wordpress.com
Blog: metrovelododo.wordpress.com
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So, the @bbcnewslive.bsky.social published its investigation. I was among the protesters sprayed by the water cannon laced with a WW1-era chemical that night. This is me afterwards. The symptoms didn’t go away: the burning, the coughing, the shortness of breath stayed with me and [1/2]
December 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
So, the @bbcnewslive.bsky.social published its investigation. I was among the protesters sprayed by the water cannon laced with a WW1-era chemical that night. This is me afterwards. The symptoms didn’t go away: the burning, the coughing, the shortness of breath stayed with me and [1/2]
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I wrote Between Two Rivers to share something I love in a way that anyone — whatever their work, prior knowledge, or exhaustion levels — could enjoy.
So many writers have done this for me on topics I’d never have time for a deep dive on (trees, the ocean, eels), and I wanted to do this for others❣️
So many writers have done this for me on topics I’d never have time for a deep dive on (trees, the ocean, eels), and I wanted to do this for others❣️
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I wrote Between Two Rivers to share something I love in a way that anyone — whatever their work, prior knowledge, or exhaustion levels — could enjoy.
So many writers have done this for me on topics I’d never have time for a deep dive on (trees, the ocean, eels), and I wanted to do this for others❣️
So many writers have done this for me on topics I’d never have time for a deep dive on (trees, the ocean, eels), and I wanted to do this for others❣️
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods made me realise how many people consider it normal to drive over ridiculously short distances. All the outraged comments like "this 600m drive has become a 1.5 km drive!!"
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods made me realise how many people consider it normal to drive over ridiculously short distances. All the outraged comments like "this 600m drive has become a 1.5 km drive!!"
The Falklands discourse is reminding me of passing by the Ostpreußenstraße and the Sudetenstraße on the way from the station to the school in Tiengen, in the far south of Germany, when I was an exchange student in 2010.
Just checked on Google maps and they're still around
Just checked on Google maps and they're still around
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Falklands discourse is reminding me of passing by the Ostpreußenstraße and the Sudetenstraße on the way from the station to the school in Tiengen, in the far south of Germany, when I was an exchange student in 2010.
Just checked on Google maps and they're still around
Just checked on Google maps and they're still around
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- Straight tracks, opened in 2024
- Tram only, no other traffic
- Good apparent track conditions
Tram speeds: Permanently limited to 20-30 km/h
- Tram only, no other traffic
- Good apparent track conditions
Tram speeds: Permanently limited to 20-30 km/h
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
- Straight tracks, opened in 2024
- Tram only, no other traffic
- Good apparent track conditions
Tram speeds: Permanently limited to 20-30 km/h
- Tram only, no other traffic
- Good apparent track conditions
Tram speeds: Permanently limited to 20-30 km/h
My most Mitteleuropa moment was last year in a Vienna-Budapest train, a Hungarian and I argued *in German* about our seat reservations.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My most Mitteleuropa moment was last year in a Vienna-Budapest train, a Hungarian and I argued *in German* about our seat reservations.
Listening to the @thoc.bsky.social episodes about the Sui dynasty, I'm learning that Stalin's White Sea canal building project with forced labour had a historical precedent. The Chinese canals were at least useful I guess, but a 50% death rate in the labour force...
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Listening to the @thoc.bsky.social episodes about the Sui dynasty, I'm learning that Stalin's White Sea canal building project with forced labour had a historical precedent. The Chinese canals were at least useful I guess, but a 50% death rate in the labour force...
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CS degrees. Do them if you genuinely are interested in proper theoretical stuff about Turing machines (and if you are, amazing). If you want to learn to code for career reasons, do physics. You’ll learn Python and get to write your dissertation on exploding stars.
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
CS degrees. Do them if you genuinely are interested in proper theoretical stuff about Turing machines (and if you are, amazing). If you want to learn to code for career reasons, do physics. You’ll learn Python and get to write your dissertation on exploding stars.
The Downton Abbey movie (the 1st one at any rate) feels more like a Christmas special episode than a standalone movie. There are so many little side plots which I don't believe make sense without watching the series. They're more like updates for the fans to know how so-and-so are doing 2y later.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Downton Abbey movie (the 1st one at any rate) feels more like a Christmas special episode than a standalone movie. There are so many little side plots which I don't believe make sense without watching the series. They're more like updates for the fans to know how so-and-so are doing 2y later.
Did something different this evening and went to the theatre. It was a hilarious play about a beetle detective investigating a sinister plot afoot in the garden between the ants and the wasps.
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Did something different this evening and went to the theatre. It was a hilarious play about a beetle detective investigating a sinister plot afoot in the garden between the ants and the wasps.
Education polarisation poses an interesting question: would I have been left-wing in the 1980s?
Would I have voted for a socialist party determined to subsidise doomed steel industries in Wallonia to the bitter end?
Would I have voted for a socialist party determined to subsidise doomed steel industries in Wallonia to the bitter end?
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Education polarisation poses an interesting question: would I have been left-wing in the 1980s?
Would I have voted for a socialist party determined to subsidise doomed steel industries in Wallonia to the bitter end?
Would I have voted for a socialist party determined to subsidise doomed steel industries in Wallonia to the bitter end?
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All this time and some people are still labouring under the delusion that Putin wants peace
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said using 140 billion euros in frozen Russian assets held by Euroclear to fund Ukraine could derail peace negotiations and trigger Russian retaliation, blocking EU plans ahead of a December summit, Reuters reported.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
All this time and some people are still labouring under the delusion that Putin wants peace
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
Had a revelation this week at work that one thing we're trying to do is very similar to the problem of determining someone's life expectancy.
And of course there's a Python ML library, scikit-survival, that's fully compatible with the scikit-learn pipeline we're using. I love the modern world.
And of course there's a Python ML library, scikit-survival, that's fully compatible with the scikit-learn pipeline we're using. I love the modern world.
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Had a revelation this week at work that one thing we're trying to do is very similar to the problem of determining someone's life expectancy.
And of course there's a Python ML library, scikit-survival, that's fully compatible with the scikit-learn pipeline we're using. I love the modern world.
And of course there's a Python ML library, scikit-survival, that's fully compatible with the scikit-learn pipeline we're using. I love the modern world.
By investing in Monocab Owl, the EU is revolutionising sustainable commuting.
A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆
Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?
📸© Monocab Owl
#WorldSustainableTransportDay
A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆
Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?
📸© Monocab Owl
#WorldSustainableTransportDay
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Amazing that we manage to have school capacity problems despite a falling population. Probably the bad German habit of dividing kids early into different education tracks.
The Gesamtschulen seem to have the greatest capacity problem.
The Gesamtschulen seem to have the greatest capacity problem.
Siegener Schulanmeldungen 2026: Wie steht es um die Geschwisterkinder aus Rheinland-Pfalz?
Bald nehmen die Siegener Schulen Anmeldungen entgegen. Dass es auch 2026 wieder eng werden könnte, ist anzunehmen. Vor allem bei den Gesamtschulen werden nicht alle Wünsche zu erfüllen sein. Die FDP m...
www.siegener-zeitung.de
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Amazing that we manage to have school capacity problems despite a falling population. Probably the bad German habit of dividing kids early into different education tracks.
The Gesamtschulen seem to have the greatest capacity problem.
The Gesamtschulen seem to have the greatest capacity problem.
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Aideen’s story has sparked an overwhelming response, showing the real impact that pavement parking has on people’s daily lives across the UK.
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
Woman calls for pavement parking ban after falling out wheelchair on school run
Aideen Blackborough was left lying in the road after being forced to manoeuvre her way around a vehicle blocking the pavement in Great Barr
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Aideen’s story has sparked an overwhelming response, showing the real impact that pavement parking has on people’s daily lives across the UK.
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
This is why we are campaigning to end pavement parking.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shaken-birmingham-woman-calls-pavement-32904943
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I am Ukrainian. I am very grateful for all the help and wish each and every one of our dear partners to receive exactly as much help with as much strings attached and at the same pace when their own lives and lives of their loved ones will depend on it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I am Ukrainian. I am very grateful for all the help and wish each and every one of our dear partners to receive exactly as much help with as much strings attached and at the same pace when their own lives and lives of their loved ones will depend on it.
Political sanity slowly starting to return to France. A few months after the governments promised to allow a vote on the budget (instead of forcing it through with the infamous article 49.3 of the constitution) the mainstream left is recognising the need for a formal deal with the macronists.
Budget 2026 : au PS, l’idée d’un accord global avec le bloc central fait son chemin
Le rejet de la partie recette du projet de loi a mis à mal la méthode de Sébatien Lecornu, soutenue par les socialistes, de trouver un consensus au sein d’une Assemblée sans majorité, sans contrat de ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Political sanity slowly starting to return to France. A few months after the governments promised to allow a vote on the budget (instead of forcing it through with the infamous article 49.3 of the constitution) the mainstream left is recognising the need for a formal deal with the macronists.
The small town German healthcare experience is the goddamn hospital saying "sorry if it's not an emergency we don't take new patients". So I have to shop around for small clinics with weird opening hours?
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The small town German healthcare experience is the goddamn hospital saying "sorry if it's not an emergency we don't take new patients". So I have to shop around for small clinics with weird opening hours?
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Authoritarian states facing popular backlash often move their capitals away from where people protest them: Yangon -> Naypyidaw, Cairo -> NAC, and now Tehran -> ???. Don't let the regime pretend it's about anything else - the ecological problems are always due to the regime's own mismanagement.
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Authoritarian states facing popular backlash often move their capitals away from where people protest them: Yangon -> Naypyidaw, Cairo -> NAC, and now Tehran -> ???. Don't let the regime pretend it's about anything else - the ecological problems are always due to the regime's own mismanagement.
My partner was trying to check out DB jobs in my computer, and the website was outright refusing to show its German version? Kept reverting to the FR version, which doesn't show any jobs. She could work around it in the end but damn is it annoying when the computer thinks it knows better than you
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My partner was trying to check out DB jobs in my computer, and the website was outright refusing to show its German version? Kept reverting to the FR version, which doesn't show any jobs. She could work around it in the end but damn is it annoying when the computer thinks it knows better than you
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Parmi ceux qui rejettent le discours du CEMA, parce qu'ils rejettent l'idée qu'il y aurait une menace, nombreux sont ceux qui, sans surprise, ne voyaient aucune menace en janvier 2022. Les plus vocaux aujourd'hui sont ceux qui souhaitent de toute façon la victoire de Poutine.
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Parmi ceux qui rejettent le discours du CEMA, parce qu'ils rejettent l'idée qu'il y aurait une menace, nombreux sont ceux qui, sans surprise, ne voyaient aucune menace en janvier 2022. Les plus vocaux aujourd'hui sont ceux qui souhaitent de toute façon la victoire de Poutine.
It's not just OnlyFans, Parasociality as a Service is everywhere nowadays. I started watching a video which I thought was a travel show ("we're visiting the Northernmost train station in Germany!") but actually most of the run time was the couple unboxing presents and giving life updates.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It's not just OnlyFans, Parasociality as a Service is everywhere nowadays. I started watching a video which I thought was a travel show ("we're visiting the Northernmost train station in Germany!") but actually most of the run time was the couple unboxing presents and giving life updates.
Bolsonaro is back in jail, the judges decided that his risk of flight in house arrest was too high.
Bolsonaro preso: veja principais pontos da decisão de Moraes | G1
De acordo com Moraes, ex-presidente pretendia fugir durante aglomeração causada pela vigília convocada pelo filho, senador Flávio (PL-RJ).
g1.globo.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Bolsonaro is back in jail, the judges decided that his risk of flight in house arrest was too high.