Which begs the question...Quis custodiet ipsos aves?
24.04.2025 17:49
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Which begs the question...Quis custodiet ipsos aves?
There is always the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra. Their cover of "Whole Lotta Love" is something to behold, if not to hear
Or the smallest to class as a band...
"If it’s me and your granny on the bongos, it’s The Fall"
- ME Smith
Damn I’m tired
Dinner in the neighbouring village. Friend of a friend there, an IT developer
“In 🇦🇺 they’re installing hydrogen filling stations for cars! It’s amazing!”
Me: “🇩🇪 did. It was too costly. Hydrogen isn’t efficient in land transport”
Him: “We need more research!”
Me: “No. Use a 🔋!”
Scalby Mills says "Hello!"
Map of the main potential Channel Tunnel Rail routes
I have used some of my #CrossChannelRail day off to sort my materials for the London event on Monday
Slides: nextcloud.techpolitics.eu/index.php/s/...
Zoomable map used to make the slides: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/cross...
But this varies as a small number of stations have closed. For example IBM just makes the 2018/19 cut off here. While a small number of stations have opened since.
There is a list of station name and CRS code here github.com/anisotropi4/... with pictures.
It is the right ball park but it depends.
I have 2 587 stations here github.com/anisotropi4/... but that is based on the number of stations that had passengers according to the ORR between 2018/19 and 2023/24.
My hot take is: don't blame the data, work out where the process is failing and do something about that.
4/4
(I miscounted so 4/n is really 3/n)
However if I am in STP, the change of platform is really quite important, especially if announced at short notice and I want to get on.
For me the issue is then the decision making process, with insufficient time planned and poor communication to passengers and station staff 4/n
For example, if the platform the 09:37 from St Pancras to Sheffield changes from 3 to 4 and I'm in Sheffield, I probably don't care much. It might have some residual impact, such as I may find out that it is a five not seven car unit and so I should expect a grumpy son but that's about it 2/n
It was on grounds of safety. Which in my opinion doesn't stack up.
Data, outwith some narrow and technical edge cases, isn't (or shouldn't) have a safety impact in itself. Rather it is the context and the way in which the data is being used and understood that is important. 1/n
Aging fish were sadly in short supply
It's a job I guess
While I strongly disagreed with this position, said this and was pleased that it didn't hold sway, I am not going to name individuals or organisations here
The issue is that there are those who say* that it would be better of the data wasn't in the API.
* Even on more than one occasion when I was in the room
Two things, RTT have been criticized for doing this and it isn't always correct. As there can be short notice changes. But I completely agree it's better than the alternative
Enjoy the path occupancy. It what I call trains but only because I work for an infrastructure manager...it's what makes the timetable special
Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te Brömmelstroet
HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
A lot of this depends on which side of the Pennines you wish to travel
It would appear we now have an open rail and road datasets available. Which is nice.
Wear it with pride!
Peachzz's mural named one of the very best in the world
Breaking news: @streetartcities.bsky.social have done a recount and @peachzz.bsky.social's Reverie mural has now come in at 2nd place for the Best Mural of the World 2024 category!!!
streetartsheffield.com/blog/success...
#Sheffield @helpsheffield.bsky.social @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent
I had heard a rumour that it had already been bought by HS2
...Birmingham to Leeds via Sheffield...
FIAT lux, as it were...
Is this a coded reference to the depth of snow?
The cover of Douglas Adams's STARSHIP TITANIC video game
A photo of Michael Palin
If your tech can read text in an image file, this is an image of some background on the production I wrote for Toby Hadoke to use in his introduction to the repeat on BBC Radio 4 Extra today.
It's nice being a Christmas repeat on BBC Radio (and for a month after on BBC Sounds App). Following our 'Peter Pan' all this week, at 4pm today BBC Radio 4 Extra are repeating our 2021 one-off Terry Jones' STARSHIP TITANIC adaptation by Ian Billings, directed by me, narrated by Michael Palin.
