Ben R

Watched the Bayern CL game in a bar downtown and took a taxi straight to the office after when I lived in China.

Confirmed: SNCF's Alstom built TGV-M Avelia Horizon trains are too large for some Italian rail lines When Les Echos and BFM reported that SNCF's TGV-M trains (branded Avelia Horizon by their manufacturer Alstom) were too tall for Italian tunnels I could scarcely believe it. This news came in the same...

CONFIRMED: SNCF's Alstom built TGV-M Avelia Horizon trains ARE too big for some Italian railway lines

All explained here 👇
jonworth.eu/confirmed-sn...

Thanks @webguy.bsky.social & @pglux.bsky.social for the help understanding this!

Very interesting footage from Russians indicating that Ukrainian Forces use laser light beam to fry fiber optic on "waiter" drones.

Quite unexpected turn of the warfare, take notes.

Today, Ekrem Imamoglu stands trial on the most Kafkaesque allegation of establishing a " criminal organisation for illicit gain." The most threatening political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allegedly sought, through this purported network, +

Admittedly my interest in Polish affairs only developed pretty late. Shame.
Had a terrible kitchy Hosen phase in my teens but that was years before this pretty drunk aggressive actually kinda good version.

These search results are *highly confusing*
I guess it’s just a special type of frozen vodka?

WARS menu 😍: „Ogurek, żurek and bigos“
Sorry Greece, it will be a rail trip through Poland this summer.

On another note wouldnt mind to have DB restart Transitzüge 80s style to West-Berlin without stops in Erfurt,Bitterfeld, Halle or Lutherstadt wherever that place actually is.

Viel is auch mit 🛩️ nicht los

EK flights over UAE/QATAR/EASTERN SAUDI/OMAN

Zero flights by Qatar in the last four days and Emirates ops into DXB are very restricted, it's still primarily EU flights. A few cargo flights from DWC too. But there should be plenty of belly cargo capacity for food imports if needed.

Emirates alone does 6-7 flights DXB-BKK daily during peak season with A380 and 77W.QR with another 5-6. + Etihad, Oman, Flydubai, Kuwait. Top destination for Europeans in winter.

This says trains are included.
www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Pdf/...

Guess this is the legal justification for their "spot not-border ID checks"

Can I have some fried submarine with that?

Just run a Diesel loco without any safety equipment, Greek mainline style.

Amazing. The Chinese builders thought they could just implement a turnkey system.
Maybe the Serbian KISS could make the trip to Budapest *if* CRRCs sinoETCS is compliant.

Amazingly the press release is still up www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...

I remember the Airbus deal from 2016 when IranAir signed for 120 jets at Élysée. Ultimately they were able to deliver 3 A330s and a bunch of ATR turboprops until the orange monkey reinstated the sanctions.
I guess pharma, banking and French automotive investments met a similar fate.

The hype was unreal. I went grocery shopping around 18:00 for about 2h, expecting Prigozhins T-72s on Red Square on my return ... and just like that everything was over. Oh the disappointment.

Air Baltic

"WeSTeRN European panic notwithstanding, Russia essentially claiming victory in the Donbas would pose little threat to the rest of the continent. The Donbas is not the Sudetenland"

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

peak "we haven't provided 💵 for arms in 2ys but still know better than you idiot euros" levels of punditry.

QED: [... bei der Brandschutzanlage massive Fehler gemacht [...] Das alles müsse nun korrigiert werden, heißt es.

SWR-Exklusiv: Eröffnung von Stuttgart 21 wird um mehrere Jahre verschoben - Hintergründe und Folgen Diese Woche hat die Bahn die Führungsspitze bei Stuttgart 21 getauscht. Und inzwischen wird deutlich: S21 wird wohl um mehrere Jahre verschoben. Das erfuhr der SWR exklusiv.

www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

lol @jonworth.eu

Extremely powerful "we will totally open this visibly not finished mega project next week for sure" BER airport vibes here

Fire drills? Pah. Time for the US Navy's PLUMBEX 2026 East Med emergency exercise.

Kudos to Dexcom technical support for replacing 3 failed Dexcom G6 sensors in under 23 hours, from phone call to delivery via DHL Express courier. I have been critical of their customer service in the past but this latest experience was excellent.

You guys don't have your own Mediterranean island for that yet?

Hahaha, my father has been complaining about greedy Croats crazy pricing for 25 years 😀

China has been rumored to order a significant number of A330neo widebodies for years. 🇨🇳 airlines (CA,MU,CZ, Hainan Group, Shenzhen, Sichuan etc)
are some of the top A330 legacy operators globally. A320neo line is pretty much sold out into early 2030s, new engines are severely supply constrained .

50Eur total to the Baltic coast is incredible. Well then.

Sure Prague is peak Central Europe rail glory but come on

Why would I want reliable 7h Munich-Warsaw trains through Berlin, a corridor I've already spent 20 billion on on since 1990 when I could enjoy a magnificent 15h ride through Prague and arrive at Centralna just before midnight.