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juri maier

@jurim.bsky.social
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campaigner. social and environmental issues, currently nighttrains. design. languages. french house. md wegewerk.com & chair back-on-track.eu he/er/han/lui/он

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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Das jüngste Urteil des Supreme Court stellt die Grundlage des 🇺🇸US-🇪🇺EU Datenschutzabkommens in Frage. Wer bislang noch nicht über Alternativen dazu nachgedacht hat, personenbezogene Daten in US-Clouds oder bei US-Unternehmen zu hosten, sollte so langsam damit anfangen.  bit.ly/4y0pZvr
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I took another look today at the study by Teoh et al. on what effect the high radiative impact of contrails, specifically in Europe, actually has on the climate. It seems likely that the contribution #nighttrains can make to mitigating global warming is greater than previously thought.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
There is no train over the strait of Gibraltar (yet). And just one ferry to Tanger Ville port where you arrive right at the old medina (the others go to the new port). So the 8th leg was a ferry. Very comfortable: Morocco does border formalities directly aboard. 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
There is no train over the strait of Gibraltar (yet). And just one ferry to Tanger Ville port where you arrive right at the old medina (the others go to the new port). So the 8th leg was a ferry. Very comfortable: Morocco does border formalities directly aboard. 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
As it was #santasemaña in Sevilla, the way to our accommodation crossed a procession of the Amargura Hermandad 😲. Next leg was not by train but by bus from the old coach station (photo in b/w CC-BY Gzzz @Wikimedia) to Tarifa. With a 1st sight of Africa. 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
6th train is the AVE from the huge Puerta de Atocha station (still under renovation) to the no less stunning Sevilla Santa Justa station (almost the size of Leipzig Hbf). Sevilla is filled with the orange blossom scent and our next overnight stay. 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
4 hours for changing in Madrid. Time for a short walk through the city centre! 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Irun-Madrid. From snowy Basque country to Chamartin business district passing by beautifully restored train stations. First train with trolley service! 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Our Train #4 was the local #Euskotren from Hendaia to Irun on the Spanish side. Breakfast in Hendaia, some Basque Villas in Irun. 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrainMoroccoByTrain #3: Modern Duplex TGV (ICE quality) to Hendaia on the Spanish border where we'll stay over night. When changing in Paris this time I kept my Navigo cards to skip lines at the RATP ticket vending machines.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain 2nd train: TGV duplex to Paris, changing at Mannheim where taxis aren't beige Benzes any more and where we had lunch in cosy pizzeria Milano nearby.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Starting my 1st visit to Africa by train with my son. 56h out and 48h back 11 days to discover 🇲🇦 المفربية ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ #MoroccoByTrain
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Michael Albert @michlalbrt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Ich will KEIN WORT mehr über Kürzungen beim Sozialstaat hören, den wir uns angeblich nicht leisten können. Wer so wirtschaftet, hat definitiv keinen Mangel an Geld, sondern an Verantwortungsbewusstsein.
spiegel.de
Klimapolitik: Deutschland drohen 34 Milliarden Euro Klimastrafen
Die CO₂-Emissionen sind in Deutschland 2025 laut einer Studie nur um 1,5 Prozent gesunken – halb so viel wie 2024. Für die Bundesregierung könnte das teuer werden.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Obrigado à Suprema Corte e à maioria constitucional dos militares no Brasil por lembrar ao mundo o que fazer quando se perde uma eleição: Parabéns ao sucessor. Ei, Veja, que tal rotular seus sapatos com um orgulhoso "Made in Brazil"?
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
56) Paris (48.8534086, 2.3690812)
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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 13/07/2025
Join us in Berlin from 26-28 September for the Night Train Conference, focusing on the future of night trains and rail politics. Discover ways to improve and expand night trains. Free for members; non-members pay catering costs. Don’t miss this chance to join the discussion.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I think it needs just 1% of major content publishers to agree to make this strategy work: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...
blog.cloudflare.com
Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
It's heartbreaking. I learned to ski in deep snow in the Lötschental. I spent a night in Blatten, in a Massenlager with a dozen ski tourers aiming to cross the Lötschenlücke to the Aletsch. The place was so breathtakingly picturesque. All gone. 1/2
Old wooden houses in the mountains one of them resting on flat stones on poles
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Talgo steering car and Siemens engine? Courageous! www.railtech.com/all/2025/05/...
railtech.com
Biggest move yet: FlixTrain orders 65 new high-speed trains from Talgo
German private operator FlixTrain has unveiled its most ambitious investment to date, placing a record order for 65 high-speed trains at Spanish manufacturer Talgo for push-pull trains and…
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Boomers doing the GenZ job. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen arrested after Senate Gaza protest - BBC News
Ben Cohen and six others were arrested during the protest in the US Senate, Capitol Police tells BBC News.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 07/05/2025
Hey new Bundesregierung! I know *exactly where you ought to start with your electrification* 😀 #CrossBorderRail www.heise.de/news/Elektri...
Rail bridge between Zgorzelec Poland (top) and Görlitz Germany (bottom), with electrification masts ending in the middle of the bridge
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
What was that? Blackmail from Munich?
Screenshot from Google Input, completing "are the renegades" with "when voting for the chancellor from CSU" (in German)
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Energy prices and taxes are political dynamite, easily exploited by populists. The introduction of the next level of emission trading #ETS2 is the right thing to do but needs ideas how to socially balance in order to avoid the next wave of gilets jaunes: www.transportenvironment.org/articles/how...
transportenvironment.org
How to defuse the EU’s carbon tax time bomb
The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The link between the demand for oil and defense expenditure: Every €1.00 saved on crude oil results in a €0.37 reduction in defense costs. Quite the deal! Share this information! www.ifw-kiel.de/publications... #climate #stopoil #ukrainewar
ifw-kiel.de
Climate policy contributes to Europe's security
Climate policy is a central pillar of the European security architecture, especially in times of global crises. A new report by the Kiel Institute quantifies the security benefits of an ambitious EU…
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's exactly the right time to introduce super-late CO2 limits for construction in Germany, not despite fascists being the biggest party in polls atm, but because this death cult is coming for your lunch.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
How Democracies die:
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So far my favourite for this year’s ESC 🇪🇺
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Sibylle / Back-on-Track Switzerland @trainsetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Good #News aus der #Schweiz gen Norden: Ein #Nachtzug nach #Kopenhagen im #Fahrplan 2026🙂🙃🙂⁉️ Wir sind gespannt auf die Details!🌜🚅👭🛏️👫🛏️👬🛏️ #Bahnzeit #CrossBorderRail #ConnectingEurope #EinTickGrüner 💚
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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Prof. Sophie Schönberger erklärt im @verfassungsblog.de, warum die Bundestagsverwaltung die kleine Anfrage der Unionsfraktion hätte zurückweisen müssen. Und macht dabei keine Gefangenen. verfassungsblog.de/anfrage-bund...
Man stelle sich einmal vor, eine Bundestagsfraktion würde im Rahmen ihrer politischen Agenda gegen häusliche Gewalt die Frage an die Bundesregierung stellen: „Schlägt Ulf Poschardt seine Frau?“. Auf diese Weise wolle man kontrollieren, ob die Strafverfolgungsbehörden auch ihre Arbeit erledigten und genug gegen häusliche Gewalt getan wäre. Es liegt völlig auf der Hand, dass allein schon die mit der Fragestellung verbundene Unterstellung die Grundrechte von Ulf Poschardt verletzte, selbst wenn die Bundesregierung später antworten würde, dass ihr dazu keine Erkenntnisse vorlägen.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Tonight @die-linke.de party leader @vanaken.bsky.social disagreed to lift the debtbrake/ #schuldenbremse for military spending, as 🇪🇺 pays (purchase-parity adjusted) already more than 🇷🇺. Will he change his stance once he knows his numbers are outdated? www.politico.eu/article/russ...
politico.eu
Russian defense spending overtakes Europe, study finds
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent its defense spending skyrocketing, and is raising fears it will attack NATO next.
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 21/02/2025
Letzten Monat verharmlosten Merz und andere #Trump noch als "Chance" für Europa. Jetzt liefert er die #Ukraine und Europa eiskalt an Putin aus. Es ist allerhöchste Zeit, dass Europa aufhört, schlafzuwandeln, schreibt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/boes...
volksverpetzer.de
EU-US-Bündnis beerdigt: Böses Erwachen für die Trump-Verharmloser
Letzten Monat verharmlosten Merz und andere Trump noch als "Chance" für Europa. Jetzt liefert er die Ukraine und Europa eiskalt an Putin aus.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Comparing the free #Mistral #LeChat with the free #OpenAI #ChatGPT by asking how to automate operations of #NPO #non-profits. Not much difference in quality so far. ChatGPT is less sceptical about self-hosting LLM and proposes using NLP for community management, LeChat seems to be way faster.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Sam Greene from the Kings College kindly wrote down my thoughts about the new situation for #europe and #ukraine : skyview.social?url=https%3A...
skyview.social
A BlueSky thread by Sam Greene on Skyview
Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukrain...
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Alternatively #cocacola could recycle more aluminium in the US, of course. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Coca-cola says it could use more plastic due to Trump tariffs
Beverage giant's boss says his company may need to action if aluminium cans become more expensive.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Almost done ... after 24 hours of prompting and exhausting the tokens of my ChatCPT account. One issue is still missing and 1 more business quistion. But the beta of our 24 yo voting advice application had to come out today, we've been linked for quite some time now: www.wahltest.de/de-2025/
wahltest.de
Der Wahltest 2025 - Welches Programm passt zu dir?
Vergleiche die Wahlprogramme der Parteien im Bundestag.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As dreadful as it is that centre-right #CDU 🇩🇪 today broke a promise by voting with the fascists, according to political science this move will backfire by losing voters on two sides. Xenophbes will prefer the original, Moderates and swingvoters stick to Greens or SPD. #Merz is reliably … unclever.
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Trains Trams Tracks @trainstramstracks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Go and follow our friends over at Back On Track Italy. Committed to more, better and affordable #nighttrains for a climate friendly future. Please go and follow them: @backontrackit.bsky.social
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I think my chinese spy at #TikTok changed the algorithm for me. I had a well-curated for you page but now, as there is an upcoming election in 🇩🇪, I suddenlly get shitloads of racist content. Any TikTok users around who can confirm this?
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Here are the Meta Alternatives: Bluesky instead of Threads. Pixelfed instead of Insta. Signal instead of WhatsApp and LinkeIn instead of FB. Pixelfed is Fediverse. This will be a bit more tough. The rest is easy and straightforward. Go for it!
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Musk is obviously a fascist and should be treated likewise. No more airtime.
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George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · 01/01/2025
Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
theframelab.org
2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions
Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat
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Stefan C. Aykut @stefanaykut.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The Russian far-right supports the American far-right, which supports the German far-right. This is the global alliance we need to combat.
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Back-on-Track.eu @back-on-track.eu · 20/12/2024
C‘est fait! Today at a notary‘s office in Brugge🇧🇪 we finally signed the French-language deed establishing Back-on-Track Europe AISBL as an international non-profit association - to be better represented at EU level. For practical reasons founding groups were 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇨🇭&🇬🇧 others follow soon.
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Tamar (Tako) Tolordava @takotolordava.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
You may know that Georgians are not early morning people. When we start gathering at 7 AM to protest, it means we are very angry and undefeatable! #Tbilisiprotests #Georgiaprotests
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Outside of the green bubble peak #energyprices are currently a hyped issue. Invested media like BILD blame the „green renewable ideology“, of course, less informed journalists copy parts of the propaganda. My interpretation of the reasons: a 🧵
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umverkehR @umverkehr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
😢🚈Schlechte Neuigkeiten: Der Ständerat will die Gelder für neue Nachtzüge streichen! Dies, nachdem sich der Nationalrat letzte Woche für die 30 Millionen ausgesprochen hat. Doch noch ist nichts definitiv entschieden! Teile diesen Post und zeige, wie wichtig dir Nachtzüge nach Rom und Barcelona sind.
Nachtzug der ÖBB mit einem schlafenden Comic-Bären auf dem Dach und einer Person mit einer Schlafmütze. Dazu steht: National- + Ständerat: Lasst die Nachtzüge rollen!
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Depends on the structure of your municipality. In less blessed Berlin the banlieu could vote for a mayor promising to restore priority for cars.
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juri maier @jurim.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
German #btw25 election battlegound seems to be opened with this funny copy* of Truss vs Lettuce used by the Left to mock the Liberals (both currently below 5% threshold): feldschlacht.de
feldschlacht.de
Eine Banane vs. Lindner - wer hält länger durch?
Gelb gestartet und endet schwarz - Bananen und die FDP haben vieles gemeinsam. Wir starten den Test zum Lindnerrücktritt!
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