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Cat Poníčková

@louhip.northsky.social
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Your obnoxious pony, also on fedi: @poni@ak.kawen.space. (Actually generally much more on fedi tbh.) Prague 🇨🇿, public transit, "urbanism" (complaining), trains, some cloud computing and Linux, cats, little of everything else.

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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 7h
This is such a weird autumn so far though? Things are fairly off, trees would already be much more colorful mid October.
View of Balabenka and part of Karlín towards Krejcárek.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 11h
ok but then he could have just said that he would protect the investment that went into the baby to educate and train it and not invent something about experiences and so on
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 14/10/2026
Back when we basically solved the housing but then decided to destroy everything again.
An interwar residential building in Prague.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 14/10/2026
Even a small drop is kinda shit and difficult to mitigate with technical measures (unlike extending steps on outside as the previous picture), this is just some historical artifact of the platform being not even 760, just few cm above for 550 because of an old underpass, and it's actually bad
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 14/10/2026
Not really, rebuilding the platforms would probably take much longer then the train lifespans. But it's a bit shitty situation because 760 train on 550 platform is still functionally mostly accessible, while the opposite combo is pretty bad.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
Do we actually miss the UK so much to also miss all the exceptions and irregularities and special treaties they inevitably come with?
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
They did, small freestanding ones they scattered around before they can fix the proper big wall ones, but somehow they had not done that yet. And they are not the only store, after the June heatwave, I have seen dead freezers in so many places. Maybe the waiting times for the "big" ones are bad.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
That is possible, but that may have been a real operational constraint that would not be trivial to overcome. (On the other hand, our local Billa here had not managed to replace the freezers they lost to the June heatwave to this date, things are kinda scary in this world.)
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's not really like that anymore. It's a serious security discipline now and it's hard.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
yeah same thing, "food without e's", classic, i hate it here
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
I remember having to pick my jaw back from the floor on one office lunch when a guy with uni degree who liked to present himself as smart and educated said "he prefers food without chemistry". OK.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is? Multiple sheets glued together. Still huge.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
public executions on tv you say?
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
It usually takes over 24 hours to report Prague.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
The counting is even worse. You can tick the big box by the party and give 65 votes to them. You can do that and also tick random names across other lists, giving the main box 65 - individual boxes, and the individuals. You can just make <= 65 individual ticks. But 66 is an invalid ballot.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
I love voting in Prague municipal elections. This entire fold is the ballot, yes.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pls.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
And it's ugly. Boy it's ugly. Don't tell me it's not ugly.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
It does not get more anti-car than me, but whoever is cheering this had lost the plot honestly. You're still using valuable street space for non-short-term vehicle parking. Cool, it's not a car, but so what. Transportation on inflated rubber bad, period.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
honestly quite amazing lidl would import their style into the us including the annoying ugly tiles lol
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have seen a youtube video praising a certain howitzer system for there only being like 20 or 30 confirmed ukranian losses of it so far, proving it's very survivable, but like 20 or 30 is probably more than a small and/or poor country could ever hope to afford to buy.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Find yourself someone who will love you as much as the eastern european transit companies and authorities love their elaborate safety videos.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gives me a week or two to plan the next move, so yeah. It is definitely a great thing to be able to get.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turning into a regular welfare queen, now on a sick leave just because I got depressed. (I mean. Just. Uh. It's kinda bad to be honest.)
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah but denying (or at least heavily restricting) pricing flexibility in traditionally high fare box recovery metros was not the best outcome and the price knob isn’t popular either.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
It could be two tiers with the cheaper one not covering urban core public transit.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is he going for an LFI nomination instead?
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is technically already higher speed? From what I remember talking to some people who then still lived in *that place*, the issue often was that ok, train is cute and everything, but the Pobeda death airlines or whoever will sell you a ticket for a glass of lukewarm water.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
of course that's just dumb, also imagine having a light rail with a ridership so low you can then measure it like this
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
i imagine that on most metro systems outside of the german adjacent zone that is pretty much the feature of having turnstiles that need something to open? it would be ridiculously stupid on a tram or a bus, you're flushing boarding time advantages down the toilet
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah and then it's even specialized rolling stock. Sometimes it works (still subsidized but like ok) like in Finland, for reasons, but otherwise, uh, what's there. The European museum Sleeper? OK. Anything commercially viable now is basically Ukrainians wanting to go to Lviv where they cannot fly.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well OK, the point about pass sharing between multiple people isn't necessarily wrong, that is quite well understood and not necessarily common, but not rare either, form of fare evasion here.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well, it’s more of a (desperate) belief that there’s somehow a layout that can save the fundamentally rather unviable night train economics.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cat on a bus and a tram, nobody got (visibly) mad and even got offered a seat despite making a terrible drama of of the entire 15 minute long trip.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
I try to ignore the boards, but they put them in front of my face.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is somehow doing the same thing as everywhere else (locking all the door except the one the conductor will use to get on) too hard.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
There’s no aid really? Just weapon purchases the EU is actually paying for.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apparently in Real Engineering, the standard for specification and requirement management is either exchanging MS Word documents or, somehow, IBM DOORS, and nobody is quite sure which is worse, but both are worse than git.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Examples of other ideas implemented much without thinking, just because they looked cool. S1 is the most important line with the largest passenger share and significantly higher frequency, and most S61 connections don't go to Vršovice, only few on weekends. Could you tell?
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Which is pretty much all over the place really? My impression is someone from the Prague transit regularly has summer vacations wherever and brings "ideas" back to implement as they like it, always slightly bastardized and never explained or well reasoned.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reasoning that somehow you can't make them so it's actually "safer" this way so people are not rushing to catch something they can't. Except that time is still too long and this reasoning makes it impossible to ever tune it right and also it's honestly just their arrogance.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Because if you just hurry up the tiniest bit, you will easily make the previous departure which is under 1 minute and is no longer listed on the board, because the transit organizer in their infinite wisdom decided to cut of the departures from the list super early.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
I will scream here as well because I mean why not. So you see this departure board at a metro station vestibule, how long you think you will have to wait for the next departure in direction of Háje? Five minutes. Well. Wrong. The answer is roughly 30 seconds.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
Btw there is something funny ironic about how applying for a northsky invite and getting one took longer than time from first attempt to get an appointment to an HRT prescription in this cursed country.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
Psychologically maybe yes, but the amount of force Europe would have to quickly send there could probably just be driven on the highway anyway, so I don't think it represents any significant military strategical shift yet?
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
Things are so bad that Babiš dropped his clash with the president over who goes to the NATO summit and represents the security policy of the country, because it looks like he got briefed that it indeed is bad.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's years before getting anywhere and still crippled by the lack of good connection in Poland which is not progressing fast enough.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 11/09/2026
It would not even be a legal minimum wage today.
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 11/09/2026
lol, my first regular paycheck in 2010 would not even cover my rent now
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Cat Poníčková @louhip.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is this why they rewrote noctalia without quickshell.
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