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Mac the squirrel :)

@macsquirelera.bsky.social
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I like trains. Studying computational linguistics at the university of Stuttgart A little blog about public transit and my life: macsquirrelera.substack.com

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 3h
#havinganasthmaattackinsingapore
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 7h
It’s me!!!
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Matthias Gastel @matthias-gastel.de · 13h
"Schienen-Maut" wird erheblich steigen +++ Nachteile für #Bahn Mehr #Güterverkehr droht auf Straße abzuwandern. Im Regioverkehr drohen Ausdünnungen von Angeboten. Warum hat Bundesregierung noch immer keinen Vorschlag für Neuregelung der Trassenpreise vorgelegt? www.t-online.de/finanzen/akt...
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Gericht hält geplante Schienenmaut für 2027 für rechtens
Im Schienenverkehr steigen die Kosten: Die Bahn kann laut Gerichtsbeschluss 2027 höhere Gebühren verlangen. Das hat Folgen für die Unternehmen - und möglicherweise auch für die Fahrgäste.
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 13h
Don’t care that it’s odd I have a row to myself god is good I love Malaysia
All 5 other seats of row 29 are empty
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 13h
Why do Malaysia airlines flight attendants escort you to your seat it’s so odd
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 14h
My steed over to Singapore
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 15h
Powells is so fun there’s always some random new stuff I’ve never heard of
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h
POV: you are an aquatic Corolla-sized animal in the Pacific Northwest and you are in danger
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 15h
Hi im in malaysia* *KL airport and I don’t have time to leave it
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 20h
The best part of being a Portland soccer fan is getting to play with your scarf during the anthem esp away since it confuses people
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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 23h
Those with TSA Precheck can now visit the the airport gates at PDX, without a booked flight viewfromthewing.com/tsa-quietly-...
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TSA Quietly Opens Airport Gates To Non-Flyers At 300+ Airports—With A Free PreCheck Visitor Pass
TSA’s public Gateside list shows just 15 airports, but the application menu now shows hundreds of airports have joined the program, letting approved PreCheck members greet arriving relatives or accomp...
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 20h
Updated map of trains and ferries I have taken in Asia
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 20h
Now on my 100th* flight!!
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OPB @opb.org · 02/10/2026
Two years after announcing the first round of grantees, Oregon has yet to build any federally funded electric vehicle fast-charging stations along the state’s most-driven highways.
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2 years in, Oregon still has no electric vehicle fast-charging stations through a $52 million federally funded program
Today, there are more than 5.3 million electric cars and trucks registered across the nation and about 140,000 of those are registered in Oregon. But building critical charging infrastructure has not kept up despite millions in federal funding
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 21h
The Malaysian English accent is so pretty I love it
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 21h
Im radicalized against AI. The „AI“ mode on the Chinese clothes dryer appears to have made the clothes wetter
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 21h
Im so excited to go to Germany im sick of Chinese food I need bread
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 21h
Yay useless button for an idea that will never take off
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 23h
It’s so funny that Merz is just at home on a laptop or iPad what a lad
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Train blog train blog
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What on earth is going on with American foreign policy. Like even without considering Brazilians, there’s a ton of Americans in Brazil who need consular support
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The damn Brit’s Hong Kong and Singapore use British outlets. Why couldn’t the French have had the big empire so there could be good plugs where I’m going
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Written entirely from a state security perspective, with no consideration of the migrants so used, nothing about their voices, and nothing about how Europe's hard borders and obsessional hostility to refugees turns the issue into an opportunity for hostile states (cf also Morocco, Turkey)
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A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe
The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
German educational institutions have really nasty toilets kinda regardless of how nice the rest of the building is. It’s odd
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/10/2026
Montreal’s automated metro REM is considerably surpassing ridership expectations this fall, with average daily ridership settling in at 130,000, even before the opening of the airport branch, expected next year.
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Réseau express métropolitain | L’achalandage du REM bondit
Loin d’être en retard, l’achalandage quotidien du Réseau express métropolitain (REM) a bondi de plus de 60 % durant l’été, au point où il est dorénavant bien au-delà de ses cibles, selon La Caisse, qu...
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The center left cock and balls shall protect us
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Berlins red red green coalition is now going to officially happen. The spd had talked about not wanting to coalition with the left if they kept up the expropriation push
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SPD will Sondierungsgespräche mit Linken und Grünen führen
Die Berliner SPD will mit Linken und Grünen sondieren. Das hat der Landesvorstand der SPD nach rbb-Informationen am Samstag beschlossen. Zuvor hatten sich auch die Linken für Sondierungsgespräche ausg...
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh China why must you have a system that requires these huge stations so everyone can arrive an hour in advance
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe I should have brought a big suitcase lmao
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The commission is correct yes
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think it’s a bad idea for the head of moderation to actually use the platform lol
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s nice to know the Russian political class is completely insane. Mr Merz you can strap me to a missile aimed at Moscow for 1 German passport with my face on it
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Russia: "What clues to what comes next?"
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The mall next to our hotel operates the grocery store in the mall. Fascinating to be their own anchor tenants
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Journal of Austrian-American History @jaustamerhist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Die Challenge-Frage: Welche sind die ältesten, genau datierten Fotografien, die in einer Gedächtnisinstitutionen in der Schweiz aufbewahrt werden? mailchi.mp/memoriav/mem...
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Challenge - 27 Tage, um die älteste Fotografie der Schweiz zu finden!
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Took line 14 of the Shenzhen metro. An express relief line for line 3. it also has wireless charging at the seats for phones (not sure I see the point)
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy China national day to all who celebrate. If only Shenzhen metro would celebrate by running peak service all day
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Final day in Shenzhen, went to the worlds largest tech mall to buy my mom a power bank. Also took express line 14. which has a station that’s a very popular photo spot
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At a tech mall and the only store with Russian on the signs is a radio and data link component shop. 🤔
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why don’t British people pronounce loan words like I do, don’t they understand we only use 1 wrong consonant and 1 wrong vowel, when they are also wrong but put the stress elsewhere
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why Tina kotek is barely above the republicans candidate for governor
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Claude make Victoria 3 work again
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think the Russo Japanese war is much more interesting to pop history people because of that Russian fleet that had a real rough go of it
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man Kotek what a stinker
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 30/09/2026
Frustrated with the slow progress on CAHSR? Apparently the California legislature isn't, given all bills to speed up progress died this year. Why isn't California's signature infrastructure project a priority? calmatters.org/politics/202...
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California’s high-speed rail authority made a legislative wishlist. It mostly stalled out
California’s bullet train agency said timely construction of the rail line depended on these reforms. They mostly failed.
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interesting little short on the Munich S Bahn long distance operating of trains. This is meant to be used to improve efficiency and safety at depots not in pax service
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Did you know this train is being operated remotely? @alstom
YouTube video by Network Nathan
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s kinda crazy. All of the aviation influencers I watch have gotten food poisoning in India or on air India, which is probably not a good way to advertise yourself as a country
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I first moved to Germany I found LLMs really helpful for finding what shop was likely to have the product I wanted
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kagames simple trick: use little green men (M23) but also be African so no one gives a shit that you’ve occupied all of lake kivu
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A bit of virtual umarelling for you. A tramway bridge, part of the very last segment of Bologna's green line, has been laid into position today. Video by Comune di Bologna
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why does she use the Hungarian accent on the U
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