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⏰ 24. Mai um 19:00
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Mit Nelly Waldeck, Ruijters & Jon Worth

A reminder that #CrossBorderRail is happening at the moment, but isn't live tweeted this year...

But each day there is a Live Blog - here is today's crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-day-…

In 2 weeks my #CrossBorderRail project 2023 starts

But this year it will NOT be live tweeted!

Here's details of what I am doing, and how to follow the project in other ways: crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/events-planned…

In 2022 I wrote Twitter thread every day of #CrossBorderRail

I'm no longer active here, but the project continues... and if you want to follow there's a live blog

Testing it today and tomorrow, then from 2 May in earnest 👇
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-5-ap…

#CrossBorderRail 2023 will not be live-tweeted as I'm now mostly off Twitter, but just in case any of my followers here are interested in the follow up to my 2022 project, all the details are here 👇
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/2023-germany-p…

If you want to read the first analysis of today's European Commission #CrossBorderRail projects, you have to head to Mastodon: gruene.social/@jon/109784429…

As I still get people @ - replying me: I AM NOT USING TWITTER any more, and nor should you. Here's why - and this was written before third party apps were cut off: jonworth.eu/twitter-exit-b…

Why - for the period that Musk is in control of Twitter - I will no longer be active here

And why anyone ethical ought to likewise exit. Because you and I have no voice, and Musk definitely does not deserve our loyalty

jonworth.eu/twitter-exit-b…

Twitter deleted from my phone

I'm not yet deleting my account altogether, just in case someone a little more enlightened takes over from Musk - but this account will stay dormant until then

223000 tweets written, it's been a good 13 years here, but now you'll find me at 🐘

Doxxing. Or is it allowed because they’re not on a jet?

So - for the record Thierry Breton - is this flying by the EU’s rules regarding abuse of market position?

Musk has basically just made up a rule to ex post justify blocking a load of journalists for linking to Mastodon posts about the banning of the ElonJet account here.

This company is being run by an angry toddler.

But TikTok is ok 🤪

I've a MA student writing their dissertation about French implementation of 4th rail package. It's the first student, in my academic career, that I've met who is interested in railways. Not sure what that tell us about politics students?!

The UK.

Some jumped up motoring journalist writing in a rag that’s fit for the dustbin about a family whose importance should have been ended long ago.

Jon Worth conclusion that 'not many policymakers can really be bothered' about crossborder rail is true. But I would add that politicians in general are not interested in railways.
f.x. the new DK govt is likely to abandon the 1hr train plan & opt for a Kattegat road bridge

European Commissioner for Transport, meet #ChatGPT 🙂

If you want a *good chuckle* then install this Chrome extension '8 Dollars' - discovered via I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky

It very simply shows you which of the people you follow were silly or vain enough to pay Musk $8 for Twitter Blue

chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

Finally getting around to downloading my Twitter data archive.

It’s almost 5Gb! 🤯

OK, I have used this network a lot over the years 🙂