I'm at Union station in DC and I just watched some rando bike right through the open door into the station on a bike share bike and just keep biking through the station.
Like, okay, not great.
Then 20mins later I watched two cops (uscp, capitol police) on bikes bike through the door into the station and do the same thing. So I guess it's just a thing that people do here?
Different Corners II ▶️
不同的角落 II ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
LOUD IN THE REAR OF THE RF! The AFU destroyed the S-300 radar station and blew up the BC warehouses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/01/loud-in-the-rear-of.html
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: They will have no other choice.
FARREN: In which case, they may escape or more probably they will be destroyed. Either way, the Federation need never know that you're here on the station. You can work here in peace and safety. [Waits] Well? What do you say?
https://blake.torpidity.net…
Started doing some math on an #EV vs a regular smallish car and I'm slightly shocked that it's not that much cheaper to run as I expected. German petrol is roughly 1,7€/litre if you pick the right station and time (~11€ per 100km). And most subscriptions to charging stations give you 0,49€/kWh at best (~10€ per 100km).
Only when charging at home (or even better with your own rooftop sola…
So German parliament spent their time on this.
You'd hope they'd be laser-focused on accelerating the transition to cycling, public transport, and electric vehicles.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-bundest
Es gilt das gleiche wie bei Blitzern: Wer sich nicht an Schilder hält, hat eben Pech und muss blechen. Unwissenheit schützt da nicht vor Strafe. 🤷
https://www.tag24.de/dresden/neue-teilauto-station-sorgt-fuer-verwirrung-abs…
With the delay of the #ArtemisII WDR to Feb. 2 finally confirmed - #Crew12 pre-launch presser day: #NASA yet, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-5By97H_8 promises to carry the first presser at 16:00 UTC - beware: shocking preview image - while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxcA8Crpkg will carry the second one with the crew at 18:00 UTC).
If trump really believes that his wars are just, then he ought to tell the tall kid, barron, to head on over to the nearest recruiting station to sign up.
Instead of AI, could we please have a technology that allows us to instantly and viscerally direct our ire at the politicians who underfunded whatever crumbling public service is involved instead of the struggling service workers who are now forced to deal with it? Dreaming of a world where instead of the pissed off dude saying something shitty about the late train to the station agent, he's getting in the face of the prime minister instead.
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
BAYBAN: Good. Good. Connect it up. Hurry.
SHERM: Try there. [spots Dayna] Over here!
DAYNA: I think they saw me.
TARRANT: How many?
https://blake.torpidit…
Key Figures in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
⭐️Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Role: Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station
Background: Started her CIA career in the 1990s as a Soviet analyst. Promoted to Deputy Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station after the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and became Chief by March 2003.
Controversies: Involved in the CIA's interrogation program and linked to the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Criticized for her role in the tortur…
cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…
Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 28. Februar 1958 musste eine B-47E, kurz nach dem Start auf der Royal Air Force Station Greenham Common, ihre Treibstofftanks abwerfen und setzte damit eine, mit einer B28-Atombombe beladenen, B-47E in Brand. Dabei wurden 2 Menschen getötet und 8 verletzt.
i feel like they should have forcibly emptied all the garbage chutes into space one last time *before* abandoning the space station
#Monsterdon
German schedule.
Arriving at a subway station, sub just left
Next sub: in 10min🙄
I look right and left
Next sub in 15min. 🤔
A minute later: sub comes along 😍
Inside: departure in min 🤔
A minute later: we depart 😳👍
Zahlen bitte! Leben auf dem Mond in 384.400 Kilometern Entfernung
Das Artemis-Mondflugprogramm soll nicht nur Menschen zurück zum Mond bringen, sondern auch den Start einer Station markieren. Doch wie lebt es sich dort?
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
QUUTE: A one in a thousand chance, General. The operator happened to pick it up while running a routine line-scan.
GENERAL: And what was this data it was taking from the terminal?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/316 B7B3
In at uni for 9am today (so already at a cold train station), for a day on responsible research or something ... should I have done some prep ... um?
And here is my published dissertation @…, about quantifying the natural CO2 exhaust at the Starzach site in Southwest Germany (my result: ~10t/d):
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/176213…
I’m a newscast producer at a local television station. The newscast I do most often is half an hour at noon. Let’s see. What stories have I done in my shows featuring #HeatedRivalry ?
1/3
The sign is a lie (and they knew that advance: train goes only to Köln), but still on my way to #FOSDEM.
Happy any time to talk about #CoAP, #CBOR,
C’est pour ça que généralement tu as pas des ascenseurs comme seule sortie. Mais vu les contraintes techniques, c’était pas mal le seul compromis pour garder les prix bas.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2220502/ascenseurs-station-edouard-montpetit…
Fact-check: No, Ukraine's attack on Russian oil pumping station is not an 'attack on NATO': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/factcheck-no-ukraines-attack-on.html
I quite like this picture I took a while ago. It’s actually the street sign for a beautiful and affluent street next to Cambuslang station, but the sign looks like it could be outside a prison.
POL-H: Mitte: Zeugenaufruf nach Pfefferspray-Vorfall in der U-Bahn-Station "Kröpcke" Hannover (ots) - Ein unbekannter Jugendlicher oder Heranwachsender hat am Mittwochabend, 18.02.2026, in der U-Bahn-Station "Kröpcke" wahllos Pfefferspray versprüht und dabei mehrere Passanten verletzt. Die Polizei sucht Zeugen, die Hinweise zur ...
I love the steam engine in the FEZ Berlin. So glad there are still enthusiasts operating it.
White House press secretary contradicts Trump and says it was president’s idea to rename Penn Station after himself | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-trump-schumer-penn-station-b2917887.html
What the company had to say - #Starlink satellite incident: "On Sunday, March 29, Starlink satellite 34343 experienced an anomaly on-orbit, resulting in loss of communications with the satellite at ~560 km above Earth.
Latest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or to the upcoming launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission. We will continue to monitor the satellite along with any trackable debris and coordinate with @NASA and the @USSpaceForce.
The event also posed no new risk to this morning’s Transporter-16 mission, which was designed to avoid Starlink with payload deploys well above or well below the constellation. The SpaceX and Starlink teams are actively working to determine root cause and will rapidly implement any necessary corrective actions."
Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -
Today was one of the rare occasions when I bought gas (petrol) for my plugin hybrid car. I went to the local Shell station to use its car wash as a great deal of salt is being put on the road recently and I wanted to protect the car, if I could.
When I got home I checked out the Shell webpage and found this item
We are but roller dogs in the gas station of life.
@… A "strong message" that can be promptly ignored by the Bluesky LLC because they have "fuck you" node size status.
Who are bluesky users to run to? The ephemeral void of their existential dread? A digital gas station on wheels? There's nothing material in the atmosphere reality in terms decentralization.
I'm tired of …
apparently, the velvet underground did a quad broadcast in the bay area in june 1970, aired on KQED/KPFA. maybe taped at their final san francisco shows in late '69, so some more MIA (pro mixed) tapes!? via @grantmcphee.bsky.social awesome VU project. https://grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the
Gestern wurde ichvon einem @hochbahn-Bus entführt. Ich stieg am Dammtor ein und bekam keine Infos, dass ab da alle Stationen bis Hbf entfallen (wegen des sch… #Nordseegipfels). Ich wollte zum Jungfernstieg und landete am Hauptbahnhof.
Die Busfahrerin war mega gestresst. Wohl weil die Kommunikation auf ihren Schultern lag? Offenbar hatte sie VOR der Station Dammtor die Fahrgäst*innen in…
US-Raumfahrtunternehmen Vast baut integrierte Raumstation Haven-1
Das US-Raumfahrtunternehmen Vast beginnt mit der Montage der Systeme in die Primärstruktur der Station. Der Start von Haven-1 ist für 2027 geplant.
cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…
Brown shirt Yaxley Lennon in Italy: greeted by fascist Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in his office.
"While on his way from the airport to the town centre, <<Robinson>> filmed himself reminiscing about his last visit to Italy about 10 years ago. On that occasion he staged an assault on an immigrant sleeping rough near the Rome railway station."
There is so much AI in the air right now, that the announcement at the Metro station sounded like: "For more information: ChatGPT.nl"; but it probably ends in "check gvb.nl" or similar …
The part where Flavia de Luce rides her bike (Gladys) in the early morning (while it’s snowing) to the train station, and ends up on the tracks in front of the train, causing it to stop, which works in her favor because she was late to board the train… is my kind of literature!
I haven't really used my Sonos gear that much, but finding the Study Hard station may well change that. All instrumental. No easy listening bullshit. Currently listening to Pelican - Ephemeral.
Uber plans to spend $100M to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Ukraine war latest live: Russian aircraft, radar station, drone control centres destroyed in multiple attacks, General Staff says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/ukraine-war-latest-live-russian.html
Today's the day I tell the students about the massive improvements in southern Ontario's railways. In 1863, the trip from Union Station to Port Credit took 37 minutes. In 2026, the GO train will you get you there a whole 6 minutes faster.
cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him
But who would go to "Pedophile Station" or "Bigot-Grifter Airport"?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/schume…
Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SLAVE: Oh, er...
TARRANT: Come on, come on!
SLAVE: Try zero seven two.
TARRANT: Zero seven two it is. [Explosions on the flight deck, Tarrant is dazed]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/26 B7B2
From Translink
Elevator replacement work starts at Scott Road SkyTrain Station
East elevator closed for replacement; west elevator remains open
#Vancouver #Transit
Work begins Feb. 24 and is expected to take under four months to complete. During construction, an accessible route will remain…
Fire rages for second day at Tatarstan oil pumping station after reported Ukrainian drone strike: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/25/fire-rages-for-second-day.html
Screen at a gas station pump. I did not wait around for the boot sequence to finish.
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: Just the main ignition controls now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
AVON: One minute precisely, Doctor.
[Main drive chamber. Plaxton is still working.]
PLAXTON: Two more connections. Not long now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/434
Several people confronted Border Patrol personnel at a gas station in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
after agents stopped a man pumping gas and demanded proof of citizenship.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mcaeamzlgn2r
From Translink
Oakridge–41st Avenue Canada Line Station to close early for two months in next phase of upgrades
Station elevator closed until April 30 due to construction
#Vancouver #Transit
The Canada Line’s Oakridge–41st Avenue Station will be closing early at 11 p.m. from Sunday to Thur…
Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: So. Those little monsters give us a breather.
TARRANT: Not that it'll do us much good without bracelets to get us up to the Liberator.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/535 B7B4
A "serious medical condition" with a crew member aboard the International Space Station
has led NASA to bring the astronaut and three crewmates back to Earth months earlier than planned,
-- the first such emergency return in the orbiting laboratory's 25-year history.
The crew includes U.S. astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke,
Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui
and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.
They have been on the space station since laun…
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
ORAC: To cross it undetected would be impossible.
AVON: I'll take your best option within the perimeter.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/378…
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: So what is it?
VILA: Eh? Oh, it's just a simple forcefield.
KERRIL: I was right about you, another Sherm, all mouth. This is a solid block, little man.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/263 B7B5