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ladislasvr.bsky.social
Technology, transport (mostly railways), geopolitics and sustainability. Also having an interest in China and learning Chinese.
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Sinds Draghi wordt de regeldruk in Europa gezien als hét probleem van dit moment. Vandaag staan @rodeeconoom.bsky.social en ik in het @fd.nl. Wij plaatsen kanttekeningen bij dit verhaal. Want in Europa liggen de winsten hoger, is de regeldruk lager en zijn uitkomsten beter dan in de VS. 🧵(1/8)

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

President Trump posting an image of himself as Pope. We aren't a serious country, and he's not a mentally well man.

submitted 27 days ago • 174 comments

Tesla sales in the Netherlands -75% compared to last year! 🔥

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

One of the greatest things I have ever seen: a pub which is also a bookshop. Not a bookshop with a small bar, or a bar with a few books, but an actual busy boozy pub with an actual excellent bookshop in the middle of it. Marvelous. (Beerwolf, in Falmouth, UK)

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

This is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

🇮🇳🇵🇰 India has formally blocked the flow of the Indus River into Pakistan by closing all four gates controlling water via dams and canals. ❗️Pakistan has previously warned that such a blockade would be seen as "an act of war".

submitted 36 days ago • 22 comments

Possibly the best interview of all-time

submitted 38 days ago • 408 comments

Bat, Literally Translated into English. Map by me

submitted 39 days ago • 120 comments

Some shopping in Amsterdam yesterday. Afterwards had a great dinner at the Noord-Oost Chinees eethuis with authentique cuisine from North East China, our favorite. 😋 And of course some mandatory rail pics.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

The enormous dump that California residents refer to as the “glory hole” is now visible again for the first time since 2019!! When the lake's water level rises above 440 feet, this 72- foot wide loop drain prevents flooding by allowing excess water to flow 200 feet directly into Putah Creek.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Baltics making heat records. Beating North-Africa is something else for April

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

submitted 43 days ago • 33 comments

Pyongyang in DC

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

My word this is bleak. Pete Hegseth enforced a clean up of the collection at one of the main US military libraries. Out: offensive writers like Maya Angelou. In: Adolf Hitler www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

submitted 49 days ago • 247 comments

A basic point worth remembering - ffrom Matt King's latest >

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

For the Netherlands in particular this feels like such a pointless own goal Excellent universities, English widely spoken, good international schools, enviable quality of life With a little more vision, we could be attracting the English-speaking world’s finest academics. But instead we repel them

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Charts That Basically Go Vertical, an occasional series

submitted 56 days ago • 18 comments

People don't realize that quad-track high speed railway lines are quite common in China....

submitted 58 days ago • 9 comments

🇨🇳🚕 China to launch flying taxis soon, first licenses issued to two companies, — South China Morning Post 👀 The exact launch date is not specified, but Beijing predicts that the low-altitude aviation sector will grow to $207 billion this year.

submitted 59 days ago • 11 comments

What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary? Poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 60 days ago • 134 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 199 comments

All you need to know about Twitter

submitted 68 days ago • 3166 comments

🔴 Russian propagandists admit the Kremlin sees a truce as a chance to regroup for a larger war.

submitted 69 days ago • 14 comments

#India has electrified 90 percent of its passenger rail network. It's building a 320-km/h high-speed line from Mumbai to Ahmedabad that is scheduled to run in 2 years. It's also built a parallel freight rail network, which is all electric, running double-deck cargo trains.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Ok, I’ve seen enough. This is the best thing I’ll ever watch on the internet. (Also, I’ve clearly failed as a father. Could have put my time to so much better use…) Double-decker electric “garden bus” from 1960s England.

submitted 71 days ago • 19 comments