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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 4h

every time I learn more about how any aspect of it I just get really confused

Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 4h

The first 15 mins of this is a brief history of british rail privitization and why did they ever do it like that

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKpQ...

MRMCD2025 Railways won’t tell us how their train tickets work - shall we force them to?

YouTube video by media.ccc.de

www.youtube.com

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 4h

the government office needs to hurry up I need to be allowed to work I need to buy your things

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 4h

oooh love it. would be cool if you eventually could make eiropean or asian ones too 🫣

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 4h

I would love a blank one where I could fill it in with stickers as I ride the systems

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 5h

By far the most redeeming quality of social media is that I can travel to almost any city in the world and meet friends in person.

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 5h

Yes plenty

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9h

Is there any precedence in the history of the United States for having a foreign airbase on American soil?

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 5h

VA is gonna look like Rwandans „voting“ for the RPF

Blurry TV Headlines @blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · 9h

FEDERAL LAYOFFS WILL BE IN THE THOUSANDS: WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 6h

Rest in peace to all of DCs weird Non WMATA transit. For Randy to rise others had to fall.

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. Just wow.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Budget cut means D.C. Streetcar will shut down in March

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) stripped funding for the doomed streetcar service from future budgets.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 6h

is it an apple silicon macbook? I have a hunch about how it was designed that works much better on macs

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 6h

bad computer rip

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 7h

As far as I can tell it looks like the New York map becomes unplayable after a certain size because of pop calculations. The other maps with fewer pops should work better

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 7h

He loves to save the population paths each data so it’s basically exponentially increasing lines in a json file. A big mess

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Position Light @prrsignal.bsky.social · 7h

Something about this photo seems apt in describing the world today on so many fronts.

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 9h

ok so the save files for this are very poorly managed, the nyc one that wont open is 4.3 million lines and 140mb. impressive for a JSON file for video game

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 9h

I added a version of the metro north mainline after this screen shot

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 9h

I girl bossed too close to the sun and now the save for this won’t open

Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 12h

The subway builder game is rather fun

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 11h

I think that would be a good use case for dotted lines

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 11h

Please ignore the wine bottles I’m cleaning and they are going into a different bag than the rest of the bottles

Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 12h

This is bad it makes it look like everything stops at Jamaica. You don’t need to be afraid of a lot of lines in the city center

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 12h

The book I ordered is a bit bigger than I expected

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 12h

It really makes me wish NIMBY rails was on Mac. I want to build something with an actual schedule

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 12h

The subway builder game is rather fun

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 13h

As a DB sufferer/fan, I love these. Particularly episode 5 (because I can understand most of it!) where rather than admit the coffee machine is broken, the BordBistro guy comes up with reasons why each passenger shouldn’t have coffee (‘From a postcolonial perspective, coffee is problematic, nein?’).

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 14h

Fascinating: Germans love to complain about their trains never being on time. Deutsche Bahn plays for humor and sympathy by commissioning a YouTube sitcom (an Office on wheels).
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Boah, Bahn! - YouTube

BOAH, BAHN! Wir sitzen alle im selben Zug – eine Serie der Deutschen Bahn mit Anke Engelke.

www.youtube.com

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 13h

He just fixed a bunch of stuff in the kitchen and is rather nice

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