Pierre Janssens
pj2010.bsky.social
Pierre Janssens
@pj2010.bsky.social
Capetonian. Crazy about Audiobooks. Love trains, cycling, gardening. Databases are my thing.
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February 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Gotta love train people name for personal hotspot #ElonMusk 🤡
January 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🇮🇹 🚅 🇫🇷 Trenitalia has announced the resumption of its Milan–Paris high-speed rail service from April 1 2025.

The Frejus tunnel has been out of service since a landslide disrupted the Turin–Lyon line in August 2023.
railmarket.com/news/passeng...
High speed trains between Milan and Paris in 2025 | RAILMARKET.com
In April 2025, high-speed trains between Milan and Paris, disrupted by a closure of a major tunnel, will resume service.
railmarket.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand
January 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I often think about how so many cities are absolutely AGONIZING over the idea of turning a single street, or even a block, into a people-place and pedestrian stroll, while thriving communities like Gràcia in Barcelona are filled with so many streets & squares with no cars, or at most “tamed” cars.”
January 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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January 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Attention cities & states — remember this as you reconsider EVERY single massively expensive freeway and road widening project you’ve been working on for years, but very likely need to cancel in light of the #CimateEmergency, and the fact that they don’t actually work. #inducedTraffic #ClimateCrisis
January 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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"So you dislike cars? Then how do you want to get around where you live?"

Me:
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.
January 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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🍄 Mushrooms could be the future of sustainable protein as scientists develop them into increasingly creative and realistic meat and seafood replacements.
Inside Europe’s leading alternative protein research lab
At a Technical University of Denmark lab, researchers are exploring the potential for fungi to be used as meat and seafood replacements.
www.euronews.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Happy Congestion Pricing Start Day to all who celebrate! www.npr.org/2025/01/05/n...
Congestion pricing begins in NYC in a high stakes test for the model's U.S. viability
Congestion pricing was introduced on Sunday morning in the center of New York City — despite a late attempt by New Jersey to stop it in court.
www.npr.org
January 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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As of a few weeks ago, the Interrail/Eurail Rail Planner app now shows platform numbers and real-time info for several key operators, a great step forward!
January 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
January 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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People should probably learn the difference between “plot holes” and “things I didn’t like” or “things the franchise plans to explain in the future” or “things film makers didn’t think they needed to explicitly explain because they thought you had critical thinking skills”.
January 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Changes to Nightjet planned from 7 April: Amsterdam-Innsbruck/Vienna becomes a new-generation Nightjet. Double-deck sleepers disappear completely, replaced on Zurich-Vienna & Zurich-Hamburg by Comfortline sleeping cars. Last 3 months to experience the double deckers!
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Hahahaha! Nein, Chrischi, das hast Du schon ganz allein hinbekommen.
January 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Sharing with you the work of photographer Vernon Chalmers resident of Cape Town. Look him up.

I wish I had taken this photograph portraying the elegant balletic movement of the heron bird. I just love it.

#Heron #birds #Photography #vernonchalmers
January 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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🦠Five years on from the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, here’s what we know and what mysteries still remain.
Five years after COVID appeared, mysteries remain. Here’s what we know
The pandemic’s origins, the complete death toll, and why some people are more likely to get long COVID are among the unknowns.
euronews.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Milan is to ban smoking in outdoor public places, with effect from 1 January 2025.
Milan to ban smoking in outdoor public places
Milan bans smoking in outdoor public places, including streets and parks, prohibiting smokers from lighting up in most outdoor areas, from 1 January 2025.
www.wantedinmilan.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Talk me through why I have to breathe in the second hand poison smoke of others when for example eating in a pub garden
Or leaving a football match or concert have to have my coat burnt by someone's cigarette?
December 28, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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December 26, 2024 at 10:01 AM