I have rode the High Speed Trains in Europe.

Once you've experienced them, you will understand the hype. They are also very comfortable and very scenic.

You can go from Amsterdam to Paris in about 3 hours. This would be like going from Mississauga to Ottawa in 3 hours instead of almost 5.

I think "comfortable and scenic" is accurate, but undersells it.

Being in high speed rail is far more comfortable than a plane. The seats are good, the ride is very smooth (no turbulence! no take off and landing! none of anything like that!), and you can get up to find the restroom whenever you want, no seatbelt sign or any of that.

It is so much faster than many other forms of transport not just because of its own speed, but because train stations can be centrally located and easy to get to (unlike most airports), and don't have the excess security theatre of airports that slows down the process. So the entire experience feels quicker and easier from start to finish.

trains are better for the environment by a huge margin than flight and than driving as well. and the scenic element is indeed much nicer -- you get to watch the landscape go by and change, without the stress of driving.

trains are incredibly efficient at moving large volumes of people. there's a reason that much of europe and asia has invested in them, and a reason that we had railroads across north america until the truck and car lobbies essentially ruined investment in this mode of transport.

Cars and trucks spend most of their time standing still. A train only stays still for maintenance. A train can carry with one engine and one crew what would take dozens of trucks and people.

High speed rail also likes lots of slow curves and long flat land, making north America pretty perfect for it.

Also, I'm pretty sure a ton of rich people oppose it specifically to keep poor people from being able to travel long distances.

just looked over to find my cat had somehow crawled into the sleeve of my jacket ???? fucking wheezing. the baleful worm

help me mother

i made the baleful worm in spore[2008]

This tweet is almost 3 years old has been relevant since the day it was posted

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

Power is a funny thing.

this website is a great resource for minnesotan mutual aid and testimony to what is happening here

easier for the owner of LED headlights to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.

when I was like 14 I used to reblog these posts on here that were like "YOUR 20S ARE NOT AN IMAGINARY RACE YOURE DOING JUST FINE!!" just to be positive towards my older mutuals even though i didn't really get what they were about and I'd be in the tags like "#so true!! #everyone does things at their own pace!!" and now im 24 I'm thinking back to it and it's like Oh of course the imaginary race. Which im losing

but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!

a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.

It's a wonderful place! I had the privilege of visiting the fynbos last year and it was as amazing as these photos show and more!

Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

My child will not be allowed to use chat gpt. He will be smarter and stronger than the other children and he will kill them easily.

skinny models are like fucked up and unethical they go through a hell that shouldn't exist

they should make clothes for people instead of making people for clothes. any fashion designer that relies on a steady supply of 20 year old anorexics is an incompetent criminal

These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.

January 14, 2026 - An ICE agent angered by a snowball goes in hot pursuit of an antifascist local in Minnesota.

I have good news, the great people of Minnesota have started using buckets of water to create large slippery patches in their neighborhoods as a further deterrent to federal agents terrorists.

It is currently 32 degrees fahrenheit and supposed to drop to 11 degrees fahrenheit over the coming weekend.