@folfdk Oh yes. It's just that until it was pointed out I had not considered this..

Note: before a second person messages with "wtf Pepijn I was having lunch".

I am -now- aware that people have lunch around lunchtime and that at least some people can get physically grossed out by thoughts. Sorry?

edit: oops, accidentally reset the poll. It was 12x yes and 4x no.

"That slightly putrid smell of a poopy air surrounding a camping toilet on a sunny hot summer day."

I'm curious. Are you now recollecting that smell "somewhere in your brain"?

#summer #camping

For the well-intentioned DMs offering to "help seek" if I share some more information: I'm certain the other person would not be comfortable with that. And also I could just do that myself

Missed Connection (and while this is a long shot I wouldn't be surprised to find you here).

Time & location: today, train Fredericia to Aarhus, Denmark.

The prompt to our talk was your embroidered shirt.

While you asked for my and my hobbits name I neglected to ask yours. I'm sorry.

If you feel uncomfortable connecting just know you're a stellar person & I'm rooting for you

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Boosting is nice if you think this person might be in your network!

#MissedConnection #Denmark #Aarhus #blahaj

@Gargron Well, I guess it helps that both Eurosky (which started as one giant GDPR violation and only decided to become 'european' after failing to raise millions for their global platform) and W-Social have a shocking amount of vocal support from a number of politicians that should stay far away from this.

It pains me especially to see members of the European Greens shill for them.

@EUCommission

Ok, got a bit more info.

From "some time in 2027" the DB version* of the Talgo will take over the international route Copenhagen-Hamburg. They'll also run "seasonal routes" Aarhus-Hamburg. No idea what that means in practise. The current 2x/day ComfortJet will also stay.

*named ICE-L, and honestly fixing most of the interior issues I can see with the DSB version. Apparently the basic trains themselves are still a maintenance nightmare, but when they run they're fine.

@Koefoed @sorenhave

@sorenhave On first impression: excellent news! Once they start maintaining them they'll be excellent trains for journeys of an hour or two. The tender suggests this is a solution until early 2030, so it'll create some stability as well.

ING.dk is completely down for me: does the article mention anything about what rolling stock will drive on the international route? German ICE-Ls (they have a genuinely nice interior..) maybe?

*https://udbud.dk/detaljevisning?noticeId=0e99c815-4e53-4053-98e1-4eee692a877e&noticeVersion=01&noticePublicationNumber=00395791-2026

@ING

"Forfatteren" er én ting, sælgeren er det, der irriterer mig. Jeg spekulerer på, om jeg skal købe bøger fra Bog & idé nu.

@folfdk @infonauten @tokeriis

Planet Earth could do with one of those "I was here before the trillionaire.." bumper stickers just in case the Vulcans arrive this week.

I mean, it won't save humanity specifically but at least they won't blow up Earth under the pretence of building a hyperspace bypass.

@mrundkvist The sources thing is what made me wonder. I remember reading about a "Senior-Viking", as in someone who clearly did the Viking thing for a long time (decades) and did so alongside a somewhat fixed group of others.

But it does seem likely then that was more the exception than the norm. And maybe the sources kinda favour the not-boring-stuff.

@mrundkvist

>The aim of most Vikings was to buy a farm and get married.

Is this comparable to Roman centurions and legionaries receiving a plot of land as a retirement pension for the "second part of their life"?

The more I learn about the Viking Period, the more I am secure in my conviction the best job during that period was any-job-but-Viking.

Shore based admin support sounds like a Viking Period dream job.

@mrundkvist

Maybe not super insane but this one comes to mind https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115963117610569220

It does make you wonder how many of these teens kinda kept the data but as adults are human enough to keep it private.

@juliette @rose_alibi

@simonjust Yup. Especially practical (at times required) as these are very narrow tables.

As a wheelchair user you'd have been miserable on today's train. What annoys me about the accessibility toilet specifically is that it was broken from the start, and already many hours before the train even arrived in Hamburg.

@svuorela @juliette

Result of a walk through the train. There's seven toilets with child changing facilities. One of these is located in the accessibility toilet.

Only ONE is functional. It's all the way at one end of the train in first class.

The other six are all not fully ok. Four because the strap is broken (one of those also doesn't have a functional luck).

One has the foldout changing table stuck.

The sixth, the disability toilet, is fully "out of order".

#DSB #bahn #accessibility #parenting

Ok. I just walked through the entire train to check the state of the child changing facilities. See next post.

As I did so I opened TWO toilets that had people in them. This is also for units without broken locks: it's just a really bad non-intuitive design. Here's a video where.

To be fair: this is probably more the fault of Talgo (it's a fricking toilet door, I think humanity mastered that technology) than that of DSB.

#train #dsb

The locks are absolutely not intuitive: one of the bathrooms I opened had a rather shocked woman using it..

This is a thing I did not expect nor remember the first time on these Talgo trains. I wonder if it's caused by some modifications they've done recently: there's a "soft brushy seal" on most doors* that I don't remember before.

*one door doesn't have it, and the material used is not consistent.

@RensBloom

@RensBloom I'm not exactly sure how the mechanism locks.

There's a mechanical connection with at least some locking mechanism at the top of the doorframe. There might be another in the sliding door mechanism.

From the inside there's just two positions. I've tried three more (am curious / pissed now) and on all the locking mechanism feels "disconnected".

No passenger facing emergency option btw.

I might look into it more if I can find some time (am working).

@juliette >but did they fix the straps on the baby changing tables?

I looked at five toilets with changing tables. Here's the result:

- accessibility toilet: fully out of commission

- 1 normal toilet: all fine

- 3 normal toilets: child changing tables straps broken or missing

With the ONE handicapped toilet out of commission I feel for the guy in the wheelchair on his 4 hr trip.

At least one member of the train staff is even angrier than me.

#DSB #CrossBorderRail #bahn for the future