Will
@squawkbox.uk
It is better to educate yourself about the world than to live in fear of it. // Numbers. Travel. Stuff. // 🏳️🌈🏴🇪🇺 📍Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Useful new tool for #Interrail travellers in Finland: venaarauhassa.fi shows how seats are occupied in VR operated trains, station by station. Shows also the night train sleeper beds! Only in Finnish, but should be easy enough to navigate.
VenaaRauhassa
VenaaRauhassa on palvelu, jolla näet junien istuimien tilanteen asemakohtaisesti. Näin mahdollisuutesi kasvavat, että saat istua rauhassa.
venaarauhassa.fi
Worth remembering that this government is subsidising a theme park to the tune of £1.3bn. An amount that would go some way to preserving the intellectual and economic footprint of our universities.
James Woodfield@jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 5d agoAccording to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...
New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.
Good if not very encouraging lunch with the FT, with the head of the Met Office. www.ft.com/content/bde8...
A few years ago I started a site to gather all the UK prides and put them together on a map.... well I finally sat down and finished it this weekend It's a little out of date, so I added the ability to submit new routes pridemap.mcneill.fyi
Hell froze over at SNCF-SNCB! Meet Ouigo Trains Classique with… Interrail! Of course a reservation is 12 euros, but progress! (Thanks due to a tip not sure if the person wanted to be mentioned…)
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
Sadness. 'One of Scotland's three surviving Wimpy restaurants up for sale' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One of Scotland's three surviving Wimpy restaurants up for sale
The business on Dingwall High Street has been family-run for more than 30 years.
bbc.co.uk
I mean, everyone's got a favourite brutalist concrete bridge right? Kylesku, Sutherland.
An exceptional heatwave is developing this week with record-breaking June temperatures highly likely, particularly for England and Wales 🌡️ Following the heat in May 2026, it would be the first time since 1911 that two consecutive months have observed record temperatures
It's not just parts of the UK that will be sweltering next week, heat warnings are in place across much of Europe 🥵 Temperatures could reach around 40°C in some regions of Spain, France and Italy
Phone ban, social media ban & curfew, trans bathroom ban, trans youth healthcare ban, repeated protest ban, arrests of peaceful protestors for Palestine. All this government seems able to do is ban, ban, ban. No positive vision of the future, just kneejerk authoritarian crackdowns.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is nuts. Yes we need better protections online, but this is a massive overreach by Starmer. For many young people, especially marginalised ones such as trans and neurodivergent, online spaces can be a safe place for them to develop a genuine support community www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Time for another break from [*gesticulates wildly*] and go on another train or two.
So a few weeks back I went on a wee Interrail trip and I forgot to post here. Here is the tldr map:
Just finished the giro d'Italia 2026. Italy is such a beautiful country. 🥹
Yay! It appears that Trenitalia’s Paris-Milan Frecciarossa has finally joined the Eurail/Interrail network, as passholder reservations now bookable at partners.italiarail.com/default?forc.... Rail Planner app still needs the ‘not in pass network’ message removing.
It is 2026 and the BBC still doesn't use the degree symbol (°) in articles. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Portugal breaks hottest May day record as Europe swelters in heatwave
French students are taking their exams in baking schools, while red alerts are issued in Italy.
bbc.co.uk
A warm night ahead, especially across England and Wales, with record-breaking high minimum temperatures possible in places
The EBU want to know what you think about #Eurovision. Don’t be shy: Tell them everything in Eurofan Voice. The survey is open until 7 June. 👇 survey.alchemer.eu/s3/91094056/...
Eurofan Voice 2026
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I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.
“What this analysis shows is that trans people’s wellbeing & public attitudes towards trans people have worsened since 2017, in conjunction with the rise of an organised GC movement.” New analysis by Amnesty International exposes how UK media enable transphobia. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...
