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FiveSeventeen

@FiveSeventeen@bahn.social

I travel a great deal, but mainly commute to work on the 05.17 from Bremen each week day.

I read heavy books, collect old photographs, and write long letters. My working clothes are kilts, but I do own one pair of jeans.

This is a small, occasional record of those travels by train and bus, of books read and letters written, and sometimes the events in between. Posts are automatically deleted after three months.

Don't expect any deep philosophical content here!

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RealJournalism, to baltimore
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge in #Baltimore has collapsed after a ship strike. Whoever is the captain is going to be doing serious jail time when all is said and done. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/26/2231603/-Breaking-Key-Bridge-in-Baltimore-Collapses-After-Ship-Strike?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web

FiveSeventeen,
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@RealJournalism @tokensane

There was plenty of room for the ship. The question is more, since the ship burned and sank - as I read somewhere - did the captain and crew survive?

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Not too sure someone knows the history of the Bible, and as to its "relevance" in 24 CE....

#life #religion #PrivateEye #Bible #history

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Finished in Oldenburg and now the ride back.

From a seat I must fight for - a family of four spread out somewhat - I see a double seat taken up with luggage, from the one family, another double seat taken up with luggage, same family. The seat I had to clear, a double, luggage from the same family.

The ignorant, ablelist arrogance is suffocating.

#life #travel #fools

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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I only bought three books today, but they count as just one really because it was the three volume set of Jon Fosse's Heptalogie, so I'm doing well, right?

#life #literature #NobelPrize #bookstodon #books #Bücher

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17

Don't tempt me, I bought chocolate biscuits today, but they're meant for the weekend....

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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The threat made by Hester should be taken seriously, and followed up to the full extent of the law. It's nothing to do with racism - he is clearly a racist despite the downplaying by Tory bum-lickers - it has everything to do with British law and the safety of our MPs.

"A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out, to kill that other or a third person shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years."

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/16

#life #law #UKPolitics #Racism #Violence #Corruption #ToryCorruption #DianeAbbott

jon, to random
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This one - and yes that’s parked like that across the pavement - needs a little more than birds pooing on it, so got reported to the Ordnungsamt

FiveSeventeen,
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@forteller @jon

It is blocking the road, that's not just a pavement, it's also a driveway.

FiveSeventeen,
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@jon @forteller fire engine entrance? That looks like a supermarket carpark.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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The good thing about learner drivers on the bus is that all their passengers get plenty of exercise, running hard to try and catch their trains.

#life #travel #bus

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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I was slightly surprised to hear Theresa May (one of several former failed Prime Ministers south of the border) has decided to step down at the next election.

Aside from the fact she cannot possibly go any further down than she already is, thanks to her political insignificance now, I thought she had already slunk off.

#life #UKPolitics #gtto

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17 so insignificant even her extra work hasn't made it to a decent news source. Johnson got a lot of air time out of his hot air earnings.

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17 decent news sources would be the ones who overlooked her book. They all get rehabilitate somehow; I'm sure some today would happily highlight Idi Amin's good points, and lately I came across one of Hitler's concubines, remembering how good he was with children.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Another welcome cold day, with temperatures at around zero but, today, clear skies. Despite the city lights I can even see a few stars.

Second day of the railway strike, and the sticking point is still that the union wants working hours reduced to 35 a week, but pay to remain at the 38 hour level and, of course, the pay rise which seems to have been agreed.

I suspect this tale will continue for quite a while, and the strikes won't stop at two or three consecutive days.

#life #travel #bahn #GDLStrike #weather

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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You want to know how sick US society is?

You'll know when you see a burning man, and the thing being pointed at him is not a fire extinguisher, it's a gun.

FiveSeventeen, to food
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It's quiche time again, but with a slight difference: the chances are that I will not get to eat any of this, or the other one which is in the oven right now.

The German tradition of celebrating a birthday is that the birthday person gives out all the presents - or gives something to all their fellow workers. So I have slaved away in the kitchen today, and made two quiches and about two kilos of potato salad so that they, my work colleagues, can eat to their heart's content while I, fortunately, am out doing my job on the streets.

There's a jar of pickles too, but I didn't make them.

#food #work #life

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Is it time to get up yet?

It is time to get up.

<continues doomscrolling>

#life

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Up and about: letters posted; shopping done; washing-up moved to a different part of the sink.

Time to dress for Lodge.

#life

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17 mine is, fortunately, a cup and a plate, but the will is lacking.

Enjoy your trip. It's decades since I was last in Cardiff, probably the late Seventies when I worked in Nant Gwynant.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Sorting out books to donate to the local street library, which has not been as easy as I had imagined. Fair enough, there are some titles which are very easy to dispose of, some authors too, but....

there are also a few works which you hold in your hand and, with your ego speaking very loudly, wonder whether you ought to keep because when other people see them on your shelves....

#life #books

RickiTarr, to random
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Kids: MOOOM can we please stop at McDonald's?!

Mom: We have McDonald's at home.

The McDonald's at home:

FiveSeventeen,
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@sezduck @RickiTarr @potatosandwichjen

Looking out for a Bugger Queen or, if there's none, I might head into a Windy's.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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If the Tory party really want to take back control, then they can start with Thames Water, and then every other (English) water company after that.

#life #government #UKPolitics

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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A new quiche in the oven, with fresh spinach and plum tomatoes this time. One of my work colleagues commented, lately, that I seem to be eating a lot of quiche - I'm of the generation where the "real men eat quiche" thing was happening - and I didn't want to disabuse them of the fact that you can make many different fillings for your quiche.

And I don't make that many, it's just that all the other things I eat don't get mentioned in the work environment that often. Perhaps they ought to sigh up for social media and follow me?

#life #food

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen

that certainly is going back a few years, but I remember it as if it were yesterday. Never read the book, though. Perhaps it's about time I did....

DanaDee, to random
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Not suggesting, for a moment, that it’s only the mom’s duty to teach children what’s right. But, in this case & for the good of the nation, Boebert should quit & go home to her son. I just want her outta Congress. https://www.kjct8.com/2024/02/28/lauren-boeberts-son-arrested-faces-22-charges/?outputType=amp

FiveSeventeen,
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@DanaDee

Good chance her son won't be at home any more. But she should go anyway.

FiveSeventeen, to UKpolitics
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#Muppets #UKPolitics #GTTO

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