The Ocean is North America's oldest named passenger rail service. Since 1904, it's linked #Halifax to #Montreal, via Sandford Fleming's old Intercolonial Railway line.

It's a sleeper, and the food, service, and scenery are outstanding.

I document our trip in my feature in the Times of #London.

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💬 Eine WETTE mit @3sat

Wir wetten, dass IHR im #Fediverse mehr Abonnent.innen bekommt, als das ZDF zum gleichen Zeitpunkt hat❗

Falls wir das im FEDIVERSE schaffen, dann wäre Euer Wetteinsatz: 👉 Eine ganze #3sat "KULTURZEIT" über das FEDIVERSE

Nehmt IHR die Wette an❓

#3satWette

some good news - in the centre of London, cyclists are on track to outnumber motor vehicles (cars, buses, lorries) within a couple of years

anecdotally it has got a much more pleasant place to walk around in the last decade

https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/22/london-has-become-a-cycling-city (£)

HHS Secretary RFK Jr is proposing banning NIH-funded researchers from publishing in top-tier journals, including JAMA and Lancet.

This is bonkers for all sorts of reasons, but let me just mention one. He points out that Lancet has retracted articles. This is factually correct, but it's a reason these journals are *more* trustworthy, not less.

Journals and peer review don't guarantee that what's published is "correct". It's merely the best process we have to get closer to finding the truth.

New, by me: Data broker giant LexisNexis has revealed that its risk solutions unit (think "know your customer," risk assessing, due diligence, and law enforcement assistance) was breached, affecting the personal data and Social Security numbers of at least 364,000 people.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/data-broker-giant-lexisnexis-says-breach-exposed-personal-information-of-over-364000-people/

If you live in a community with 98% vaccination rates, you can afford to be the 2%.

You can post wellness memes about "natural immunity" and still get herd immunity as a side effect.

Your child is statistically safe, not because of your parenting, but in spite of it.

https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/
https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/