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Last night, I caught a sleeper train from Vienna to Hamburg. This time, I travelled in one of ÖBB NightJet’s new Mini Cabins: one-person compartments, similar in concept to a Japanese capsule hostel pod.

Here are my impressions. (tl;dr: I strongly recommend it and would do it again.) 🧵

When JD and Usha Vance where planning their Greenland trip, they were hoping to be photographed with the people of Greenland. But during the planning of their trip, they were rejected by a mayor, a museum manager, and even a souvenir store.

When you act like arseholes, you get the ice cold reception the Greenlanders call…

Getting Nuuk’ed.

Finland phases out coal, ahead of schedule:

“Imported fossil energy has been replaced with cleaner solutions that reduce climate emissions, while consumers benefit from lower energy prices”

“As Finland previously relied primarily on coal imported from Russia, the phase-out has also boosted Finland’s energy independence and, therefore, national security.”

euronews.com/green/2025/04/01/

Finland ‘ahead of schedule’ on coal phase out as Helsinki’s Salmisaari plant closes
euronews · How Finland has replaced coal power with wind in less than 10 yearsWind power in Finland has more than doubled since 2020 to supply a quarter of the country’s energy.

🚨 Breaking: Gmail starts using the whitelabel version of Tuta Mail so that 2.5 billion users will get automatic encryption. 🔒

#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles

A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.

Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.

I read a report recently that confirmed that straight PCB traces, right angle, and orthogonally placed components can actually make electrons sad and slow them down. They much prefer the excitement of whizzing along curvy traces, particularly if they end up going in to a chip at a random angle. And bright colours really make them want to work harder.

So I will be updating all #RC2014 kits with design philosophy. The first to be done is the RC2014 Mini II Picasso. You can pick one up now at #z80kits
z80kits.com/shop/rc2014-mini-i

The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone

By Ella Jeffries

smithsonianmag.com/history/the

Rebecca Lee Crumpler at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q