The UK now has the world's first ETCS-enabled steam locomotive, because we're a very silly country.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/19/nobody-has-done-this-before-britains-beloved-steam-trains-trial-pioneering-technology

@Chalkllate It is interesting. I have like 2 accounts. One is my "personal" and the other is a more "branded" account for my blog. I dunno if generally a lot of people see my posts or not. I am on my own mini-island instance after all.

For my blog account thats certainly a thing. But the thing is. I don't use that one that much. So obviously not a lot of people follow it or interact there. It also does not follow many people. Obviously it isn't discovered.

My private account is way more used I follow many (for my standards) different people and so my timeline is very lively. I don't get like that much interaction when I post something myself. But mostly screaming into the void is fine there.

I do like to leave replies though (like this one) hoping for some nice discussion.

Follow people around and they will fill your timeline with cool stuff eventually

@volpi hey I mean its short sentences that are easy to understand atleast

@mametsuko sometimes that happens to trains My train was okay atleast, even though I had to take some busses since there is some construction going on on the rails

@mametsuko Hoi Mame. How is stuff going for you

@rivalmit @Akulatraxas How I felt when I tried painting a Mini-Figure the first time (Not even super mini but still)

Happy Easter!

well, a dragon is a little big to handling a chicken egg. maybe something a lot bigger would fit better :D

dragon is @Akulatraxas

#art #painting #Easter #dragon #holiday

@volpi The most Introvert-Trait ever to exist: Loving to tell about stuff you like in (unasked?) detail. Gotta love it.

I do get the "wanting to write well part" that can be kinda hard. I would atleast like to think that writing my (Light Novel focused) Blog maybe helped me with that a bit. Though I guess my reviews of stuff have a certain structure nowadays...

Like I am not writing the well versed stuff and my sentences can be a bit weird sometimes (like missing words or just the sentence structure being out of whack)

So I had a friend which helped me with that part ( and I would in turn tell him waaaay to often to split overly long sentences). Nowadays he sadly is doing a lot of stuff for work and college so he doesn't have the time for that.

So nowadays I only can really rely on my common sense, reading the text out loud and use stuff like LanguageTool which tends to help well in my cases, since I tend to miss punctuation and words a lot. (Or just misspell stuff)

I do really hope you can find something that works out for you. I think the post written with passion are the best. I do tend to struggle to write on stuff which is just "there" in terms of a book. Not offense but not super great. But I could likely talk your ear off about books I really live and die for.

PS: This thread is really interesting read. Again Volpeon Bonus Content delievering nice discussions

@volpi wow that sounds so sad

Should be encouraging people not turning them down.

I was never really a good with writing like stories or something. But I do like putting thoughts "on paper". Helps sorting them as well as helps venting a bit and I get to write about stuff I like. I do like doing blogging I guess. Even time is kinda tight like always. So I don't do as much writing recently.

But starting again recently. There is stuff I wanna tell tell the world about. Like my Cosplay-Project or that new racing Wheel I bought. Cool shit.

I guess you are more into writing stories?

@fristi They don't know any other way. How is fristi doing?

@puniko you naming new *key-forks again?

@Carlos moin OsterCarlos

@fristi Henlo Fristi

When designers think outside the box. Studio Ghibli designed this DVD case to make it look like the characters are checking their reflection in the water.
Sweet!

#manga #studioghibli #dvd #characters #design

@grillchen Ach die Gute Deutsche Post mit ihrer Pauschale...

@grillchen Du hättest auch aus China Zoll und USt zahlen müssen. Nur passiert das bei den Händlern schon am Point of Sale

@hj @mametsuko but shouldn't talking about such be more normalized in general?

@grillchen same same. Der Stoff den ich bestellt habe musste ich aucb so versteuern und früher war Großbritanien immer eine supee möglichkeit um an Prints von englischen büchern zu komme