Posts by patrick@mendeddrum.org
(DIR) Post #AVUM9MpmQUgYa5CXEe by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2023-05-09T19:45:25Z
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@rolle ŠČ!
(DIR) Post #AVcwcmJhucmpcuCbke by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2023-05-13T23:07:26Z
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@EU_Commission Finland was robbed.
(DIR) Post #AZSzrX0ykMiN9EF7r6 by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2023-09-05T19:31:14Z
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@lowqualityfacts I’m duped! Still shows 110!!
(DIR) Post #AZT0WabUJB749Rtib2 by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2023-09-05T19:38:45Z
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@lowqualityfacts Thanks! Did you know the facts on a resume are on average 3 1/12 (or 4.7 in metric countries) lower in quality than on other documents, like letters?
(DIR) Post #AagZKgjburW9dOJQLw by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2023-10-12T06:31:11Z
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@tuxedocomputers Auch nicht für MacOS am 1.4.2024? 😂
(DIR) Post #Ab3slvO7kmApErv9Q8 by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2023-10-23T12:09:04Z
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@jon @Alon @DiegoBeghin This with regards to the cities Jon mentioned. Plus, in a *really* developed country, nobody needs [edit to clarify: to own] a car (which in itself is a resource hog being unused 95% of the time at least) as their needs are catered for by public transport options.
(DIR) Post #AuLfjxCR0BD7FZ4zdg by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-05-21T15:46:00Z
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A big thank you to @hetzner for their Merch-goodies from the Mastodon give-away!
(DIR) Post #B0nMurh5T783yMnUpM by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-29T13:04:22Z
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@harld @janvlug @GrapheneOS Voor die banking apps op Graphene is er een mooi overzicht. Mijn grootste bezwaar is dat ik dan een Pixel zou moeten aanschaffen hiervoor - en daar heb ik geen zin in.
(DIR) Post #B16sOA4szAZvyAcKKe by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:29:20Z
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I've joined up with @jon, @redjives and @partim to work on better #crossborderrail in Europe. Sign up at https://erpu.eu/ if you haven't already and come back for my personal story behind this. [1/8]
(DIR) Post #B16sOBvO7SAZhIBlo0 by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:29:30Z
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When I grew up in a small village in Germany, there was an iron curtain dividing Europe. Even visiting our grandparents in the Netherlands was a hassle - I remember long waits at the border trying to cross and serious looking men inspecting us children in the back of the car. Trains weren't an option for us, too expensive, too hasslesome. [2/8]
(DIR) Post #B16sOD8taiZJTTW4Uy by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:29:40Z
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All that changed in 1989 when the wall came down and we moved back to the Netherlands after the death of my father. Border area of course, as our/my live has always been between these two countries. Euregio became big on culture and I made friends on the other side. But without a car or motorcycle, visiting them was a big hassle. No trains and only infrequent busses (if lucky) made for long travel times, so the friendships were lost unfortunately. [3/8]
(DIR) Post #B16sOEPwqnnrQeVCiW by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:29:50Z
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The advent of the Internet in the 90s opened another international perspective for me. As an avid Terry Pratchett #gnuterrypratchett reader, the Usenet group alt.fan.pratchett and real life conventions (@dwcon) was the basis of a multinational group of friends that is largely intact still after coming on thirty years. Seeing each other became affordable due to the advent of low cost airlines, at the price of complicity in destroying our planet. [4/8]
(DIR) Post #B16sOF6qHK79ZgZSZk by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:29:59Z
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There has to be a better way - heck, there is. Despite severe opposition by car lobby, and shrinking budgets, public transport has improved a lot in the last twenty years or so. Diesel busses are on the way out in city transport; and some countries work hard at making owning a personal car unneccessary by providing excellent public transport (looking at you, Switzerland and Austria). [5/8]
(DIR) Post #B16sOFesEnKvHEUdcW by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:30:08Z
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More often than not however this stops at national borders. It takes too much effort to connect crossborder communities and make travels possible. Where it works (e.g. Maastricht/Liege/Aachen, Copenhagen/Malmö, Lindau/Bregenz/St. Margrethen) it's heavily used. But more often there just isn't a priority: Groningen-Leer isn't possible for more than a decade now. Don't start about Lille, or Strasbourg. [6/8]
(DIR) Post #B16sOGS9Hakfk3XzQO by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:30:17Z
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I take this personally. I *want* to be able to believe in a borderless Europe, even though the reality is different than we were told fourty years ago in Schengen. I *know* I'm not the only one, and there is strength and comfort in numbers. My strengths aren't so much in grass roots organizing, @redjives is much better in that. And @jon is excellent in showing problems and possible solutions. I do however know my bit about governance and running non-profits. And just enough about tech to build a starting point for real techies to take over (yes, we need you!).[7/8]
(DIR) Post #B16sOHNvokyMdGa8US by patrick@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-10T09:30:40Z
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So that is my personal story about involvement with https://erpu.eu/ - join us if you haven't yet! [8/8]