Notices by Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)

Danish border control fascist *******

“Do you not believe in border controls?” he asks me. You’ve had temporary border controls here 11 years you shits

#Schengen

“You just see this train” he goes on. “You don’t see what I see in 8 hours”

No. You don’t see most of what happens because you don’t control every car

Oh and you didn’t control my ID properly anyway, you piece of shit destroying a border free Europe on behalf of your smug piece of shit political bosses

#Schengen

Also the guy was genuinely surprised to get pushed. No I do not want border controls here damn it. #Schengen

Bit of an odd question, but do I have any followers here who are specialists in digital laser engraving of stone?

For a project this autumn I am going to possibly need two small stones engraved - kind of plaques, each c. 30 x 15 cm or so, but with quite detailed engraving

And to be produced either in France, Germany, the Baltics or Finland (for collection)

@jwildeboer do you know anyone perhaps?

#CrossBorderRail

@stefanlindbohm If you want an alternative to Facebook! https://vaunut.org/kuvat/?u=5613&d=10.06.2026&ns=1

Tornio - Haparanda might finally open after 10 August 🎉 https://yle.fi/a/74-20226999

But that's AFTER the special summertime weekend trains on Kemijärvi - Kemi stop, adding 8 hours to the trip time of the longest train ride in the EU 😭 https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/

#CrossBorderRail

You'd think that two reasonably well run countries - Sweden 🇸🇪 and Finland 🇫🇮 - could manage to fix a #CrossBorderRail line in a timely fashion

But no they can't

Wherever I go these sorts of sagas seem universal

A rant about Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮, and some nice photos:
https://jonworth.eu/cross-border-railway-problems-are-annoyingly-universal/

Sigh

It’s such an effing massive chasm

There’s a Regulation on rail ticketing due next week. Is it going to do what PEOPLE need? No. Why? Because it’s industry that has more been heard. And here we’re hearing it’s all popular

FFS

And Schengen? The Commission is not even doing the minimum to defend it

I asked about Schengen. I sound like a one man pro Schengen campaign here.

I think I’m one of the few people who ever pitches up in Brussels who gets subjected to illegal border controls.

If you’re a Commission official who flies you don’t.

They’re very proud here that the EU is for example working on housing and health policy

But our FUNDAMENTALS are breaking down

Should we be adding extra policies when we’re not maintaining existing ones?

I’m so worn out

There is such a effing chasm between what EU institutions say they do, and what they do do, and it’s getting wider

PEOPLE DO YOUR JOBS

THERE’S A SOLID RAIL SERVICE

MAKE IT EASY TO GET TICKETS!

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Also public transport is free in Luxembourg

So all you need is to sell a ticket to the fictitious station at the border (Bettembourg Grenze or some such)

Something’s wrong. The TER is crawling along.

Rather than tell us what’s wrong (which would be handy!) we’re being warned to not open the doors.

Priorities!

Shit show of a railway. The TER to Luxembourg didn’t wait 1 min for the incoming TER from Strasbourg.

Thanks for funding this, EU!

Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable? 🤔

So the plan now: blag my way onto a TGV (with Interrail), get to Thionville and bike from there to Rumelange

Ok. Got the TGV. So now I’ve got to bike Thionville - Rumelange instead of Bettembourg - Rumelange. I might yet manage all this today 🙂