Patrick Dersjant RCX

Admin of the Mended Drum instance. Co-Founder of ERPU.
#gnuterrypratchett, climate, security, privacy, information management, open e-government, traintravellover & family man.

Location: BWV565
Website: https://wiki.p45.nl
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/panomaki
ERPU: https://erpu.eu/

Last Notes

2025-12-10 09:30:17 UTC

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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, @npub1djp…rt24 is much better in that. And @npub10ra…24jw 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]

2025-12-10 09:30:08 UTC

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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]

2025-12-10 09:29:59 UTC

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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]

2025-12-10 09:29:50 UTC

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The advent of the Internet in the 90s opened another international perspective for me. As an avid Terry Pratchett #gnuterrupratchett reader, the Usenet group alt.fan.pratchett and real life conventions (@npub1xax…6vmr) 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]

2025-12-10 09:29:40 UTC

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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]

2025-12-10 09:29:30 UTC

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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]

2025-12-10 09:29:20 UTC

I've joined up with @npub10ra…24jw, @npub1djp…rt24 and @npub19er…p8au 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]

2025-11-29 13:04:22 UTC

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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.

2025-01-25 11:36:48 UTC

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can you maybe explain the nuisance a bit? Bridgy is blocked here but there’s a request to unblock.

2024-12-09 18:05:09 UTC

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Nog iets bijzonders: het labeltje ‘strategisch adviseur’ hoort volgens het functiegebouw rijk bij S15/16. Daaronder mag je het doen met Coördinerend/Specialistisch adviseur (S13/S14/S15). https://www.functiegebouwrijksoverheid.nl/functiegebouw/functiefamilies/advisering Dus hoe die functiewaardering hier nu tot stand is gekomen…

2024-09-18 13:52:14 UTC

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Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing." "That's not true", responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by $200!" (2/2)
(Source: reddit)

2024-09-18 13:51:32 UTC

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Two economists are walking in a forest when they Come across a pile of shit.
The first economist says to the other "Ill pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit." The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.
They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says "l pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit." The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.
(1/2)

2024-08-28 07:50:26 UTC

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Van het weekend bedacht dat ik onder (vee)boer alleen nog veehouders versta die al hun dieren bij naam kennen (dus max 49). De rest is agro-industrieel ondernemer.