Charlie Stross on Nostr: Whoops! Train just hit the brakes HARD for the second time on this journey—hard ...

Whoops! Train just hit the brakes HARD for the second time on this journey—hard enough to throw bottles off the table (including my open Coke Zero, which went everywhere on the floor). Also an ominous "clunk" from under the train ... then we began accelerating again.

There is LOUD music in this carriage: I just went to the bathroom to clean up from the spill and the source is a young child travelling with a tablet by way of parental supervision, watching cartoons.

And the aircon is failing.