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• Good politics: Just make people's lives better.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: WWII online; Xbox security blunders; Homeless bloggers; Thermal printer racing game; Robbing a bank to get healthcare in jail; Crumb v Trump; "The Blues Brothers"; Bagelheads; Pickpocket training mannequin; Windmill joke; Singularity skepticism; GPU Dieselgate; Peleton bricks treadmills; Juul's junk science.
• Upcoming appearances: Toronto, NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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Good politics (permalink)

Some people love to admire a beautiful football play; me, I can't get enough of politicians doing good politics – and like those World Cup fans, I am doubly pleased when it's my team making the play.

I definitely have a team in Brazilian politics: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party. Lula's done so many amazing things in his career, and these often intersect with my own special interests. Like, he made Gilberto Gil his minister of culture, and his people built the telecentros, free software-based internet dojos for the poorest kids in the country, living in favelas:

https://www.informationweek.com/software-services/brazil-turns-away-from-microsoft

Lula was royally ratfucked – framed by a corrupt justice minister who secretly conspired with the country's oligarchs – and imprisoned, and the conspirators installed Jair Bolsonaro, a fascist war criminal whose covid bungling led to mass death:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash

When Bolsonaro lost his next election – to a triumphant Lula – he attempted a coup, for which he was arrested and handed a long prison sentence, despite Trump and Microsoft trying to intimidate the Brazilian judge into letting him walk:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/22/bolsonaro-prosecution-us-sanctions-00575122

Now, Lula is fighting to keep Bolsonaro's nepobaby failson, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, from wrestling back control over the country for his fascist party; and that's where the good politics come in.

Lula's party has just scored a massive, national political victory by tabling legislation to establish a five-day workweek. While Brazil's professional/managerial class enjoy a two-day weekend, the working poor of the nation are prisoners of the escala 6×1 system, which sees them working six days per week. It's a hangover from the era of Brazil's fascist dictatorship, which (nominally) ended in 1988, but whose legacy still haunts the Brazilian people.

Lula's 40-hour workweek is incredibly popular. So popular that Bolsonaro's party whipped its members to vote for it, because they fear that to do otherwise would hand an even bigger majority to Lula, who might go on to give workers a four-day work-week:

https://prospect.org/2026/06/22/lula-sees-boosts-as-he-pushes-to-reduce-brazilian-workweek/

It turns out that weekends are popular and promising the electorate access to a weekend is good politics. What's more, denying weekends to the electorate is shitty, awful politics, which is why Bolsonaro's fascists were forced to vote in favor of a policy they hate, even though all credit for that policy will still go to Lula and the Worker' Party. The bill passed 461-19.

Contrast Lula's muscular, deliverism-based politics that seeks to improve the lives of working people in tangible, immediate ways with the catastrophic series of blunders that Keir Starmer's Labour has delivered. Despite having won a majority so large it would have made Saddam Hussein blush (not because Labour was popular, but because the outgoing Conservatives were universally loathed), Starmer has refused to lift a finger to improve Britons' lives. Instead, he's abetted genocide, criminalized protest, proposed ending jury trials, imposed austerity, handed the NHS over to Palantir and all the remaining potable water and electrical capacity in the country over to American most unprofitable AI giants.

Starmer's insistence that we can't have nice things is bad politics, because (and it's weird that this has to be said) a government that makes people's lives worse is less popular than a government that makes people's lives better:

https://www.whatwelo.st/p/everyone-hates-tech-but-nobody-knows

Now, the right is incapable of making working people's lives better, because broad improvements to the vast majority necessarily come at the expense of the tiny minority of morbidly wealthy hoarders whom the right serves. In order to get millions of turkeys to vote for Christmas, the right substitutes spectacular acts of cruelty against disfavored minorities to distract their voters from the quiet acts of everyday cruelty they subject those voters to:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/always-great/#our-nhs

This isn't good politics. The sadistic torture of your base's enemies will never please them so well nor so durably as making immediate, significant improvements in their lives will.

That's why the corporate Dems who say that the party should campaign against renewables and in favor of fossil fuel companies aren't merely climate criminals, they're also bad at politics:

https://prospect.org/2026/06/22/affordability-climate-envioronment-policy-gas-oil-prices-iran-war-trump/

Cleantech is fucking great. Since I put in solar, a heat pump and an induction top, my energy bills have fallen to less than $80 per month, even in Los Angeles, even at the height of summer. My EV – a 7-year old Kia Niro – costs pennies to run, because I charge it off my roof. Not only that, it's fast, maneuverable, silent, and incredibly reliable. It handles like that Mustang a rental agency once upgraded me to. I mean, I'd rather have a subway, but if I have to drive, this is so much better than any ICE car I've ever owned.

Sure, our solar was a giant pain in the ass to get installed and working, but that's because the same corporate Dems who say climate is a political loser also said the best way to roll out solar nationwide was to set up an elaborate system of financialized tax-credits. That meant that every solar installer I talked to was more interested in swindling me by putting solar on my roof that they would own than they were in selling me a system I owned outright. Financializing America's rooftop solar conjured up a vast army of scammers and hustlers who screwed the majority of people they sold solar to, and my installers, Solaredge, were no exception:

https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-pace-loans

Everything about living in the cleantech future is better. I can boil a gallon of water in under a minute on my stovetop! And it's only gonna get better: not only is cleantech improving every year, but fossil fuel is getting shittier every year, thanks to Trump's lunatic war of choice in Iran, the cost of using fossil fuels will only go up from here:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/#acceleration

Look, as a workaholic whose unhealthy anxiety coping mechanism is to work even harder, I might not make the best use of an extra day off:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/14/compartment/#flow

But as Pete Seeger sang in 1941, your time is all you have, and every hour you give to your boss is an hour you can never get back:

You'll get shorter hours
Better working conditions
Vacations with pay
Take your kids to the seashore

https://genius.com/Pete-seeger-talking-union-lyrics

It's something Lula understands, which is why he's winning. Good politics are a delight to watch, especially when it's your team doing them. But man, it can be pretty demoralizing to watch your team fumble play after play after play.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Arindrajit Dube on Wages https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/arindrajit-dube-on-wages

• WE WON OUR UNION! https://unitedfaculty-uaw.org/

• Understanding the Luddites in the age of AI https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-luddites-in-the

• Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now https://defector.com/promises-made-promises-kept-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-absolutely-looks-like-shit-now

• Why Is It So Bad to Let A.I. Do My Thinking for Me? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/books/review/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rlA.BN8p.23Ho_LuzI-Tr&smid=url-share

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Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrsago WWII Online https://web.archive.org/web/20010625120559/https://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/reviews/0,10867,2778704,00.html

#20yrsago Microsoft’s myriad Xbox security mistakes https://web.archive.org/web/20060703000421/http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System

#20yrsago Kentucky government censors political watchdog site https://web.archive.org/web/20060628055926/http://www.bluegrassreport.org/bluegrass_politics/2006/06/bluegrassreport.html

#20yrsago Life among the homeless bloggers https://web.archive.org/web/20060702205047/https://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71153-0.html

#20yrsago Disney, 1939: No woman animators allowed https://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/disney-1939-girls-are-not-considered.html

#15yrsago Sick man robs bank for $1, demands jail and healthcare https://web.archive.org/web/20110628144748/https://www.gastongazette.com/news/bank-58397-richard-hailed.html/

#15yrsago Car-racing game on a thermal printer https://www.undef.ch/project/receipt-racer

#15yrsago Toronto police swear off kettling https://web.archive.org/web/20110625131204/http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1012959–exclusive-toronto-police-swear-off-g20-kettling-tactic?bn=1

#15yrsago LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with gov’t to discuss national Web-censorship regime https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/rights-holders-propose-voluntary-website-blocking-scheme/

#15yrsago Georgia’s anti-immigrant law leaves millions in crops rotting in the fields https://web.archive.org/web/20110620213900/https://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/06/17/gas-farm-labor-crisis-playing-out-as-planned/

#15yrsago Bagelheads: toroidal saline forehead injections https://web.archive.org/web/20110619033443/https://vicestyle.com/en/news/today/post/japanese-bagelheads

#15yrsago Spitalfields Nippers: East London street-urchins of 1912 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/02/spitalfields-nippers/

#15yrsago Danish police proposal: Ban anonymous Internet use https://www-computerworld-dk.translate.goog/art/117279/forslag-du-maa-ikke-laengere-gaa-anonymt-paa-nettet?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

#15yrsago Bell-mannequin for training pickpockets https://web.archive.org/web/20110626045035/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2011/06/23/amateur-pick-pockets-study-in-crime-college/

#15yrsago Skeptical take on Singularity http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality-check-1.html

#15yrsago Windmill joke https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/4p8qkb/two_windmills_are_standing_in_a_field_and_one/

#10yrsago Electronics repair shops overbill for labor when the customer has insurance https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/computer-repair-shops-screw-over-customers-if-theyve-got-insurance/

#10yrsago Being a Craigslist scammer is hard work https://web.archive.org/web/20160622140008/https://www.infoworld.com/article/3086304/cyber-crime/interview-with-a-craigslist-scammer.html

#10yrsago Dieselgate for GPUs: review-units ship at higher clockspeeds than retail ones https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11986836/msi-asus-overclocked-graphics-cards-review

#10yrsago Phones without headphone jacks are phones with DRM for audio https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11991302/iphone-no-headphone-jack-user-hostile-stupid

#10yrsago Donald Trump sources $6M worth of campaign expenditures from companies he and his family own https://web.archive.org/web/20160621142100/https://bigstory.ap.org/article/9f7412236962464f9f2c0a8d2696ba25/trumps-campaign-cycles-6-million-trump-companies

#10yrsago Samantha Bee puts the NRA before a firing squad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M4qHzd3xfM

#10yrsago Improv Everywhere: asking random New Yorkers to give a commencement speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drvcLC3DuHo

#10yrsago R. Crumb v. D. Trump, 1989 https://dangerousminds.net/comments/robert_crumb_and_friends_flush_donald_trump_down_the_toilet_1989/

#10yrsago Cleveland: “First Amendment zones” will fence protesters far away from RNC https://www.wired.com/2016/06/cleveland-will-create-city-within-city-keep-rnc-civil/

#10yrsago Space botanists are beneficiaries of Canada’s legal weed boom https://web.archive.org/web/20160624043929/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-space-technology-will-produce-the-best-weed-marijuana-cannabis-pot

#10yrsago Debullshitifying the EU referendum (radio comedy edition) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03yylpn

#10yrsago Judenstaat: an alternate history in which a Jewish state is created in east Germany in 1948 https://memex.craphound.com/2016/06/21/judenstaat-an-alternate-history-in-which-a-jewish-state-is-created-in-east-germany-in-1948/

#10yrsago Gun control is a great idea, terrorist watchlists are bullshit https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2016_06_20_aclu_vote_recommendation_on_feinstein_and_cornyn_amendments_to_h.r._2578.pdf

#5yrsago New Yorkers just missing the subway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWh385F5lms#5yrsago
#5yrsago Peloton bricks its treadmills https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#jane-get-me-off-this-crazy-thing

#5yrsago Juul's junk science https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#smokescreen

#5yrsago Improving the ACCESS Act https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#improve-access

#1yrago Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers' https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/21/1060-west-addison/#the-new-oldsmobiles-are-in-early-this-year

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Toronto: The Sovereignty Debate (IAB Canada's State of the Nation), Jun 23
  https://iabcanada.com/state-of-the-nation-2026

• Toronto: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (Osler Records/Type Books), Jun 23
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-launch-and-talk-tickets-1991501299998

• NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24
  https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html

• Philadelphia: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with David Williams (Fitler Club/Philadelphia Citizen), Jun 25
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-event-tickets-1990110326559

• Chicago: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Rick Perlstein (Exile in Bookville), Jun 26
  https://exileinbookville.com/events/50628

• London: Idler Festival, Jul 11
  https://www.idler.co.uk/festival/

• Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
  https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-front-list-cory-doctorow-and-jimmy-wales

• Sydney: The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Aug 23-24
  https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/cory-doctorow/

• Melbourne: Enshittification at the Wheeler Centre, Aug 25
  https://www.wheelercentre.com/events-tickets/season-2026/cory-doctorow-enshittification

• Brighton: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8
  https://brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC-cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/

• London: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Riley Quinn (Foyle's Picadilly), Sep 9
  https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/enshittification-cory-doctorow-riley-quinn

• South Bend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
  https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late (Galaxy Brain)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo

• The future of world governance, with Kim Stanley Robinson (UN Independent Expert on International Order)
  https://www.youtube.com/live/wJvBvYdaAMY

• How to Think About Artificial Intelligence (KUER)
  https://radiowest.kuer.org/show/radiowest/2026-06-16/cory-doctorow-on-how-to-think-about-artificial-intelligence

• The Enshittification of Life, the Universe, & Everything (Luke Savage)
  https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-enshittification-of-life-the

• Cory Doctorow's digital jail-break (DW In Focus)
  https://www.dw.com/en/cory-doctorows-digital-jail-break/audio-77414035

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Latest books (permalink)

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/)

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing: "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Fourth draft completed. Submitted to editor.

• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE.

• "The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌤️ - 22-06-2026 19:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 26.6°C · Licht bewolkt 🌤️ | Min 18.8°C / Max 28.4°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 18.8°C, Max 28.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 45°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 26.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1024.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 39°
• 21:00: 24.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1024.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 44°
• 22:00: 22.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1024.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 38°
• 23:00: 22.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 36°
• 00:00: 21.2°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1024.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 56°
• 01:00: 20.5°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 51°
• 02:00: 19.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 58°
• 03:00: 19.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1024.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 58°
• 04:00: 19.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 67°
• 05:00: 19.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1024.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 65°
• 06:00: 18.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1023.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ← 94°
• 07:00: 18.8°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 21%, 🧭 1023.0 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 30°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• dinsdag 23 juni: Min 18.8°C, Max 31.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1022.1 hPa ↘️ -2.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ← 88°
• woensdag 24 juni: Min 25.2°C, Max 38.5°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1017.9 hPa ↘️ -4.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 129°
• donderdag 25 juni: Min 23.3°C, Max 34.4°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.4 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 74°
• vrijdag 26 juni: Min 25.5°C, Max 36.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ↘️ -3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.5 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 148°
• zaterdag 27 juni: Min 22.5°C, Max 30.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1013.9 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.5 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 304°
• zondag 28 juni: Min 20.3°C, Max 30.3°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 8.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ↗️ +3.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 317°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 26.6°C (Licht bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 25.4°C (-1.2°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 38°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 30.2 km/h (8.4 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 51%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1024.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 30.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 1.6
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:22 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 22:05

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 38 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 4.9 μg/m³
• PM10: 8.5 μg/m³

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De snelste manier om Europa te doorkruisen was jarenlang simpel: een goedkope vlucht boeken, handbagage mee en klaar. Maar de spelregels veranderen. Luchtvaartmaatschappijen verstrakken hun bagagebeleid, rekenen steeds creatiever toeslagen en staan onder toenemende klimaaddruk. Tegelijk wint de trein terrein, met nieuwe nachttreinroutes en slimmere boekingsplatformen.

De Europese stedentrip van 2026 ziet er daardoor anders uit dan die van vijf jaar geleden. Minder ad‑hoc vliegtickets, meer planning – en opvallend vaak een bed in een rijdende trein.

De comeback van de nachttrein

Waar de nachttrein een paar jaar geleden nog een nostalgisch nicheproduct was, is hij nu bezig aan een comeback. Nieuwe verbindingen tussen grote Europese steden maken het mogelijk om ’s avonds in te stappen en de volgende ochtend midden in een andere metropool wakker te worden.

Je ziet vooral groei op routes als:

• Noordwest-Europa naar Centraal-Europa (bijvoorbeeld via Duitsland en Oostenrijk)
• Populaire stedentriplijnen tussen hoofdsteden, waar vliegverkeer duurder en drukker wordt
• Vakantieroutes richting bergen en zuiden, als alternatief voor auto of vliegtuig

De aantrekkingskracht? Je combineert vervoer en overnachting, arriveert uitgeslapen in het centrum en hebt geen gedoe met inchecken en security op een buitenstedelijk vliegveld.

Strenger bagagebeleid bij budgetmaatschappijen

Wie toch blijft vliegen, merkt dat het kofferspel in 2026 nog ingewikkelder is geworden. Het basiskaartje lijkt goedkoop, maar de werkelijke prijs wordt bepaald door bagage, stoelkeuze en betaalmoment.

Typische trends:

• “Gratis” handbagage wordt kleiner: wat vroeger zonder mopperen in het rek boven je hoofd paste, geldt nu plots als extra stuk waarvoor moet worden bijbetaald.
• Ruimbagage is duurder én minder flexibel; omboeken of annuleren kost al snel een fors deel van het ticket.
• Online inchecken en vroeg boeken leveren soms nog voordeel op, maar wie laat boekt of op de luchthaven moet bijbetalen, is de klos.

Voor reizigers met een koffer, kinderwagen of sportuitrusting wordt de totale vliegprijs daardoor minder voorspelbaar en vaak fors hoger dan de prijs in de zoekresultaten suggereert.

Trein versus vliegtuig: prijs is niet meer zo zwart-wit

Lang gold de vuistregel: het vliegtuig is bijna altijd goedkoper, de trein is duur maar comfortabel. Dat beeld schuift langzaam op.

De balans hangt af van:

• Hoe vroeg je boekt: goedkope treinacties zijn er, maar vaak beperkt en snel uitverkocht.
• Hoeveel bagage je meeneemt: treinprijzen zijn meestal inclusief meerdere koffers en een rugzak, zonder toeslagen.
• Hoe je de kosten telt: reken je ook de transfers naar en van het vliegveld mee, plus eventuele hotelnacht omdat je vlucht vroeg vertrekt?

Een nachttrein kan op het eerste gezicht duur lijken, maar vervangt een hotel én brengt je in het centrum van de stad. Zeker voor koppels of kleine groepen kan dat de prijs per persoon aantrekkelijk maken.

Hoe plannen in 2026 werkt: minder losse tickets, meer routestrategie

Treinreizen door Europa vraagt in 2026 meer denkwerk, maar de tools zijn beter geworden. Meerdere platforms combineren nationale spoorwegmaatschappijen, reserveringssystemen en nachttreinoperators in één overzicht.

Handige strategieën:

• Plan eerst de nachtroutes. Leg de nachttreinen als “ruggengraat” vast: de schaarse lig- en slaapplaatsen zijn het snelst vol. Om die heen kun je dagtreinen en stadsbezoeken bouwen.
• Speel met vertrek- en aankomststeden. In plaats van heen en terug op dezelfde stad, kun je een boog maken: bijvoorbeeld noordelijk heen, zuidelijk terug, of andersom. Dat vergroot de kans op scherpe tarieven.
• Vermijd spitsdagen. Dagen rond feestdagen en zomerweekenden zijn het duurst. Eén dag eerder of later vertrekken kan honderden euro’s schelen bij meerdere tickets.

Vier tot zes routes die nu interessant zijn

Uit de veelheid aan opties springen een paar type routes die in 2026 extra interessant zijn voor wie trein en vliegverkeer wil combineren of juist bewuster wil reizen:

• De “klassieke cultuurboog”: begin in een nabijgelegen hoofdstad, reis via één of twee grote steden per nachttrein verder de EU in en keer overdag terug via andere stops. Ideaal voor citytrippers.
• De “bergen en meren”-lus: combineer een nachttrein na het werk met een aankomst in de bergen bij zonsopkomst, stap over op een regionale trein naar een meer of dal, en sluit af in een grotere stad voor de terugreis.
• De “klimaatbewuste congresreis”: voor zakelijke reizigers: heen per nachttrein, terug per dagtrein, met één extra stop voor een werkafspraak of remote‑werkdag in een coworking‑space langs de route.

Het patroon is steeds hetzelfde: minder “even een vlucht pakken”, meer reizen als onderdeel van de ervaring.

Praktische tips: zo haal je het meeste uit de trein

Wie in 2026 serieus met de trein door Europa wil reizen, profiteert van een paar praktische keuzes:

• Boek vroeg, maar niet blind. Hoe eerder je boekt, hoe meer kans op voordeel, zeker bij nachttreinen. Maar check altijd of je ticket omboekbaar is; een iets duurder flexibel ticket kan veel gedoe besparen.
• Kies bewust comfortniveau. In nachttreinen is het verschil tussen zitplaats, ligplaats en slaapcabine groot. Voor één nacht kan een ligplaats voldoende zijn, maar voor een langere reis is een eigen cabine het overwegen waard.
• Pak licht, maar doordacht. Je mag meer meenemen dan in het vliegtuig, maar je moet het zelf tillen en opbergen. Een stevige koffer en een compacte rugzak zijn meestal genoeg.
• Combineer trein met lokaal OV. De meeste nachttreinen komen in de vroege ochtend aan. Gebruik die tijd om met metro, tram of bus direct door te steken naar je wijk of accommodatie.

Het KNMI heeft code oranje afgegeven vanwege de aanhoudende hitte. De waarschuwing is vanaf woensdag 12:00 uur van kracht. Het weerinstituut zegt dat de code “ten minste tot vrijdag zal gelden”. Het is de eerste keer ooit dat al zo vroeg in de zomer code oranje wordt afgegeven omdat het zo warm is.

Kimi Antonelli’s retirement from the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix was the latest in a string of reliability issues that are impacting the F1 title race.

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Als minister van Onderwijs zette Ingrid van Engelshoven (D66) zich naar eigen zeggen voortdurend in voor het zo veel mogelijk openhouden of heropenen van het onderwijs.