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doug.city
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One year ago, the Christopher Street–Sheridan Square station was officially renamed Christopher Street–Stonewall station! The name commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which took place steps from the station and played a major role in the LGBTQ+ rights movement. @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Can’t help but wonder if the guy on the subway reading “The Call of the Wild” was just like, “I want something that will make me feel cold.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: In light of the sweltering weather and *waves hands* all this, I decided to make spaghetti all'arrabbiata for dinner. It was very good. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Exclusive: New York intends to build a large nuclear-power facility, the first new U.S. plant undertaken in more than 15 years.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Zoom zoom

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been doing a long term photo project on “no parking” signs.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

After over a year of neglect, I finally updated my Seattle Transit Map! September will mark the tenth anniversary of the map. The website itself needs work but the new layer is now online. seattletransitmap.com/app/

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

The Ballantines’ mansion is part of the Newark Museum now and well worth visiting (along with the rest of the museum).

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It took quite a while, but the paper about the history of high-speed rail planning in Italy that I co-authored with @beriapaolo.bsky.social is finally out! It's open source, so you can read it at length (it is pretty long), But here is a TL;DR: 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

WE ARE CROSSING THE ENTIRETY OF CANADA EXCLUSIVELY BY BUS!!! We just left Victoria, BC; if all goes according to plan, we'll be arriving in St. John's, NL on Wednesday night after six days, seven bus companies, and nine Canadian provinces - all but PEI!

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

Sending love to all my trans siblings tonight.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t tell if Benson herself used the phrase (it’s not in a direct quote here), but I do find it interesting and somewhat telling that many North American laypeople think all passenger rail, or at least all new passenger rail, is either “light rail” or “high-speed rail.”

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers. As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example. Meet Torrey Canyon.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments