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Let's be honest here, I mostly post about trains. Well, cities too. I currently work in the Japanese education sector but I'd rather work with trains. I'm a proud Philly expat so expect to see lots of stuff about PA and Pennsylvania too.
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He deserves every bit of it but I don’t know how Drake can watch anything on tv at any time and not be worried about this. He turns on Bluey and the dad is like “you know who I’d never let babysit you?”

🫡🇺🇦 In Toretsk, AFU, using the tactics of raids by small assault groups, launched a series of successful strikes on enemy positions on the flanks.

Conan O'Brien on Anora having a great night at the Oscars: "I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

on monday mornings when the political narrative for the next 5 days is being set, i like to check in on when the last time the leader of the house democrats bothered to do digital messaging. 48 hours+

THE US CYBERSECURITY SHIELD HAS BEEN TURNED OFF FOR RUSSIA Let’s be clear about this, last week the United States on orders from SecDef Hegseth, has ceased monitoring, identifying, tracking, preventing or alerting anyone to Russian cyber attacks. No activity at all is permitted. Nobody now even now

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

Don’t judge me, but I’m watching Avatar The Last Airbender for the first time, and I’m impressed. Like, it’s a kids show, but it has really mature themes. I’m on episode 6. Highlight: Sokka, being the little misogynist he is, training with girl warriors in DRAG sent me 🤣🤣🤣.

"BREAKING: 40 Cases of Dysentery Reported in Multnomah County, Oregon Health Officials on Alert." Wait wait wait wait WAIT! Are you telling me I survived all 2170 miles of the Oregon Trail, just to die of dysentery IN OREGON??

We could have been part of that.

Dense housing comes in many forms but you should be able to build them all

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

I think the fact that the democratic party is in fact at least 2 parties smushed together causes a lot of problems, one more subtle one is that people for some reason think centrists are non-ideological

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

This is a wonderful video about the issues facing Kuala Lumpur's rapid transit network, and frankly these issues are also typical across Southeast Asian cities youtu.be/lvw48YCMATE?...

We’ve had EVs for over 100 years

the most important dem news over the weekend is jefferies dumping the entire shutdown in johnson’s lap

No. None of them can tell you why.

Ukranian flags flying while the US anthem is booed at the Whitecaps game ❤️🇺🇦

a super annoying thing about this is that politico and axios and even the big politics reporters at the NYT do this on purpose; you never hear about some moderate centrist republican interest group trying to get the party to moderate, it's *always* one-sided reporting, *and that is by design*

We went through this with zoning, and now we're going through it with building code: trillion dollar industries depend on these things, yet a bunch of precocious bloggers can swoop in and expose these institutions as full of pseudoscience. Does nobody do their job? @aarmlovi.bsky.social

Fun cold war era HO scale kit. I wish there was a finer scale version of this out there today. The rotating radar makes it extra fun.

The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful.

Long-range Ukrainian drone attack reported overnight against the Bashneft refinery in Ufa, Russia - more than 1300 from the border. Russia is claiming this was a "technical issue"

Can someone PLEASE hire me to build them a futuristic layout? (with recognizable elements from the past included for realism) Come on all you well paid Bay Area #Furries & #tech , I'm available to build you cool layouts you never thought possible! interurbanera.com/hire-me/

"The net worth of the top 20% of earners has risen by more than $35 trillion, or 45%, since the end of 2019... an increase of $14 trillion for the bottom 80%." It's about destroying the lives of Americans to channel more of the nation's treasure to its richest citizens. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

With Open Source/Free Software as well as Creative Commons we have build pipelines to contribute to the commons (great!) but we never thought about how to defend those commons against appropriation.

It's a style of architectural aesthetic, based on celebration of cast-in-place concrete. The name comes from French "béton brut", or "raw concrete"

AP headline about “No Other Land” winning an Oscar VS Politico headline for the *very same AP story* about “No Other Land” Absolutely shameful

This same sitting GOP senator voted to confirm accused Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence.

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

Never let them feel welcome in public. Use your voice, it’s legal.

Walking & biking for transportation means I can pause to notice and appreciate cute doggie prints on the sidewalk. 🐾

Brandon Johnson is a really cool guy, it’s a shame he’s not suited for mayor

I’m pretty sure this is what voters want from their elected officials www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

yeah we basically have lacked elite accountability across the board

back at my favorite place in St Louis, the combination Amalgamated Transit Union Hall/Beer Garden

I was trying to teach Orin a lesson about the world today and I asked, “what percent of earth’s land is our country.” And he stood there and thought for a second and said, “Like three percent?” And I was like, “well, pretty much yeah 😒.” He’s getting too old, I need new tricks.

I know this isn't the point but emotions can be fuel and the older I get the more I think the idea that you shouldn't be "driven by your emotions" isn't just sexist but it deprives us of a very necessary power.

The NYT asking with a straight face: “Why, after more than a decade of TV representation would transgender Americans be losing ground?” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a...

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024. What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day. Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

It's like watching a building about to collapse, but when you try and tell people inside to get out they tell you that the shaking they feel is actually the building getting taller

When you put it this way, it's a very interesting question!

working on a planning thing

My prayer for all of us is that we can reach the level of guilelessness born of freedom that i had when i wrote the line "wanna put my tender heart in a blender" and not only did not crumple the paper and throw it in the trash but recorded it to tape

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org