sick public transit, gloria
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i do the train tweets but the train tweets aren’t me
Train, Deutschland
Joined November 2011
New S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I looked at ways large urban mass transit systems around the world are shoring up public safety. I call it “the militarizing Metro” using 1) indefinite National Guard/paramilitary presence 2) metal detectors 3) facial recognition.
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gm to the tiktok lady who said the myth of Sisyphus is about the value of having a good daily routine and that Sisyphus is happy because he is getting more swole every time he pushes the boulder up. my brain gets hot like an old laptop thinking about it.
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Olympics shooting, I apologize I wasn't familiar with your game (Ghost in the Shell cyborg tech)
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how did Babylonians know Babylon is a name that slap super hard. there were only like three cities before Babylon. 5000 years later, Babylon is still top 5 city name.
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look at that subtle 2016 election reference. the tasteful Kenough placement of it. oh my God. It even has a hashtag.
Greta & Margot,. While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re both so much more than Kenough. #HillaryBarbie.
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this is going to hit so hard in so many korean documentaries.
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they all come to bend the knee at the altar of well there's your problem
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LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
A South Korean tour group's van became stuck in the snow outside a house in Williamsville, New York. They homeowners, luckily, had a well-stocked kitchen. And so began an unlikely holiday weekend.
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followed the menswear guy tenets to buy some secondhand pants and a chore coat and once I put the new arrivals together wife says I look like I finished The Long March with Chairman Mao 😭 😭 😭 😭.
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this is what car dependency robbed from you
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I’ve been thinking about this tweet all day: how does a 62 yo man, who lived his entire life in New York City — home of the BEC, diners, countless Asian cuisines — never eat an egg.
Vacation is for exploring. So I tried my first ever egg — an egg white bacon omelet — for breakfast. Not going to be having it again. It shows I’ve been right for 62 years.
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this place still got the magic
guy who's really angry about the trump verdict because it cheapens debs's legacy.
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the father of the American shopping mall was a car-hating socialist who wanted to bring an urban slice of his hometown Vienna to every suburbia in postwar America
Name other scholars beside Oppenheimer who spent their later years running away from their early work.
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extremely offline gf went grocery shopping. bought fruits, take a guess what she bought. how do I break it to her.
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bruh it’s so over for LA how are they supposed to compete.
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@willystaley hi I'm a spam expert (korean) and spams only do this when they are very distressed.
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the black drummer in this RRR scene absolutely a king. the subtle expressions of disdain at the Brits and then the JOY when Ram takes the drums. I LOVE YOU
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ngl seeing MF DOOM on here makes me disproportionally mad bc as an immigrant he sought legal status in the US for his entire life and was finally banished from the US in 2010 during Obama’s first term, never to return back home. RIP DOOM.
I always enjoy sharing my end of year music playlist with all of you — and this year we heard a lot of great songs. Here are some of my favorites. Are there any songs or artists I should check out?
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the backwards cap and the sharpshooter goggles are an INSANE FIT from silver medalist Kim Yeji
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me: there is nothing redeemable about San Francisco. I’m doom loop pilled. I can get everything I need in east bay anyways. one meal at Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant at Outer Sunset: you don’t get to hate it unless you love it. our splendid city on shining hills. our Baghdad by
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unbelievable xiaohongshu is indeed named after the most nefarious force in the world. not communism. but Stanford.
well ok case closed. according to this 2019 interview, red was the color of stanford graduate school of business and bain capital, where the founder studied and worked
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unbeknownst to wife her remarks are particularly biting because family used to bully my dad for wearing any peasant looking clothes the same way. we’d talk in a North Korean accent and call him “Comrade Potatohead”.
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Ok then, what’s one of the best. This is still one of my faves.
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I don’t think we should cut off people’s hands for stealing
This resident named Burt, who owns a clean tech company, says he was recently robbed and his board wants his company to leave Oakland. He said we need policies like Morocco, where hands are cut off for stealing.
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watched RRR, a movie masterpiece. if Hollywood wants to revive itself, they should copy-paste RRR into as many settings as possible. the perfect movie template has been presented.
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I literally cannot believe my eyes this is happening
WE WILL HAVE EARLY TRAINS TO BERKELEY FOR COLLEGE GAMEDAY!!! . The early morning limited service will arrive at Downtown Berkeley station by 5 am and pick up passengers from the following stations threaded below:. 🧵⬇️🐻🏈🚆
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I’m seeing old journalist accounts who I have not seen tweet since 2022 return for one last dance tonight. tears in my eyes, game’s not gone yet.
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@PopulismUpdates it should’ve been me to connect a 10-second debate clip to the Peanuts theme song
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“Another big cost saver was BART’s decision to have its own staff do more of the engineering work in house. The project team has included engineers who have successfully completed new rail car projects at other agencies.”
BART’s Fleet of the Future trains are coming in hundreds of millions of dollars under budget.
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we paved over paradise
Dudes will be like “I miss her” and it’s a 19th century interurban railway.
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my great grandfather arrived to this country with only a nickel to his name and a blue twitter checkmark. I plan to pass this blue twitter checkmark to my children, and them to theirs. god forbid something happens to my blue twitter checkmark, the most valuable item in my family.
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brother only had two moves left: double down for hyperloop's honor, or surrender. he chose well.
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going 65 on 580 west and still got cooked…good shit. good train 👍
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does he have to pay congestion pricing for his own sentencing. if I was trump that'll break me.
BREAKING: The judge has set Donald Trump's sentencing for July 11, just days before Republicans are set to select him as 2024 nominee.
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top 5.
in no order: Babylon, Seorabol (old Korean name for present-day Gyungju), Xi’an/Chang’an, Kyiv and Isfahan.
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so…a bus?
Uber announces shuttle rides, features for caregivers and Costco perks
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The Armory in SF takes up so much space and sits near a ton of transit. It has produced [RETRACTED]. Maybe this isn’t the best use of space? Should be moved imo and replaced with mixed use housing.
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one of the biggest under the radar failures from the Obama admin has to be when they created rules/loopholes that set relaxed emission standards for vehicles with larger “footprints” and incentivized car manufacturers to go hog wild on selling bigger SUVs/light-duty trucks.
Fascinating data analysis from the Economist looking at 7.5m US car crashes. The chart below shows likelihood of you dying in a car crash by weight of your car (grey line) and weight of other car (red line). So it’s in our own self interest to get a heavier car (slight reduction
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the US is in a minority of countries where most major sports franchises grew not out of local, working-class associations but of commercial enterprises, and the tailgate is one organic reaction to reclaim the former back within the permitted physical environment (parking lots).
tailgating proves people crave bars, restaurants and shopping land uses next to stadiums, we just don’t meet the demand in planning
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^ that shot set the world record for 25m shooting btw.
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Yankees fans: do they deserve civil rights? our panel of experts will debate after the break.
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@questionableway it goes much, much further
many fascinating figures one can dissect into WRT the Yoon impeachment vote but my personal favorite has to go Dr. Ihn Yo-han, a second-gen American-Korean who grew up in the Jeolla province, served as ENG translator during the Gwangju Uprising, and voted against the impeachment
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LA and Cincinnati now playing for which city abandoned their mass transit system more completely.
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in no order: Babylon, Seorabol (old Korean name for present-day Gyungju), Xi’an/Chang’an, Kyiv and Isfahan.
@seungylee14 @Kazanir what else is in your top 5 i can’t think of a close second rn - mogadishu is all i’m coming up with.
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this tweet has haunted me for a whole year, because really, how the hell can Kyiv Metro run 6-7 minute off-peak frequencies when the best North American metros struggle to meet that during rush hour. I chipped away at it and today I published my findings 🙏
Due to the war, metro frequency is reduced; trains currently only come every 6-7 minutes off-peak.
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this likely is my last time on a legacy car before they’re relegated to the reserves next week…thank you for your 50 years of service 🫡
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@ettingermentum I’ve saved this but never get to use it bc when are people not talking about the greatest state in the Union
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highway cost overruns vs transit cost overruns
New data from @USDOTFHWA says that the cost of building & maintaining highways has risen 50% since 2020, effectively reducing FWHA buying power by $21.5 billion ($115b in nominal obligations = $93.6b in "real" obligations). Story:.
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just….reliving this tweet rn.
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thinking of the students during and after my time in Berkeley who were living in their cars or by the Marina or commuting from Antioch to go to UC Berkeley bc the university was that worth it. have these homeowners ever made any sacrifices at that level?.
Students across the nation and world are receiving these letters this morning.
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@jdcmedlock lol think they did this so even the most resist boomer still on twitter can figure out this is from an article because it has a headline, the search and menu icons and the photo.
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get you a world-class sharpshooter with insane camera aura (but also a country Korean accent when she speaks in interviews?)
the backwards cap and the sharpshooter goggles are an INSANE FIT from silver medalist Kim Yeji
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San Francisco has lost the mandate of heaven. it's time for the knights of east bay (me and my mutuals) to raise its banners for a transbay crusade.
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wife obsessed with the Korean saying "back when tigers used to smoke pipes" as stand-in for "once upon a time" in folk tales and gotta say, the korean paintings of tigers smoking a pipe go extremely hard
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it feels wrong watching this. it should only be played on the video player at Comedy Central's website after you clicked on the Play icon 50 times bc the buttons never ever worked.
Jon Stewart kicks off The Daily Show's election coverage with a wellness check on America's two chronologically challenged candidates: Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
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I for one welcome our Japanese overlords to seize all rail operations in this country, violently or not
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weird tech CEO guy who is trying to live forever: welcome to the war on cars
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I hate Halloween in the Bay Area. what do you mean you’re a 1956 engineering feasibility report of BART on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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went to party with sf techies and got chatting with one who live in Alameda and as soon as I said I live in Oakland they began dropping one insinuation after another about how Oakland is a hellhole, as if we both were in on the same talking point. I flatly refused to play along.
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me and the boys are rolling our pickup trucks into Manhattan on June 30 to send a message to the New Yorker elite: we believe in a well funded transit system and be honored to be the first to pay congestion pricing 🫡.
An update on our congestion pricing program: Tolling will begin at midnight on June 30, 2024. Low-income discounts, along with disability and other exemptions, are available to eligible drivers & vehicles. Applications for those are now open. Learn more:
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@questionableway he grew up in Suncheon, a stone's throw from Gwangju. he speaks with a thick Jeolla accent and has a lot of their mannerisms, which just on the surface makes this whole thing so outrageous for so many from his province.
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has it occurred to anyone who's transposing the moneyball theme to the last A's game footages that moneyball itself was a symptom of the disease that ultimately let to all this.
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local stand-up comedian: y'know $276 million was spent on this recall election. or in Bay Area math street parking in Downtown San Francisco for 4 hours. urbanist guy in the way back: it should be higher.
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it took a while but it’s good to see apple pay tribute to the most visionary hardware product built in the bay area in last 50 years (bart).
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there is absolutely zero people who work at public transit agencies who believe smoking on the trains or buses is okay and riders subject to that should just tolerate it.
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(as I understand it) in SF, there’s tech money, then there is Sunset Asian money, then there is wealthy ex-hippie money, then there is 5th gen SF money, then there is Getty money.
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it's awesome how prop 13 turned california's state budget watch into an ancient civilization divination exercise. Gavin regained his mandate of heaven. the stock market gods are happy and full after our weeklong human sacrifices in the Sierras
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lol. lmao. I’m on the front page of the Chronicle for My Good Twetes
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I just know the old Vietnam veteran hat-wearing, fatigues-toting Korean grandpas sipping coffee at McDonald’s in Koreatown are having the most illiberal conversation ever conversed by man right now.
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so proud of this work. I and 80k coworkers worked tirelessly to give Docusign the new branding it deserves. if you are one of them, please drop a like and a hell yeah in the comments.
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NIXON: Bridal shower…that’s when all the busybodies throw money at the bride?.KISSINGER: No, sir. That is a baby shower. NIXON: No one gave Mother anything when she got married. Frozen out by the polite society in town.HALDEMAN: [inaudible].NIXON: One of Kissinger’s people I bet.
someone’s having their bridal shower at the Nixon Library during Tropical Storm Hilary
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Governor, sir, pls pls ask if we can copy his HSR notes.
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the hot new bit of the summer is responding to all your friends’ European vacation photos with “look at all that parking” or “where’s the parking”.
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since I’m in Vegas for a public transit conference I felt compelled to see the future. I braved the rain this morning to try the Vegas Loop. 4.5 minute ride. started with a traffic stop before entering the first tunnel between Resorts World and first LVCC station
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i appreciate the effort. but come see me after class.
Florida Has High Speed Rail and California Never Will. the high speed brightline train now connects miami and orlando, but california still has not laid a single mile of rail. what's the difference between these two projects?. by @river_is_nice . In 2008, California voters
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every day I field many DMs for work but today one was from a newly moved Bay Arean who asked if this was real and how he can take it. I told him it was photoshopped. he was heartbroken.
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something fun from the Shikoku post that didn't make the cut: Shikoku is the first place on earth with a commercial operational dual-mode vehicle where a bus can switch wheels and run on rail tracks. it takes only seconds to switch the wheels
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unsolicited advice but if I was CAHSR's social media person I'd either pivot to every post being hyper-accurate and super-technical with infographics and whatnot, or not posting at all, because this lowest common denominator "we're working!" posting is not doing them any favors.
The Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County is one of the first completed high-speed rail structures. At nearly 1,600 feet long, high-speed trains will travel over the riverbed and will run parallel with the BNSF Railroad. #BuildHSR
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amazing things happening under this tweet.
my friend just sent me this video from.the subway in yangzhou china, a city most americans have never heard of. he says it’s safe, clean, and reliable. no drug addicts or criminals. in america this would be unthinkable. what is the sickness that has infected our democracy?
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did you ever doubt a BART train event wasn’t going to pull insane attendance numbers
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@jdcmedlock California girls.We're undeniable.Fine, fresh, fierce.We got it on lock.West coast represent.Now put your hands up.Ooh oh ooh.Ooh oh ooh
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