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$85 Billion Deal Creates America’s First Coast-to-Coast Rail Operator The merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would create a single, transcontinental railroad company for the first time in U.S. history.

Incredible Gilded Age tie-in

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"all of this smacks of simulacra" as I turn over my uncle's amphora and turn the festival of Dionysus into the festival of shit

My brother works 3rd shift at a FedEx distribution site and just last night sent me a snapchat of a bunch of loose bullets that had fallen out of a crumpled box, and told me his boss said he could have them if he wanted.

Craig Finn Can Write A Great Song, But Can He Write A Good Short Story? | Defector Craig Finn is the poet laureate of people who just can’t make it work. His songs are full of burnouts and failures, hard-drinkers and rough-sleepers, the lagging and the left behind. Their successes e...

good essay from @robrubsam.bsky.social on where songwriting meets storytelling

I want to disagree, but I think the reality is that it's like the cinema equivalent of cheesecake - rich and decadent and delicious. And I love cheesecake, but I also know a lot of people don't.

I know it's a dorky thing to admit, but I love inventory management theory

Good job team - we're going to need this discipline and espirit decorp in the posting wars to come

in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh

I remember a principal electrical design engineer came in to consult once and saw that it had a 6 month calibration sticker and literally burst out laughing

In a past life, I used to do transformer winding, and one transformer had a requirement for its resonant frequency, so we'd have to vary the input frequency and watch the response on a 1950's era vacuum tube voltmeter that was so cool and so wildly impractical

is that good

Look at my flying contraption dawg, i'm going to plummet to the ground

That may be true for other people, but I'm not going to fly too close to the sun, so it would be inappropriate to laugh at me

and yet, no "Horny" setting

My baby simply will not sleep well - she's healthy and happy and otherwise hitting all of her developmental milestones, but she will not sleep in her bassinet for more than a couple of hours. My wife and I can only conclude that she is simply too powerful and her body hasn't caught up yet

That's none of our business, and I'll thank you to stop looking into it.

But Fischoeder was correct, as the conductor's letter to his mistress proves

Every frame a painting

Very senatorial

You do not fuck the future my friend, the future fucks you

Nothing in the constitution says that the Vice President can't also be antipope

"Papist" accusations gonna come back in a big way

They're not *technically* explosions

Not my ontological ass getting coated in silver to dull the auditory hallucinations 🤣