sick public transit, gloria

it's very nice to find an anime after feeling for decade-plus that the medium has largely moved on w/o me

nw DANDADAN, an anime about trains. my first anime in years because it is about trains

To the federal agent assigned to monitor my social media presence

didn't realize i could enjoy a post about cars this much

ALWAYS TRUST A GOTH GIRL

George Kirby with stains on his Jersey

I know spaghetti o's stains when I see em

Ohtani handing you a blunt

play Randy Newman baby

oh great now the Dodgers have to close out a game 😬

wondering if he’s hurt somewhere

Mr. Mamdani, I hope you and your staff will find inspiration from Seoul’s effort to prevent rapid transit deaths with Platform Scree Doors

well it was nice seeing possibly the best 🇰🇷🇯🇵 relations in my lifetime between Lee JM and Ishiba for like four months

guy is absolutely furious about being labeled a weather vane: "weather vanes are the most courageous people I know, actually"

Gav's working on it, but the ultimate political weathervane imo goes to former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who ushered to Japan Thatcherite neoliberalism and succeeded in privatizing the Japanese National Railways www.substack-bahn.net/p/the-death-...

Cen on X: "The gasp I gusped at the end 😭 "Bibi" is Benjamin Netanyahu Speaking are Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) and ConnorEatsPants https://t.co/morZEQpTn7" / X The gasp I gusped at the end 😭 "Bibi" is Benjamin Netanyahu Speaking are Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) and ConnorEatsPants https://t.co/morZEQpTn7

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Cen on X: "The gasp I gusped at the end 😭 "Bibi" is Benjamin Netanyahu Speaking are Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) and ConnorEatsPants https://t.co/morZEQpTn7" / X The gasp I gusped at the end 😭 "Bibi" is Benjamin Netanyahu Speaking are Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) and ConnorEatsPants https://t.co/morZEQpTn7

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happy fortnite friday everyone

incredible gavin brought up sb79 and his beef with netanyahu in one fortnite twitch stream

I have imbibed
the beer
that were in
the glovebox

and which
you were probably
saving
after karate

Forgive me
they were delicious
so few
and so small

the real value-add of PR (ugh) is knowing when and telling people how to shut up

Those against PSDs repeatedly said they were economically “impossible.” Internally, policymakers and bureaucrats in the Seoul Metropolitan Government echoed the sentiment: Economists and experts ask if there is a need to install platform screen doors considering its huge expenses and lengthy construction periods. If there is an accident, [the Metro] can compensate. … Even in the United States, systems like the New York City subway have not installed one over its 100-year history.10 Despite the price tag scare, the debate over PSDs rolled over into 2004 due to the continued interest of four unconnected parties: first, the widower Yoon, whose media campaign was in full steam; second, the labor unions who had over the years demanded PSDs for passenger and employee safety; third, Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak, who, in January 2004, jumped into the debate by asking his own staff to look into PSD feasibility; and, lastly, a cadre of councilmembers who periodically quizzed Seoul Metro management about PSDs.11 The last two held the most sway. Mayor Lee, a former Hyundai Engineering and Construction CEO, was arguably the most consequential Seoul Mayor in modern history, most famous for tearing down the Cheonggyecheon freeway and restoring the creek that ran below it. Lee, who often took the metro as mayor, was greatly interested in transforming Seoul’s transportation network and led the consequential 2004 bus network reorganization.12 The PSD plan was thus in Lee’s wheelhouse: a large-scale construction project to remake Seoul’s urban transportation fabric. One anonymous Seoul Metro employee told the press that despite the council’s majority opposition to PSDs, Lee kept the issue alive by sheer will and personal interest.13

as I wrote, the idea of installing Platform Screen Doors in Seoul Metro was nearly DOA but Lee's interest was one key ingredient that gave it a fighting chance for full installation at all stations after Lee's mayorship (and during his presidency) www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

despite how Lee Myung-bak's legacy turned out, he was a truly CEO mayor who led three big projects of major consequence for Seoul:

1) the Cheonggyecheon creek restoration
2) the bus network reforms
3) support for Platform Screen Doors at Seoul Metro stations

it's still the film of the 2020s for me. epoch-defining. OBAA came close

DRIVE MY CAR or AFTERSUN for me, but let’s face it, it’s ZONE OF INTEREST

he’s a gd war hero and his name was dragged thru the mud

it’s been Mandate of Heaven post-McCourt

shuddering at the thought of the Giants ever knocking the Dodgers out of the playoffs, which, of course, will and must never happen in my lifetime

I'm the kind of sick fuck who thinks of Steely Dan's "Dirty Work" primarily as a Pointer Sisters song:

yooo this is fire

Everyone bends the knee eventually

My friend and I were driving back from The Caverns on Sunday and I had my liked songs playlist on shuffle and a Steely Dan song came up and he was like "really?" and I said, "Man, I don't know, the shit just catches you off guard at some point and you're hooked."