kayla

a septa key in a silverliner four seat check holder

putting the septa key up here is an unmatched vibe and is one of septa’s greatest accidental design choices

bske

there is currently an undetermined amount of djs, at least two, perhaps three, they are rotating

I could use an excuse to go flying up the turnpike with Bruce Springsteen blasting

arcane was v good but so many plot holes it hurt my head

On the other hand, if patco is paying for maintenance thru its rent on those stations then it needs to start raising hell or cut some of that back to pay for it itself

I mean, i will just rough it out, bc that’s how it is, but the hand waving of “it’s the city who maintains that” etc is only good for so long, im not entirely sure a suburban oriented service should be offloading parts of its maintenance onto the city, which we all know is broke

in some cases these stations are ending up looking worse than a lot of the center city septa stations, i mean the other day there was a puddle of pee at the top of the steps, and when i came back to the station 6hr later it was still there just with a wet floor sign on top

i just saw this post again from a bit ago and I have to say I am a little concerned that the conditions of the Philly stations is going to start driving passengers back to cars and prevent ridership recovery on patco

for a bit the vibes here were worse than the other one but im hoping that was growing pains and I’ll give it another chance

I’ll try bsky again maybe

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Violence abroad 🤝 repression at home

Missing jwt

Budd railcar manufacturing and stainless steel fabrication. They remain the unbeatable world standard for quality railcar construction with stuff still in service almost two generations after the last car was built. They also were a patent powerhouse developing wonderful technology for decades.

I’ve had a moderately popular post on Twitter and oh boy it’s a shitshow

twitter is so miserable but I also am soooo addicted again

Rivkah Brown is forced to tweet: “On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.”

JK Rowling is a holocaust denier that champions the abuse and systemic erasure of trans children, with the goal of criminalizing all access to trans bodily and legal autonomy writ large 😇

We have to stop tipping culture by getting people paid a living wage. Tipping just ensures that the best people have to pay more and the worst people pay less. Fundamentally evil system

nice city! i hope to visit some day, that’s a bit longer of a route. Empire Builder to Capitol Limited to Pennsylvanian in Pittsburgh or a NEC service in DC. really hope one day Amtrak revives the Broadway Limited for Chicago-NYC via Philly

View of the Philly skyline from the roof of the Amtrak parking garage. The view is looking East from the west side of the Schuylkill

Amtrak 30th St Station’s grand hall

Philadelphia is a great (and affordable!) city. I don’t think there’s anywhere else in the country that really compares, depending on where your from Amtrak is cheap to here and 30th St Station is beautiful

unfortunately i am in the secret worse category, from the Philly burbs (hoping to move to city though)

i swear every trans person lives in Philly or is actively trying to move to Philly or is from Philly or went to school at a Philly area school

turns out every trans woman ever appears to be in Philadelphia

work to 210

I love wlllesving work at 1:02am

also why doesn’t it work with click to focus in augment3d. i have the whole space modeled out nicely in there and instead i have to use the encoders

why is it that i always end up with one khamsin-s that doesn’t work like the others

A screenshot of the weather app. Today the high is 54 and it’s rainy. Tomorrow 63 and partly cloudy. Monday 60 and cloudy. Tuesday 55 and rain. Wednesday rain and 61

i thought the saying was April showers not February-March showers

I’m sure this definitely can’t be used to ddos the platform