Earlier this week there was a serious accident on the Tokyo Den-en-Toshi Line. This accident took place late in the evening, when a local train inbound to the Hanzomon Line sideswiped an out-of-service train parked on a tail track at Kajigaya station, not far from the major junction at Mizonokuchi

1. obviously none of this would have happened if Dems had won the last election. 2. After the last nine months it is imperative that these be the baseline policy priorities of any Dem running for president.

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

always a pleasure to chat with @jacobsilverman.com about his great work on the terrible tech billionaires. this episode — and his new book! — do not disappoint :)

I guess they didn’t like Trump’s new 100% tariffs on China today, added on to the previous tariffs.

FIGHTING WORKS, DO NOT CONCEDE IN ADVANCE

Like how can we have endless pieces about fucking dissertation plagiarism and not one about "the spokesperson for DHS tells specific, easily-disproven lies constantly to provide cover for serious crimes against the public" how is that not a big deal? Do I have to write this shit myself?!?!?

Can you imagine how Republicans would have reacted if Democrats had called the Tea Party terrorists?

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

Normally when an economy collapses it's one giant bubble that pops all of the related bubbles but right now we have the giant AI bubble functioning as a normal collapse bubble and also there's an about 1 in 100 chance every day the President blows up the economy Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

A few minutes ago in the House: - Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week - House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

I wish they focused their obsession on plant genitals (i.e., flowers) instead.

Super stoked about Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize. A beautiful interview with him from a couple years ago: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/a...

#Parking Titan Donald Shoup’s Legacy Continues A new book and a new UCLA center honor the world's foremost expert on parking, Donald Shoup, who passed away in February. cc @parkingreform.org la.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/p...

So happy MAGA is crying that Trump lost the Nobel Peace Prize. First Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl halftime performer and now this. Poor MAGA. Maybe they should self-Deport! 😀

It’s tempting to say ‘if this was any other industry…’ but universities are generally seen as public sector and there’s still relativly little public debate about consequences of public sector job losses after 2010. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Same. #AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

Funny how hunting and trapping young women to coerce them into "dating," through pre-meditated sabotage like letting their air out of their cars' tires or canceling their hotel rooms, is such a common tactic among Trump's most prominent allies. people.com/tv/fox-news-...

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social I thought you might appreciate these bollards in Sheerness town centre.

“Very, very unfair and even worse than Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. Your favorite president was snubbed for someone who’s not even American.” www.reuters.com/world/venezu...

he knows ball

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress: thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command. The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

What is Sydney's worst, most frustrating station? For me it's Lidcombe - a very busy interchange. To get from T7 to the new apartment complex next-door you cross the street, walk 500m, cross the street again, go upstairs, thru the gate, downstairs, along two platforms to get back where you started!

"Komeito's departure from the ruling bloc marks a major shift in Japanese politics, as the two parties had cooperated for 26 years since Komeito entered a three-party coalition with the LDP and the now-defunct Liberal Party in October 1999."

"Komeito, the Liberal Democratic Party’s long-time junior coalition partner, said Friday it plans to leave the ruling camp, parting ways with the LDP and new President Sanae Takaichi after the LDP failed to accept the party’s proposal on political donations."

Vulnerable pedestrians have to step into a bike lane because Amazon drivers don’t care about you or your family. Also, notice how this isn’t a driveway, it’s just someone’s front garden.

Personally, I feel like despite Rise of Skywalker, Dave is moving forward on his mysterious plans (the seeds of which were laid long ago in Clone Wars and Rebels) involving the Mortis Gods, Anakin's role as the Chosen One, the World Between Worlds and Ahsoka the White, and I for one don't mind that.

“That would strike me as highly unusual and somewhat unrealistic under normal circumstances, but not impossible in extraordinary situations” to “Well, I stand corrected! This is actually happening” 🙃

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Obvious former railway ROW is obvious

So they chose the opposite of Trump

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The year is 1805. Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the aerial corps stands before him. Skies are now battlefields. (I stayed up again until 3:30 reading, I really need to stop this)

(I do not think the Nobel Prize Committee are “trolling Trump”, by the way. I think you are all reading across your own opinions and this is a committee of people acting out of - in their eyes - great moral seriousness, they wouldn’t be acting out of spite or malicious glee)

Hummus with spiced beef. The hummus was so good it made pulling my food processor out worth the hassle of cleaning it! 🍽️

The EU has signaled it won't give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its green rules in order to firm up a deal on tariffs, the bloc’s top trade official has told member countries.

"Brussels-bashing" is becoming fashionable again. With Friedrich Merz sounding like a revenant Boris Johnson, fights over the long-term budget and unhappiness at EU-US trade, it's open season on Brussels. My Charlemagne on the return of an old European scourge www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

[chef's kiss]

I've just realised that with the ending of peak fares on the trains, that the train is now cheaper and quicker than the bus or tram for a chunk of journeys in Edinburgh. And yet single ticketing is as elusive as ever...

Dinner last night: sous vide ribeye roast with demi-glace, fondant potatoes, Balsamic glazed Brussels sprouts with bacon, and slow roasted tomatoes with mozzarella. 🍽️

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

🇵🇭 A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake has struck off the southern Philippines, leaving at least two people dead and triggering regional tsunami warnings that were later lifted. ➡️ u.afp.com/Sm2A

The administration has extrajudicially killed 21 people in the Caribbean, per their own figures.

Across the US & Canada, cities are replacing aging library complexes with combined apartment + library buildings. It's a promising way to fund new public facilities while adding housing. A new database & details of best practices @urbaninstitute.bsky.social: www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...

I agree! "Somebody who can maybe invest an hour after work a week" servers would service a broad and underserved demographic Like me, for example

There’s a bunch of games I would probably try/enjoy more if they had “aging millennial who kinda sucks at this” servers.

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.