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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Sometimes, no matter how hard it may be, you must resist the urge to help: kurtraschke.com/2025/12/help...

Merry Fishmas @bart.gov

Um

Industry, Indiana, on eink

Why is there a crypto currency called Optio 😭 I want posts about the CAF CBTC offering, not the retirement obliterator

As someone with a computer-addled brain, I like zero-indexed floor numbering

Dirt Jr helping the humans at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum.

A colleague of mine in a senior technical role has taken to using “dingus” to refer to almost any machine, and it brings me great joy

There’s an age gap, but they’re a happy couple

Removing bad matches from the feed is very annoying. Time to put this in Clickhouse!

One of the biggest problems with “crime is up” narratives is that, as far as the public is concerned, they can fade out of conscious memory, but never be reversed, because “nothing happened” never makes the news. Somehow, this needs to be the front page for the next year.

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Increasingly convinced that Google should just ingest GTFS as it comes to them and move the onus on ensuring quality to feed producers.

Introducing: the Modern Signals feed. It aggregates posts about CBTC and other related technologies! More info on my blog: natalie.zone/blog/cbtc-feed

Need someone to make the is/isn't triangle meme for CBTC

Today's battle: node-gyp errors

to inaugurate the new blog, i've written about a local and contentious topic that's been on my mind for years. at its heart, it's about understanding the information that transit riders need. the case for splitting TTC Line 1:

Whimsy, on the Green Line? More likely than you might think!

If you're missing Megabus, I've turned the group of Megabus Guys that my friend assembled into a Signal sticker pack. #MakePrivacyStick signal.art/addstickers/...

The sky is gray and the sun is yet to make an appearance. Today is for listening to Sinead O'Connor while writing.

This did not happen because I hung out with friends and we roamed suburban industrial parks in search of a REM test train that we did not find

Today's quest: understanding protobuf

Right now, the Waymo policy herd is lying in the tall grass watching the “there’s absolutely no equitable non-carceral way to discourage DUIs!” discourse

Happy birthday to the best rapid transit system without a GTFS-rt feed ❤️

Something I didn’t have on my list of predictions for this year was getting looks for using a widely used messaging app because of *multiple* high profile military scandals involving said app.

This is where I post from

we are witnessing a devastating enclosure of the commons (craigslist) by the morally repugnant elites (people who still have facebook accounts)

Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup. If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock. www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...

Waiting for the crazy trap remix of Mamdani’s victory speech

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Last night we saw some “no fun allowed” behavior from a certain large transit agency with a U shaped line in Canada.

I go silently now into the long dark night.

Rooting for the Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone to save us.

Seeing a lot of people who were not into baseball a year ago into baseball now. Very exciting, however as a San Franciscan living in New York, I can only hope the stadium collapses before the bottom of the ninth, depriving them both of a win.

Today is for crying in the cafe missionlocal.org/2025/10/kitk...

It’s not every day you see a guy with fantastic patina

A disgrace.

Take MTA's Customers Count survey! nymta.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

All of these tips are derived from the psychological protections developed for content moderators, and if you want more detail and citations, crowd.cs.vt.edu/wp-content/u... is the paper that has the best collection of citations that I've found .

We've passed 50% support for Congestion Pricing! www.uml.edu/docs/2025-NY... (page 18/27)

Chicago Review of Architecture reviews architecture in Chicago. We are pleased to share that we have received a grant from the Graham Foundation for a Chicago Review of Architecture.

I still haven’t been able to find an RSS reader I like, so today I’m lamenting the loss of Omnivore from somewhere between Cleveland and Erie.

Sad goodbye to my babies for a couple months today

Vigilance

Currently cat sitting these boys

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