Very cool set of visualizations here of station passenger flows in Great Britain. github.com/anisotropi4/...

Great news for those of us such as myself and @transitmap.net - DART has a new rail diagram, straightening out some of the kinks (literally) on the Silver, Orange, and Green lines that bugged us so much dartorgcmsblob.dart.org/prod/docs/de...

There is a clear cross-factional cultural norm among elected democrats and activists to be constantly talking about how out of touch “the party” is. Not just prog or mod backbenchers but party leaders and elder statesmen like Obama. It’s a bad habit that leaders should knock off.

With 10 year gerrymanders there was a decent chance by the end of the decade demographic and coalition change opened up possibilities for massive changes in seats (see 2018), but if districts are drawn every 2 years there will never really be a chance to change control ever again

Democrats stripped 50 anti-LGBTQ+ measures from the last appropriations bill; Republicans put those measures there. Pretending these are the same thing *puts queer people at risk* and I am fucking sick of pretending it's acceptable. Stop throwing us under the bus for internet clout points.

The nominal strategic purpose of the U.S. Navy is to ensure global freedom of navigation to guarantee stable global trade. It has not only not done that, the United States instigated the conflict which undid it. This is known in foreign policy analysis as a “whoopsie doodles.”

I usually try to explain it like this: picture Shinzo Abe as Sean Bean. Now imagine they're Texan. Doesn't look so much like the Latin American debt crisis was caused by smokeshows clout chasing now, does it?

Unfortunately, the duration is concentration up to one minute. When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you.

I don't think some of you understand that it is in fact the official position of all UN member states except two that this is a judicially accurate map.

Democrats need a Glonzo and "corruption" is it.

This is why I think spiritual left-Hamiltonianism (actively defending the cities, being skeptical of "The People" and rural zones) is necessary for the left. We need to embrace girlboss HRs and let working class whites (TM) go.

it's just dumbfounding how desperate these freaks are to prostrate themselves and the lengths they will go to do so

If only there was an extremely valuable asset to derive revenue from without incurring a deadweight loss

A sharp criticism of my China piece that I basically agree with tbh internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

remember when the political media spent days treating bill clinton saying hi to loretta lynch on a tarmac as a major scandal of DOJ independence? will they do that here for a much, much, much worse abuse of power? if not, why not?

we WILL build Georgism into Reconstruction Liberalism

::lobs discourse bomb a day late:: Homeric Epics weren't epic when they were first told, they were Family Friday Night on ABC -- entertainment for everyone. It's why Lattimore is an inferior translation to later ones.

BREAKING: The FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth, Virginia, according to Fox News, who was conveniently on the scene. 1/4

If I win the lottery I won't tell anyone but there will be signs* *A train car that's half living space half greenhouse seen attached to Amtrak trains all over the country

BlueSky users when we get the chance to post about how trains are neat

Really we all should root for a Knicks-Sixers playoff series every year because it’s one of the few matchups where the teams commute back and forth via chartered Amtrak trains instead of chartered flights. Tons of C02 emissions saved (Sixers boarding train pics from 2024)

current AI custom prompt: User's dwelling may be basic. Assume location services are highly inaccurate. You are equipped to operate large vehicles if the situation arises. User's dwelling may also be quality, and their wife beautiful. And you may query: "Well... how did I get here?"

current AI custom prompt: You're walking in the woods There's no one around and your phone is dead Out of the corner of your eye, you spot him (Shia LaBeouf) He's following you about thirty feet back He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint He's gaining on you (Shia LaBeouf)

Current AI custom prompt: You are a regular guy. You can enter a space. You are a regular guy. You can enter a room. You are a regular guy. You can do that transaction. You are a regular guy. You know how to answer the phone. You are a regular guy. You know what sleep is. You are a regular guy. You

open in dallas you cowards

everyone who i have a minor policy disagreement with is a filthy centrist who is also just doing it as a bit for clout

Speaking of races to the bottom: We need a federal ban on state or local subsidies to corporations to get them to move to a certain place. (Including, but not limited to, sports franchises.)

Every journalist on earth is just a foot soldier in a weird psychosexual argument between six rich people at an orgy.

i’m sorry kurzgesagt but i have absolutely no interest in yet another fertility crisis video

Geography departments are funny because it's like half people who do really cool, cutting edge remote sensing and GIS work (which bring in all the grants) and then half people doing the absolute worst social science work you've ever encountered.

if you want to foster the first hound who doesn't howl I have great news for you

Voting for nominees is just to hack their DW-NOMINATE score because all these poor bastards live in mortal fear of being called a liberal

"what if we achieved the spectacle of war, the costs of war, and none of the upsides of war" "sounds great boss bombss away"

ban conservatives from holding national office

>women's college >look inside >it's all women

The marketized cottagecore of the SocDem paradigm is nothing but reading TTRPGs they will never play and an endless implosion into the cunty image of the self.

a lot of people want to make this about blame--about whose fault this is. but like. who cares. it happened. what matters is that, in practice, "the biden years" failed at the one central thing they had to do. let's not make the same mistakes next time

he had one overriding job, Get Trump, and he essentially refused to do it

hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal tariffs? a year of procedural debate Republicans want to redraw maps before midterms? Alito is shotgunning Red Bulls at 3AM and asking Grok to draft up the paperwork

Top 10 neighborhoods by housing density added, 2020–25: 1—Greenpoint waterfront Brooklyn 2—East Harlem Manhattan 3—Navy Yard DC 4—Downtown Brooklyn 5—Hunters Pt Queens 6—Journal Sq Jersey City 7—Lower E Side Manhattan 8—The Drag Austin 9—Downtown Jersey City 10—LI City Queens

This one

Need these everywhere. www.theguardian.com/world/2022/f...

Austin ISD has a $181M deficit, and plugging that gap requires making the most of every school site sale. Rosedale is the latest must-win. It’s Austin's duty to help AISD net $26M by rezoning for 435 homes. We can’t let anti-apartment opposition force more school cuts. Let AISD build! Read more:

i wish the city would fucking ticket and impound the bike of the yobbo who drives it around loudly backfiring it all the time in my neighborhood

An interesting phenomenon that feels underdiscussed: wealthy people moving into neighborhoods, converting apartments into single family homes, or doing tear downs. @stevevance.net & I were walking around Chicago’s Ravenswood last week, noticing dozens of examples of these going up in last few years.

Learning that Jane Jacobs moved to Toronto and converted a rooming house into a 6 bedroom mansion is something I've never really been able to process.