My latest here: thetransitguy.substack.com/p/the-busies...

Munich Airport (MUC) will celebrate the 25th edition of its Christmas and Winter Market this year. The entire airport space will turn festive with lights, food, and fun winter activities. Visitors will experience many new surprises this time. curlytales.com/trending/mun... #Munich #airport #avgeek

If there was any architect who designed “timeless modernism” it was Eero Saarinen.

Washington Dulles (opened 1962), by Eero Saarinen. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/Bp2AdjLlM6x/

Louisville (opened 1989, renovated 2005), by Bickel-Gibson Architects. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/CWq5D2fvE5H/

ATL is an airport that, the more airports you go to, the more you appreciate it. It’s efficient, it’s cohesively laid out, and it has ample places to eat and shop

I’m not sure what it says about the state of U.S. transit, but only five states move more people by rail each day than the people mover at Atlanta’s airport. By my estimate, it’s one of the most efficient rail systems in the world.

The worsening state of the US labor market. We talked with @conorsen.bsky.social about the jobs picture, since we don't have a jobs report. Verdict: Clear signs of deterioration, with risks of rapidly rising unemployment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

4) it’s remarkable how much there is a global higher income lingua franca in food and amenities that’s easily available in every major city I’ve been to this year. Athens, Lisbon, New York, Chicago, Charlotte…there’s always a place to get a flat white, a HIIT class, and an avocado toast.

This is way closer than I’d like it to be but Charlotte appears set to unlock an absolutely massive infrastructure plan with the 1% sales tax increase with billions for public transit and roads up by just shy of 8k votes with almost all precincts in.

Coca-Cola Life (2014-2020): A reduced-calorie cola, made with both sugar and stevia, though made in some areas with just stevia as a zero-calorie drink. Marketing presented it as part of a healthy, vibrant, Earth-conscious lifestyle, and it was sold in partially plant-based containers

Live TV helicopter coverage of the UPS plane crash. www.youtube.com/live/H1L31-4...

aviation photo of the day: United Express (SkyWest) Embraer E175 | Chicago O'Hare | 2015

Over the past year there were more homebuyers over the age of 75 than between the ages of 25-34: www.nar.realtor/research-and...

I’m not a vegetarian and this grated tofu recipe is so good and so fast that we always have a block of super firm tofu in the fridge now. You don’t have to press it. Incredible pantry meal if you’ve got scallions. Could use whatever kind of onion tbh. (Gift link!) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

For awhile stocks were doing "The working-class consumer is struggling but everyone else is fine" and it increasingly feels more like "Unless you're a Comfort Plus/Amex Platinum-American you're struggling."

Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today. “I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”

I am a huge Manoush Zomorodi fan, so getting to be on NPR's TED Radio Hour was a real treat. We talked about how to update the operating model of government in the service of our democracy. Take a listen! www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...

🟢 #DidYouKnow | Some early Air India Airbus A320s, inherited from Indian Airlines, featured double-bogie main landing gear to distribute the aircraft’s weight and accommodate India’s lower pavement classification numbers at several airports.

This picture tells a story about who we are as humans: we're monkeys that want to see the view from the hill, because it might be pretty, surprising, or neat. We're driven by discovery, novelty, curiosity. But you'll also notice how uniform the patterning is. Let's talk about Desire Paths.

desire paths are cool and fascinating mass psychology. one neat thing about the main campus of the University of Houston is that the planners knew about them so when the campus was originally built, they didnt do many walkways. they waited for desire paths to form and then paved them. very clever!

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1: Point 🍑✨ This was one of my early explorations in #LEGO mapping, back in Spring 2024. Now I turned this design into a 3D model using round tiles (flat points), creating this "flat" 3D map of #Georgia. View more: cartoguophy.com/maps/lego_ge...

"Get ready for a day when your car’s technology expenses are another line item on the credit-card statement, right next to the Netflix subscription." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

No one should write a single addition credulous story about the Silicon Valley biohacker guys until the Niners stop being the most constantly injured team in the NFL

New pod: You’ve got 5 picks, plus one TV wildcard, money’s no object, goal is to dominate movies for the next 10-20 years. Who you got? With consensus #1 pick @lucasshaw.bsky.social. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/3eRN...

The Cubs have 3 Gold Glove award winners: CF Pete Crow-Armstrong (1st) 2B Nico Hoerner (2nd) LF Ian Happ (4th consecutive)

The trickeration of Caleb to Tyson to Caleb put the Bears in position for a two-score lead ... but they stalled and settled for a field goal. Bears 34, Bengals 27

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

@stevesteverers.whaleoilcandles.com SAY THE WORDS

The older I get the more I value conscientiousness over raw intelligence or anything like that — when someone has completed college that’s a stronger signal of being able to handle tasks in an independent environment on a consistent basis: www.wsj.com/business/pal...

Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10

The agony that Blue Jays fans feel today is also one of the beauties of baseball. We accept defeat so we can experience joy. The whole human experience. Why, yes, I did grow up a fan of the Nineties Era Braves and Georgia Bulldogs. Why do you ask?

As an Atlantan who has seen some shit: my god Toronto

hee-hee-man

It's too early for you to be listening to your call on hold with AmEx at the lousest speakerphone volume at the boarding gate.

There is only one “Game 7”.

86, 97, 01, 16 is the Mount Rushmore I think

You told me you got a raspberry pie and I show up and it's little fucking computer?

Homey literally said "touch mass"

YT TV football people, what's your move today? Fubo? Resorting to illegalities? 12 hours at a bar? Going outside?

Costco replaced 100 Grand in their chocolate variety bag with Butterfinger. I’m devastated.

(Mumbles) "That's not what Billy Napier's buyout tells me, but whatever."

The ESPN-YouTube dispute is a reminder that we need to return to the glory days of college football broadcasts: Ivy League games on PBS

I agree w Emily there needs to be more housing for incremental life stages. I have 0 disagreements w her policy recommendations My emphasis for "family" housing (as a developer) is on building Baby Maybe units rather than Studios, bc I think they are under supplied relative to demand I'll explain🔽

Disney channels including ESPN and ABC have gone dark on YouTube TV as a big sports weekend arrives. frontofficesports.com/youtube-tv-l...

Unexpectedly finding myself on the subway this morning for not great reasons and these spooky displays are really cheering me up. Seriously.

Happy Halloween and Happy Fall Break, Bulldogs!

The death of dense city living was highly overstated.

PIT's "petal tunnel" by Luis Vidal emulates something of the experience of emerging from Pittsburgh's Fort Pitt Tunnel. “You come out of the tunnel and, suddenly, you read the entire space. Everything’s there, visible and legible at one glance and that’s part of the beauty of this transformation.”