getting emotional about Chainsaw Man Part 2 ending tomorrow ngl...even despite my many frustrations, I really have gotten to love these two very broken characters

I haven’t seen conflagration at Port Arthur with the potential for this much global consequence since General Nogi and imperial Japanese forces laid siege to the Tsarist military and bombarded the Russian fleet, sinking multiple battleships and compelling the Russian surrender of the city in 1904-5.

I don't care what the studies say, this is a plot by Big Kimchi to sell more banchan

Connect Bay Area, the ballot measure campaign to keep transit running, needs your help! Get involved at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is from five months ago - Nov 2025. I assume these numbers have started to shift given the current signature gathering efforts and recent press about the significance of the funding measure.

this is why we have to collect signatures. an initiative wins at 50%+1. a measure put on the ballot by the jurisdictions requires two-thirds.

like, the "prevent the bay area from locking in fubar traffic gridlock forever, imploding its regional economy, and destroying any chance of environmental progress" ballot measure is currently polling at 56 percent right now. a near coin-flip drive.google.com/file/d/1Vmjf...

think I convinced family friends living in Orinda suburbs to support the transit measure by saying 1) it'll affect their property value (that got their ears perked lol) 2) station closures are best case endpoint of a large gradient of possibilities if measure fails missionlocal.org/2026/03/bart...

“A Tottenham fan is not just supporting a club, he is entering a long-term relationship with hope deprivation, public humiliation and the occasional burst of beauty designed purely to keep the bond alive” - a Spurs season-ticket holder of 40 years. www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

>will oil crisis be solved soon >>how much will oil cost by May >>>how bad does the oil crisis have to get for the Premier League consider suspending the season and thus preventing Tottenham from relegation

very courteous Tottenham is flirting with relegation only in the very last season of soccer as we know it before civilizational collapse

“Tottenham til I die” I whisper to myself as I drive my car off a cliff

Can’t reply but I agree this is a really interesting paper. However, worth noting that the “fuel island” is likely to look very different by 2029 when the Western Gateway Pipeline is shipping from midcontinent into LA (by reversing a pipeline currently exporting to Phoenix and beyond).

the past is a foreign country www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrex...

CARBOB is a beautiful name for a boy

oh to be a pedalboard getting twisted and turned by those polka dot toe grippers of an alien guitarist

thinking about when Park Chung-hee announced on television on New Year's Day 1976 that South Korea found large reserves of oil just outside its coast and when western observers asked if they come see it, the Park regime just left them on read lol

snapshot of the suburb outside Seoul where I grew up. Korea’s mobility planning seems to be total maximalism: 8-lane boulevards everywhere and a subway line (or even two) which runs 5 min peak headways/10 min reg headways with platform screen doors and express skip stop service

you know where korean railfans go/dream of going to fall back in love with trains? new york city. they love that mta aesthetics

not under my watch www.substack-bahn.net/p/one-bullet...

Australia: "At least 107 fuel stations across the state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia have run out of diesel as panic buying has outstripped supply, premier Chris Minns said today." www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

can you imagine telling a Californian 100 years ago that it's a fuel island in 2026, this state once used to pump out 1/5 of the global oil supply and 40% of US's oil supply. there was so much oil Presidents tried to stop CA oil companies from overproducing multiple times

"California is essentially a fuel island. There are no pipeline inflows of refined fuel into the state, and cargo ships delivering CARBOB take three to six weeks to arrive from distant facilities capable of producing CARBOB." this entire paper is fascinating. thanks for sharing @ucsdave.bsky.social

anybody know where I can learn about the genesis of **California Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending** aka CARBOB and why California mandates our gasoline blend be totally unique from the rest of the United States (and even the world maybe)?

Whenever you start focusing on the makeup of gasoline, it’s bad news. Could be a trade thing. Could be an injectors thing, could be a turbo thing But it’s never a good sign

"While some of the feedstock for California’s gasoline does come from the U.S., far more comes from India and South Korea... California is “disproportionately” affected by the physical price of oil in the Middle East “because that’s where a lot of the imports come from.”

there's something really horrifying in how you can start out as the most principled, reasonable, and evidence backed critic of the establishment possible, but then the twin forces of ostracism from the mainstream and audience capture by cranks eventually turns you into a caricature of yourself.

hard to believe but Steyer has broken through the noise with proposals like this? and also has gotten a lot of labor endorsements lately? wild race

"In this situation, if the Strait remains closed, the price is just going to keep rising and rising and rising until you get fewer planes in the air and fewer people driving. And I think that is the kind of situation we’re kind of looking at now."

What are some of your favorite gas prices

Great piece from @robinks.com on an underrated epidemic in modern America: understaffing. From nursing homes to retail, railroads to air traffic control, nobody hires enough people for the job anymore. prospect.org/2026/03/19/u...

tired: human (jinbun 人文） geographers wired: fecal (jinpun 人糞）geographers www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

here’s a crazy fact: under congestion pricing, NYC subway ridership grew by more than the *total* number of riders on BART last year

I counted 87 bus routes in total for all of Muni in San Francisco and outside bus agencies which operate in San Francisco (AC Transit, Golden Gate, Samtrans)

Seoul is going to reroute all of its local, regional, and express buses going through Gwanghwamun Square from Gyeongbok Palace to City Hall and close down three Metro stations closest to the square in anticipating of the BTS concert Friday night www.chosun.com/english/nati...

City policy on street name changes typically requires input from up to five departments...Even after that, it may be difficult to truly erase Chavez’s name, as city rules typically require a street’s former name to also be featured on street signs for a period of five years.

Afroman, sir, Ohio does not deserve you. come back home to California, perhaps even to a small suburb called Palmdale?

(Japan) has around 250 days worth of crude oil reserves, but only 20 days worth of naphtha… “Markets are not really thinking through the cascading implications of no naphtha supply. It might be the canary in the coal mine, and unfortunately Japan is very exposed.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

everyone should read this bc this is so so damning and sad

the floor tile of the caracas airport, designed by artist carlos cruz-diez, is iconic for the venezuelan diaspora. often, it's one of the last things venezuelans see before boarding a flight to leave their homeland.

ACUÑA IS WEARING THE FLOOR OF THE CARACAS AIRPORT IN THE COLORS OF THE VENEZUELAN FLAG AS A COMPRESSION SLEEVE

vibes theory of the World Baseball Classic stands undefeated

cracking open the finest bottle of heavy sour crude in the house

congratulations to venezuela. sal perez called a fantastic game, and their pitchers were on fire. no idea how you're supposed to beat a team that threw a 3-hitter.

Aaron Judge when his team needs him

one of the funniest videos ever produced

oh my god???????

any plans to upzone the moral high ground?