JR East didn’t take Tokyoites to London to ride the tube, they were just: you guys better like a shitload of trains

I speak this as a 99th percentile public transit appreciator: I just don't think this will be true. mass mass transit will never arrive if we left it up for an awakening of mass demand to dictate mobility choices

some of these papers were made for me. "Historicizing Seoul's Urban Waterways Naturalization"? "Seaweed and the Infrastructures of Empire"? "Tojong, Korean Ginseng, and the Soil-Land Semiotics of Plant Belonging"? 😩

Naphta is a beautiful name for a girl...

"About 2 million barrels of oil are in the process of being unloaded in Long Beach off of the last California-bound tanker that got through the Strait of Hormuz...Borenstein suggested the state reconsider its special fuel blend."

Korea rules everything around me, including hantavirus

OCTA is circulating an outrageous fact sheet justifying their cuts to Metrolink. 50% cuts that will lead to a death spiral in the US's 3rd largest regional rail system are "aligning service with demand". Speak out at 9:30 on Monday! Here's what they're missing: 🧵

a great breakfast at a cha chaan teng is a culinary experience equivalent to a course meal at a Michelin restaurant

Business case for Wilshire subway was so good (and planning had been done for so long) that it bucked the preference of LA Metro elsewhere for non-grade separated LRT and cane to full scope definition at height of Obama era streetcar mania.

Cao Wei=Elon Xitter Shu Han=Bluesky? lol Eastern Wu=Threads

Romance of the Three Twitters

seeing Fidel do the Euro step in the Giannis comp post down in the thread got me saying this audibly

I know economists who use externalities, and they’re all cowards

where do you start

Ironically, the Union Station Chevron probably has one of the lower price increases from prewar times simply because it was already selling gas at $7+ for funsies.

if you ride the bus and post enough times about it, the bus agency starts inviting you to things (laudatory) (heartwarming) (life-affirming)

I know that ain’t who I think it is

going viral for posting LA Union Station Chevron is against the Poster's Bushido

all Angelenos do is get stuck in traffic and daydream about LA's spectacular destruction. check out Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear to learn more

appropos of today, sharing a long-deleted LA Weekly piece from 2005 on the history of why the Wilshire Subway was so long delayed and what incoming mayor (lol) Antonio Villaraigosa is up against to finally complete the Wilshire Subway. a rich transit time capsule web.archive.org/web/20121018...

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

same guy who wrote "It’s Okay to Like Geese" two weeks lmao

347 Daegu area PPP members have exited their conservative party to back the liberal DPK mayor candidate — but recent polls find the PPP candidate is up by a sliver thanks to the infamous “shy conservative” bounce known in Korean politics www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/ye...

only in San Francisco does a fountain catch on fire www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/v...

www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s... Honestly Buddhism is the perfect religion for this, especially Korean Mahayana, since it holds that all lacks inherent essence and self, only the context of itself in the world, and even objects (inanimate or animate) has a buddha soul.

"Will you devote yourself to the holy Buddha?" one of the monks asked. “Yes, I will devote myself," the robot replied in an audible voice. "Will you devote yourself to the holy teaching?" the monk asked. "Yes, I will devote myself," the robot answered. m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

must have felt good as hell to be an artistic white boy in 19th century Europe seeing a Japanese woodblock print painting for the very first time

I need everyone in climate to understand that this is as big an emergency as hyperscale data centers.

2010 called. you just got Onion’d

what if Kim Il Sung did not pause moving south for three days after seizing Seoul in June 1950

identity has substantially realigned around consumption rather than production

taking advantage of the sale to get Melinda Cooper-pilled

our local celebrity coyote may be closer to the mythical coyote depicted in the Simpsons episode when Homer hallucinates after eating the chief's chili than an actual coyote

what civilization created these complex hieroglyphics

book starts out with the life of Toshio Kawahara, a Japanese man born in Busan. after WWII's end, he and his family moved to Fukuoka. missing the Korean salted pollock roe of his Busan childhood, he modified the recipe for Japanese palette and created the first mentaiko company in Japan. great start

The "bastards" part reminds me of when I was first in Seoul, on the train from Incheon. When the guy in front of me learned I was from Brazil, he asked "do you know what our countries have in common?" I meekly offered "Soccer?" but he said "no - we're the two most corrupt countries in the world!"

dispatches from Woke 2: my Lyft driver the other day picked us on a Tesla X and had his Jensen Huang leather jacket on. he was a recent Korean immigrant and talked the entire ride in Korean about his unfiltered love for Malcolm X and the Haitian revolutionaries

It's happening. On Friday, 5/15, we are soft-launching our Transit Priority Atlas 1.0 website. Come join us in person at 370 Jay Street to explore this knowledge-sharing tool and get lost in circulation planning layouts and intersection management strategies for better on-street transit.

Local tax issues require constitutional amendments. Basically everything requires a constitutional amendment. Looking up fairly minor planning regulations was always fun

not only was it stupid (and very funny) the thing made it transcendent for me was NBA player Trey Murphy, for reasons unknown, was sitting in the middle of it looking totally bewildered on what the hell was going on

When I was taking a JR train in Osaka last month, I kept wondering: Wouldn't it be nice if Toronto had something similar? A post on the history, struggles and hope Japan can bring to the development of regional rail in Toronto. Filled with video of JR-W trains too.

this is a truly delightful wikipedia paragraph

people love to rag on the California Constitution for its absurd length (iirc it's more than 70k words long) but I just learned the Alabama Constitution is more than five times longer???

makes a convincing case of the army of American engineers who bulldozed thru Western Europe and South Pacific during WWII directly translating their tools and skills back home to postwar urban renewal, suburbanization, and environmental clearance. if it worked there, why can’t it work back home?

the polls in the Daegu mayor race has definitely tightened but its gotten 10x funnier in the past week. update thread TBD bsky.app/profile/seun...

things are moving in lead up to the June regional elections in South Korea that makes US woke 2 look asleep

another big news for KTX high speed rail in South Korea: in addition to new trains and KTX-SRT merger, they are building a high-speed spur line from Suwon (pop: 1.3m) to the Suseo-Pyeongtaek HSR line to cut direct travel times on Suwon-Mokpo and Suwon-Busan trips www.kyeongin.com/article/1531...

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