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

Great example of the longstanding New York Times genre “Common Thing Interesting Because Harvard Does It”

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...

A-B-C Always Be Chistorizing

during the Korean War, the Korean Ginseng Corporation deployed special agents to Kaesong to steal/rescue the famous Kaesong strain ginseng seeds to propagate in the South. ginseng has been very serious business for two millennia in the peninsula

I watched this three times tonight. this is what that New York Mag writer should've done to express her love for smoking than that unbearable whinging column of hers

Broke: world history is the unfolding of Hegel’s Weltgeist Woke: the proletariat is the protagonist of history Bespoke:

imagining me and the neighbors smoking five packs a day each so we can keep the local senior center open

Never forget the attempted gongan smoking mandate www.reuters.com/article/econ...

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if Chinese smokers (per Nikkei, about 280 million) were a country, it’d be the fifth most populous country in the world, just behind Indonesia