been keeping powder dry to perhaps dig deeper and compare TWU and Seoul Metro rail unions’ efforts to keep 2PTO, but idk anymore it’s veering into silly territory

perhaps too jaded but I can’t imagine any public transit agency in the US allowing a security guard to make their own signs around construction areas; they will just rather have no signs, period spoon-tamago.com/duct-tape-ty...

Survive till 2027.

Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.

how does waymo work without street lights...

I’ve been following Tottenham for 20 years and this may be the most hopeless I can remember. closest may be when Juande Ramos went winless for first 8 PL matches before he got sacked in 2008. things are very dire rn

FIRE THOMAS FRANK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

American society is riddled with practices that promise advancement through savvy entrepreneurial mindset, but in practice saddle the consumer with pointless busywork and impede collective bargaining (in a broad sense). Healthcare markets, investment accounts, tipping culture, it's everywhere.

that gas station sushi already working its magic on me…

The year is 2192. The voters of San Francisco are voting on the Great Highway opening up to cars again. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.

this is all I see when I see the redacted files today. sorry

Thank you for reading! SADD has ramped up their subway protests in Seoul the past few months in their 5th year now. SADD has blamed the new liberal government of freezing them and their demands out despite initial hopes for a more conciliatory partnership after joining hands to impeach Yoon.

Gov Hochul will veto a bill to require both a conductor and a driver on every subway train, according to two sources familiar with the decision. Story to follow. Details on the bill here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

for the NYC rail crowd: are these from the same Korean manufacturer who've DBO contracts with BART and LA Metro

do NOT do this, it isn't safe. the only way to safely cut a pizza while riding is to use the park tool pzt-2 pizza tool www.parktool.com/en-us/produc...

I want bicycle infrastructure that’s safe enough to do this

insane results lol. amazing. (and only with plastic posts too)

already mourning the Tule Fog, whose end is approaching

Reader flags that a person on the now-dead platform door RFP wrote a Substack => "The original STV report estimated a $7 billion system-wide rollout, averaging $14 million per station. Bids for the pilot program were over three times this estimate." -- aaronshavel.substack.com/p/what-happe...

my favorite novelist Hwang Sok-yong published, at the age of 82, his newest novel "Grandma", told from the perspective of an old hackberry tree observing Korean history over 600 years. I really, really hope this gets translated to English soon www.koreaherald.com/article/1063...

do you ever think about how all pre-settler contact forests around Lake Tahoe were chopped down within 10-15 years following the 1859 Comstock Lode discovery

Howard Jarvis, to paraphrase Hegel: History on hatchback

Tule fog scratches some occultish itch in me that subscribes to an idea that California really is a primordial land of giants. like how early explorers talked with awe and horror about the old growth forests on the Pacific coast. basically, what we need is a California Shintoism

From Today, Rome's metro will be slightly less underbuilt: the two-station segment between San Giovanni and Colosseo-Fori Inperiali just opened, increasing by a round 50% the number of connections in the network (from 2 to 3 😁), giving Rome a partial "Soviet Triangle" Pics from various sources.

periodically reminded: man, I should pool all my money and borrow more to buy as much land as possible. what am I doing squirreling money as a wage earning computer job haver

i know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

a proximate thought I've had is the short-form video content production is improved if you have some written content to ground your online persona to. I've seen too many video-only influencers get unmoored and get wrapped in some dumb tiktok scandal that drags their name thru the mud

My grandmother passed away yesterday. Almost lived to be 100. She endured under the tightening vice of Japanese wartime colonization, then hid with her husband and newborn baby in a remote island for months during the Korean War, and saw fortunes rise and fall with modern growth.

if you loved Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man, I gotta strongly suggest Jules Maigret novels by Georges Simenon. movie's emotion-laden ending was something Maigret would've fit in versus, idk, fellow Belgian detective Poirot

“You can’t leave plutonium by a glacier feeding into the Ganges!” he shouted from his living room in Ridgway, Colo. “Do you know how many people depend on the Ganges?” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

front line letters from the laborers whose hands shaped the 21st century world we inhabit. extraordinary writing

as I am wont to do, I looked up South Korea's drunk driving (which happens all the time, anecdotally). In 2019, the National Assembly passed the Yoon Chang-ho Law, named after a soldier who was killed by a drunk driver, to make South Korea one of the strictest anti-drunk driving laws in Asia. but...

there's an exceptional book on this relationship: Policing the Open Road, by Sarah Seo

ever day I be like

"I think good writing—clear thinking—matters. Not much, but a little! This is a minority position, I am learning." Chris Hooks on Olivia Nuzzi, Joan Didion, and the self-delusions of our current moment newrepublic.com/article/2041...

A linguist should study why western anglophony makes you believe in UFOs and also allergic to building housing

pure concentrated Anglophone nonsense, this piece

the Modern Moloch demands more at its altar

again, ignition interlocks are one of those things where there basically *really is* a technological solution to the problem that greatly mitigates that tradeoffs, and it's a policy failure that they aren't mandatory for five years after your first DUI.

“Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th.”

This 97-Year-Old Tribal Shaman Still Serves Their Coke the Old Fashioned Way

entered a flow state last night watching this 45 min video on Chinese geography and history. thank you dad for forcing me to read Chinese historical fiction youtu.be/hGeNB8iELHs

That correction + more demand + inflation in the 1970s... that's how we ended up with Prop 13 today.

This is fascinating. In 1966 California's politicians passed a law requiring assessors to set assessments at 25% of market value. Then computers were introduced to calculate market values. It turned out before that, elected assessors had been big time undervaluing homes because homeowners vote!

"Every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren between them." Best English piece on South Korea's birth rate I've read. It avoids the common sensational dreck and rightly points to the anti-natalist govt campaigns as public policy origin worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is...

This show ended months ago and I am still not over it.

sadly finished CITY: The Animation. it really is [This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities, the Anime], and I loved it. this interview review from @papapishu.bsky.social was a real treat, too aftermath.site/city-the-ani...

between the rock (release a busted up clipper 2.0 product today) and a hard place (wait 8-12 weeks, as mtc said it will take to roll out clipper 2.0 to all accounts), I would've chosen the hard place, tied myself up to it, and had an eagle peck away at my liver every day until it was ready

I'm generally an optimist/anti-nostalgia about the changing nature of urban neighborhoods, but learning Ham Ji Park in LA Koreatown closed does hurt ngl. so many OG Koreatown food spots gone...