hell yeah

what is the pessimist's argument that this idea is a bad/unfeasible idea...it sounds too good to be possible...

English-speaking transit-heads/urbanists should check out videos from Takagi Railways (www.youtube.com/@TakagiRailw...) and Urban Americas (www.youtube.com/@Urban_Ameri...), they are both insightful and entertaining 👍

I'm a big fan of artists being unable to explain their own work, and this is a new favorite. "no, I can't explain this crazy 90-sec ep end music in any capacity. sorry!"

another reason cooking at home is Good For You imo beyond the $ savings is the agency you can bestow upon yourself for feeding yourself and keeping yourself alive. it is one of the few key daily activities we still do that our ancestors also did since time immemorial

Some cool graphics from Bloomberg on the high speed rail network connecting Hong Kong

fig.1- economy over time

I use these California ballot propositions as era names like the Japanese do with emperors

STOP talking shit about California Ballot Initiatives: • Prop 14 (1964): • Prop 13 (1978): • Prop 184 (1994): • Prop 187 (1994): • Prop 8 (2008): • Prop 22 (2020):

architects are not discussing a major crisis in American cities: too many sandwich delis and burrito shops pack their product with too much stuff and it tears open its carbohydrate encasement. structural integrity is the most important and underrated part of portable foods, and it's under threat

Ooops! All Korean Comedies

I think Lee Chang-dong is the pinnacle of Korean narrative filmmaking, and POETRY tops my list (and BURNING is at the bottom bc all his movies are that good)

god I love The Recorder Exam/House of Hummingbird bsky.app/profile/seun...

please hear me on my Korean movie recommendations that is almost never discussed in the West

KTX and SRT high-speed rail services in South Korea are going to begin cross-operations on Feb. 25, meaning passengers can now catch a KTX train from/to Suseo Station, SRT's main Seoul hub. this is done to help expand SRT's passenger capacity www.redaily.co.kr/news/article...

big niche diasporic news overlapping many of my personal interests: the Berkeley-grad quant trader on Single's Inferno is apparently the nephew of former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak?? lmao

Filipinos (laudatory):

The problem with Prop 13 vis-a-vis the state budget isn't just that it cratered property tax revenue, either. It's that a budget so heavily dependent on taxing income and financial asset wealth is inherently volatile. We have a system designed to make long term fiscal planning extremely difficult.

I haven't looked too carefully into CA's billionaire tax proposal, and obviously I support taxing billionaires more. But this also feels like another round in the constant scramble to compensate for the fact that we can't tax property like a normal state.

speaking of treatlers, may I introduce you to every Korean under the age of 40? "Data showed that more than 30 percent of people in their 20s and 30s rely on delivery or takeout for at least one meal a day." www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/tr...

legit felt like half of Berkeley/Oakland was here on opening day yesterday. talked to a fellow coming out said he waited 2.5 hours in line to get in

I'm willing to vote for anyone not in the field at this point. is Willie Brown still alive? how old is Batkid now? Frank Chu? the ghost of Huell Howser?

WWHJD? (what would Howard Jarvis do?)

Epstein is like pervert forest gump.

South Koreans: we're no longer number one, baby www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

been thinking about this ending nonstop. makes me tear up “How does one overcome suffering?” youtu.be/q6LHX-HmCNE?...

cool. why don't we instead just watch HBO's JOHN ADAMS again www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxSL...

a Korean news outlet covering the fear widespread among the small Korean American community in Minnesota by ICE. nearly half of Korean Americans in MN are believed to adoptees to white families and be "unaware of the documentation required to prove their legal status" v.daum.net/v/2026012905...

great opsec work here but I'm left more impressed by the beauty of the english language from the screenshots and the thread

honored to be bluesky's premier australian politics knower

would recommend to all Heike Monogatari (2021): a beautiful, tender, contemplative anime based on Japan’s most famous medieval piece of literature

“The most charitable way I could describe the launch of Clipper 2.0 was, ‘It’s a hot mess,’ and that’s charitable" www.kqed.org/news/1207102...

a real who's who of Korean liberalism in this photo walking behind Lee Hae-chan's coffin.

On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

I would like to taste the forbidden subway stalactite...

this news article speculates that Lee Hae-chan's death may have been caused by PTSD from the myriad torture methods he endured as a student activist in the 1970s and 1980s. says he displayed symptoms for at least 15 years but never acknowledged it www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...

*releasing billions of gallons of reservoir water in the middle of wet season so it can flow downhill to SoCal* we need this rain

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

I mean things are bad but Gwangju was 1000-2000 plus dead, not 2, and drugged up paras were firing at anything that moved. If it gets to that stage we're in a very very different situation.

lifting with his back, not enough legs smh

former SK Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan died today. think it's worth threading his political life, as he was fundamental to the rise of South Korea's democratic liberalism and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea. current Prez Lee Jae-myung called him a political mentor en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

one of the greatest living Americans

This is correct. China military budget is $235B. US police: $140B DHS base budget: $65B DHS reconciliation (est FY26): $55B = ~$260B

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...