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🚈🔰Mass transit simp, liberal Georgist, New Deal Democrat. | @ridewithdata.org | Be a traveler, not a tourist. Pro-🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸, all opinions my own and not of anybody i work with or am employed by

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · Nov 17

go.bsky.app/HVLZoBr Re-sharing because I’m extending the scope to DFW rather than just Dallas!

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · Nov 17

First batch of folks added to the Dallas Urbanism/Transit starter pack- let me know who else need to be in! Dallas-area journalists who write about transportation and housing policy in DFW *especially* welcome.
go.bsky.app/HVLZoBr

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 3h

reading the headline: "nice, i can visit nara and then be buried there"

The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 5h

Opened this spring, Cofunia is not just an inn inspired by Japan's ancient burial mounds — it sits directly adjacent to one.

Nara inn offers room, board and an ancient burial mound

More than 160,000 'kofun' burial mounds dot the Japanese archipelago, but Cofunia allows guests to lay their heads directly adjacent to one.

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 4h

think i saw @dieworkwear.bsky.social recommend that top left one once, looks familiar

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 8h

alt text users i made a mistake in the third image, i said right side but meant left

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 8h

and this

A small stone pagoda seen through the branches of a sakura tree in bloom, at the garden of Himeji Castle.

A green tram (the Enoden) approaches the camera on a single track in the right side of the frame. Next to the track is a road with motorbikes, cars, and pedestrians, and beyond that is the sea and in the distance are mountains.

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 8h

i miss this

Looking across the Uji River in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, to a bridge over a tributary to the river. The bridge has vermillion railings, and the backdrop is mountainous with lush green trees in spring. A small white van is crossing the bridge.

A view from a mountaintop of the town of Arimaonsen, Kobe, Japan. The town is nestled in amidst lush green mountains under a mostly cloudy sky.

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 10h

This is several flavors of unconstitutional and illegal

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 10h

youre telling me there was a butt interception

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 15h

My theory here is that they believe health is caused by virtue and therefore healthcare spending is resources wasted on the unvirtuous. Furthermore it should be the most virtuous who are in charge of what is healthy. So it's sort of a mystic soup of eugenics and hierarchy and 'justice'.

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 16h

This is so weird though. I know people keep confidently responding “they are eugenicists” and I’m sure this is true, but that alone feels insufficient to describe the behavior

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

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Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 15h

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (2023)

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Good time to take four hours and watch this if you never have before youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?...

The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

let's fucking go, nice job mariners

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

CONGRATS YOU JUST PASSED THE ALDS TEST

Seattle Mariners
@Mariners
THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO PLAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP!
#SeizeTheMoment *
SEIZE THE MOMENT.
692
RALE
MARINERS
GA IT DE
SEATTL
20259
ALCS
Bound

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

Look at that glorious murder mitten on display there

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

saw yet another non-service dog in the grocery store today, dog owners are out of fucking control

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

parking lots perhaps?

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

do y'all think we could sell the texas lege on a texas version of sb79

we managed to upzone all commercial areas this year, so it seems... not impossible?

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Penny Merman @idesofmerch.bsky.social · 1d

A series of images I found on my computer labeled "Wrestling solutions."

A roof shaped ring, utilizing an incline. Probably deadly.

A full sized ring inside of a double sized ring. Why not? What do you have to lose?

A ring with vertical ring ropes, attached to an unsecured light fixture. An OSHA violation for sure.

A ring with 9 turnbuckles, instead of the customary 3. This one is fine, no one would have a problem with this one except a whiner.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

yall wanna know what ties me to this hell state, well part of it is that at least hell is affordable

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

took a massive W today as my rent is not going up for the third straight year

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Kōmeitō quits the coalition

A guide for the perplexed

open.substack.com

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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