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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia

@pastoralpunk.bsky.social

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Let's be honest here, I mostly post about trains. Well, cities too. I currently work in the Japanese education sector but I'd rather work with trains. I'm a proud Philly expat so expect to see lots of stuff about PA and Pennsylvania too.

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · Jul 25

First, it could have been *more* successful as a policy program if the ambient political landscape weren't so toxic, and so we should view Bidenomics as the bare minimum acceptable from the centrist wing moving forward

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 1h

I looked up what part of Cardoni this is, out of curiosity.

Right by the highway. Not surprising—people from the suburbs loooove to illegally dump on blocks in the city right off the freeway.

Every Lot Detroit @everylotdetroit.bsky.social · 3h

17599 CARDONI, DETROIT, MI, 48203

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Again I’m not being incendiary. We claim to be mad at Fascism, but are silent about what is happening de facto.

But we are on the way to segregation and wealth disparity that we haven’t seen since segregation

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 23h

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 1h

God that transparent style, where did it go?

kazzycom/カジコム @kazzycom.bsky.social · 8h

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kazzycom/カジコム @kazzycom.bsky.social · 8h

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · Oct 2

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A 1/87 HO Scale model of a "Birney Safety Car" made by Bachmann trains.

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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 6h

When are we going to say enough?

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 1h

I think a government should enforce the acceptance of a state run parking app at very paid lot

Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 17h

I am a pay parking enthusiast but is it too much to ask that they figure out an open payment system? No I don’t want to have half a dozen parking apps storing my credit card information

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Kalman Go @kalmango.bsky.social · 2d

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#Adygea #art #traditionalart #watercolor #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #landscape #LandscapePainting #painting #herbarium

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1h

"While Democrats are brandishing thermometers, Republicans power up flamethrowers."

Democrats poll to shape themselves. Republicans poll to find out how to shape the electorate.

Taking the Temperature Versus Changing It
The mistake Pollingism demands that we make is to take the temperature of the electorate and calibrate what to say on this basis. But taking the temperature today doesn’t help us to know, much less control, where it will be set tomorrow. It puts us behind in both electoral and movement strategy — failing to dominate daily conversation, and neglecting to steer longer-term public opinion.

While Democrats are brandishing thermometers, Republicans power up flamethrowers. They figure out not merely “where people are,” but rather where they could be capable of going, if they hear some refrain repeated over and again.

MAGA’s stories are potent and memorable, not about the issues people register as most important but rather those that MAGA wants brought to the fore. This is Magnetism 101: make sure you’re fighting on the terrain that benefits you most. This means setting the terms of debate by every possible means by engaging in activities that bring your preferred conversation into people’s ears.

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 1h

I think this is a major drawback of the UK not joining Schengen. Needing to add passport control to B'ham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool, etc, makes an already difficult proposition untenable

America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 2h

The operator intending to operate a given service, I would imagine, just as JR East foots the design-build costs for their undersize Shinkansens

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 2h

If Branson was serious about trying to run a Paris-Manchester HSR train he would need trains built to the UK loading gauge, which have historically interoperated on the Continental network, so by not doing so, he proved he's full of it

America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 2h

The thing is that, as long as you build to the smaller loading gauge, there is nothing stopping you from serving destinations only available on the smaller loading gauge

The Yamagata and Akita Shinkansens have a smaller loading gauge than Tohoku, e.g., and the former two take the latter to Tokyo

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 3h

Not a hope in hell Branson runs a Manchester-Paris

The new Alstom trains for the Tunnel Virgin plans to order are continental European loading gauge, not UK, so can’t run anywhere beyond HS1 in the UK

So forget it

This is 💩

#CrossChannelRail

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 2h

It CANNOT be said that we didn't have the technology AND know-how to radically cut emissions.

As per this example from the #EnROADS simulator, we could, if we wanted, to slam the brakes on our current emissions trajectory by acting on these areas!

Test it for yourself!

en-roads.climateinte...

Screenshot of the En-ROADS climate simulator dashboard showing all the areas we can act on to reduce emissions:

Energy Supply
Transport
Buildings & Industry
Economic & Population Growth
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Agricultural Emissions
Waste & Leakage
Deforestation

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

First, they ignore you. Then, they laugh at you. Next, they jack up prices to be you. Then you win.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 1d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2h

Digging into @anatosaurus.bsky.social's manifesto on Magnestism > Pollingism.

Genius from her diagnosis of what's missing from most 2025 "autopsies" on: why we want to win.

"...to enact the agenda you believe in or, at the very least, blunt the authoritarian assault against Americans now underway"

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

www.weekendreading.net

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 3h

A roar of engines overhead. Awake again. “The planes never used to be so loud round here,” a troubled sleeper may reflect in the year 2050. Aircraft noise may eventually afflict thousands more people who live near airports – because of climate change.

www.thereengineer.pro/p/noisier-ta...

Noisier take-offs, engine wear – planes are flying straight into climate change

Emissions-spewing aircraft are far from immune to global warming

www.thereengineer.pro

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 3h

Maybe the world ends today. Maybe not. Either way, the coffee waits.

PHOTO by La Miko. A woman sits alone on a high stool, facing a large café window that overlooks a misty European street. Her back is to the camera, framed by the soft knit of her camel-colored dress and the dark round brim of her hat. Outside, blurred cars drift past and pale historic buildings loom under a pale winter light. A single dome-shaped lamp glows overhead, casting a pool of warmth against the grey chill beyond the glass. Time feels paused—quiet, observant.

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jerseypatrick.bsky.social @jerseypatrick.bsky.social · 12h

If they read the New Testament they’d be bowled over in shock. When I read it to this day, I am still buzzed with the radical love expressed by Jesus.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

absolutely and I think that’s really important! they’re denied communion in there, which is actually incredibly unusual, so this is the next best way to bring the Eucharist to them. maybe it gave some small degree of reassurance to some very scared people that they aren’t forgotten

Ser T-error, Guarding the Veil and Rogue-ing Traders @imasithduh.bsky.social · 8h

Would it also be a comfort to the Catholic folks who are trapped in the ICE facility? Sort of a "We brought Jesus with us and even though He was turned away, He is here for you"?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

when we talk about political theatre sometimes being Good, Actually™️, this is what we mean. the trads are the reason Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament came back in fashion in the youth ministry world (where I learned about it). they take it REALLY seriously. this priest weaponized that so adroitly

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

I love this aspect of it too! he used the words he used on purpose! it’s playing on the whole trope where the devil can’t cross the threshold of a church and you cast out demons by laying on hands and saying the name of Jesus - which is also an evangelical practice!

Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 8h

I think it goes beyond even that for non-Catholics, many of whom will have seen movies where the presence of the host is used to, say, exorcise demons. It’s very close to saying, “You are possessed by an unclean spirit only the power of Christ can compel.” It’s the ultimate, “I’m praying for you.”

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