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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · Nov 15

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I evaluate Japanese Railways' first years post-privatization and examine the conditions set prior to its launch to guarantee its success. But how does one grade such success -- and can JR be deemed as a success story?

www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...

Aura of Success: The First Years of Japan's Privatized National Railways

What does it take to make a railway a "success"?

www.substack-bahn.net

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 7h

baseball is the best American sport because it captures the feeling of tenacious not-dying (despite wishing for death) rather the cheap, increasingly manufacturable sensation of feeling alive

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 7h

I went insane watching the Mariners game at my Mariners friend’s game that I helped organize his entire DVD collection in alphabetical order

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 1d

Free baseball? Never. It’s always subsidized by the taxpayers

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 13h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 15h

I genuinely hope you have a great time reading it because I think it's a comprehensive look at a truly one-of-a-kind politician. I was moved to tears and laughed several times reading it

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 15h

this book needs so much more love, I'm practically on my knees

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 16h

the true sb79 heroes: those who called the governor 1-3 times bc they saw a mutual on here to do so

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 16h

hm yeah. my math comment came from looking at OC (with the new streetcar coming in) and CoCo (with exactly at 15 with possible Hercules Capitol Corridor station on the horizon)? it looks generously carved out but it also got some elastic rope to stretch

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 16h

I think we are in agreement here unless I'm not following

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 16h

SB79 reads a bit like a Phil Burton legislative throwback: a Frankenstein's monster of a bill which gets just enough buy-in but nobody seems to have done the hard math on them except the author, Sen. Wiener. regardless, its effect are going to be transformative for California

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 12d

this biography on Phillip Burton is the best book I’ve ever read about California, politics, and Californian politics. our own THE POWER BROKER

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 17h

Gavin in his Japanese Railways era?

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 17h

Gavin signing SB79 and not SB63 is one of those video game realities I want to experience once so I can turn off and start from my latest save

Back Door, Please! @backdoorplz.bsky.social · 19h

It would be kinda funny to pass the transit-oriented development bill and then not fund transit

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 20h

SB79 -> SB63?

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 20h

WOW!!! THIS WILL PUT CALIFORNIA ON THE RIGHT TRACK UNDER OUR BENEVOLENT GAVIN C. NEWSOM. A GREAT HONOR!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, GCN!!!

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 20h

WE DID IT!!!

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 1d

you reading my posts

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 1d

New meme format

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 1d

the Mandate of Heaven must be with the Los Angeles Dodgers bc if Treinen came out next inning we 100% would’ve lost lmao

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 1d

I feel bad for Orion Kerkering but this is tremendous content

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 1d

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 1d

Free baseball? Never. It’s always subsidized by the taxpayers

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Rachel Scarlett @rachelscarlettg.bsky.social · 1d

EXACTLYYYYYYYYY

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 1d

need a knitted sweater and soulful sunken countenance like young László Krasznahorkai

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 1d

one of the organizers: "we were all singing songs about the struggle, songs only we knew. regular citizens didn't know the song...then somebody in the crowd started singing Morning Dew. and everybody sang it. to hear so many sing together was incredibly powerful" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1b...

이한열 열사 장례식에 울려 퍼진 김민기의 〈아침이슬〉

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