FreightTrainDisco
@freighttraindisco.bsky.social
Here for I don't even know
DC enough to get listed as oversharing.
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DC enough to get listed as oversharing.
Hate symbols in bio get autoblocked on sight
Pinned
The analogy is never Germany.
It's Argentina. Guy delivers some things for rabid base, has likeable wife (to some), gets Broadway show out of it.
This guy's not even got the likeable wife.
It's Argentina. Guy delivers some things for rabid base, has likeable wife (to some), gets Broadway show out of it.
This guy's not even got the likeable wife.
Praise be!
Although those two potential candidates, oof, like slamming your head in a car door until you're unconscious.
No more Ward 4 mayors! No more Fort Myer mayors!
Although those two potential candidates, oof, like slamming your head in a car door until you're unconscious.
No more Ward 4 mayors! No more Fort Myer mayors!
Quite the pre-Thanksgiving news: Mayor Muriel Bowser will not seek a fourth term in office. That's a huge opening a mayoral race that still doesn't have any major candidates in it, but with possible entries from Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George and At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie.
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Praise be!
Although those two potential candidates, oof, like slamming your head in a car door until you're unconscious.
No more Ward 4 mayors! No more Fort Myer mayors!
Although those two potential candidates, oof, like slamming your head in a car door until you're unconscious.
No more Ward 4 mayors! No more Fort Myer mayors!
I, for one, appreciate that Ward 7 continues its long tradition of electing troglodytes who are utterly predictable and useless.
NEWS: Ward 7 Councilmember Wendell Felder is introducing emergency legislation that would delay ranked-choice voting, which is currently set to be rolled out in D.C. in 2026. His bill would mandate that Board of Elections conduct an assessment on what it would need to implement RCV.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I, for one, appreciate that Ward 7 continues its long tradition of electing troglodytes who are utterly predictable and useless.
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This is partly true but moreso DOGE teams have become fully part of the departments they were integrated with and are very much alive and a part of normal processes now
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is partly true but moreso DOGE teams have become fully part of the departments they were integrated with and are very much alive and a part of normal processes now
How's the Istanbul Canal going I ask myself.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
How's the Istanbul Canal going I ask myself.
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The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The decline of religion as a source of meaning in people's lives remains underrated as a factor shaping society. The need doesn't go away - they just seek it out elsewhere in (often false) health/wellness beliefs, (often highly polarized/conflictual) politics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Ah yes, because we have such stunning examples of that oh fuck it's the worst century of mass murders, the 20th.
The world would be far less violent and a better place if everyone was atheist.
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ah yes, because we have such stunning examples of that oh fuck it's the worst century of mass murders, the 20th.
Apropos my previous rant.
To the American public: I hate you.
To the American public: I hate you.
Before DOGE, systems meant to serve millions of people were being run by a few harried employees using outdated systems. And now, after DOGE, they are being run by even fewer, even more harried employees on those same outdated systems!
So, DOGE, What Would You Say You Did Here?
An exit interview
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Apropos my previous rant.
To the American public: I hate you.
To the American public: I hate you.
"YOU FIRED THE PERSON WHO HAD A HANDLE ON THIS!" we all scream in unison.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"YOU FIRED THE PERSON WHO HAD A HANDLE ON THIS!" we all scream in unison.
Europeans love taxing food like the GOP loves cutting SNAP.
One of my most hardcore OG Progressive Era opinions is that taxation of food is inherently evil and harms those with the least the most due to its regressive nature.
Some prepared food carve outs could be permissible.
One of my most hardcore OG Progressive Era opinions is that taxation of food is inherently evil and harms those with the least the most due to its regressive nature.
Some prepared food carve outs could be permissible.
Are there any countries that actually have a single flat rate VAT or do they all eventually succumb to the temptation of doing fiddly carve out bullshit exemptions and differential rates
are you fucking serious
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Europeans love taxing food like the GOP loves cutting SNAP.
One of my most hardcore OG Progressive Era opinions is that taxation of food is inherently evil and harms those with the least the most due to its regressive nature.
Some prepared food carve outs could be permissible.
One of my most hardcore OG Progressive Era opinions is that taxation of food is inherently evil and harms those with the least the most due to its regressive nature.
Some prepared food carve outs could be permissible.
Look at this 7 pot pepper still struggling against the elements.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Look at this 7 pot pepper still struggling against the elements.
Broken clock. Blowing air all over the place is nasty and destructive to the hearing of the traveling public. Ban them!
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Broken clock. Blowing air all over the place is nasty and destructive to the hearing of the traveling public. Ban them!
Given that some baseball crank on this site spent all of Sunday being angry white guy over the Beatles, maybe we could skip looking at musician's opinions, which are often terrible. Paul McCartney, notably fucking awful. Lennon probably would have turned into RFKJr. The others are fine.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Given that some baseball crank on this site spent all of Sunday being angry white guy over the Beatles, maybe we could skip looking at musician's opinions, which are often terrible. Paul McCartney, notably fucking awful. Lennon probably would have turned into RFKJr. The others are fine.
The 90s revival of Disco, in particular how it echoed who was successful remains one of those good actually things of the era. youtu.be/ujPza2jSUtQ?...
Stars On 54 - If You Could Read My Mind (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Tommy Boy
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The 90s revival of Disco, in particular how it echoed who was successful remains one of those good actually things of the era. youtu.be/ujPza2jSUtQ?...
The two sides of American purity culture.
the first post i saw when I logged on this morning was about a chimp using a dead frog to masturbate, this place gets feral around travel holidays
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The two sides of American purity culture.
Atlanta is uniquely cursed. I blame Delta.
Two cities we're watching for travel issues – Atlanta, where severe weather will ramp up, especially this afternoon... and Chicago, where strong winds could cause flight problems.
Check with your air carrier if you're flying through ORD, MDW or ATL.
Check with your air carrier if you're flying through ORD, MDW or ATL.
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Atlanta is uniquely cursed. I blame Delta.
In the morning I'll go looking for some data on what was the value of pre 90s welfare law changes of food stamps/SNAP (bc they were actually stamps) in 2025 dollars/proportion of household spending. There was a barter system in place of below face value arbitrage back then. It was also before TANF.
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
In the morning I'll go looking for some data on what was the value of pre 90s welfare law changes of food stamps/SNAP (bc they were actually stamps) in 2025 dollars/proportion of household spending. There was a barter system in place of below face value arbitrage back then. It was also before TANF.
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I didn't even grok the thread earlier. Wow. No notes.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I didn't even grok the thread earlier. Wow. No notes.
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Only eating food from cultures with no problematic history or culture (starve to death in five days).
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Only eating food from cultures with no problematic history or culture (starve to death in five days).
Why do furries like this song so much? youtu.be/6-8E4Nirh9s?...
Caramella Girls - Caramelldansen HD Version (Swedish Original) Official
YouTube video by Caramella Girls
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Why do furries like this song so much? youtu.be/6-8E4Nirh9s?...
I do wish we had national origin on all social media accounts. There's a millennial woman doing numbers on insta talking about how millennials showed up in yesterday's clothes and smelling of tequila but they showed up and ma'am that's a lie. I was there too. You invented mental health day!
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I do wish we had national origin on all social media accounts. There's a millennial woman doing numbers on insta talking about how millennials showed up in yesterday's clothes and smelling of tequila but they showed up and ma'am that's a lie. I was there too. You invented mental health day!
If I'm doing three different things and you come up behind me demanding I provide you with something, what makes you think I'm going to be disposed to help you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If I'm doing three different things and you come up behind me demanding I provide you with something, what makes you think I'm going to be disposed to help you?
12" mixes are like gorging yourself on something you liked until you thought you'd had enough and then you still could handle more.
the radio edit of "No More Tears (Enough is Enough) is 4:39, Barbra put an 8:19 cut on her album, and Donna put an 11:43 12" recording on hers. do you realize how TREMENDOUS material has to be for Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer to take it and roll it up like this in a coördinated attack!!!
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
12" mixes are like gorging yourself on something you liked until you thought you'd had enough and then you still could handle more.
One of the reasons Sweden's vacation law is centered on contiguous use over several weeks is the effect was so clear on people's well-being. 3 weeks in sequence was a norm pretty early.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
One of the reasons Sweden's vacation law is centered on contiguous use over several weeks is the effect was so clear on people's well-being. 3 weeks in sequence was a norm pretty early.