My mom likes to tell me that Thais are เจ้าแห่งน้ำจิ้ม (experts at dipping sauces). There’s a sauce to pair with any Thai dish, from the universal phrik nam pla to specific sauces for seafood and fried chicken. It’s so readily available in restaurants and bottled I’ve never made most at home (ex PNP ofc).

Interesting program about constructing Singapore’s public housing flats. Even with prefab methods, it takes 3-5.5 years to build a project and before that, 2-2.5 years for pre-construction site prep, and 5-7 years for environmental impact assessment. About 20,000 units are launched each year.

too bad they don’t award prizes posthumously

We did it. We actually did it. We got SB 79 through the legislature and signed into law. An amazing win for housing across California!! Thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social (and happy birthday, Governor)!

Yes! Big for California.

Santa Barbara is finally beginning to replace its bike hitching posts with industry standard, more secure and functional U bike racks.

Two good bike developments in Santa Barbara this week!

Construction begins on the county's portion of Modoc multi use path. It will complete a 9-mile continuous low stress route between Santa Barbara and Goleta. The city is working on extending separated bike paths into the Westside and Mesa.

Another 1980s station built with the future in mind is Miami’s Government Center station. There are platforms for an east-west Metrorail line built into the mezzanine under the north-south line platform.

Seattle’s downtown subway was originally built for buses. We need that forward thinking again.

LA’s Metro Center station was built around the same time as Westlake station!

Westlake station originally was supposed to also have its own 5th Avenue headhouse in addition to the building integrated entrances.

Every time I go through LA’s 7th St/Metro Center station I think this is what an ST3 Westlake station should become. Very similar configuration.

They would have to dig 5th Ave very deep to add a 3rd basement level directly under the ‘wings’ but the super convenient transfers would be worth it.

Special delivery on the 3rd anniversary of Bocchi the Rock’s TV anime premiere.

Interesting proposal from my local transit agency Santa Barbara MTD to create a new Medium-Sized Transit Intensive Cities (MTIC) program in collaboration with @carbajal.house.gov to restore funding lost after it graduated from a small to a large (>200k pop) urbanized area. sbmtd.gov/wp-content/u...

Nature is nice. It's going to be fun.

自然はいいですねっ☆楽しくなっちゃいますっ☆

It's not just your immediate electricity bills. Data centers disrupt the wave forms of the AC power, wearing your appliances out faster. Tariffs are making appliances more expensive. It hits your wallet in every direction

The @democrats.org are now aling @aoc.bsky.social’s “you are not an ATM” message, except they are the ones causing it by selling their lists to Mothership Strategies-affiliated scam PACs and candidates with no chance of election.

Meanwhile here in 2025 USA, I see parallels but people are fighting to keep the last two from happening.

#49ปี6ตุลา กลายเป็นงานสามัญประจำปีที่ต้องมาพบเจอพี่ๆ คนเดือนตุลา และเพื่อนๆ 💓 หนทางอีกยาวไกล เติมกำลังใจกันไป

Thousands demonstrate against a returning dictator.
Police lynch labor activists.
State media spreads propaganda calling them radical leftists.
Border patrol and right wing militias massacre non-violent protesters at Thammasat University.
A chaotic democracy ends.

6 October 1976, Bangkok, Thailand

Moonlight Surfliner

After 3 coups, multiple constitutions and a succession in my lifetime, I can’t imagine anything worse for Thailand. Whereas the US is in uncharted territory.

You should not be able to call something an e-bike if it is definitionally not an e-bike.

I think Henry is referring to rail service headways. In LA, the frequency for rail drops after 8 pm to every 20 minutes with delays for "systemwide maintenance". Sound Transit at worst runs about every 15 min til midnight.

It took 14 months (considered average) for USCIS to approve my petition for my wife and that’s for an immediate relative of US citizen which has no quotas or waitlists, unlike petitions from green card holders.

Coworker told he knows people in Mexico who waited years just to be able to get here.

Common Seattle transit advocate W