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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

you reading my posts

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 9h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 10h

New meme format

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

I feel bad for Orion Kerkering but this is tremendous content

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 10h

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Rachel Scarlett @rachelscarlettg.bsky.social · 11h

EXACTLYYYYYYYYY

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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 · 16h

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〉

YouTube video by SBS STORY

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

one such song is Kim Minki's "Morning Dew" (아침이슬), a 1970s folk song. when 1.6 million people gathered in central Seoul to mourn a university student killed by a military tear gas grenade in 1987, Morning Dew was sung as it was the popular folk song everyone knew and thus became a political anthem

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

one aspect of political culture South Koreans have excelled at time and time again

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 1d

i wish we as americans would rediscover the political power of public singing

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 19h

yalereview.org/article/l%C3...

HK This setting—the front line of a brutal trench war—is somehow familiar in your writing. I know that Sontag’s description of you as a “master of the apocalypse” follows you around. But if your writing is about the experience of apocalypse, it does not seem to be a sudden event but something slow and grinding. What is our relationship to the future? Are these the end times? Or are we living after some kind of apocalyptic event?

LK The apocalypse is not a single event, as the New Testament’s prophecy of the Last Judgment threatens. The apocalypse is a process that has been going on for a very long time and will continue for a very long time. The apocalypse is now. The apocalypse is an ongoing judgment.

We can only delude ourselves with the future; hope always belongs to the future. And the future never arrives. It is always just about to come. Only what is now exists.

We know nothing about the past because what we think of as the past is merely a story about the past. In reality, the present is also just a story. It contains both the story of the past and the future that will never come. But at least what we live as the present exists. And only that exists. Hell and heaven are both on Earth, and they are here now. We do not have to wait for them. Yet we do, comforting ourselves with the score of hope.

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 21h

Krasznahorkai however seems like someone I will inevitably read due to his sheer titanic talent. I only read this “short” story of his yalereview.org/article/kras...

László Krasznahorkai: “An Angel Passed Above Us”

A short story by László Krasznahorkai: “I’m open to anything, he said, pushing the AK-74 a bit farther away and reaching under his bulletproof vest to…

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 21h

good, I needed more time to read Gerald Murnane before he blew up

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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

think it's the curse of being the first cold war battleground, no global precedents to look back and adults in the room were desperate in demand to fight Kim Il-sung

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

their loss, or our gain, or whatever. the whole LKY fandom grosses me out anyway

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

Korean Military Academy 8th graduating class stans, rise up

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

for whatever reasons, Indonesia is always this black box of global politics discourse

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

I'm always surprised at the lack of PCH or CDH worship in this climate. a high-growth economy with abundance characteristics under firm orbit of US hegemony and arguably the world's strongest current of anti-communism sounds like a slam dunk to me. econ data nerds would love Kim Jae-ik, if they knew

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

western Lee Kuan Yew fanboys should just cut the crap and stan Park Chung-hee or a sanitized version of Chun Doo-hwan, that's what you're looking for anyway

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal

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

the greatest pitcher in my lifetime doing mop-up duty to keep the arms fresh for tomorrow 💔

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

my goat kersh so washed

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my goat kersh so washed

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

a real rich tradition of co-opting popular karaoke songs — with hope-tinged lyrics — across genres (folks, K-pop, ballad, etc) into political anthems

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

one aspect of political culture South Koreans have excelled at time and time again

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 1d

i wish we as americans would rediscover the political power of public singing

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