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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 6h

(related to nazis as in, the origin of the ideology)

yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 6h

while most likely not related to nazis, i also sometimes think of the pogroms that happened as far as 1096 when the history of european antisemitism is discussed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinela...

Rhineland massacres - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 7h

yeah bro i'm a socialist i love the european union

soap 🇺🇸🦅🇻🇦💦 @soap.systems · 8h

yeah bro i'm a socialist i love canada

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zeke @ezekquel.bsky.social · 9h

kohaker

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 7h

oomf are you ok

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Doug @doug.city · 10h

The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11h

UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.

New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>

Tables of new R&D spend between 1985-1989. Spending on research related to train and system design had been entirely zeroed out.

Table of R&D spend from 1972-1985. The wind-down begins in 1982.

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 11h

british railroads should get themselves a treat (getting rid of the ridiculously small victorian loading gauge)

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 10

i still die laughing at this real canadian oil and gas lobby ad

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · 12h

The only class of vessels in US inventory designed to take punishment are aircraft carriers.

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 12h

> Bought a car that was smoked in?

no but i bought more than enough electronics from places that were smoked in

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Deník N @denikn.cz · 17h

V reakci na článek o rasistických příspěvcích Filipa Turka se v okruhu jeho fanoušků na jeho obranu začaly šířit podvržené statusy naší redaktorky Zdislavy Pokorné s cílem zpochybnit věrohodnost původního zjištění Deníku N. Za svou prací a výstupy si plně stojíme.

V reakci na článek o rasistických příspěvcích Filipa Turka se v okruhu jeho fanoušků na jeho obranu začaly šířit podvržené statusy naší redaktorky Zdislavy Pokorné s cílem zpochybnit věrohodnost původ...

…. Za svou prací a výstupy si plně stojíme.

denikn.cz

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Spheal Posting @sphealposting.bsky.social · 16h

orbjection

Phoenix wright from ace attorney has been replaced with pokemon rumble spheal but I've kept the arm and finger pointing so it looks like spheal has a long human arm

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

"explain it to me like I'm five beers in" would be a funny as hell way to teach someone how to model railroad.

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

also it’s something similar to super8 film where i’m too young for this

yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

something similar applies to vinyl to me. i’m not as interested in a playback only medium

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

i’m not as autistic about something that sounds the same as the files i have on my computer. it doesn’t have the same magic feeling that analog audio tape does

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

alternatively, it’s the same reason why i don’t find digital physical media as interesting as the analog ones. for example, minidiscs look sick, but if i ever got a player and some discs, i would probably keep using my tape walkman and the discs would be display pieces

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

i have no idea if this makes any sense, PDAs do sound like devices that should be really cool to me, but they just aren’t

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

camcorders? cool as shit
flat screen TVs? also
phones that could do more than do calls, messages and play J2ME games? fuck yeah
home theater stuff, computers that were also media powerhouses? you sound like you made it

PDAs? ..not so much?

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

idk if @ozzelot.bsky.social feels the same way

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

also probably
- i’m a 2000s kid but i’m also from a place/culture/society where it feels like PDAs weren’t desirable. people would nerd out about at least most of the stuff if they had money to afford it but not PDAs, i don’t remember a single person around me that had one

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

on a very unrelated note, i don’t really get the retro appeal of PDAs, i think it’s one of the three:
- i’m too ADHD to utilize one fully
- i’m too practical, all of the data keeping stuff can be done with my phone
- i prefer interacting with technologies and workflows that were lost after 2008

yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

netbooks are PDAs of the late 2000s

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · Apr 21

destroy patriarchy, save a twink

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moon @systemendless.bsky.social · 1d

using this post to explain ocd

tweet from graetgalaxy:
"i never even considered dr. pepper could be a woman. maybe i'm a bad person"

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yoshinoya @tapesinside.bsky.social · 1d

i'm just asking but the lack of transparency is offputting