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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 · 13h

"Kwon is also famous for his left-wing activism, particularly in South Korea’s decolonization and feminist spaces... He has never shied away from voicing his political convictions, even if it meant getting his name on a blacklist put together by the state" brooklynrail.org/2025/07/film...

Hong Sang-soo’s By the Stream | The Brooklyn Rail

Two currents of history crisscross throughout By the Stream: the rehashing of the past marked by political struggles and reconnecting with the unfolding present lived by younger generations.

brooklynrail.org

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 14h

a legit great funk song from Korea, accompanied by the legendary actor-activist Kwon Hae-hyo (of Hong Sang-soo cinema fame) getting his Christopher Walken Fatboy Slim moment in the MV. good things do come to good people

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IydH...

백예린(Yerin Baek) ‘MIRROR’ M/V

YouTube video by Yerin Baek

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

that's a yp not a mp

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

I feel this tension among many who 1) know this is not a job, you don't have to be here 2) want to be here and want to find joy here 3) want to speak for something larger than themselves. these demands are too burdensome for many, and stinks the joint up

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

think many would have a better time posting and see their posting quality improve on here if they picked 4-8 people they want to impress and post for them. if they like it, then good for you, really. if they don’t, mute it, delete it, try again. but don’t share who these people are out loud

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 21h

The increase in trips by Clipper BayPass holders on BART is really encouraging.

Massive increases in trips at San Francisco State and UC Berkeley in September 2025.

bart.legistar.com/LegislationD...

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

haven’t seen Philadelphia down this bad since their state GOP tried to kill its public transit

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 1d

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Thompson watches Dave Roberts fuck up and, not wanting to be outdone as a fuckup, calls for a bunt with a man on second and no one out. Jesus H. Christ.

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

h/t @michaelrosen.bsky.social

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

Mark Prior needs to go up and show Blake Treinen this tweet he’ll K the side

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

Rob Thomson on the other hand has had a howler of a series...

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

you gotta admit, Doc's been making more right than wrong the past few postseasons

a baseball player named dave roberts is standing in a doorway

ALT: a baseball player named dave roberts is standing in a doorway

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

the intense parking politic in Koreatown leads to some perverse incentives seen in ethnic media. from August: Ktown apt tenants demanding its landlord not convert its parking garage into ADUs as allowed by new CA law — despite Koreans getting priced out themselves m.radiokorea.com/news/article...

LA 한인타운 아파트 주차장에 추가 유닛.. 세입자들 '반발'

정확하고 빠른 뉴스 라디오코리아 뉴스 - 모바일

m.radiokorea.com

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

this dissonance is most pronounced in Koreatown, where so many of the working class in restaurants, grocery stores, small shops, etc. do not drive but the #1 political issue that makes residents and visitors go crazy alike is the lack of (free street) parking thanks to its high density

Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 1d

Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population

One-third of Angelenos do not drive

Walking back the "car-free" games promise is unconscionable in a city where the people who don't drive are also the most vulnerable users of our streets

www.torched.la

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

!! got any links for more reading, king

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

Bendix guides the warheads in,
Avco builds them nice.
Douglas, North American,
Grumman get their slice...
Convair boosts the satellite
Into orbits round;
Boeing builds the Minuteman,
We stay on the ground.
Yoyodyne, Yoyodyne,
Contracts flee thee yet.
DOD has shafted thee,
Out of spite, I'll bet.

kaptrice 🐦‍⬛ @kaptrice.bsky.social · 1d

visiting El Segundo all I could think about was white-short-sleeve-shirt-clad engineers out of the crying of lot 49

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

baller billboard ngl

"Will the last person leaving SEATTLE - turn out the lights"

n April 16, 1971, real-estate agents Bob McDonald and Jim Youngren put the words, "Will the last person leaving SEATTLE -- Turn out the lights" on a billboard at S 167th Street and Pacific Highway S near Sea-Tac International Airport. The two realtors, who work for Henry Broderick, Inc., put up the billboard as a humorous response to pessimism generated by the national aerospace industry's nosedive, known locally as the Boeing Bust.

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

relieved to find this from historian Greg Grandin on the other site. makes me feel less insane about zip-ties

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Just looked it up: zip-ties invented in 1950s to wrangle growing number of cables in our expanding information infrastructure. First introduced as handcuff in 65, within 3 years in widespread use to make mass arrests at Vietnam protests. Not sure if
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writes about this

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

it's indescribable to outsiders how much the West Coast has been shaped by the postwar aerospace/missiles industry

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

definitely having a Baader Meinhof moment where my two last pieces of impactful media (One Battle After Another and DanDaDan) involve the protagonist getting their hands zip-tied. and just the news everywhere, i.e. children getting zip-tied by ICE. a world addicted to zip-tying hands

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

been thinking about zip ties a lot lately, and I'm going slightly insane learning zip ties have the same origin story as Thomas Pynchon (1950s Boeing)

The idea of the cable tie came to Logan while touring a Boeing aircraft manufacturing facility in 1956. Aircraft wiring was a cumbersome and detailed undertaking, involving thousands of feet of wire organized on sheets of 50-foot-long plywood and held in place with knotted, wax-coated, braided nylon cord. Each knot had to be pulled tight by wrapping the cord around one's finger which sometimes cut the operator's fingers until they developed thick calluses. Logan was convinced there had to be an easier, more forgiving, way to accomplish this critical task.

For the next couple of years, Logan experimented with various tools and materials. On June 24, 1958, a patent for the Ty-Rap cable tie was submitted.[10]

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 2d

it's very nice to find an anime after feeling for decade-plus that the medium has largely moved on w/o me

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 2d

nw DANDADAN, an anime about trains. my first anime in years because it is about trains

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 2d

To the federal agent assigned to monitor my social media presence

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