Kurt Raschke
@kurtraschke.com
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Transit and technology, mostly. Prone to ranting.
Reposts and favorites are not endorsements. Posts are solely my own.
ABATE NOXIOUS STIMULI.
Transit and technology, mostly. Prone to ranting.
Reposts and favorites are not endorsements. Posts are solely my own.
ABATE NOXIOUS STIMULI.
some unsolicited advice for, i suppose, younger me, and perhaps anyone else, but particularly techy folks whose neurodivergence gives them a rigid rule-following streak: when you get to these screens in the Debian installer, you can do whatever you want!
January 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
some unsolicited advice for, i suppose, younger me, and perhaps anyone else, but particularly techy folks whose neurodivergence gives them a rigid rule-following streak: when you get to these screens in the Debian installer, you can do whatever you want!
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Say hello to a truly connected region on March 28! The Crosslake Connection is opening two new stations and a world of new possibilities for the Eastside, Seattle and beyond. 🚊✨
Explore this highly anticipated new connection and get ready to ride! 🎉
www.soundtransit.org/crosslake
Explore this highly anticipated new connection and get ready to ride! 🎉
www.soundtransit.org/crosslake
Crosslake Connection | Sound Transit
www.soundtransit.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Say hello to a truly connected region on March 28! The Crosslake Connection is opening two new stations and a world of new possibilities for the Eastside, Seattle and beyond. 🚊✨
Explore this highly anticipated new connection and get ready to ride! 🎉
www.soundtransit.org/crosslake
Explore this highly anticipated new connection and get ready to ride! 🎉
www.soundtransit.org/crosslake
I am having a Good Day today. In fact, a really excellent day. Why am I telling you, dear reader, about this? Not to gloat or to brag, I assure you, but rather for accountability. At some point in the future, there is going to be a Bad Day.
January 21, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I am having a Good Day today. In fact, a really excellent day. Why am I telling you, dear reader, about this? Not to gloat or to brag, I assure you, but rather for accountability. At some point in the future, there is going to be a Bad Day.
January 16, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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I've remastered my old SelTrac meme, based on the (false) assertion that the trains "talk to each other," as is oft repeated in public statements about CBTC
January 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I've remastered my old SelTrac meme, based on the (false) assertion that the trains "talk to each other," as is oft repeated in public statements about CBTC
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Earlier this fall, I noticed something odd going on with rail service on Los Angeles's C line. So, I wrote about it, because I could not have asked for a more perfect encapsulation of how schedule design can drive service outcomes.
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
A Study in Schedule Design
From time to time, I enjoy browsing the LA Metro subreddit. A creature of the East Coast, I am forever fascinated by the Los Angeles’s preculiar mix of ambition and ambivalence around transit…
homesignalblog.wordpress.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Earlier this fall, I noticed something odd going on with rail service on Los Angeles's C line. So, I wrote about it, because I could not have asked for a more perfect encapsulation of how schedule design can drive service outcomes.
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...
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1. try not to post things that will get you arrested
2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves
2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
1. try not to post things that will get you arrested
2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves
2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves
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One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
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The retirement of the MetroCard at midnight tonight is bittersweet for me. In 1983, as a young lawyer, I took a year's leave of absence from my law firm to serve as special counsel to Richard Ravitch, chairman of the NY MTA. He gave me the task of leading a study ...
It's the final day of MetroCard sales—so as we say farewell to an icon, let's take a look at how it all started.
Thank you, MetroCard, for moving New York to the very last swipe.
Thank you, MetroCard, for moving New York to the very last swipe.
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 AM
The retirement of the MetroCard at midnight tonight is bittersweet for me. In 1983, as a young lawyer, I took a year's leave of absence from my law firm to serve as special counsel to Richard Ravitch, chairman of the NY MTA. He gave me the task of leading a study ...
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Two New York Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City area buses and trains before sale of the MetroCard ends on December 31.
To Say Goodbye to the MetroCard, We Spent a Day Riding Every Transit System That Uses It
Two Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City area buses and trains before sale of the card ends on Dec. 31.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Two New York Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City area buses and trains before sale of the MetroCard ends on December 31.
Folks on the Internet tend to have ~thoughts~ about the design of the MetroCard Vending Machine, too—but there again, that design is the result of explicit choices _which made sense in the context for which the machines were designed_:
nextcity.org/features/wha...
bsky.app/profile/kurt...
nextcity.org/features/wha...
bsky.app/profile/kurt...
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Folks on the Internet tend to have ~thoughts~ about the design of the MetroCard Vending Machine, too—but there again, that design is the result of explicit choices _which made sense in the context for which the machines were designed_:
nextcity.org/features/wha...
bsky.app/profile/kurt...
nextcity.org/features/wha...
bsky.app/profile/kurt...
Social media isn't a great place for nuance or context, but despite that I want to take a moment today to talk about some of the things that made the MetroCard special in its day.
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Social media isn't a great place for nuance or context, but despite that I want to take a moment today to talk about some of the things that made the MetroCard special in its day.
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The new year starts off on a high note for me. I'll be the announcer for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of the City of New York.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The new year starts off on a high note for me. I'll be the announcer for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of the City of New York.
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❄️ We are happy to announce that last Sunday’s Holiday Nostalgia Ride—which was postponed due to winter weather conditions—has been rescheduled! We look forward to seeing you this Sunday, January 4 for the last ride of the season. For the full route and schedule, head to nytransitmuseum.org.
December 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
❄️ We are happy to announce that last Sunday’s Holiday Nostalgia Ride—which was postponed due to winter weather conditions—has been rescheduled! We look forward to seeing you this Sunday, January 4 for the last ride of the season. For the full route and schedule, head to nytransitmuseum.org.
I did some digging recently, and it turns out "unexpectedly popular" is a bit of an understatement. Some searching has revealed that the Python package I authored, pyrfc3339, has been shipped as part of multiple Cisco products, and, bizarrely, the firmware for the Keurig K-4500 brewer.
As the author of an unexpectedly popular Python package, some of the comments in some of the Reddit threads about the `bincode` project infuriate me.
My hobby is not your "supply chain".
My hobby is not your "supply chain".
Just to make it abundantly clear: don’t post people’s home addresses to the internet what is wrong with you
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I did some digging recently, and it turns out "unexpectedly popular" is a bit of an understatement. Some searching has revealed that the Python package I authored, pyrfc3339, has been shipped as part of multiple Cisco products, and, bizarrely, the firmware for the Keurig K-4500 brewer.
Re-posting for the morning crowd.
Sometimes, no matter how hard it may be, you must resist the urge to help: kurtraschke.com/2025/12/help...
Sometimes, you must resist the urge to help
In March 1981, during preparations for STS-1, the first Space Shuttle launch, three technicians entered an oxygen-deficient atmosphere and died (one at the scene, one a few weeks later, and one years ...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Re-posting for the morning crowd.
Sometimes, no matter how hard it may be, you must resist the urge to help: kurtraschke.com/2025/12/help...
Sometimes, you must resist the urge to help
In March 1981, during preparations for STS-1, the first Space Shuttle launch, three technicians entered an oxygen-deficient atmosphere and died (one at the scene, one a few weeks later, and one years ...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sometimes, no matter how hard it may be, you must resist the urge to help: kurtraschke.com/2025/12/help...
Today is a good day for sappymaxxing.
FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today is a good day for sappymaxxing.
Another surface parking lot in Jersey City gets developed!
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Another surface parking lot in Jersey City gets developed!
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my friend @alwayscoffee.bsky.social posted this elsewhere and it hit me like a shuttlecraft at warp 5 (complimentary)
maybe it’ll hit your heart too
maybe it’ll hit your heart too
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
my friend @alwayscoffee.bsky.social posted this elsewhere and it hit me like a shuttlecraft at warp 5 (complimentary)
maybe it’ll hit your heart too
maybe it’ll hit your heart too
there are a whole lot of good reasons to ride transit but one of the underappreciated ones is the sheer joy of intercepting a friend on the bus or the train and going for a ride together
December 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
there are a whole lot of good reasons to ride transit but one of the underappreciated ones is the sheer joy of intercepting a friend on the bus or the train and going for a ride together
I always feel a little pang of something when removing expired passes from my Apple Wallet.
December 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I always feel a little pang of something when removing expired passes from my Apple Wallet.
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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you, uh, do not crowdsource investigate a potential security incident in public. least of all when it pertains to peoples' offline identities and real-world locations.
this could have been handled with a private group of maintainers, but was not.
this could have been handled with a private group of maintainers, but was not.
December 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
you, uh, do not crowdsource investigate a potential security incident in public. least of all when it pertains to peoples' offline identities and real-world locations.
this could have been handled with a private group of maintainers, but was not.
this could have been handled with a private group of maintainers, but was not.