Shradha Dinesh
@shradhadinesh.bsky.social
data journalist @ miami herald/mcclatchy dc. dm for signal.
more: https://sdinesh01.github.io/
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Shradha Dinesh
@shradhadinesh.bsky.social
· Jul 15
Brightline is the deadliest passenger railroad in the United States. An investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN reveals the shocking toll and the failures that led to it.
Killer Train
Brightline is the deadliest passenger railroad in the United States. An investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN reveals the shocking toll and the failures that led to it.
bit.ly
New Miami Herald/WLRN investigation:
Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt.
Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt.
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Darren Brown was drawn to Florida by Brightline to be a part of something exciting, a new, fast train, privately owned, luxury on wheels.
He was incredibly proud to be, as he called it, a “badass bullet train conductor.”
Until the deaths started happening. 🧵
He was incredibly proud to be, as he called it, a “badass bullet train conductor.”
Until the deaths started happening. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Darren Brown was drawn to Florida by Brightline to be a part of something exciting, a new, fast train, privately owned, luxury on wheels.
He was incredibly proud to be, as he called it, a “badass bullet train conductor.”
Until the deaths started happening. 🧵
He was incredibly proud to be, as he called it, a “badass bullet train conductor.”
Until the deaths started happening. 🧵
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“There’d been a communication breakdown. The second Brightline train ‘suddenly approached’ at maximum speed, an official record of the incident recounted. Everyone ran for their lives. The train ran over Conrad a second time.”
— @brittanywallman.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
— @brittanywallman.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
Haunted by Brightline: A conductor got his dream job. Then people started dying.
“What’s your body count?” someone asked the conductor on Instagram. “16,” he responded, like he was providing his shirt size.
www.miamiherald.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“There’d been a communication breakdown. The second Brightline train ‘suddenly approached’ at maximum speed, an official record of the incident recounted. Everyone ran for their lives. The train ran over Conrad a second time.”
— @brittanywallman.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
— @brittanywallman.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
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Latest from Killer Train:
FECR is suing Brightline for “clandestinely” negotiating with county governments to add more trains to its rails in violation of a contract agreement between the two companies.
Story by @joshceb.bsky.social + @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/miam...
FECR is suing Brightline for “clandestinely” negotiating with county governments to add more trains to its rails in violation of a contract agreement between the two companies.
Story by @joshceb.bsky.social + @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/miam...
The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.
FEC Railway sues Brightline over commuter rail expansion plan
The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.
bit.ly
August 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Latest from Killer Train:
FECR is suing Brightline for “clandestinely” negotiating with county governments to add more trains to its rails in violation of a contract agreement between the two companies.
Story by @joshceb.bsky.social + @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/miam...
FECR is suing Brightline for “clandestinely” negotiating with county governments to add more trains to its rails in violation of a contract agreement between the two companies.
Story by @joshceb.bsky.social + @aaronleibowitz.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/miam...
Reposted by Shradha Dinesh
The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.
FEC Railway sues Brightline over commuter rail expansion plan
The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.
bit.ly
August 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The move could derail a long-awaited commuter train service in South Florida.
Reposted by Shradha Dinesh
After an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would work “to drive down the number of deaths.”
Killer Train: U.S. transportation chief commits to reducing Brightline deaths
After an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would work “to drive down the number of deaths.”
bit.ly
July 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
After an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he would work “to drive down the number of deaths.”
New Miami Herald/WLRN investigation:
Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt.
Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt.
Brightline is the deadliest passenger railroad in the United States. An investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN reveals the shocking toll and the failures that led to it.
Killer Train
Brightline is the deadliest passenger railroad in the United States. An investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN reveals the shocking toll and the failures that led to it.
bit.ly
July 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New Miami Herald/WLRN investigation:
Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt.
Brightline trains kill someone every 13 days of service, on average. 182 people have died, and 99 people have been injured. In at least 101 cases, the train crashed into vehicles, but no one was hurt.
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SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.
www.wired.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
"Short of sitting by the tracks and scrutinizing hazardous material placards, they have no way of knowing what's on every railcar passing through."
NEW data story w/ the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at UMD: www.npr.org/2025/02/03/g...
NEW data story w/ the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at UMD: www.npr.org/2025/02/03/g...
Two years after derailment, toxic chemicals still roll through East Palestine
Two years after derailment, toxic chemicals still roll through East Palestine.
www.npr.org
February 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Short of sitting by the tracks and scrutinizing hazardous material placards, they have no way of knowing what's on every railcar passing through."
NEW data story w/ the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at UMD: www.npr.org/2025/02/03/g...
NEW data story w/ the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at UMD: www.npr.org/2025/02/03/g...
regretting all decisions that led me to understand every single word of this piece
Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
defector.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:36 PM
regretting all decisions that led me to understand every single word of this piece
it’s wild that just a couple weeks worth of abysmal music habits/taste during college finals took over all other data for the year on my spotify wrapped
December 4, 2024 at 1:19 PM
it’s wild that just a couple weeks worth of abysmal music habits/taste during college finals took over all other data for the year on my spotify wrapped
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who is going to write the explainer on how the tiktok fyp has been taken over by livestreams peddling QVC channel-esque teleshopping slop content!! who is watching this stuff?
(I personally see more of this now than any other labeled advertising! and the app has felt unusable for weeks now)
(I personally see more of this now than any other labeled advertising! and the app has felt unusable for weeks now)
December 3, 2024 at 6:12 PM
who is going to write the explainer on how the tiktok fyp has been taken over by livestreams peddling QVC channel-esque teleshopping slop content!! who is watching this stuff?
(I personally see more of this now than any other labeled advertising! and the app has felt unusable for weeks now)
(I personally see more of this now than any other labeled advertising! and the app has felt unusable for weeks now)
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To all a happy 🎇🎇🎇 International Shapefile Day 🎇🎇🎇🎇
May your colleagues never send you just the .shp when you ask for their data.
(thanks to Gabriel Zanlorenssi for reminding me)
May your colleagues never send you just the .shp when you ask for their data.
(thanks to Gabriel Zanlorenssi for reminding me)
December 3, 2024 at 4:46 PM
To all a happy 🎇🎇🎇 International Shapefile Day 🎇🎇🎇🎇
May your colleagues never send you just the .shp when you ask for their data.
(thanks to Gabriel Zanlorenssi for reminding me)
May your colleagues never send you just the .shp when you ask for their data.
(thanks to Gabriel Zanlorenssi for reminding me)
in anticipation of my new computer arriving, I've endured almost nightly dreams where I'm stuck in a groundhog day-type eternity debugging a flood of nonsensical python environment errors
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
in anticipation of my new computer arriving, I've endured almost nightly dreams where I'm stuck in a groundhog day-type eternity debugging a flood of nonsensical python environment errors
finally my favorite time of the year — got offline and accomplished some of my own recipe testing this week
need to add some cookie week recipes to the rotation asap!
need to add some cookie week recipes to the rotation asap!
December 1, 2024 at 9:01 PM
finally my favorite time of the year — got offline and accomplished some of my own recipe testing this week
need to add some cookie week recipes to the rotation asap!
need to add some cookie week recipes to the rotation asap!
my password manager, of all things (!!!), got bought out a few years ago and this perfectly sums up my feelings about finding another (still haven’t)
(and more broadly how the constant need to replace tech with other ~better~ tech feels like such a waste of time & energy)
(and more broadly how the constant need to replace tech with other ~better~ tech feels like such a waste of time & energy)
“Why am I reading books on VC funding just to figure out what parts of my digital life will inevitably decay when the money guys get their hands on it??”
phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11...
phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11...
modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics
Omnivore is a read-later app. You know, one of those things that lets you save interesting articles you encounter throughout the day and the service will go crawl the page and download the content in ...
phirephoenix.com
December 1, 2024 at 8:13 PM
my password manager, of all things (!!!), got bought out a few years ago and this perfectly sums up my feelings about finding another (still haven’t)
(and more broadly how the constant need to replace tech with other ~better~ tech feels like such a waste of time & energy)
(and more broadly how the constant need to replace tech with other ~better~ tech feels like such a waste of time & energy)
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…
November 16, 2024 at 12:04 PM
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian books…
hello! here’s a random map i made a long time ago 📊
trying to find other folks working on interesting *data science-y* /computational social sci projects and writers on internet culture and tech/AI & society beats
say hi if that sounds like you :)
trying to find other folks working on interesting *data science-y* /computational social sci projects and writers on internet culture and tech/AI & society beats
say hi if that sounds like you :)
November 11, 2024 at 5:08 AM
hello! here’s a random map i made a long time ago 📊
trying to find other folks working on interesting *data science-y* /computational social sci projects and writers on internet culture and tech/AI & society beats
say hi if that sounds like you :)
trying to find other folks working on interesting *data science-y* /computational social sci projects and writers on internet culture and tech/AI & society beats
say hi if that sounds like you :)
microdosing this app until it stops feeling like every post in my feed was written in 2012 internet
November 10, 2024 at 6:03 AM
microdosing this app until it stops feeling like every post in my feed was written in 2012 internet