Kona
@kona.moi
Transit stuff: app maker (pantographapp.com) and planning analyst (communitytransit.org) • 🚌🚉☕️🏳️🌈 • Mostly urbanism, left politics, local stuff, GTFS randoms. Basically just Swift (BRT), Swift (language), and Swift (Taylor) • he/him
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In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
Oh hey, that’s a @communitytransit.bsky.social Swift bus being built 🎉
Bus prices are out of control. Very good article here
Bus prices are out of control. Very good article here
Transit boosters often dislike discussing cost containment, fearing they’ll give ammo to enemies.
But agencies need to address endlessly rising expenses. It’s inexcusable that new buses cost ~2x in the US what they do abroad (largely bc of excess customization).
But agencies need to address endlessly rising expenses. It’s inexcusable that new buses cost ~2x in the US what they do abroad (largely bc of excess customization).
Why US Cities Pay Too Much for Transit Buses
A new paper argues that lack of competition, demand for custom features and “Buy America” rules have driven up costs for transit agencies in the US.
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Oh hey, that’s a @communitytransit.bsky.social Swift bus being built 🎉
Bus prices are out of control. Very good article here
Bus prices are out of control. Very good article here
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"We recently identified a breach of our North Pole Magic Systems (NPMS) that may have compromised your personal data—namely, the thousands of hours of footage we have of when you are sleeping, as well as when you are awake."
The North Pole Has Suffered a Data Breach
Dear Valued Child, This letter was slipped into your stocking to inform you that we recently identified a breach of our North Pole Magic Systems (N...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"We recently identified a breach of our North Pole Magic Systems (NPMS) that may have compromised your personal data—namely, the thousands of hours of footage we have of when you are sleeping, as well as when you are awake."
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Rick Steves going full YIMBY is the kind of content I *crave*
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Rick Steves going full YIMBY is the kind of content I *crave*
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I was thrilled to meet with Mayor Michelle Wu (@mayorwu.boston.gov) today at Boston City Hall. I can't think of anyone better to learn from about what it takes to be an effective, progressive big-city mayor.
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I was thrilled to meet with Mayor Michelle Wu (@mayorwu.boston.gov) today at Boston City Hall. I can't think of anyone better to learn from about what it takes to be an effective, progressive big-city mayor.
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Nope! You will have to drive slower so that people do not die. This is the reason the policy is unpopular.
December 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Nope! You will have to drive slower so that people do not die. This is the reason the policy is unpopular.
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It is not a "surveillance state" for your car to know that the speed limit is 25 miles per hour.
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It is not a "surveillance state" for your car to know that the speed limit is 25 miles per hour.
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Was this the plan all along?
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Was this the plan all along?
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I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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EXCLUSIVE: A lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the strikes against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed with the Trump administration’s position that the operations are lawful and was overruled, according to six sources.
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources.
nbcnews.to
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
EXCLUSIVE: A lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the strikes against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed with the Trump administration’s position that the operations are lawful and was overruled, according to six sources.
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you masked morons think this is a good look? I assure you it is not a good look.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
you masked morons think this is a good look? I assure you it is not a good look.
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Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
House Democrats press DOJ for details on Epstein co-conspirators probe that was "inexplicably killed"
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein provided the Justice Department with "precise and detailed" information about 20 alleged co-conspirators, House Democrats say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
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New episode of "Me Talking About Transit" just dropped!
Community Transit - The Transit Effect With Ken Jennings - Ep. 3: Transit & the Environment.
Join “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings in a series on how transit shapes communities.
ride.communitytransit.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
New episode of "Me Talking About Transit" just dropped!
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thank you, katie wilson
Earlier this week, all 74 of the Northwest’s endangered orcas gathered into what researchers call a superpod — a sort of all-inclusive family reunion.
Rare orca superpod comes to Seattle
They came together Sunday evening not far from Port Townsend. Why, no one can say for sure, except the participants themselves — and no humans speak their language.
www.kuow.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
thank you, katie wilson
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump “knew about the girls.”
Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump ‘knew about the girls’
The convicted sex offender’s correspondence was released along with other documents by House Oversight Dems.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump “knew about the girls.”
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers