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So are we going to get Gateway back? Can we get back to the real point of microblogging website train discussion:
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
So are we going to get Gateway back? Can we get back to the real point of microblogging website train discussion:
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
"Will Gateway add capacity into NYC? Is it worth it?"
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This scholarly article persuaded me that Battle Royale marked a more disturbing trend in Millenial Lit and the Survival Genre. I saw the popularity of Squid Games as a sign that the rest of the world was catching up with Japanese social issues. www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/...
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This scholarly article persuaded me that Battle Royale marked a more disturbing trend in Millenial Lit and the Survival Genre. I saw the popularity of Squid Games as a sign that the rest of the world was catching up with Japanese social issues. www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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The issue landscape has changed dramatically over the last year - Democrats successfully have simultaneously raised the salience and expanded our trust advantage on our best issue (healthcare) *and* dramatically improved our trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The issue landscape has changed dramatically over the last year - Democrats successfully have simultaneously raised the salience and expanded our trust advantage on our best issue (healthcare) *and* dramatically improved our trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy
Actually asbestos is a place in Quebec
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Actually asbestos is a place in Quebec
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
(Or was please don't be mad at me residents ofVal-dee-Sources)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des...
I have no strong opinion on Romantasy or any of the books mentioned in this article (haven't read 'em), but it's crazy how much you have to read to be informed. This person read 4k pages and rightly points out that's a small sample. hard to write criticism.
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I have no strong opinion on Romantasy or any of the books mentioned in this article (haven't read 'em), but it's crazy how much you have to read to be informed. This person read 4k pages and rightly points out that's a small sample. hard to write criticism.
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
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I read Zweig's World of Yesterday recently and he repeatedly talks about how much better-looking people became in the years between his childhood and adulthood. It was better nutrition, medicine (no more weird deformities), and interest in exercise.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I read Zweig's World of Yesterday recently and he repeatedly talks about how much better-looking people became in the years between his childhood and adulthood. It was better nutrition, medicine (no more weird deformities), and interest in exercise.
If you're a center right party;
Move left? You lose
Move right? Spend the rest of your days getting Hitler memes from your 20y old staffers while every person who can read a policy paper moves to the left. Also you will probably lose anyway when your staffer leaves for an even more right wing party
Move left? You lose
Move right? Spend the rest of your days getting Hitler memes from your 20y old staffers while every person who can read a policy paper moves to the left. Also you will probably lose anyway when your staffer leaves for an even more right wing party
It's simple if you're a left of center party:
Move right? You lose
Move left? You also lose
We must move in a previously untheorized 3rd political dimension. Wait, sorry, I'm being told just now —
Move right? You lose
Move left? You also lose
We must move in a previously untheorized 3rd political dimension. Wait, sorry, I'm being told just now —
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
If you're a center right party;
Move left? You lose
Move right? Spend the rest of your days getting Hitler memes from your 20y old staffers while every person who can read a policy paper moves to the left. Also you will probably lose anyway when your staffer leaves for an even more right wing party
Move left? You lose
Move right? Spend the rest of your days getting Hitler memes from your 20y old staffers while every person who can read a policy paper moves to the left. Also you will probably lose anyway when your staffer leaves for an even more right wing party
It's simple if you're a left of center party:
Move right? You lose
Move left? You also lose
We must move in a previously untheorized 3rd political dimension. Wait, sorry, I'm being told just now —
Move right? You lose
Move left? You also lose
We must move in a previously untheorized 3rd political dimension. Wait, sorry, I'm being told just now —
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's simple if you're a left of center party:
Move right? You lose
Move left? You also lose
We must move in a previously untheorized 3rd political dimension. Wait, sorry, I'm being told just now —
Move right? You lose
Move left? You also lose
We must move in a previously untheorized 3rd political dimension. Wait, sorry, I'm being told just now —
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2016 MLIT Report on Japanese rail infra, left km of bridges and right is km of tunnels and how long ago they were built. You can see WW2, 1973 Oil shock, and the petering off of construction till the present (although a lot of tunnel will come on line in the 2030's with Sapporo/Chuo shinkansen).
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
2016 MLIT Report on Japanese rail infra, left km of bridges and right is km of tunnels and how long ago they were built. You can see WW2, 1973 Oil shock, and the petering off of construction till the present (although a lot of tunnel will come on line in the 2030's with Sapporo/Chuo shinkansen).
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MFW I get negatively polarized against the best thing ever: thewire.in/government/w...
Why the Railways' 100% Electrification Plan Is a Bizarre Decision
The move would increase average cost of transportation on many routes. The government's stated goals also do not appear to make sense when considered against technical details.
thewire.in
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
MFW I get negatively polarized against the best thing ever: thewire.in/government/w...
Did not realize how big the polling miss was with new compulsory voting in Chile. Lots of stuff under the surface even if Jara and Kast were predicted to advance, and did
www.americasquarterly.org/article/reac...
www.americasquarterly.org/article/reac...
REACTION: Jara and Kast Head to Chile's Presidential Runoff
A Communist and a right-wing candidate will compete in the second round on December 14.
www.americasquarterly.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Did not realize how big the polling miss was with new compulsory voting in Chile. Lots of stuff under the surface even if Jara and Kast were predicted to advance, and did
www.americasquarterly.org/article/reac...
www.americasquarterly.org/article/reac...
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Kuala Lumpur's Kajang line (opened 2016):
++ Driverless and 0PTO (unlike Singapore's driverless metro lines which are sadly OPTO)
+ Solid trains and PSDs
– Overbuilt stations
–– 10-min headways
Plus great views, lots of locals taking videos through the windshield <3
++ Driverless and 0PTO (unlike Singapore's driverless metro lines which are sadly OPTO)
+ Solid trains and PSDs
– Overbuilt stations
–– 10-min headways
Plus great views, lots of locals taking videos through the windshield <3
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Kuala Lumpur's Kajang line (opened 2016):
++ Driverless and 0PTO (unlike Singapore's driverless metro lines which are sadly OPTO)
+ Solid trains and PSDs
– Overbuilt stations
–– 10-min headways
Plus great views, lots of locals taking videos through the windshield <3
++ Driverless and 0PTO (unlike Singapore's driverless metro lines which are sadly OPTO)
+ Solid trains and PSDs
– Overbuilt stations
–– 10-min headways
Plus great views, lots of locals taking videos through the windshield <3
A while ago I saw some cool paleoart depicting trilobites and other extinct animals as food in markets, cooked, etc. It was very interesting! Unfortunately I can't find it now. Does anyone know the artist?
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A while ago I saw some cool paleoart depicting trilobites and other extinct animals as food in markets, cooked, etc. It was very interesting! Unfortunately I can't find it now. Does anyone know the artist?
That Seattle has two long time political coalitions based off of 2 papers with same initials (ST) that basically create a 2 party municipal system w/ none of the actual structure of political parties does sometimes seem like a parody of how different US "parties" are than anywhere else.
Maybe this is controversial, but I think it is fundamentally unhealthy for a progressive movement to have our most influential endorsements come from a newspaper. I love the Stranger, often they get it right. But when they get it wrong, the consequences can be massive, like in our public schools.
How a Seattle Alt-Weekly Newspaper Became a Progressive Kingmaker
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
That Seattle has two long time political coalitions based off of 2 papers with same initials (ST) that basically create a 2 party municipal system w/ none of the actual structure of political parties does sometimes seem like a parody of how different US "parties" are than anywhere else.
LMAO. From Doucet's review of Mike Bird's book THE LAND TRAP
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
LMAO. From Doucet's review of Mike Bird's book THE LAND TRAP
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/book-revie...
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#OnThisDay in 1879, the first bicycle in Washington Territory arrived in Seattle aboard a steamer from San Francisco. historylink.org/File/250
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#OnThisDay in 1879, the first bicycle in Washington Territory arrived in Seattle aboard a steamer from San Francisco. historylink.org/File/250
Geeze that's an enormous lead
🇮🇳🗳️ Elections au Bihar (130 millions d'habs) : on en est encore au début du dépouillement, mais on se dirige vers un triomphe pour la NDA, l'alliance entre le BJP du Premier ministre Narendra Modi et le JD(U) du Ministre-en-Chef de l'Etat Nitish Kumar.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Geeze that's an enormous lead
We're going to get a "Mission Accomplished" banner before the mission is ever explained
Per @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social, DOD presented Trump with plans for strikes in Venezuela yesterday, including on the ground. Astonishing to see the U.S. on the brink of another regime-change invasion with essentially none of the pre-2003 effort to rationalize it domestically and internationally.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We're going to get a "Mission Accomplished" banner before the mission is ever explained
The water view vs valleys setup in Seattle is quite old now. McGinn (left/The Stranger) vs Mallahan (mod/Seattle Times) had a pretty similar shape in 2009
(screenshot from cap hill blog b/c the Times down their map)
(screenshot from cap hill blog b/c the Times down their map)
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The water view vs valleys setup in Seattle is quite old now. McGinn (left/The Stranger) vs Mallahan (mod/Seattle Times) had a pretty similar shape in 2009
(screenshot from cap hill blog b/c the Times down their map)
(screenshot from cap hill blog b/c the Times down their map)
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I never realised how much Honoré de Balzac looks like Fak from The Bear
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I never realised how much Honoré de Balzac looks like Fak from The Bear
Interesting to see Fulop confirm this interpretation of his time at Jersey City.
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Interesting to see Fulop confirm this interpretation of his time at Jersey City.