Oran โอม
@oranv.com
wayfarer, civil engineer by training, transit map designer by trade. finding beauty in what’s otherwise unnoticed. Eng/ไทย. Seattle/Bothell, นนทบุรี/Bangkok, Santa Barbara.
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I don't like this type of curb ramp design either. But why do we end up with ones that look like this? Some aspects of curb ramp design:
Yes, the city needs to actually repave streets. Yes, the city needs to repair sidewalks. Yes, the city needs to install curb ramps.
But the bigger problem is that when LA decides to do anything at all to "help" pedestrians, the result looks like this complete and utter bullshit
But the bigger problem is that when LA decides to do anything at all to "help" pedestrians, the result looks like this complete and utter bullshit
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I don't like this type of curb ramp design either. But why do we end up with ones that look like this? Some aspects of curb ramp design:
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I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year
The magic of scheduling!
December 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The magic of scheduling!
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Have you ever seen BART’s Grand Meet?
It’s our nightly ritual at MacArthur BART station!
All four platforms fill with the lasts trains of the night for a timed transfer at 12:51 a.m. so riders can get anywhere in the system.
Watch to see how our system planners make it happen!
It’s our nightly ritual at MacArthur BART station!
All four platforms fill with the lasts trains of the night for a timed transfer at 12:51 a.m. so riders can get anywhere in the system.
Watch to see how our system planners make it happen!
December 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Have you ever seen BART’s Grand Meet?
It’s our nightly ritual at MacArthur BART station!
All four platforms fill with the lasts trains of the night for a timed transfer at 12:51 a.m. so riders can get anywhere in the system.
Watch to see how our system planners make it happen!
It’s our nightly ritual at MacArthur BART station!
All four platforms fill with the lasts trains of the night for a timed transfer at 12:51 a.m. so riders can get anywhere in the system.
Watch to see how our system planners make it happen!
Can’t Slow Down, All Night Long (All Night)
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Can’t Slow Down, All Night Long (All Night)
It’s not often you find a Japanese YouTube channel featuring Japan railway commentary in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JEm...
The Reality of Japan's Shortest Subway: Is the Crowding Solved?
YouTube video by Takagi Railway
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
It’s not often you find a Japanese YouTube channel featuring Japan railway commentary in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JEm...
Interesting… the Latin root of the English word decide/decision is ”to cut“ and the equivalent Thai word is ตัดสินใจ that could be decomposed as to cut (ตัด) something (สิน) from one’s heart/mind (ใจ).
December 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Interesting… the Latin root of the English word decide/decision is ”to cut“ and the equivalent Thai word is ตัดสินใจ that could be decomposed as to cut (ตัด) something (สิน) from one’s heart/mind (ใจ).
Look out Pike Place Market gum wall, here comes the Capitol Hill Station pigeon poop wall.
December 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Look out Pike Place Market gum wall, here comes the Capitol Hill Station pigeon poop wall.
My wife told me she dreamt that she was able to add her ORCA card to her Apple Wallet 😅 a premonition?
December 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My wife told me she dreamt that she was able to add her ORCA card to her Apple Wallet 😅 a premonition?
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The equity case for infrequent buses at low fares only makes sense if you believe low income people’s time has no value or that they don’t value their time.
Every transit professional knows this, but equity
Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.
December 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The equity case for infrequent buses at low fares only makes sense if you believe low income people’s time has no value or that they don’t value their time.
This is giving me flashbacks to college where my local student ITE chapter volunteered to collect vehicle, pedestrian, and parking demand data at a coffee shop with drive-thru service somewhere in Ballard. It was in 2008, after this comically bad example was exposed.
Chapters 2-4 of the late, great UCLA Professor Donald Shoup’s book The High Cost of Free Parking exposed modern parking planning as pseudoscientific nonsense so thoroughly that many states and major cities have thrown out parking requirements entirely.
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This is giving me flashbacks to college where my local student ITE chapter volunteered to collect vehicle, pedestrian, and parking demand data at a coffee shop with drive-thru service somewhere in Ballard. It was in 2008, after this comically bad example was exposed.
A city’s post in July on allowing corner stores and making parking optional had many comments saying council ignored the public. But then in November voters (re-)elected all candidates that supported it. One commenter ran for council to stop policies like it and lost by 27 points. So much for that.
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A city’s post in July on allowing corner stores and making parking optional had many comments saying council ignored the public. But then in November voters (re-)elected all candidates that supported it. One commenter ran for council to stop policies like it and lost by 27 points. So much for that.
I never noticed it but I’ve been told that most pork raised in the U.S. smells unpleasant to Thai and Asian palates. This post explains: industrialized farming, "Boar taint", long supply chains; and the fix: wash pork in salt & vinegar or flour, render fat first, buy pastured or from Asian markets.
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I never noticed it but I’ve been told that most pork raised in the U.S. smells unpleasant to Thai and Asian palates. This post explains: industrialized farming, "Boar taint", long supply chains; and the fix: wash pork in salt & vinegar or flour, render fat first, buy pastured or from Asian markets.
Same, plus Thai twitter, even though I only peek at it like once a month these days.
this is my last strong tether to twitter/x -- 1000x more people tweeting about Japanese and Korean transit, politics, urbanism, culture, movies, art, history in their native languages than here on Bluesky
I understand why this X user would say this, but I think this wave of mass exodus might have more staying power because many current Bluesky users don't speak Japanese and Korean, meaning the dooming will be contained in the English-language clusters while other users would just go like the art.
December 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Same, plus Thai twitter, even though I only peek at it like once a month these days.
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This is so important if you want Bluesky to become a global independent platform. Twitter/X is *HUGE* in Japan and this might destroy it there.
Elon Musk fixing Bluesky's notorious problems attracting brands and government/quasi-governmental institutions by personally chasing the entire Japanese internet off Twitter for no reason
If — if! — Elon Musk's Generative AI "edit image" button forces Japanese video game companies like Capcom, Nintendo, and Sega to jump ship, it would be the greatest Christmas gift Bluesky has ever received. These companies are notoriously obsessive about protecting their intellectual property.
December 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is so important if you want Bluesky to become a global independent platform. Twitter/X is *HUGE* in Japan and this might destroy it there.
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Japanese posters are so much more organized than Americans lmao: @catclub.bsky.social, which runs the #blueskyねこ部 hashtag, requires users to register their cat's name and birth date before receiving a virtual membership card that allows their cat photos to be seen by the broader audience lol
🐈 #Blueskyねこ部 🐈⬛
からのお知らせ🐟
ねこ部には3つのフィードがあります
①ねこ画像部員フィード
掲載必須ワードは2つです
1️⃣#Blueskyねこ部
2️⃣部員No.◯
00m.in/DvCXc
⚠️部員No.はお申込みが必要です
②ねこ画像フィード
掲載必須ワードは1つです
1️⃣#Blueskyねこ部
00m.in/ZJDmj
③お知らせフィード
🐾リポスト(引用)🐾
リポスト&ベストショットをご希望されない場合は【ねこ部の付くタグ】【部員No.】をお外しください。この2つの条件のないポストはリポストや引用を控えますのでご安心ください🪴
よろしくお願いします🤲
からのお知らせ🐟
ねこ部には3つのフィードがあります
①ねこ画像部員フィード
掲載必須ワードは2つです
1️⃣#Blueskyねこ部
2️⃣部員No.◯
00m.in/DvCXc
⚠️部員No.はお申込みが必要です
②ねこ画像フィード
掲載必須ワードは1つです
1️⃣#Blueskyねこ部
00m.in/ZJDmj
③お知らせフィード
🐾リポスト(引用)🐾
リポスト&ベストショットをご希望されない場合は【ねこ部の付くタグ】【部員No.】をお外しください。この2つの条件のないポストはリポストや引用を控えますのでご安心ください🪴
よろしくお願いします🤲
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Japanese posters are so much more organized than Americans lmao: @catclub.bsky.social, which runs the #blueskyねこ部 hashtag, requires users to register their cat's name and birth date before receiving a virtual membership card that allows their cat photos to be seen by the broader audience lol
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Seattle Man Leaves Out Plate of Cheese for When St. Rat Comes Up Through Toilet Tonight: tinyurl.com/nhf8cr8s
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Seattle Man Leaves Out Plate of Cheese for When St. Rat Comes Up Through Toilet Tonight: tinyurl.com/nhf8cr8s
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X/Twitter has officially added a single button that appears on EVERY image that allows users to have Gen AI change the original image in real time with prompts and then download the modified image,
allowing users to blatantly mildly edit (plagiarize) artist's work & or potentially doctor photographs
allowing users to blatantly mildly edit (plagiarize) artist's work & or potentially doctor photographs
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
X/Twitter has officially added a single button that appears on EVERY image that allows users to have Gen AI change the original image in real time with prompts and then download the modified image,
allowing users to blatantly mildly edit (plagiarize) artist's work & or potentially doctor photographs
allowing users to blatantly mildly edit (plagiarize) artist's work & or potentially doctor photographs
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Until Jan 2024, LA County had a high Temperature waste incinerator that burned the paper & plastic (generating electricity) while metals like aluminum were recovered from the ashes. It had modern, best available pollution controls. But we closed it. SERRF
December 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Until Jan 2024, LA County had a high Temperature waste incinerator that burned the paper & plastic (generating electricity) while metals like aluminum were recovered from the ashes. It had modern, best available pollution controls. But we closed it. SERRF
Reliving commutes of Christmas Eves Past.
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reliving commutes of Christmas Eves Past.
Public Health Seattle & King County’s comic on flushing rats back down the toilet is too cute. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/...
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Public Health Seattle & King County’s comic on flushing rats back down the toilet is too cute. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/...
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The duality of the cyclist
Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The duality of the cyclist
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The first government to be toppled by GNU "strings" command.
It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭
December 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The first government to be toppled by GNU "strings" command.
Very cool that Safeway sells Mae Ploy brand Thai curry paste. If you want to cook a Thai green or red curry, this is the one to get. Price can't be beat either. 1/5 the price per ounce of the competing non-Thai brand!
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very cool that Safeway sells Mae Ploy brand Thai curry paste. If you want to cook a Thai green or red curry, this is the one to get. Price can't be beat either. 1/5 the price per ounce of the competing non-Thai brand!