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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · Nov 15
new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I evaluate Japanese Railways' first years post-privatization and examine the conditions set prior to its launch to guarantee its success. But how does one grade such success -- and can JR be deemed as a success story?

www.substack-bahn.net/p/aura-of-su...
Aura of Success: The First Years of Japan's Privatized National Railways
What does it take to make a railway a "success"?
www.substack-bahn.net
seung.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Epstein is like pervert forest gump.
mikesenters.bsky.social Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 11h
Nearly missed this one but Epstein was sending SOMEONE to the Yuri board back in fucking 2011. That's when MY ass was active on site. This is insane to think about.
January 31, 2026 at 3:15 AM
seung.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 12:58 AM
seung.bsky.social
South Koreans: we're no longer number one, baby www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
Fertility rate falls to lowest globally - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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egoldwyn.bsky.social
41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:37 PM
seung.bsky.social
been thinking about this ending nonstop. makes me tear up

“How does one overcome suffering?”

youtu.be/q6LHX-HmCNE?...
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 AM
seung.bsky.social
cool. why don't we instead just watch HBO's JOHN ADAMS again www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxSL...
January 29, 2026 at 11:02 PM
seung.bsky.social
a Korean news outlet covering the fear widespread among the small Korean American community in Minnesota by ICE. nearly half of Korean Americans in MN are believed to adoptees to white families and be "unaware of the documentation required to prove their legal status" v.daum.net/v/2026012905...
“아시아 얼굴 자체가 위험”…美이민단속에 한인사회도 ‘공포 확산’
[헤럴드경제=서지연 기자] 미국 이민세관단속국(ICE)을 중심으로 한 이민 단속이 강화되면서 한인을 포함한 아시아계 주민 사회 전반에 공포가 확산되고 있다. 불법 체류 여부와 무관하게 인종적 외형을 기준으로 한 단속이 이뤄지고 있다는 증언이 잇따르면서, 시민권자와 입양인들까지 위협을 체감하고 있다는 목소리가 나온다. 미네소타주 세인트폴에서 노숙자 쉼터를
v.daum.net
January 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
seung.bsky.social
great opsec work here but I'm left more impressed by the beauty of the english language from the screenshots and the thread
jane.meangirls.online Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 4d
I’ll be following this developing story very closely
January 29, 2026 at 1:30 AM
seung.bsky.social
honored to be bluesky's premier australian politics knower
January 29, 2026 at 12:30 AM
seung.bsky.social
would recommend to all Heike Monogatari (2021): a beautiful, tender, contemplative anime based on Japan’s most famous medieval piece of literature
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 AM
seung.bsky.social
“The most charitable way I could describe the launch of Clipper 2.0 was, ‘It’s a hot mess,’ and that’s charitable" www.kqed.org/news/1207102...
‘A Hot Mess’: Transit Riders, Officials Skewer Contractor Over Flawed Clipper 2.0 Rollout | KQED
As glitches continue to plague a new version of Clipper, transit officials and advocates across the Bay Area are running out of patience with the company contracted to operate it.
www.kqed.org
January 28, 2026 at 1:17 AM
seung.bsky.social
a real who's who of Korean liberalism in this photo walking behind Lee Hae-chan's coffin.
January 27, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM
seung.bsky.social
I would like to taste the forbidden subway stalactite...
mightygodking.com Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 4d
The TTC subway cars this morning
Subway cars at Bloor/Yonge station, covered in icicles
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
seung.bsky.social
this news article speculates that Lee Hae-chan's death may have been caused by PTSD from the myriad torture methods he endured as a student activist in the 1970s and 1980s. says he displayed symptoms for at least 15 years but never acknowledged it www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2026...
January 27, 2026 at 5:01 PM
seung.bsky.social
*releasing billions of gallons of reservoir water in the middle of wet season so it can flow downhill to SoCal* we need this rain
mayorofoakland.bsky.social Mike the Hot Dog Mayor @mayorofoakland.bsky.social · 4d
Happy "We need this rain" to those who celebrate. @seung.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.

Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
Knutson mentioned in passing that his neighbor had “an adopted brown kid down there; they hid her in the basement yesterday.” This kind of thing no longer sounds weird in Minneapolis. Many people are hiding indoors—so many that, in a city with a substantial minority population, I hardly saw any Black or Latino faces on the street.
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
I mean things are bad but Gwangju was 1000-2000 plus dead, not 2, and drugged up paras were firing at anything that moved. If it gets to that stage we're in a very very different situation.
ryanestrada.com Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 5d
This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
ryanestrada.com Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 6d
The Chun regime that my wife fought against in the 80s did the exact same thing. They needed a "crisis" that "only they could solve" to hoard more ill-gotten power, so they chose one city (Gwangju), declared its inhabitants enemies, sent trucks full of soldiers to violently attack and kill them.
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 AM
seung.bsky.social
lifting with his back, not enough legs smh
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5d
Mayor Mamdani is personally checking on the outer boroughs during the storm. Here he is stopping in Bed-Stuy to help NYCHA residents whose car got stuck.
January 25, 2026 at 11:59 PM
seung.bsky.social
former SK Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan died today. think it's worth threading his political life, as he was fundamental to the rise of South Korea's democratic liberalism and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea. current Prez Lee Jae-myung called him a political mentor en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
(News Focus) Ex-PM Lee Hae-chan a towering figure in S. Korea's fight for democracy | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- Former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan, who died Sunday while visit...
en.yna.co.kr
January 25, 2026 at 8:53 PM
seung.bsky.social
one of the greatest living Americans
debbiecvinette.bsky.social Debbie Chavez Vinette @debbiecvinette.bsky.social · 7d
NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page protesting in Minneapolis today. Alan was a Minnesota Viking and is a retired Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. #MinnesotaStrong
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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stephensemler.bsky.social
This is correct. China military budget is $235B.
US police: $140B
DHS base budget: $65B
DHS reconciliation (est FY26): $55B
= ~$260B
The US spends over $140 billion annually on police. This line graph shows state and local government police expenditures since 2008, culminating at $140 billion in 2022. Data: US Census Bureau (31 October 2024): 2022 Census of Governments – Finance Component. Trump’s budget shifts funding from health, development to military, deportations. This table lists cabinet departments, 2025 enacted funding, 2026 requested funding, and highlights the difference in funding between 2025 and 2026. In billions of dollars: Pentagon +113, DHS +42, VA +5, Transportation +2, Energy +1, Commerce -2, Treasury -3, Justice -3, Labor -5, Agriculture -5, Interior -5, HHS -33, HUD -34, State/International programs -49. Data: OMB, 2026 base discretionary funding request. House GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: tax breaks for the rich, aid cuts for the poor, bigger deficit. Ways & Means, 3% income boost for the wealthy, adds $3.8T to the deficit, $3.8T; Armed Services, $25B for a fantasy missile shield built by Musk's SpaceX, $144B; Homeland Security, $50B for a border wall, $67.1B; Judiciary, Bonus pay for ICE agents, additional ICE prisons & personnel, $6.9B; Financial Services, 60% cut to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, –$5.2B; Natural Resources, Expand coal mining and onshore/offshore oil drilling, –$20.2B; Transportation & Infrastructure, Eliminates $4B for green infrastructure projects, –$36.6B; Oversight & Gov't Reform, 5% pay cut for new federal workers who keep union protections, –$51B; Agriculture, 3.5M people lose SNAP benefits, $238.2B; Education & Workforce, 1.4M Pell Grant recipients lose funding, $–349.1B; Energy & Commerce, 8.6M people lose Medicaid coverage, $–987.8B. Data: H.R. 1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act, CBO. Deficit effect is for 2025–34.
January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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melodyschreiber.com
Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’
Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:18 PM
seung.bsky.social
what an ambitious history book, stunning when considering the author was not trained in academia
January 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM