Borners
@borners.bsky.social
Transit Costs Project Researcher
英国基進主義者 (English state buildingism...its better in the Sino-Japanese).
Profile pic is Nagasawa Ryosetsu's picture of Crane (the virtuous man) staring at your soul.
英国基進主義者 (English state buildingism...its better in the Sino-Japanese).
Profile pic is Nagasawa Ryosetsu's picture of Crane (the virtuous man) staring at your soul.
Nice lecture about ex-Japanese PMs posy-PM careers.
Something that might interest @tobiasharris.bsky.social
Something that might interest @tobiasharris.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Nice lecture about ex-Japanese PMs posy-PM careers.
Something that might interest @tobiasharris.bsky.social
Something that might interest @tobiasharris.bsky.social
I don't think railways should be doing this. Train-go-back-and-forth-on-time is what they should be doing, but since we refuse to pay local government enough to do local government.
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I don't think railways should be doing this. Train-go-back-and-forth-on-time is what they should be doing, but since we refuse to pay local government enough to do local government.
Oh Today is a bumper crop of underpants gnomes policy papers for transport investment in the North that doesn't engage with any of the actual obstacles to building infrastructure. Including misleading and stupid comparisons.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Oh Today is a bumper crop of underpants gnomes policy papers for transport investment in the North that doesn't engage with any of the actual obstacles to building infrastructure. Including misleading and stupid comparisons.
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Another day, another underpants gnome scheme of how a couple of tram lines will solve Outer Britain's low productivity economy.
As if the Ruhr, Charleroi, Katowice, Shenyang, Osaka, Chicago don't exist (i.e. places with transit, and decaying compared to Core economic zones).
As if the Ruhr, Charleroi, Katowice, Shenyang, Osaka, Chicago don't exist (i.e. places with transit, and decaying compared to Core economic zones).
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Another day, another underpants gnome scheme of how a couple of tram lines will solve Outer Britain's low productivity economy.
As if the Ruhr, Charleroi, Katowice, Shenyang, Osaka, Chicago don't exist (i.e. places with transit, and decaying compared to Core economic zones).
As if the Ruhr, Charleroi, Katowice, Shenyang, Osaka, Chicago don't exist (i.e. places with transit, and decaying compared to Core economic zones).
UK bookshops atm have lots of African "only English language sources" history books. But engaging with Ethiopia's ancient political tradition while it collapses, Nada. Its telling of both the UK's racism, xenophobia and unwillingness to engage seriously with its multi-nation reality.
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
UK bookshops atm have lots of African "only English language sources" history books. But engaging with Ethiopia's ancient political tradition while it collapses, Nada. Its telling of both the UK's racism, xenophobia and unwillingness to engage seriously with its multi-nation reality.
Too right. Lets do this diversity stuff well. And that means importing dope architecture. Muslims (and Hindus) got shape up and match the architectural extravagance of previous marginalised religious minorities (Westminster Cathedral below).
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Too right. Lets do this diversity stuff well. And that means importing dope architecture. Muslims (and Hindus) got shape up and match the architectural extravagance of previous marginalised religious minorities (Westminster Cathedral below).
Due to random chance I found myself looking at English Mosques/Masjids, and somehow...Bradford has some reasonably handsome ones, the Bradford Central Mosque is particularly fitting. Unlike the rubbish ones in London.
Though it being the North they also have car parks.
Though it being the North they also have car parks.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Due to random chance I found myself looking at English Mosques/Masjids, and somehow...Bradford has some reasonably handsome ones, the Bradford Central Mosque is particularly fitting. Unlike the rubbish ones in London.
Though it being the North they also have car parks.
Though it being the North they also have car parks.
That's not what's happening here. Its younger people especially women and graduates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
That's not what's happening here. Its younger people especially women and graduates.
In-migration into the 3 megacities in Japan. Basically its Tokyo and nothing (net). And Osaka/Nagoya have everything in terms of infrastructure/autonomy you could wish for. Agglomeration economics are real.
Something professional regionalists globally should think on (they won't).
Something professional regionalists globally should think on (they won't).
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In-migration into the 3 megacities in Japan. Basically its Tokyo and nothing (net). And Osaka/Nagoya have everything in terms of infrastructure/autonomy you could wish for. Agglomeration economics are real.
Something professional regionalists globally should think on (they won't).
Something professional regionalists globally should think on (they won't).
Come Nagoya, best pedestrianisation is astrotufing a bit of pavement and food trucks?
Don't get me started on Hisaya-doori where you chickened out on completing pedestrianisation.
N/B Under East-West Road there is an underground shopping street.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0jt...
Don't get me started on Hisaya-doori where you chickened out on completing pedestrianisation.
N/B Under East-West Road there is an underground shopping street.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0jt...
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Come Nagoya, best pedestrianisation is astrotufing a bit of pavement and food trucks?
Don't get me started on Hisaya-doori where you chickened out on completing pedestrianisation.
N/B Under East-West Road there is an underground shopping street.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0jt...
Don't get me started on Hisaya-doori where you chickened out on completing pedestrianisation.
N/B Under East-West Road there is an underground shopping street.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0jt...
Quote posts disabled, typical. The 20th century society is among the worst people in UK society, literally using the listing process to impose costs on society so they can keep their aesthetic preferences.
(Not that different from Yookay ranters really).
(Not that different from Yookay ranters really).
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Quote posts disabled, typical. The 20th century society is among the worst people in UK society, literally using the listing process to impose costs on society so they can keep their aesthetic preferences.
(Not that different from Yookay ranters really).
(Not that different from Yookay ranters really).
Yes, and also no.
People don't realise the difference between the mid-20th "Britain", and the 1979-2015 "the UK". I.e. the former a unitary nation of aspiration, the latter a holding cell for "the country".
People don't realise the difference between the mid-20th "Britain", and the 1979-2015 "the UK". I.e. the former a unitary nation of aspiration, the latter a holding cell for "the country".
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yes, and also no.
People don't realise the difference between the mid-20th "Britain", and the 1979-2015 "the UK". I.e. the former a unitary nation of aspiration, the latter a holding cell for "the country".
People don't realise the difference between the mid-20th "Britain", and the 1979-2015 "the UK". I.e. the former a unitary nation of aspiration, the latter a holding cell for "the country".
Really nice painting about sheltering during Zeppelin bombing in 1917, for once Elephant and Castle.... was a castle.
By Walter Bayes, now in the Imperial War Museum.
By Walter Bayes, now in the Imperial War Museum.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Really nice painting about sheltering during Zeppelin bombing in 1917, for once Elephant and Castle.... was a castle.
By Walter Bayes, now in the Imperial War Museum.
By Walter Bayes, now in the Imperial War Museum.
Aaaah! UK SME/Self-employed share rising, no wonder this economy is stagnant. (Technically includes me).
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Aaaah! UK SME/Self-employed share rising, no wonder this economy is stagnant. (Technically includes me).
No they are not. But the "Yookay" meme is both online-racist dogwhistle and a symptom of wider alienation from the Union state, which has seen "the UK" advance over Britain....and "the country" over the last generation.
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
No they are not. But the "Yookay" meme is both online-racist dogwhistle and a symptom of wider alienation from the Union state, which has seen "the UK" advance over Britain....and "the country" over the last generation.
I just finished this, published only this July, it is the best book on Modern UK rail history*, and its great failure; incomplete electrification. Lots of great detail, including about small underrated projects.
*or rather joint best with @badseyellis.bsky.social 's masterworks.
*or rather joint best with @badseyellis.bsky.social 's masterworks.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I just finished this, published only this July, it is the best book on Modern UK rail history*, and its great failure; incomplete electrification. Lots of great detail, including about small underrated projects.
*or rather joint best with @badseyellis.bsky.social 's masterworks.
*or rather joint best with @badseyellis.bsky.social 's masterworks.
Stole this from @mnolangray.bsky.social , unless the 1980's had a radical pedestrianisation campaign, its clear that UK's inability to build actually means our left intact Victorian streets got us half-way to a decent system pedestrian safety.
Rather dark.
Rather dark.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Stole this from @mnolangray.bsky.social , unless the 1980's had a radical pedestrianisation campaign, its clear that UK's inability to build actually means our left intact Victorian streets got us half-way to a decent system pedestrian safety.
Rather dark.
Rather dark.
Happened before though.
(N/B Its a bad book but the collapse of Sasanian irrigation complex in Mesopotamia, Khurasan and Southern Iran is underrated event).
(N/B Its a bad book but the collapse of Sasanian irrigation complex in Mesopotamia, Khurasan and Southern Iran is underrated event).
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Happened before though.
(N/B Its a bad book but the collapse of Sasanian irrigation complex in Mesopotamia, Khurasan and Southern Iran is underrated event).
(N/B Its a bad book but the collapse of Sasanian irrigation complex in Mesopotamia, Khurasan and Southern Iran is underrated event).
PMC to the Modern Far Right.
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
PMC to the Modern Far Right.
Folding album that replicates a handscroll of Returning boats on a snowy river, by Emperor Huizong (1082-1135). Really shows how long these things are, not even showing the calligraphy attached by its past owners. @craigclunas.bsky.social taught me, these things are difficult to exhibit/powerpoint.
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Folding album that replicates a handscroll of Returning boats on a snowy river, by Emperor Huizong (1082-1135). Really shows how long these things are, not even showing the calligraphy attached by its past owners. @craigclunas.bsky.social taught me, these things are difficult to exhibit/powerpoint.
Somehow this Namboku line vent shafts is the most Tokyo thing I have ever seen. (Between Honkomagome and Komagome stations).
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Somehow this Namboku line vent shafts is the most Tokyo thing I have ever seen. (Between Honkomagome and Komagome stations).
Obviously the 5th Republic has never had that before.
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Obviously the 5th Republic has never had that before.
See Londoners this is what I get from my co-workers our city is so bad. Also good time to mention that I have upload DLR costs to the Transit Cost Project, so we can see how less rubbish we were (OG DLR not included as its mostly old viaduct).
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
See Londoners this is what I get from my co-workers our city is so bad. Also good time to mention that I have upload DLR costs to the Transit Cost Project, so we can see how less rubbish we were (OG DLR not included as its mostly old viaduct).