Reposted by BornersMac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 11hI mean if you didn’t do the stupid security system they would be comically overbuilt. I don’t think stupid operating practices are negating of the fact stations are overbuilt 2191
Reposted by BornersStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4hWe're already at war with Russia, exhibit 2342:ft.comRussia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warnCompanies increase personal security for top executives as Kremlin orders expansion of sabotage and ‘hybrid’ operations 10406130
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 5hThis morning Alon gave me 5 minute lecture version....after we were discussing what is and isn't East London. 050
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 8hThat too. I mean it all kind of lines up in the ways Japan distorts its economy in order to prop an existing political economy. But those spikey New Years super demand isn't speaking healthy work-life balance. 140
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 8hOne thing to keep in mind from the Japanese experience, is that if you have your people going on holiday more because you work less/have more consumption spending then you increase ridership (underrated reason why TGV outperforms Shinkansen in ridership intensity). 140
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 8hThere's gonna be one more spurt out of desperation next 5 years. HSR actually isn't especially overbuilt. If TGV can go to Rennes (230,000) and Shinkansen to Niigata/Akita (less than 1 million), then China with a weaker legacy network has room to grow. 250
Reposted by Borners👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 10hThe Telegraph figured it out? The Telegraph?! 3525107
Reposted by Bornersdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23hfour years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better 53134482649
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 22hWow, cool picture showing the original Edo castle before the major land reclamation works that made what's now Tokyo's downtown. 0141
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 22hVideo about a "British Fair" in Hankyu Umeda Osaka. It is deeply twee, Royal Tea, Fish and Chips. Apparently they've been having for 50 years. Also visible the Saltire seperate from Union Jacks.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBIJ...youtube.com梅田がまるでイギリスに⁉50年超える歴史「英国フェア2026」かつて女王が楽しんだ紅茶&スコーンが来日 王室ご用達の逸品も!阪急うめだ本店【清水麻椰のトクスポッ!】(2026年10月7日)YouTube video by MBS NEWS 040
Reposted by BornersYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/10/2026China’s railway system provided 25 million rides on a single day, October 1. For comparison, the US aviation system serves about 3 million travelers daily. Amtrak serves about 35 million riders per year.english.scio.gov.cnChina's railway passenger trips hit record single-day high 615729
Reposted by Bornersironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I see the Ukrainians, the Iranians and the Houthi’s have all decided it’s in their strategic interest to drive the oil complex higher before the mid terms. Sad times for Trump. 3386
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Purely cynical then? Or some weird "these houses will corrupt our children" thing? 100
Reposted by BornersWestside Backyard @westside-backyard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Me at the TEAM campaign event after asking why all the affordable apartments they want to protect were built before 1973 2457
Reposted by BornersDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10/10/2026i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult 381178109
Reposted by BornersAlon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is also true of anti-constitutional extremism in general. Die Linke's call for uncompensated seizure of private apartments is being legitimized on the center-left on "but CDU voted with AfD" grounds (on Stolpersteine) and in turn further drives CDU to vote with AfD more (e.g. in Saxony-Anhalt). 2142
Reposted by BornersPatrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 09/10/2026Legalizing taller single-stair apartment buildings is a good idea because it makes housing more affordable, while still being safe. But even billionaires should support this reform. It will let them ostentatiously display their status by building optional second stairs, the way the gentry used to.😊housebeautiful.com12 Strange Features in Old Homes That Had Surprisingly Practical PurposesYou rarely see these details anymore. 2193
Reposted by BornersSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10/10/2026the cuck american president: stop attacking russian oil the gigachad ukranian military: we will burn their refineries 17910141
Reposted by BornersGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"A senior Ukrainian official said Kyiv would continue its long-range drone strikes on Russia’s energy facilities. “We will burn [Russian] refineries,” the official said" www.ft.com/content/84ca...ft.comTrump agrees deal with Putin for Russia to release diesel on to global marketPact between Washington and Moscow comes just weeks before critical US midterm elections 107217
Reposted by BornersDuncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Growth policy = “policy I like” 9411
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'd actually trust Mitsubishi/Kawasaki with doing subs more than I would the AUKUS consortium. Taigei class is a beast. Credible deterrent doesn't need Boomers, as DPRK/Israel/Pakistan/India and pre-2010 PRC. 010
Reposted by BornersPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Mea culpa: I posted a factoid about Games Workshop’s total economic value relative to the fishing industry and the UK economy that was incorrect. Games Workshop’s total revenue in the last fiscal year was a little over half of the entire fishing industry, not larger. Check your sources, Patrick!!! 1228814
Reposted by BornersAlon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Some rail construction costs in 1960s-70s West Germany. Not everything is disaggregated by line, but many things are, including the S-Bahn tunnels. The Munich numbers are close to what one sees in broader media, so I'm confident the other numbers are right too. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/05/038/0...dserver.bundestag.de 161
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The UK state ideology is that 1940s Britain was the only legitimate form of Britain. That has consequences. It has no ideology of change, only eternity. Because it would imply England has right to exist beyond Britain. 000
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is telling how NIMBY new labour was. And how certain Blair era planners who remember it as a golden age because they got paid (Certain Scottish NIMBY urban planners from Surrey come to mind). 120
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They probably would have given up pretty quickly. It actually takes a degree of brains to be truly deluded for that long. 121
Reposted by BornersJakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump's sanctioning of the ICC is funny, given that he was supposed to stop needless and wasteful American involvement abroad and instead is following almost every line of the neocon GOP foreign policy crusade. Go after Iran? Check. Infinite support for Israel forever? Check. Kill the ICC? Check. 3217
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That Musk himself quickly got disenchanted as he realised all the bullshit he believed turned out to be wrong. Never assume conspiracy when incompetence and genuinely held delusion are present. 120
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That's a bit mean. As revolutions go they did what they said on the tin a lot more than others. Meiji Japan is better than Edo Japan in everything except painting. Also what misleading about 明治維新 is the translation 維新 doesn't mean restoration. Its something like reformation or renewal. 150
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I mean I'd love to whinge this was exploiting London although given housing benefit that's not quite true. 000
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They got the date wrong in heading (I was just checking), not in the text. 100
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It is no accident Labour is pro-PR in Celtic states, and anti it in "the Country". A British State Nationalist has to oppose English democracy, explicitly channelling into a politics based on hatred of foreigners and disliked minorities. 000
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah but its also a state death condition as it prevents the ability to control English political options, Labour is visibly targeting the anti-Brexit opposition parties more than Reform-Tories in its gerrymander/devo policies. That's why in 1999 strongest opposition within Labour was Brown. 100
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ECML was pre sectorisation. Weymouth/Norwich/King's Lynn were NSE. Intercity didn't really try to innovate e.g. POP, Takt etc. 100
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This happens with TfL too, which is by far the most efficient operator in the UK. The right focuses on driver salary (ignoring they broke staffing pipeline) while pushing TfL to fire engineers. Oh and its not like talk about where TfL is ops wasteful (DLR train guards). 051
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This isn't really that new. Reaganism/Thatcherism fundamentally believed in the redemptive power of state control of society. They hated rules based bureaucracies for being accountable to people and principles other than theirs. Anti-state statism. 0145
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We are already Erdoganing with social democratic characteristics. 100
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'd rejoin too. I just think the price is the end of the UK. It has no reason to exist in the EU. Explaining English and British Europhobia otherwise engages in random cultural essentialism. As Wyn-Jones and Hendersen its multi-national nature of the UK that explain why UK was and is so Europhobic 100
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You cannot escape the structure of Hard Brexit without a referendum. Fundamentally the trajectory of the UK is towards Turkish styles dysfunction adversarial dependency and democratic backsliding. To admit the UK is too weak to succeed on its own is to invite state failure. 110
Reposted by Borners"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift. 432158