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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 1h

Well, they cancelled while Smiley was still mayor of Providence, so, looking forward to him taking the blame, surely, right?

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 3h

Yesterday I did a dry run of the folding bike to the train station to see how long the trip plus the fold would take. On the way home I got a flat on the scrap-laden Allens Ave and now I am wondering where I can find local bike community to operate bike lane sweepers and plows if I donate equipment

Folding bike, outside the Providence train station.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 6h

Oh god. Places that refuse to pay for music are going to start using this at some point to avoid paying ASCAP/BMI/SESAC fees and a moment will come when it will be a place I can’t just decide to not patronize cuz I won’t have a choice.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 20h

So SI units are finally coming to the US. But not like that.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 29/09/2026

If I dreamed a piece of installation art that doesn’t exist in the waking world, that means I’m supposed to make it, right?

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 28/09/2026

No Ted Leo Aimee Mann Christmas Show this year, but one of my Columbus radio shows reminding me that TL+RX with opener Brian Damage this weekend in Columbus (and I also love Brian Damage, saw them a few weeks ago and then ran into Brian the next day) and I’m having a little sad about it.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 28/09/2026

Notice Hennepin IL is not on this map. We've tried steelmaking in the inland midwest before. In particular, Pittsburgh steelmaker Jones & Laughlin did in the 60s. The mill is so gone that the site has been leveled. time.com/archive/6627...

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Steel: Boom Town 1965

Through the green fields that surround the little town of Hennepin, Ill. (pop. 350), surveyors tramped last week under the searing Midwestern sun. Since its founding in 1831 in the great bend of...

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 28/09/2026

You, an AI user: need money for tokens. AI eats them. Need more money for tokens. Me: a transit historian: need money for tokens. Have a local artist make me a custom necklace. Think about what other transit jewelry I might commission. Need more money for tokens. We are not the same.

Daria, a red haired white woman, wears a brown print dress with a necklace made from transit tokens on her neck. There is also a stamped metal collar locked with a heart. A patch covering a biopsy site is visible in her décolletage

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 28/09/2026

And now he’s wearing a ring that gives him superpowers but not bothering to read tomorrow’s newspaper to figure out how to use them.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 27/09/2026

I got an ad for art that is posters stylized from airport layouts, both the runways, and the rest (terminal and taxiways). PVD first, sure. Most of the rest near the top of their ad make sense for me (PIT BOS CMH and PWM) but TLV? I’ve never been to Tel Aviv and am not connected there 🤔

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 27/09/2026

Sunday zen: the falls on the Pawtuxet, Pawtuxet Village, Cranston/Warwick Rhode Island

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 27/09/2026

Cranston’s idea of traffic calming: politely remind drivers of the speed limit and hope they slow down. Also not at night, when it goes away to not encourage scoremaxing

A your speed sign above a speed limit. Speed limit 25, your speed 30, registered for the car behind this truck

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 27/09/2026

I’ve never heard this song, by which I mean I have never heard this song. I don’t doubt its chart position but I have never heard it. 🤷🏼‍♀️ This song, OTOH? Spins regularly on radio I listen to. youtu.be/dTwS3SN9D7Y?...

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Leaving Texas

YouTube video by Kristian Montgomery and the Winterkill Band - Topic

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 27/09/2026

Someone mentioned the proliferation and thus devaluation of standing ovations at the end of plays and musicals. There’s something to that, but in a cultural moment which is pushing to destroy performing arts, I treat every performance I get to see as a gift I cannot take for granted.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 27/09/2026

We left the house in the middle of a nor’easter to join our fellow local soccer sickos watching RIFC on the road in Charleston: hello from a very chill Guild in Pawtucket!

Soccer projected on a big screen with Charleston and Rhode Island both 0-0

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 26/09/2026

Looks like a suitcase but it’s a folding bike. Which I am being good and not playing with cuz I’m still on restricted activity from my biopsy 😭

Standard Samsonite suitcase with a BikeFriday inside, in a room in front of a cat tree and bookshelf

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 26/09/2026

I know _Bones_ is copaganda, but it’s also the story of a neurodivergent woman learning to navigate a world that is hard on neurodivergent women.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 26/09/2026

I had to install software on my laptop in my dreams and hallucinated macOS configuration: “defaults write no.wesaidno.cyclonebartopleft” But I woke up to a much more zen kind of laptop. Sound on for purring.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 25/09/2026

FedEx left a “we tried” door marker while everyone was home and shortly after I passed them 4 blocks away. No lie, considered just very obviously tailing them for a while in the hopes they’d ask wtf so I could hand them the door tag and say “we’re home” but that’s probably not a good plan.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 25/09/2026

Just imagine him with Clara Peller’s voice, but he’s asking where the fish is.

Nip, a black cat, climbs up beside me on the bed to express his displeasure with the state of his food bowl

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 25/09/2026

It’s live theater season again in Rhode Island! Tonight, The Getaway Driver at Trinity Rep in Providence!

A stage set made from a bunch of wire shelving with parts devoted to table and chairs, wardrobe, and then a bunch of kitsch hanging on it

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 24/09/2026

Loving that the Rhode Island Transportation Advisory Committee meeting includes public comment beginning and end, and allows full participation via online.

The TAC meeting in a board style room at RIDEM

Agenda for today’s meeting, with hand annotations from the chair

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 23/09/2026

Tonight’s fun thing, Operation Mincemeat at PPAC in Providence! First week of the touring version of the show!

Me, a red haired white woman, sitting with Marie and Kat, in a crowded auditorium

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 23/09/2026

I have never heard of Todd before like.... 3 minutes ago. This commercial, tho? This is amazing.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 22/09/2026

Tonight, the closing show of the Westville Music Bowl season, Mt. Joy! I always appreciate this amazing reuse of the old Yale Tennis Bowl, now with solar panels on an unused upper deck with bad stage view!

Wide angle panorama of the Westville Music Bowl

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 22/09/2026

Ok, this is neat. If you buy a folding bicycle from BikeFriday they’ll send you photos while they build it!

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 22/09/2026

Tuesday zen: someone singing in the Yale University Art Gallery Sculpture Garden, New Haven Connecticut.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 22/09/2026

Hello, from the New Haven bike trail tunnel. I know another city with a tunnel that could be reused if we had political will.

Looking out of the tunnel. There are gates that can be closed.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 22/09/2026

They’re picking on my neighborhood parking craters in the group chat.

A group chat called Traincrew. After messages from me about meeting my new city councilor, Dylan Giles shares an aerial photo showing a bunch of asphalt and described the 3 lots as the 3 genders

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 22/09/2026

If you didn’t want lines for the ladies room you shouldn’t have come to the Bikini Kill show.

Kathleen Hanna, with purple hair, on the mic, talking to the crowd

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 22/09/2026

The car magnets (partial) of a woman with complicated allegiances

The liftgate of a blue car, with magnets showing from 101 ONE FM (WWCD Columbus) and the Pittsburgh Riveters Soccer Club

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 21/09/2026

It’s wild to see people who (rightly) wouldn’t dream of maligning immigrants shouting about how internal migration is bad, that if you’re already in the country you shouldn’t be able to attempt to improve your life.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 21/09/2026

Did you know it’s Wife Appreciation Day? I didn’t until mere moments ago! I appreciate Marie a bunch, we’re coming up on 6 years married now and I don’t regret a day of it!

Marie in the water at the beach at Conimicut Point, Warwick RI, at sunset

Marie dressed in a lavender dress at a wedding reception in Vancouver, BC, looking toward the camera under an umbrella

Marie looks down at a cocktail with whipped cream atop it in a fancy glass inside a glass building at the late, lamented Tiny Bar in Providence’s Jewelry District

Marie, wearing a colorful print dress, poses under an outdoor sculpture lit in the colors of the bisexual Pride flag, in downtown Columbus, OH

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 19/09/2026

Saturday zen: secret backyard waterfall, Newport Rhode Island

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 19/09/2026

First day back in Rhode Island? How about a good, old fashioned New England clambake!

A fire pit in the ground being prepared for a clambake

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 19/09/2026

Nip is happy to again have all his humans. … More people to harass about fish.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 19/09/2026

The Logan Airport all-terminals shuttle needs the entire time between leaving Terminal C and arriving at Terminal E to enumerate all the airlines that fly from it (the international terminal) It enumerates them a second time as you arrive. We’ve already left it and it’s still going.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 18/09/2026

Ok but how does he feel about belly scritches

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 17/09/2026

Me: “I’m not gonna be here when the Airos launch; maybe I should take one last trip to Portland and back on a Talgo” Anyway, reader, do you know what she did not do?

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 17/09/2026

That feel where, instead of making one easy connection you save yourself 15 minutes by making an extra connection and running for both of them. 🚌 🏃‍♀️ 💗 💗 💗

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 17/09/2026

For all my grumpiness that the blue majority in Rhode Island is perhaps more conservative than what a so-called blue state might mean elsewhere, the electorate thoroughly rejected a push by a MAGA businessman’s league of businessmen to move it further right. Truly heartening.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 17/09/2026

Meeting a friend and her girlfriend and having them set you up entirely accidentally to watch a #crew96 win while on the wrong coast? Yeah that’s a win.

Photo of the TV with the match on early when the Crew was still up 1-0

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 16/09/2026

It came up elsewhere but, there are people whose personality is basically “I’m married and I hate my spouse”. As someone who is twice divorced and does not hate either of those wonderful women — Consider getting a divorce and trying again? Unless you hate everyone: then just divorce and be done.

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 16/09/2026

Wednesday zen: Kesley Creek, Mercer Slough Nature Park, Bellevue Washington

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