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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Heads up, since transit Bluesky seems to like reading UK rail books. Badsey-Ellis is publishing next month the first book length treatment of the Docklands Light Railway, the most cost-effective Anglosphere metro project over the last generation. Probably costing about 100 million per km or less.

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The response to this type of thing of course should be loudly saying you’re an American and can live where you want in America.

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

One of the big problems with Penn through running discourse is that half the people involved are actually interested in discussing things and the other half mostly invoke it symbolically to criticize bureaucrats they don't like

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Always keep this important concept in mind

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Alright I’m done after that one

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The truth of the matter is that most NY natives are extremely provincial and just happened to be born here. I include myself in this assessment.

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

20 points worth of referee fuckery and the spurs still can’t close

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

One thing about New York City political economy I cannot stress enough is that things are always rigged in the favor of the incumbent. If you have recently moved here you are in some ways being taken for a ride to support everyone who was here before you.

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE COMING OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/05/2026

now playing for the new york knicks

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

There are so few nets fans at Barclays they had to pay employees to cheer

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is being made of fun of but Cuban is correct. A triple mandate would require the federal reserve to instruct the Mint to strike 38 separate trillion dollar coins and using the seigniorage pay off the national debt in one fell swoop.

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First Class Duck @firstclassduck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

But there's no magical job title that's going to house these employees. They're not qualified for any maintenance roles. Cleaner is a *demotion*. They're afraid of assaults so station agent is unpopular. Tower operator is being nuked by CBTC and ATS. There's nowhere to reallocate these employees.

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Cuomintang sympathetic forces have launched a counter attack in the outer boroughs

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I’m middle class and I want stuff

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Guy in a Tobias Funke “I just blue myself“ costume being detained by cops at Roosevelt Ave. you can never say Halloween is boring.

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ve seen multiple people on TikTok opposing the ballot question that would move NYC elections on-cycle because it would “make it less special” and I can’t explain it but these are future NIMBYs

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived. How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died. acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles

This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Greensburg has a surprisingly nice Amtrak station next to a very cool building

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This is similar to my flagship housing compromise where any building can be built anywhere but all triangles on the property must have interior angles that sum to 190 degrees

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

“They put a gun to my head and told me unless I edited the slide deck I wouldn’t see the sunrise“ Harrowing stuff

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I understand why they’re doing this but I’m not really a fan of the change

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For the 1st time since the mid-20th c, a major urban US transit network is going to be largely destroyed. Philadelphia’s SEPTA must cut 45% of service, starting NEXT MONTH. 45% is not “waste fraud and abuse.” It’s “would you like to keep your heart or your lungs?” wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/

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Funding Crisis – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Open question: Has the New York City subway gained or lost revenue track miles since February 29th 1968, the day the Program For Action was announced?

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

@fredstaffordcs.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with this. The NYPA nuclear announcement should be celebrated as one of the most critical experiments in rebuilding state capacity in the country. The way we win is with big public investment at all scales: jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...

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Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies

Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can...

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Can’t speak to the generational aspect. But the “they’re going to draft us!” type rhetoric fits in the “Ugh tired of living in interesting times!” category of post in that they’re a kind of luxury belief that lets you feel like a put upon victim of things that are really victimizing other people.

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Well everyone, the mayoral election is here. We have a choice between a man supported by the working classes of New York City, and a man supported by the wealthy professional class and recent gentrifiers Hopefully the wealthy professionals win and we don’t have 8 years of Andrew Cuomo

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

There’s a lot of housing people on here who pretend to be by the numbers market guys and it’s always funny when they give the game away by saying stuff like “landlords will not try to bid down brokers wages” and “landlords have been charging hundreds of dollars under market”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

To put it another way, there is a nontrivial risk that Mamdani will badly mismanage the city bureaucracy, and a dead certainty that Cuomo will.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It’s actually not a coincidence Prop 13, bond revolts, downzonings, the coastal act and CEQA all passed within the same 10ish year period by the same voters and elected officials.

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

@sturmovikdragon.bsky.social any chance you have a picture of the “Z” yard entrance signals at HUNT on the septa main

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Uday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Continuing my series of posts on the railroad industry's immense challenges managing complexity and market alignment, I have (finally) finished some thoughts on the trajectory of railroading's growth engine: intermodal homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/w...

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Why Railroading’s Growth Engine Might Be Stalling

Over the past year, American railroads seem to have discovered the value in growth. After over a decade of Wall St-fueled cost-cutting and service reductions, regulatory and financial pressures aro…

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

If we really want to RETURN we should just ban shipping containers and mandate break of bulk points every 100 miles

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

And some of us have stupider, more specific interests (enjoy looking at construction equipment)

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Does anyone have any book recommendations about the history of US Steel or Volcker Shock and its effects on US manufacturing

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Kathy Hochul is sending me money to buy a Nintendo switch 2

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This is basically the position of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Drinking your last beer right before Passover starts - encouraged, discouraged, or neutral?

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The more things change the more they stay the same

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

From personal experience I can tell you making crimping Ethernet cables for 8 hours a day is mostly just boring

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Probably gonna buy new shoes this weekend

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B. Eraserhead @babyeraserhead.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

love the MTA but the windowless pit LIRR station deep in the earth is the one place where God cannot look at us

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Interlocker @favorssignals.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My only complaint about the Churella PRR histories is that first volume’s binding and paper is much nicer than the the second and third

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