hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 23hThe only thing better than a busway is a busway with trolley wires 000
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Oh fuck yeah that fucking rules. If the FAA shooters get him it was worth it 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026You kind of have to, out of respect to the century-long bit of the 2nd Ave Subway never being finished 000
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026They are so so terrified of anything or anyone that threatens the top-down setting of the political agenda 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Well in house scheduling is a positive step at least 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations. 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah I didn’t know until I was researching the crew after the mission for work. It was definitely underreported. On the US side that tracks with everything else going on, but it’s strange the Canadians didn’t make a bigger deal out of it. Maybe they just didn’t want to get the guy dragged into stuff 180
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Artemis II astronauts had their iPhones with them and posted photos taken out the spacecraft window with them. Easy alley-oop of a marketing opportunity 1130
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s kind of endearing that in less than a year he’s become popular enough that the schizos have decided he’s part of the establishment 1610
Reposted by @hahlen.bsky.socialdonoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026JESUS FUCKING CHRIST 113519
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Transferring from a BLS Mika to one of these at Domodossola is a comical downgrade 000
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And always filthy externally, with an uncomfortable interior, and a strange shortage of windows! 100
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is gonna do a lot of rubbing our faces in Chinese high speed rail huh. I love it 100
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think about that story regularly and it incenses me every time 350
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/20261% in SF, 0.5% in the suburbs. It would be better if it was equal everywhere, but either way 1% is not a significant cost burden compared to losing access to functioning transit. 060
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Isn’t this sales tax like a fraction of a percent? 120
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Extremely satisfying to see her realize that the charter revisions are going to do away with her power to fuck things up though 0100
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You go really fast on Amtrak-owned trackage between New York and Harrisburg, and then brutally slow on CSX-owned trackage between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. 130
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Juneau and Sitka are pretty libbed up. Anchorage is getting there 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just a little guy under a bridge who knows what words mean :) 000
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh god you’re Canadian. You’ve got your own problems today, go worry about Quebec separatism not what you imagine Trump said 000
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He spoke awkwardly (as he always does, because he’s a weird freak) and you are demonstrating an inability to accurately interpret the meaning of multiple words in combination, which is interesting 100
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not missing the irony of me making multiple typos in this thread lol 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’m not saying he likes cities, I think he hates all of them except NYC. I am just pointing out what he literally said. This is not an opinion it is the meaning of the words. But again, 50+ percent functionally illiteracy. 220
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They cheer at everything he says, their hogs, and over half of adults in this country are functionally illiterate 210
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That’s obviously not what he’s saying though. He’s saying if you let them have a nuke they’ll take out an American city, and high gas prices are a small price to pay to avoid that. It’s dumb and wrong but he’s presenting high gas prices as the cost of SAVING LA or San Diego 450
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You should add one or two Alaska races on here. We have a very real chance to elect a Dem governor and an all-Dem House majority for the first time in decades. 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Buy them for their assessed property tax value 010
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It has the most tram-style alignment of any North American light rail so naturally it has the best vibes 100
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Like having actual privacy for each toilet instead of flimsy half walls with huge gaps and locks that are broken half the time? Absolutely, yes 000
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In the newsletter you write that these trains are better than anything else currently running in the Baltics. Are the onboard facilities/comfort markedly better than Estonia’s older FLIRTs? 100
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Aigle! I was there a couple weeks ago, I like them a lot 020
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah the fines are way too low, companies just account for it as part of expenses. Henry Grabar wrote about this a lot in Paved Paradise. Also sometimes the companies (in particular the ice cream trucks were guilty of this) would just never pay them and would switch around license plates to evade. 000
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes I agree we shouldn’t use trains as homeless shelters, we should build and operate proper places for people to live and get assistance 1713
hahlen.bsky.social @hahlen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don’t think disinformation is really part of it at all. People are increasingly operating on the correct information that Israel is committing a genocide. The question is do they then attribute that genocide to the fascist nature of the Israeli government or to its self-professed Jewish nature 100
