Reposted by Martha Laurenmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4991031674
Reposted by Martha LaurenAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Reporter: You haven’t heard her name until now. She’s only seventeen years old. But White House intern Crespa Blumbo has been in charge of all nuclear missiles for the last two years and she just ordered the military to enact Project Acheron 553464509
Reposted by Martha LaurenGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George MonbiotScientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 551054645
Reposted by Martha LaurenExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 14/03/2026Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz? 9894082347
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026One day, North American cities will learn that faregates are much more effective when you show proof of payment to exit as well as enter 360
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026You know, Huntington, West Virginia would be a great small city but for the fact that much of the metro area's employment and retail has sprawled out along the stretch of US 60 just East of the city proper, which is one of the most wretched stroads I've ever escaped with my life 030
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026North Americans love to spend their lives on a dystopian treadmill working fifty hour weeks with one week's vacation to service their college, car and mortgage debt and then look down on Europeans because the number on our paychecks isn't as big 060
Reposted by Martha LaurenThe Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago 3214318815948
Reposted by Martha Laurenderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/12/2025for almost 15 years, i was willing to speak the truth even when it was unpopular. at first they mocked me, threw rocks at me, called me an "old man" who needed to "shut the fuck up." now they take these things as self-evident. 955259293
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Not an American railroad guy so this passed me by until WTYP mentioned it. PTC uses GPS?? Jesus Christ 150
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Kind of impressive how you can go through the history of any rock band and there'll have been a dozen different members at one point or another, and not a single woman among them 110
Reposted by Martha LaurenProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years 19672273
Reposted by Martha LaurenUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The pricing software/ blackrock obsession is so funny to me because it basically posits that there was no housing crisis before, like, 2018. 1024531
Reposted by Martha LaurenAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's populationtorched.laOne-third of Angelenos do not driveWalking back the "car-free" games promise is unconscionable in a city where the people who don't drive are also the most vulnerable users of our streets 318452
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Some of these interchanges on the RATP are ridiculous 060
Reposted by Martha LaurenCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak 13382421652
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I love how the SNCF journey planner is like 'have you considered not taking the train?' 2301
Reposted by Martha LaurenMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 30/09/2025A station that gets 6 trains per direction per day should look like Exo's stations, not like that, honestly. There are hundreds of bus stops that serve more people that need investment in fixed infrastructure more than this. Just build a platform and add 3 bus shelters. 2101
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Is there anything in the world more satisfying than gaming air fare fluctuations successfully? 170
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The YIMBY movement will not rest until every town has its own Tour Montparnasse 051
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Threads discovering that 'country' is an imprecise term with no specific definition 4191
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Bud Abbott invites Lou Costello over for Ethiopian food Costello: What's for dinner? [hilarious misunderstandings ensue] 040
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025One of my favorite bits was when we just got nationalised and for a while I was like 'welcome on board this SNCB train to Shepperton' or 'this is your Grote Britse Spoorwegen service to Woking' or 'thanks for traveling with Brit Államvasutak' 160
Reposted by Martha LaurenDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss. 39775254
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025(me taking the train home following a few pints after work) ah, so the PTI hazard observer becomes the PTI hazard 061
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025King County Metro states 55% of fare revenue comes from ORCA Business Passport (employers paying per head for their employees to have annual transit passes). Does that mean that uptake is exceptionally high, or that fare evasion is the norm for everyone else? 260
Reposted by Martha Lauren🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025As Robert Moses once said, you need to put everyone’s homes on one side of the Intercoastal and FECR and all the Targets and Publixes on the other 0133
Reposted by Martha LaurenStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 28/07/2025“Some of his subcontracted immigrant workers are demanding extra wages for running the risk of being detained by ICE. That has pushed individual daily labor costs to $400 to $500, up from between $200 and $300 a day.” www.reuters.com/world/us/thi...reuters.comThis construction project was on time and on budget. Then came ICE.Under a broiling Alabama sky a frustrated Robby Robertson, a construction site superintendent, surveys an 84,000 square foot, mostly built recreation center close to the Gulf coast port city of Mobile. The site is eerily quiet. 0371
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This whole europoors thing is just American liberals coping with the cognitive dissonance of believing in global warming while maintaining an extremely energy-intensive lifestyle, by framing conveniences like keeping your house a constant 70 freedom degrees as the baseline of a civilised existence 030
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Hot n spicy take: Meal kits suck in many respects (excessive packaging, immiserated warehouse workers, semi-scammy subscription model) but if the use case is an alternative to meal delivery they're an unequivocal good 161
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025The two best value mcdonalds items (wrap of the day and double cheeseburger) have both increased in price by 20p in London, this is my radicalising moment 060
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 07/07/2025If I were Houston I would simply tear down all freeways inside of the 610 loop, build automated metro lines along those freeway corridors, and use planning policies to concentrate development within that area 160
Reposted by Martha LaurenGregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 29/06/2025In Hamburg plainclothes inspectors check bus tickets and enforce the newish alcohol ban. Unlike New York they don’t stop the bus. Forgot your pass? You can show it later and pay a €5 fine. youtube.com/watch?v=JvHH...youtube.comDIE FAHRKARTEN BITTE!😬 Die Kontrolleure der Hamburger Hochbahn - NDR | MontanaBlack ReaktionYouTube video by Die Crew 152
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 28/06/2025US freight rail can't manage to run to a fucking schedule, it's completely given up on any remotely time-sensitive cargo, several times a year it derails hazardous cargo, world's best my ass 190
Reposted by Martha LaurenSara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 26/06/2025What's that meme? I spent 86.5 million on oilsands, someone who is good at the GHG emissions please help me budget this. my carbon budget is dying. 095
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 26/06/2025There are many ways for traincrew to fuck up, but only three ways to get fired. First, gross misconduct, like assaulting someone or going on the fiddle. Second, showing up intoxicated. Third, lying to cover up a safety incident. 170
Reposted by Martha LaurenPeter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Wherever car domination prevails, versions of history excuse the status quo and deter constructive change. “Maybe it’s not perfect,” these contrived histories tell us, “but that’s what everybody wanted.” 1354
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Someone on my train is speaking loudly into the phone in Danish and it's such an unserious sounding language 040
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 19/06/2025My hot take re driver controlled train operation on main line rail is that most discussions are badly myopic. Can a driver safely dispatch a train using cameras? Sure. But does the additional workload impact upon the driver's ability to focus on their other safety critical duties? 130
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Re cafe cars vs more capacity: An option is to design a flexible car with a small serving area plus reasonably comfortable seats around tables (like the British Mk3 coach interior pictured), used for cafe seating most of the time, and as a class of seating accommodation at the busiest times. 3203
Reposted by Martha LaurenOpen New York @opennewyork.org · 12/06/2025Janice, 83: "Put this in your newspaper," she told me, "people need a roof over their heads more than a garden." 1185
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Weird take that Montréal's transit system is going to be ruined by the stipulation that other agencies don't compete with the REM. In an efficient urban transit system, buses are coordinated with your high capacity rail system, not in competition with it! 4273
Martha Lauren @nqrw.bsky.social · 04/06/2025tbh I think more transit lines should pivot towards murdering car drivers 3163
Reposted by Martha LaurenThe Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 04/06/2025‼️ This amendment is up for a vote TODAY, and it's likely to be very close. If you care about ST3, consider giving public comment either in person or by calling in, or emailing council@seattle.gov asking to reject any amendment from CM Rivera adding additional requirements to light rail permits. 13715
