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The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 11h
I don't think people really understand how they are being influenced by people that have no idea what they are talking about on things like measure RTM. The East Bay Times for example argues "The measure would further drive up the region’s cost of living". Except cutting service is what does that.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 18h
“we need your help funding our operations so we can avoid drastically cutting our train service as our ridership grows”
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 19h
three magical words to pause anti-RTM discourse seems to be: what about Caltrain?
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 19h
Slavoj Zizek must be blushing!
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 19h
also a bizarre claim in the editorial to suggest because VTA is not strapped for cash, RTM won't impact VTA riders. I looked up VTA's busiest stops in 2025, and six of the ten busiest VTA stations are on either Caltrain or BART stations. why are the busiest stops at these transfer points I wonder?
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 20h
read your editorial. thought it was awful. question: why does the editorial consist of virtually no info on Caltrain, which serves more stations in San Jose than BART, and is planning for the same closures/cuts as BART should RTM fail to pass? shouldn't San Jose voters know RTM impacts Caltrain too?
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 23h
Ask the Dust might be the greatest Los Angeles novel ever written.
lamaterial.com
A Great L.A. Novelist, Often Overlooked Here, Is Huge In Italy
A remote mountain town hosts an annual literary festival devoted to John Fante, whose Ask the Dust might have been forgotten if not for Charles Bukowski
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 23h
happy Hangul Day to those who celebrate. why the hell has the South Korean government registered 1.1 MILLION unique words in the official dictionary? great video getting into how the Korean language was put together over centuries youtu.be/hT9Qh2V-e3c
youtu.be
Why does Korean have so many words?
YouTube video by Dark Mode Linguistics
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
there is this Elvis Noh play and another one involving Oppenheimer’s ghost burning and suffering in a Hiroshima shrine seeking redemption that I want to see if I get the chance
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
one of the most inexplicable local news stories I've read ever? www.axios.com/local/chicag...
axios.com
Chicago billionaire accused of fueling Lincoln Park rat problem
Chicago billionaire accused of fueling Lincoln Park rat infestation
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these were the odds a British gambling company put out for this year's Nobel Lit Prize. Anne Carson was at 33/1! Some of these odds are just bizarre, I must say
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
as soon as the lady with the card walks over, all of the comments scrolling across turn into things like "girl!" "cute!" and "a girl is here!"
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
charitably seen, this kind of desire played a factor in the privatization of Japanese National Railways in the 1980s. but the difference I've noticed is many of these anti-RTM advocates don't even want more density along transit or any meaningful land use/transport reforms accompanying their vote!
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if you see enough of these tweets as I have, one theme which surfaces up is a base desire to exact punishment on these agencies in the form of mass layoffs of admins and employees alike and the destruction of their unions. they can't spell out the efficiencies voting no will entail except this
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing drives me more insane than smart boy center/center right commentators who believe that defunding programs will make them more efficient. It’s an underpants gnome theory of good governance. It’s an old story that has never panned out!
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Denying BART and Muni et al operations funds will do *nothing* to address capital project bloat problems. If anything, this will make the problem far worse. We need state and federal reforms to cut red tape with more wholistic funding programs. Starving transit ops gets us no closer to this!
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Heartbroken guy in the Forrest Gump shirt could be any of us.
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phylan @phylan.website · 08/10/2026
I don't get it he's still in the playoffs
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it’s a prerequisite for Nobel Literature Prize winners to sport the comfiest looking knit sweaters
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hobbit disrespecter @onlineandnice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
hell yes books is sports now
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this video of Haruki Murakami super fans losing it after the Nobel Prize for Literature announced this year's recipient is Anne Carson (spelled Ann by store staff) is what it's all about, folks
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Los Angeles-Milwaukee NLCS, or as we call it in our household, the Thomas Pynchon derby
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
love this, as a Peep Show lover. lowkey Mark got a lot of Oe (and Jez of Mishima)?
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
and if RTM fails to pass, and the doomsday scenarios come to pass for BART and public transit in the Bay Area, and the Bay Bridge is backed up for four hours? well, BART should've been more efficient to avoid this, and I never liked BART anyway, they'd probably say. again, you can't lose!
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
interesting thing I'm picking up is these people already believe the Bay Area will pass RTM bc they are suckers to BART mgmt and unions and not call their "bluff". and they will be back at it again if it passes thereafter to hammer about inefficiences ad nauseum. you can't lose with this stance!
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have found people's range for Oe is somewhere between I like it/he's fine to I'm really grated by his writing. I'm reading his last translated book, DEATH BY WATER, right now, and I swing back and forth between
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think A Personal Matter is a good starting point for Oe for non-Japanese readers. an important motif thru his ouevre is his severely mentally disabled son, and this work delves into it the best. the collection Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness is great. my favorite by far has been The Silent Cry
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oe really was Mishima’s leftist Wario in so many ways. here is a snippet
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mishima is just so damn memeable…and Paul Scrader didn’t make a movie about Oe like he did for Mishima
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
want to be serious for a second to add: I wish more English readers would give Kenzaburo Oe a fraction of the attention they give to Mishima. Oe is like Mishima’s Wario — and won the Nobel Prize for Literature!
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not a fan of this tendency of San Francisco venture capitalists to use LLMs to confirm their priors that BART has really inefficient service per rider or operating hour and then using that confirmation bias output to justify their opposition to RTM.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*thunderbolt strikes me top of head* Sloposition 13
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ballot propositions? more like slopositions
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a problem with legislation-by-plebiscite. Voters are not good at weighing the implications of approving several measures at once. Sometimes they are contradictory. Sometimes they represent different interests priorities. This is the sort of thing legislators are supposed to debate.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it's so median Californian voter to back Prop 40 AND Props 41 and 42, the Prop 40 poison pills calmatters.org/health/2026/...
calmatters.org
The billionaire tax could be defeated by two other tax measures. Here’s how
Propositions 41 and 42 are counter measures that would kill Prop. 40 even if it passes. Polls show voters support all three.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this effect is why I desperately want the job and its powers
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
oh absolutely I agree with you there. the numbers/alphabets have a strange effect of both solidifying the measure in the public consciousness but also diluting the substance of said measure too (i.e. when there are rivaling measures with b2b numbers like this year’s 40, 41, 42)
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my dream job? guy who assigns numbers or alphabets to California ballot measures. I think I’ll be so good at it, matching the zeitgeist and whatnot
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
PSOE about to run the most Mamdanista campaign youve ever seen www.npr.org/2026/10/05/n...
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Spain's prime minister calls early elections as pressure mounts over housing crisis
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country's housing crisi...
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just know this played a part in why the Spanish PM called a snap election today
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think that theory is probably almost fully baked, as I've seen very similar variants in the online wilderness!
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
high inflation and hyperinflation breeds very unusual money habits in people, and I did not appreciate how bad hyperinflation was in Brazil during the late 80s/early 90s
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
tag me in anything that pertains to this question as more election analysis comes out
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
3/4-serious q: did Lula banning online gambling three days before the election have a negative impact today. I could imagine gambling addicts becoming single issue voters…
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
still sounds like a tall task but I will be sipping on that hopium for now…
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my brother, are you stating a factual technicality or are you about to offer some hopium roadmap on a Lula re-election i have yet to read
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