Reposted by BjornRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 1hEveryone in my country is a stupid hog who only votes based on prices but in other countries I’m sure voters follow rational choice models based on deep ideological commitments to democracy 09411
Reposted by BjornCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 12hThis is the fundamental tension of the modern world. Wealthy economies (the US, Germany, South Korea, and Japan excepted) are structurally biased towards having lackluster industrial capacity when industrial capacity is critical for great power status. 1175
Reposted by BjornKerr Avon ♨️ @kerravon.bsky.social · 1hI am now calling a moratorium on takes declaring: 1.) "quick prosecutions" solve fascism (Flavio's dad was prosecuted and barred from office for Brazil's J6 incident) 2.) left-wing populism solves fascism (Lula is the Bernie of Brazil) 88315
Reposted by BjornNilo @nilo.bsky.social · 1hLooks like Lula is going to hit his polling almost spot on (45% in the last Datafolha), Flavio looks like he'll outperform his by 5 points. Como se diz "shy Tory" em Português 2155
Reposted by BjornWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1hThey may hold views that we think are racist, but you can’t write them all off as ignorant white racists either, it’s a relatively diverse group. Many of them are stupid or ignorant, but millions of them also probably understand politics about as well as you do. They want different things than you. 1027021
Reposted by BjornWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1hI do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this. 18589100
Reposted by BjornZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6hWe wouldn't. We'd vote for somewhat *more* of the above but the overall preference is simply different in this country. It's a legit cultural thing and it's in no small part the result of who chose to get on a boat or a plane and who chose to stay behind and what cultural lessons they passed on. 1314718
Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 2hMORE GATES! mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/162012/...mods.paradoxplaza.comBus Terminal Island Platform - 10 Sawtooth Bus Gates - Paradox ModsThis bus terminal has a center island and 10 Sawtooth bus gates. 030
Reposted by BjornBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4hYes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 353349454
Reposted by BjornRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 4hRapid price appreciation in residential real estate plus office valuation falling off a cliff plus a local fiscal crisis means we’re going to keep seeing crazy jumps in residential property tax under the levy system Illinois operates under. 1203
Reposted by BjornBlair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 5hPeople say the US can't innovate in rail anymore, but you just wait until we come out with the world's first diesel-powered maglev. 4313
Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 6hNew Orleans is required by a court order to study ADA access to its historic streetcar system. One option is buying modern low-floor equipment, but the public supports that about as much a wanting a hurricane. www.norta.com/current-proj...norta.comNew Orleans Regional Transit Authority - Streetcar Modernization Study 162
Reposted by BjornStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 9hI’m old enough to remember the Obama “stimulus” years. My top takeaway from then and now is that agencies need to be proactively getting as many projects “shovel-ready” as possible because the federal government can actually move very, very quickly when they want to. Fortune favors the prepared! 15210
Reposted by BjornJeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 9hThere's a reason Trump's highest approval ratings were before his inauguration: a whole bunch of people like his tweets but want competent normies running things 0103
Reposted by BjornMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 11hPeople keep analogizing rent control to the minimum wage, suggesting that maybe empirical work will refute the theoretical work. But the empirical work is generally showing what theory would predict. 1631331
Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 21hAnd thanks! Ironically, most of the work was done on graph paper! 010
Reposted by BjornMae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21hThe Chinese characters in Sinners explicitly speak Taishanese (a southeast Chinese language not mutually intelligible with Cantonese spoken by a very disproportionate number of Chinese migrants to the US) which I thought was an incredibly niche but very accurate note 829759
Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And WE’RE LIVE! mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/161869/...mods.paradoxplaza.comBus Terminal - 2 Sawtooth Gates - Paradox ModsThis is a small bus terminal with 2 sawtooth gates. 170
Reposted by BjornNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My most cancellable opinion is that I actually kind of like the seasonal time changes 042
Reposted by BjornBrian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 03/10/2026Getting ratioed to hell over there 463025228
Reposted by BjornBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Okay guys our Governor candidates need money. Bottoms, Hinojosa, Jolly are putting out good ads but they don’t have money to air them. These races are all tossups and we need to act like it At this point you gotta wind down your donations to the Senate candidates 417066
Reposted by BjornTim @timzhu.io · 03/10/2026You're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database 1269898
Reposted by BjornMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte! 266143121905
Reposted by BjornMo Zhu @moinmybackyard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Smith notes that within white collar people, there are legible status hierarchies. A McKinsey partner is different from a bank teller. Similarly, there are blue collar hierarchies. A union electrician is more akin to a McKinsey partner than a bank teller. 131
Reposted by BjornCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum... 2011961812
Reposted by BjornFitchburgLine @fitchburgline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026will station agents confront someone who jumps the gate in front of them? learning that not-cops won't enforce public order was a joint cause of more evasion, shoplifting etc in US post-2020 061
Reposted by BjornHenry Fung @henryfung.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Culver City shut down their entire bus system until Monday for this. No alternate service other than walking to parallel routes miles away. Metro should step up and run service on key routes but transit is an afterthought even in the most transit friendly part of town. 3227
Reposted by BjornRyan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I missed this decision. FRA gave Brightline West a Buy America waiver to buy ten trains from Siemens, two of which will be made in Germany. Alstom sued FRA, saying they shouldn't have granted that waiver. District Court dismisses on standing. DC Circuit: You do have standing—but you still lose. 3255
Reposted by BjornBen S @bensh3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'll post a picture next time but the size of modern anchorings and mastarms has increased enormously in the past decade alone. And modern MUTCD replacements of single lights with double 2203
Reposted by Bjorndereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Anecdotally, I understand that a driver of the signal costs to be increased spec size/weight due to the prevalence of larger and large SUVs and trucks colliding with signals. As well as more complex electronic systems. 4243
Reposted by BjornBen S @bensh3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026FYI, this isn't just an indication of expanded roadway capacity but also how much the replacement cost of ROW signals has risen (can easily go up to $1-2M per intersection) 191
Reposted by BjornNilo @nilo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026All part of that “we can use signaling to tear out tracks” fad that existed mid century because property taxes on tracks are higher than signaling infra. 291
Reposted by BjornJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers? 14964170
Reposted by BjornDan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes but not only. When I started, most people in tech loved tech. Like they were tinkerers and oddballs with a love for the game, whether they were socially adept or not. But that builds some very poor user interfaces and bad businesses, so now tech is a much broader cross-section. 131
Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Biden and Buttigieg had to suffer through the productivity loss that Cities Skylines 2 launching inflicted on government planning and transportation jobs! 010
Reposted by BjornAri Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Kind of amazed that BOS-DTW only has four daily flights on DL on what is a hub-to-hub route. B6 runs another 3. 5 to MSP 10 to ATL 3 each to SLC and LAX 473
Reposted by BjornMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026This law is intended to make it easier to find pet-friendly housing by making it illegal for landlords to limit the breed and/or size of pets that can live in their properties. It will have the opposite effect as landlords adopt blanket "no pets" policies. 517915
Reposted by BjornKirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026LA’s zoning rules require that the building not create shade but also that the developer must plant 53 trees on the lot to…create shade. 08810
Reposted by BjornCalifornians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 01/10/2026Caltrain ridership continues to grow thanks to enhanced off-peak service due to electrification. Meanwhile Metrolink ridership has stagnated due to service cuts caused by mechanical problems with their diesel trains. #ElectrifyMetrolink 27615
Reposted by BjornZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It would be the easiest thing in the world for the SCOTUS Republicans to mandate firing squads on 8th Amendment grounds, removing the entire dumbfuck song and dance that happens whenever the govt has to pull together a chemical Rube Goldberg death machine from random grey market vendors. And yet! 3494
Reposted by BjornZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Executions should be just that: death. Not theater designed to let everyone pretend they're not killing a human being. Certainly not a slow and fatal torture. The way we do executions in this country is a disgrace. I don't mind putting a murderer out of their misery. I do mind doing it like this. 1461
Reposted by BjornZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Every time I read about these insane lethal injection procedures I immediately think of that scene from Batman:TAS of the Joker becoming furious when Harley says "Why don't'cha just shoot him?" Because if you actually want someone dead, as opposed to depraved theatrics, you just shoot them. 1410611
Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When us Ameripoors have to beg the oil-rich nations in Europe to release more of their truck juice 021
Reposted by BjornGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026lol they went hat in hand to Europe, incredible scenes *US ASKED EUROPE TO RELEASE OVER 1/3 OF DIESEL RESERVES:POLITICOpolitico.euTrump’s energy chief asked Europe to release more than a third of its diesel reservesChris Wright’s detailed proposal is being sold as a way to bring down fuel prices without banning U.S. exports. 1122532
Reposted by BjornHeather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As is tradition, I wish you a very 120152
Reposted by Bjornlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/10/2026if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans 532084296
Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For places with a death penalty, I’m not opposed at all to them converting to the firing squad. 210
