This is the ideal political biography cover, although a few pieces of clip art would not be unwelcome, perhaps a tasteful gradient too.

sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 5d ago

how is this the book cover of the only biography of the most consequential politician in 20th century Hawaii 😭😭😭

Amid worsening tensions between US and Japan in 1941, Japanese Americans in Honolulu held a rally volunteering to self-police their community for spies. FBI and Honolulu PD offered creation of a contact group for them to report regularly to Officer John Burns encyclopedia.densho.org/Police_Conta...

sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 5d ago

how is this the book cover of the only biography of the most consequential politician in 20th century Hawaii 😭😭😭

Montgomery, AL perfectly illustrates this. In 1955, when Rosa Parks mounted her Bus Boycott, the transit system was **owned by a GM-affiliate** and ran several lines every 10 mins. In the 90s, fixed route bus service was eliminated. And now, no line runs more frequently than every 30 mins.

Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jake is right. I also wrote about this in my book, more from the political angle. I argue that the streetcar conspiracy was actually a convenient scapegoat for those who wanted to minimize government's role in transit's failure, and the racism of whites who abandoned integrated systems.

I'm imagining that they make this announcement and it's just Maya because NERV doesn't actually have a lot of essential staff for this sort of thing. Most of their hiring budget goes to maintaining security so they do what most big private entities do--make someone who already works there do it.

sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 4d ago

following recent events, the Human Instrumentality Committee has determined we need a new public outreach strategy. that’s why we at NERV will be hiring a social media manager to run our Bluesky and TikTok accounts

a Halberstam tidbit that blew me away was MacArthur never stayed overnight in Korea during his command of the war. he would always make sure to fly back to Tokyo before nighttime

sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 2d ago

the Incheon landing was brilliant but MacArthur after it…if I speak I’m in trouble

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

dare I say Korea’s loss with the start of the war was Japan’s gain as it got MacArthur out of their hair

Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Continuing my Korean War/Halberstam posting: It’s hard to convey how malignant Douglas MacArthur was, how anti-democratic, what a persistent threat to civil-military relations. Conversely, George Marshall was a man of towering integrity and wisdom.

Obama City? think you mean Bluesky, actually

Mondo Mascots@mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nana-chan, a cat with a fish in its front pocket, is the mascot of Obama City, Japan.

If baseball is ruined, show me the ruins: defector.com/if-baseball-...

If Baseball Is Ruined, Show Me The Ruins | Defector

The Los Angeles Dodgers got Tarik Skubal, damn them. Damn them for having money; damn them for being too damn good; damn them for ruining baseball. That they got Skubal, the hottest commodity on the…

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I’m finding myself continually dumbfounded by the amount of petroleum supply redundancy everyone apparently has. Seems that this Hormuz situation could go on for months longer without any real problems (for Most)

Nikolas Gvosdev@fpriorbis.bsky.social · 2d ago

This also speaks to commodities traders having Ali Baba caves of supplies … follow the use of tankers as floating storage … www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

one simple trick to save all former streetcar networks in the United States (prevent World War 2 from ever happening)

lmao this is a truly world class Take she isn’t even talking just video games here, this is a blanket ban on sports, board games, cards, darts, all of it

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3d ago

This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.

the Skubal trade getting announced within a minute or two of Giants getting walked off by the Padres is giving me bit of a contact high

Poster’s Bushido lives on

Japanese Samurai with Flying Cranes

ALT: Japanese Samurai with Flying Cranes

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EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

“On the allegations that we would be ‘engineering the apocalypse’, NERV reaffirms its mission statement to work on the betterment of humanity across a variety of domains, in a pragmatic and inclusive manner”

following recent events, the Human Instrumentality Committee has determined we need a new public outreach strategy. that’s why we at NERV will be hiring a social media manager to run our Bluesky and TikTok accounts

my friend who is fighting against the container bins in defense of New Yorker rats isn’t going far enough, I am proposing Prop 13 for all rats who call New York City home

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

read somewhere than it seems anyone who came in contact with Abraham Lincoln made sure to write about him bc he was such an odd-shaped, gangly, outrageously tall and strong freak with the most sad, soulful eyes that left an indelible impression

Seva@seva.bsky.social · 5d ago

biggest surprise from the Lincoln bio I'm reading. The dude just loved to get into fistfights. He's cornered by a gang after beating their leader and yells: “I’m the big buck of this lick!” And they back down! Who knew the great emancipator had a little WWE in him?

how is this the book cover of the only biography of the most consequential politician in 20th century Hawaii 😭😭😭

shooters shoot

Defector@defector.com · last wk.

LeBron James should just take the train to his new job: defector.com/lebron-james...

how many Koreas are there? me, Joe Bidenly: at least three

Honolulu some of the densest high-rise housing in this country outside NYC and Japanese-style single-story lot houses and both typologies afflicted with American mongo-sized truck disease

sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 7d ago

seen more cybertrucks in Honolulu in my few days here than years living in the Bay Area. looking into this

seen more cybertrucks in Honolulu in my few days here than years living in the Bay Area. looking into this

They should let LeBron review the Odyssey,, and let Emily Wilson sign with the Sixers!!! <the guy pointing the gun at me starts yelling> I'm sorry. I don't know what else I can jam into this

thought yesterday the LRB Odyssey review was kinda insufferable but I’ve now swung around to rooting for Emily Wilson and her lineage of literary beef stirring pugilists

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · last wk.

Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".

Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

let a thousand discourses bloom

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...