Feels great watching UK/IE Bluesky go “well we wouldn’t speak ill of the dead if they hadn’t been so heinous” and having to tease out from context if they’re talking about Rod Liddle or Glen Hansard.
Theodoræ Ditsek
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…and the Zen master says, “we’ll see.” Transit maps and some other stuff. Portfolio: theoditsek.wordpress.com
ni que esto fuera linkedin pero bueno me apetecía compartir un trabajito chulo que acabo de hacer, es un mapa interactivo antes/después de la red de bus/tram (y si lo queréis probar está aquí: www.tac-mobilites.fr/se-deplacer/...)
And politics is not a good clue either. Social-democratic-run countries like Sweden or communist-led cities like Bologna abandoned streetcars while the conservative-led German federal government supported cities' streetcars modernization efforts.
By the 1910-20s there were streetcars in virtually any major city of the planet, from Cairo to Kolkata to Buenos Aires to Beijing to Delhi etc. By the 1970s, essentially only Central Europe and the soviet block (not even China!) had modernized and retained a majority of pre-war systems
When you look globally, there are many more countries that consistently abandoned street-running railways in the postwar years than ones that retained them. The simpler answer is that technology, decaying infras and the zeitgeist killed streetcars everywhere but in a bunch of countries.
Christof Spieler@christofspieler.bsky.social · 2d agoI think the conspiracy is comforting to people -- "a few bad guys did this." The reality -- "electeds, planners, and most of the public believed that the car was the future and rail transit was outdated" is actually more unsettling since it raises the question of what we're getting wrong now.
It is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders
i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like
grand teton national park, july 23, 2026 perhaps the best photo i’ve ever taken
Happy birthday to Pierre L’Enfant, James Baldwin, Butch Vig, Kevin Smith, Peter O’Toole, Charli XCX, and me. And on the flip side if I am one year closer to my inevitable demise then so is the Vice President.
it’s so undignified that the average millennial has the same taste in media as literal children
it’s embarrassing that we even have to tell people not to give money to JK Rowling, what are we doing
the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen mesa verde national park, july 19, 2026
"We can't use cut and cover in historic downtown San Jose." Meanwhile Les Halles, Paris, 1973:
I'm less likely now to ding an artist for releasing a record where they move away from the sound they're known for.
Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 4d agoHot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed
Even if you only exist purely on spite it still means you're existing, and that alone is a victory against your enemies to be celebrated.
It’s not a Philly cheesesteak or a Philly. It’s a cheesesteak. Call it a cheesesteak.
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Archive of Edmonton Transit Service bus maps: barp.ca/photo_index2...
Barp.ca - Bus Air Railway Photos
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The only narcing we support around here.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 6d agoWe should really just make citizen reporting of this sort of thing far easier? I get resourcing wardens etc is hard but if there was a easy way to upload people parking illegally etc. Then it'd be huge boon for councils and wider society
New map: a Vignelli Washington Metro concept map that doesn't exist but IMHO feels like it should: theoditsek.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/a...
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TBH I think "it is unlawful to destroy sufficiently rare books that are no longer in print without government permission" would be a totally fine law to pass.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d agoDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
Remember, you're not immune to propaganda, or scams, or ai.
Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · last wk.There are studies showing it *is* possible for human beings to detect ai generated text *with practice,* but practice requires extensive exposure to lllms. If you're someone who doesn't use llms, you *should* remain open to the possibility that you can be tricked by it.
The instant I learned about the folks at Comiket who sell special-interest books about e.g. electric power lines or baseball umpires I found a new goal in life.
You don’t trust cis people, I don’t trust cis people, we must nevertheless watch that our mistrust doesn’t dissolve into the paranoid bunker mentality endemic amongst (say) upper-middle-class suburban families with Ring cameras and electrified door handles on their armored cars.
Fall Out Boy, definitely. I’d probably feel similar about Ariana Grande if I dug more into her deep cuts. There are a couple one hit wonders like Gotye or The Naked and Famous with pretty good back catalogues. Skrillex somehow entered the pantheon only after his imperial phase.
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last wk.Everyone has a band that they’re like this for, what’s yours? Mine is Counting Crows.
Drew something just now that I’m really happy with. I admittedly was playing with someone else’s design language, but in the current moment a W is a W.
Protip: anyone who talks with a stereotypical Midwestern accent and who did not grow up someplace that observes Central Time did not come by that accent honestly.