@christosilvia
Housing 🏘️, transit🚇, walking🚶♂️ and cycling 🚲 advocate in Woburn, MA, USA Car lite advocate, ebike owner Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast Vegetarian Senior RF Design Eng The opinions on this account do not represent my employer
Walked two blocks to the train this morning, which means I was almost obliterated by drivers in two different crosswalks who drove their cars right at me without stopping. Fuck cars so much. I'm going to start carrying a baseball bat when I take the train.
It's clear who the government cares about and who they do not
Watching the CT legislature quietly eliminate free bus fares for high school kids after it passed last year(a few million $) as the governor casually talks about using $500 million on a temporary gas tax holiday is pretty radicalizing
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
After a draining winter, Massachusetts is boosting heating assistance benefits www.wbur.org/news/2026/03... @wbur.org
UTDC-built LRV 832 laying over at Almaden on the Almaden Shuttle service
the early 90s LRT optimism vibes in this photo are incredible
I'm actually curious how you think Gallipoli was winnable.
More ships?
More minesweepers?
Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.
It's a bit on the nose for Rubio to literally be wearing clown shoes
Three new businesses are opening downtown, including an ice cream shop and restaurant, and I look forward to NIMBYs in my town explaining why that's totally unrelated to the new apartment building a few hundred feet away
Wait, people knew how AIDS was transmitted, right???
How about introducing a bill to increase federal spending on a clean energy transition you stupid stupid motherfuckers
Also before PrEP! People were dying of AIDS left and right!
Nostalgia is easy, and often lazy, but Carolyn's pre-marriage life, as depicted onscreen, has become a portal for Gen Z-ers and young millennials to glimpse the magic of 1990s New York. Those of us who were there are overwhelmed with a desire to return. At a party, recently, one woman in her 40s from L.A. told me, unprompted, that she would pay $10 million to go back to that time and place.
It’s funny to have lived in a place and time people talk about like this, especially because I had no idea at the time that anyone would feel that way about it. I was feeling nostalgic for other eras.
Military makes colossal blunders ✔️
Defense industrial base reliant on weirdos ✔️
Everybody’s hooked on deathsticks ✔️
Government filled with degenerate gamblers ✔️
Capital officially “eh?” on slavery ✔️
Robots are sassy distractions, add little ✔️
Heyblibber in operation ✔️
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"
It turns out that the only thing more predictable than a Trump property surcharge is the hereditary succession of a "revolutionary" theocracy. On Monday the Iranian Assembly of Experts officially handed the keys of the Islamic Republic to
Yeah I'm not sure if KC is big enough to get to the point where I'm opposed to light rail because it should be heavy rail. But KC is probably fine with a streetcar
My prediction is that the purple line will suck (from a travel time speed) but people will ride it. It would have been so much better if it was just WMATA. But people will take the scraps they're given.
Well I'm a certified light rail hater, every mile of light rail built is a missed opportunity
If CENTCOM really fucked up this badly, well...
"it is good to execute an admiral from time to time to encourage the others"
They heard INDOPACOM saying the PLAN was the enemy and they decided the plan was the enemy
i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency
I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.
It never changes, does it?
It’s just hitting me now that this almost certainly got back burnered because it’s not ‘lethality’
You might not like hearing this, but the Iranian ship was a legitimate military target. But my argument all along has been that blowing it up was more like showing off than anything that made military sense.
Well-treated Iranian POWs would have hurt the regime more than a sunken frigate.
Oil at $110 and climbing might be enough to make Conrail reappear that long lost Harrisburg-Pittsburgh electrification study from the 1970s -- www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...