I've been to Australia once, in 1998, and nothing that's happened there since is my fault. flic.kr/s/aHsk69iRWf

Apple Maps knows what Americans truly want

It's official: The Beatles' first album, PLEASE PLEASE ME, was released closer to the 1800s than to the present day. Dec 31, 1899 to March 22, 1963 = 23,091 days March 22, 1963 to June 11, 2026 = 23,092 days

thinking about how, canonically, snoopy hit the beaches 82 years ago today to spearhead the liberation of europe

The QueensLink would reuse an abandoned 3.5-mile rail corridor in NYC, no expensive tunneling. At ~$3.5B, it’s one of the cheapest ways to expand the subway. Add upzoning near new stations and you unlock massive transit-oriented development. 160,000 new homes. Why kill this?

can't believe i spent my whole life becoming Good At Computer only for Computer to become Better At Computer

I WISH TO REPORT A HATE CRIME

This is just an effort to enrich leftists' NGO allies. Here's how this goes down: If this even succeeds, which I have my doubts about whether courts would even allow it; these properties get taken over by New York Communities For Housing Justice or whatever the fuck. NYCHJ or whoever realizes they can't actually afford any of this, demands a bailout, gets it, and then, five years later, indictments are handed down to the nonprofit execs who were using the money to fund trips to Costa Rica and payments for their Acuras. Meanwhile, the slums get sold to private developers who evict the tenants and build luxury condos.

Why did it take like two millennia to invent the powerchord. Why did something like weezer not exist during the byzantine empire

“Princeton had long been the ultimate bastion of Ivy League gentility, the consummate embodiment of high-trust American culture. Cheating on a test, Princeton novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, ‘simply doesn’t occur to you, any more than it would occur to you to rifle your roommate’s pocketbook.’” @johnbyronkuhner firstthings.com/the-end-of-p…

trying to explain to my tiny train obsessed son that there is a city (new york) where many people ride the train every single day, but, somehow, they do not “love the train”.

Zohran: Everything will be free *4 months later* Zohran: So, we ran out of money

The last thing you see before you move to Florida:

Guarding the Nara Prefectural Office #nara #japan instagram.com/p/DW2jA2Njbxw/…

Dotonbori #osaka #japan instagram.com/p/DWzsK7ik0Yf/…

i cant believe they finally made a prequel

This is how I found out Gene Shalit is both alive and 100

Lisa, never, EVER stop in the middle of a hoe down!

Every transit nerd — the urbanist who tell us over and over how much they love public transportation— has to realize until you stop this sort of crap, and make stopping it your number one goal, you and all your train love are doing nothing but annoying everyone else.

[tiktokker johnny cash] i pew-pewed a man in Reno just to watch him unalive

The same people against the SAVE act, wanted to see your six-year-old’s vaccination records at the door of a restaurant in 2022.