sick public transit, gloria
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i do the train tweets but the train tweets aren’t me
New S(ubstack)-Bahn post: I looked at ways large urban mass transit systems around the world are shoring up public safety. I call it “the militarizing Metro” using 1) indefinite National Guard/paramilitary presence 2) metal detectors 3) facial recognition tinyurl.com/militarizedmet…
Adam Tooze seeing this like its Napoleon on horseback at Jena
Shopping malls in various Chinese cities depict fans and air conditioning on the big screen to offer passersby a sense of psychological comfort.
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
I once read an anecdote of assimilated Taiwanese navigating the chaos in Manchuria 1945, being taken for Japanese because they walked with bowed legs and pigeon toe and wore Western clothes, etc. but escaping popular wrath by recalling their childhood Hokkien or Hakka
German facing How POWs of different nationalities tried to pretend being someone else, to maximise their chances for survival. Looks like: Spanish > German > French/Dutch > Polish Basically, Spaniards & Portuguese got preferential treatment, Poles got the worst of the worst
those AIG Manchester United kits always takes me back to two places: dribbly cristiano ronaldo and the $180 billion bailout AIG got in 08
brother i’m telling you cristiano ronaldo used to make movies in the premier league 😂😂😂https://t.co/TqwrV4ecuL
been loving Lee Byung-hun's recent pivot to playing serious roles he's way too handsome for: a Joseon-era diplomat; KCIA chief; Go player; and now a total loser(?)
Official teaser trailer for Park Chan-wook’s NO OTHER CHOICE, starring Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin. Coming soon.
love how there are 10 replies and 10 different answers. let it be known hereafter that all cities in China are the Oakland of China *bangs gavel*
I need to know the Oakland of China…
tweeted "all men are brothers", cooked dinner, went to the theaters with a friend and found tweet's got 15k likes...just a ho-hum evening for a guy simply trying to spread the good word
Kind of obsessed with Switzerland’s postage stamp made with cement pigments that’s a tribute to concrete.
This is what the internet sounds like
Hats off to whoever picked the sound for Mayor Adams turning on the big router — announcing a plan to provide free WiFi to Section 8 housing in the Bronx.
like the housing theory of everything, I propose a psoas theory of everything: having tight, unstretched psoas muscles drive feeling bad to awful physically, emotionally, mentally, and probably societally too
I have to watch this video of Ayrton Senna driving an NSX around Suzuka wearing loafers and white socks every 6 months or so or I die
This is so insane
still thinking about Park Chan-wook’s Kafka-esque spiral down into inner turmoil as Korea celebrated one of its greatest moments as a nation. a true auteur’s life
Sejong City: 😠😡 Sejong City, Japan: 😱🤩
Ishin is drafting legislation to establish a secondary capital of Japan, aiming to reduce overcentralization in Tokyo, provide a backup base for the government during national crises and create a new economic hub.
happy new movie trailer day to the GOAT Korean auteur -- and lowkey all-timer hater (complimentary) -- Park Chan-wook
still thinking about Park Chan-wook’s Kafka-esque spiral down into inner turmoil as Korea celebrated one of its greatest moments as a nation. a true auteur’s life