You get married in an arena & shut down half a city on a holiday weekend. You have a Zionist freak marry you. You invite abusers, MAGA’s, the fella who runs the ICE detention centre, a bunch of zios & you walk down the aisle to your own songs.
You could never make me like her!
@LilPumpTrash someone opened the doors hellla quick and aggressive once and lunged toward me a bit. my fight or flight was going so hard for a sec until he asked if I wanted to buy band candy
me in 2020: wow there is really a shortage of books and memoirs and reported experiences about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. i wonder why??
me in 2023: so we all just memory holed covid and are never gonna talk about That Whole Thing again huh
this image, of the IRT flushing line in open fields now called sunnyside, has become famous for its symbolism of transit's influence on nyc.
but this isn't the only such image—here's a bit of a journey down the flushing line looking at how much it's shaped queens in 106 years.
Today, 1.5 million more people will ride the NYC subway than check in to a flight at all 503 USA commercial airports. It's insane how much capacity transit has.
In the US, there's a rising incidence of industrial accidents and construction embarrassments.
Ohio chemical explosion
Airline runway incidents
Failed high speed rail
Fires from mismanaged forests
Million dollar toilets
$300M bus lanes
$3.5B subways
Why is this happening? 🧵