Transport geek humor.
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#Sweden #GeekHumor #publictransport #bus #publictransit #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TrufiAssociation
Congrats to Paris on opening Europe's longest gondola lift today!
It's 4.5 km long (which looks tiny on the map of Paris, but is the same as from the middle of the urban core and mostly to the edge of it here in my capital city of Oslo, Norway) and is a part of the regular transit system. The bus used to take 40 min, now you can soar above the traffic for 18 min instead!
Sounds pretty amazing, if you ask me
https://unofficialnetworks.com/2025/04/24/paris-metro-new-gondola/
Cool video about the great Swiss train system. Visiting all cantons in 24 hours, via train (and a bit of bus)
on the one hand, i hate to add to the unbearable noise of BUY THINGS! and PROMOTIONAL CONTENT! but on the other hand, no one will know that i’m a little art-making creature and that some of my art gets made into prints and stationery and neat stuff you can own if i don’t make a concerted effort to try to tell you. and it would be really cool if you considered giving your support to artists who are probably just trying to pay the bills rather than line the pockets of exploitive mega-businesses where you can. i know it’s kind of inevitable that we can’t always make that choice, but where you can, whether it’s me and my silly artworks, or another artist you think is a good person making neat things, and it’s within your means to do so, your support means so much to us.
heck, if you're an artist who makes stuff for sale, feel free to drop your links below and i'd love to share them!
https://ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop
#artshop #art #cute #shopsmall #whimsy #fantasy #london #publictransit #frogart
These have been really difficult days. It's easy to feel no hope when your locus of control is zero. When you have no income, your locus of control is zero. In a capitalist society, this makes you, by definition, little more than an NPC, incapable of anything but scripted responses (unless you want to be seen as a crazy person, which I am tired enough no longer to mind).
Also, I'm sure that if you die, instead of accountability, somebody gets experience points.
Your compassion and generosity have been a lifesaver in these days. The first time I tried to get into Pittsburgh, I learned the bus ran only in the early morning and in the late afternoon. Incredibly, it was only 10 AM, and already my day was ruined. That was Wednesday.
Thursday, I was broke. And it was Thanksgiving. On a day celebrating the genocide of American Indigenous people, I considered the ways in which capitalism is designed to force us to destroy ourselves when we can no longer serve in the people-grinder that is the American workforce. It is a day to remember all that we must fight for and against.
I'm not sure when I was reminded about Venmo's existence for the second time, but I was dissociating so intensely that I ended the night as Joan with Pip, Carmen, and Chaz so exhausted they passed out. And I started getting this really bad headache that hasn't really gone away since. But Venmo existed, and you had come through for me big time. I could end Thursday much better off than I started it. And now, I think maybe I'll be OK for a week or so. As long as I don't get hit by too many surprises like the transportation one on Friday (see below).
At some point I got half the Budget money back, but my account is now overdrawn by $400, and now by $35 less thanks to a new GoFundMe donation that just came through. (I'd talked about this before in short, but I fought so hard for this that I'm still tired about it.) I'm not optimistic we'll get that checking account cleared soon, but I'm happy it's not as daunting a prospect now. The GoFundMe goal is currently to clear this final $400 deficit so I can use my bank account again.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emergency-fund
#MutualAid #Pittsburgh #PublicTransit #SystemicFailure #TransCrowdfund #WritingCommunity #Capitalism #ActuallyAutistic #BudgetRentACar #Solidarity #PovertyTax
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on the one hand, i hate to add to the unbearable noise of BUY THINGS! and PROMOTIONAL CONTENT! but on the other hand, no one will know that i’m a little art-making creature and that some of my art gets made into prints and stationery and neat stuff you can own if i don’t make a concerted effort to try to tell you. and it would be really cool if you considered giving your support to artists who are probably just trying to pay the bills rather than line the pockets of exploitive mega-businesses where you can. i know it’s kind of inevitable that we can’t always make that choice, but where you can, whether it’s me and my silly artworks, or another artist you think is a good person making neat things, and it’s within your means to do so, your support means so much to us.
heck, if you're an artist who makes stuff for sale, feel free to drop your links below and i'd love to share them!
https://ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop
#artshop #art #cute #shopsmall #whimsy #fantasy #london #publictransit #frogart
These have been really difficult days. It's easy to feel no hope when your locus of control is zero. When you have no income, your locus of control is zero. In a capitalist society, this makes you, by definition, little more than an NPC, incapable of anything but scripted responses (unless you want to be seen as a crazy person, which I am tired enough no longer to mind).
Also, I'm sure that if you die, instead of accountability, somebody gets experience points.
Your compassion and generosity have been a lifesaver in these days. The first time I tried to get into Pittsburgh, I learned the bus ran only in the early morning and in the late afternoon. Incredibly, it was only 10 AM, and already my day was ruined. That was Wednesday.
Thursday, I was broke. And it was Thanksgiving. On a day celebrating the genocide of American Indigenous people, I considered the ways in which capitalism is designed to force us to destroy ourselves when we can no longer serve in the people-grinder that is the American workforce. It is a day to remember all that we must fight for and against.
I'm not sure when I was reminded about Venmo's existence for the second time, but I was dissociating so intensely that I ended the night as Joan with Pip, Carmen, and Chaz so exhausted they passed out. And I started getting this really bad headache that hasn't really gone away since. But Venmo existed, and you had come through for me big time. I could end Thursday much better off than I started it. And now, I think maybe I'll be OK for a week or so. As long as I don't get hit by too many surprises like the transportation one on Friday (see below).
At some point I got half the Budget money back, but my account is now overdrawn by $400, and now by $35 less thanks to a new GoFundMe donation that just came through. (I'd talked about this before in short, but I fought so hard for this that I'm still tired about it.) I'm not optimistic we'll get that checking account cleared soon, but I'm happy it's not as daunting a prospect now. The GoFundMe goal is currently to clear this final $400 deficit so I can use my bank account again.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emergency-fund
#MutualAid #Pittsburgh #PublicTransit #SystemicFailure #TransCrowdfund #WritingCommunity #Capitalism #ActuallyAutistic #BudgetRentACar #Solidarity #PovertyTax
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an absolutely enormous transit system spanning seattle and the surrounding areas!!! comparable in scale to the new york subways. the vision roadmap stretches so many years into the future!!!!! so fuckin cool
Transport geek humor.
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#Sweden #GeekHumor #publictransport #bus #publictransit #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TrufiAssociation
Liziba Monorail Station, where the #trains go through a residential building! 🚈 (Which do you think came first? The answer: Both the station and the #building were actually constructed together!) Chongqing, #China.
#Train #Transit #Transportation #PublicTransit #Rail #Railway #Architecture #Buildings #City #Cityscape #Urban #UrbanPlanning #UrbanPhotography #Landscape #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photo #Photography #MobilePhotography #ShotoniPhone
TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request.
Register here:
https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210
TTC Riders ( @ttcriders.bsky.social ) is hosting a ‘Save Our Streetcars Summit’ in Toronto on November 23. This is a free event with coffee, snacks, and TTC tickets upon request.
Register here:
https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit?recruiter_id=16210
CPH Daily Bulletin 9/26/2025
LA Metro Board member wants a plan for ICE on transit as reinstated bus drivers fight for back pay
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/09/la-metro-ice-immigrants-drivers/
#LAMetro #LosAngeles #PublicTransit #StandUpFightBack #ICERaids #ATU1277
Sometimes I wonder if the real reason I’m not a more successful artist is that I insist on making niche works which will appeal to, for instance, only those within the intersecting sliver of the venn diagram of people who like the Hollow Knight Silksong family of video games and people who are from Toronto and/or are urban public transit enthusiasts, who will recognise this stop on the TTC. Anyway that’s why I made this a limited edition print.
https://ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop
#hollowknight #silksong #hornet #toronto #ttc #publictransit #art
Sometimes I wonder if the real reason I’m not a more successful artist is that I insist on making niche works which will appeal to, for instance, only those within the intersecting sliver of the venn diagram of people who like the Hollow Knight Silksong family of video games and people who are from Toronto and/or are urban public transit enthusiasts, who will recognise this stop on the TTC. Anyway that’s why I made this a limited edition print.
https://ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop
#hollowknight #silksong #hornet #toronto #ttc #publictransit #art
Minor transit annoyance: an automated voice on the tram saying "Now entering X station, doors to my left/right", but the voice is coming from overhead rather than the front of the car, so you can't orient to anything. Whereas if it was a human making the announcement, you would more easily infer that the speaker is facing the front of the car.
A much greater annoyance was the old TTS PA system used by #SoundTransit (Seattle) Link Light Rail which pronounced it "linklight rail" with the emphasis on "light", making the phrase almost unintelligible.
#publictransit
I commented somewhere recently that it's unfair to run a town without useful public transport because it encourages people to drive when they shouldn't and harm themselves and others.
Now we see that NHS staff fatigue combines with a lack of public transport to kill them, and others, on the roads.
Not running useful transport at all hospital shift changes is very cruel.
#publictransport #publictransit #transport #roadsafety #RoadDanger #NHS
