I mean, that would be a whole different movie.

#TheMalteseCthulhu #movies #Cthulhu

I've long been a fan of the 1967 #documentary The London Nobody Knows in which James Mason introduces the viewer to less salubrious areas of London before they were redeveloped. As far as I'm aware, the film didn't have a theatrical release, therefore no promotional poster, so I thought I'd create one in the scratchy illustration style synonymous with the 1950s/ 60s.

The character on my poster is a street performer who features in the film.
#graphicdesign #illustration #psychogeography

Thinking to myself this morning “Threads can’t be as bad as I recall…”

First post in my feed: Instagram influencer with a cup of coffee watching the sunrise from her balcony in a $1000/night hotel built with slave labor in a country where women can’t drive, telling me about how she has discovered that the secret to life is learning to savor the little things.

No, lady, apparently the secret to life is to be born rich, white, beautiful, and oblivious.

Anyway, that’s enough Threads for 2024.

Real talk, if you think "fare evasion" is a real thing that matters (let alone is a problem) in terms of any transit system anywhere, I don't think you really understand anything about transit systems or how government funding works.

And if, on top of that, you think the "solution" is to install millions of dollars of equipment to *maybe* "recover" some fraction of that money back, I think you need to have a good long think about your priorities.

Transit should be free anyways. And if you disagree with *that* please let me know the next time you pay a user fee for a billion dollar overpass, then we can talk.

[Edit to add] Alright here's a faq for the replypeople:

- yes, tolls exist! They do not exist for the same reason and are not really user fees in the same sense. Transit fares are sold as paying the cost of maintaining the service. Road/bridge/etc. tolls are *congestion* pricing, designed to de-externalize the cost of single-user vehicles occupying a lot of space on the road. The net effect of pricing transit use is to *reduce the efficiency of the transit system by moving fewer people on high density vehicles*. It is literally the opposite of a toll. This is not the gotcha you think it is.

- don't even start with the "there are smelly people on the train so it's dangerous" argument. If this is a thing that worries you please advocate for housing first initiatives in your city because criminalizing homelessness (by prescribing places they can and can't exist without being fined or arrested or moved along) is not the way to go. Stop listening to conservative talk radio (aka all radio) that turns any tragedy into an opportunity to hurt innocent people.

- "making transit free would hurt poor people" my dude do you even listen to yourself? I don't care what contortions you took to get there it doesn't make sense. A transit system people use is one that gets built out. When you make it fully publicly funded it becomes *everyone's* transit system. The biggest driver for turning down transit l service is *always* ridership, not revenue. The cycle goes: "this bus isn't used, kill it. Ridership is down raise fares! Oh no people are riding buses less now that we raised fares, better turn service down and raise fares again!" Your own transit system may be in this vicious cycle. It probably is!

- "I've observed that the people hopping the turnstile are the ones causing problems" no you haven't. I'm sorry. This is just selective bias at play. You notice someone doing one thing you don't approve of, so you're paying more attention to them. Of course you know when they do something you disapprove of.

- "not all overpasses are a billion dollars" no, but some are, and a lot of cities build a lot of overpasses while hemming and hawing over much cheaper transit expenditures that would actually reduce congestion instead of increasing it.

- "children will learn bad lessons from free transit" ??????????????