probably just paul

@enpaul.net

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Urbanist, engineer, activist. (he/him) Posts here will be about technology, politics, trains, cities, and being very tired. Spending my engineering time with @freedom.press working to make the cloud a better place

The Delaware river bridge in Trenton new jersey which includes the enormous sign saying "Trenton makes the world takes"
A picture of an Amtrak train from the platform with people preparing to board the train.
A picture of a line of about 50 people heading off into the main hall of the station. The picture is taken from one of the side rooms off the main station looking towards the front of the line in the main hall
A photo of the main hall of Philadelphia 30th street station. Two large art deco chandeliers are visible on the left and right. The far wall us made up of floor to ceiling windows and the ceiling has an inlaid lattice pattern. Directly in front is a monument to railway workers, a 10ft tall bronze statue of an angel with swept back wings
A picture of the busy train station concourse. The ceiling is low and the floors are a bit dirty and there are lots of people walking in every direction
A photo from a bridge over the Schuylkill River looking towards the Philadelphia Art Museum. Everything is grey and there is a haze in the air from the humidity
Photo from the interior of a SEPTA train. Everyone is seated and it's not too crowded. A sign says the next stop is called East Falls
A SEPTA train arriving at the Manayunk train station platform
A picture of main street in my town, with an arch bridge over the road in the background
Screenshot of the end game screen showing 100% correct for a 10 round game
Screenshot of the homepage of leadsfromurl.com, a vibe coded app with a blue-gradient neo-cyber aesthetic
Picture of a train platform at sunrise
A picture through a rain covered window overlooking a small street with row houses and a stone church steeple in the background. The sky is overcast and grey with spots of blue poking through.
An abstract painting made by throwing gobs of paint at the canvas, resulting in overlapping squiggles, dots, and lines in many different colors
A Microsoft Windows XP dialog box that says "task failed successfully" and has an "OK" button
The epic handshake meme, with one arm labeled "C purists" and the other labeled "rust purists" with "c++ is for little worms" in the middle
A panning video of Love Park in Philadelphia, starting at Independence Hall and ending at the Liberty Center, showing thousands of people gathered on the lawn
A screenshot of lowes.com. The site looks normal, except that the background color is a dark grey while all the text is black and the images are white. This makes the site entirely unreadable visually.
XKCD 1367 "Installing". Someone saying to their friend "Installing things has gotten so fast and painless. Why not skip it entirely, and make a phone that has every app 'installed' already and just downloads and runs them on the fly?". The caption underneath then comments "I felt pretty clever until I realized id invented webpages."
Me using a trombone to unnecessarily blast everyone I know with facts about Robert Moses
A plain printed black and white laminated sign on a deli counter that says "We have hash browns now, just $1.00"
Picture of the side of a Swiss train car with the railway's white and read double arrow logo, and the railway's name, "SBB CFF FFS"
A drawing of a screaming, flaming skeleton skitting at a desk with a computer, a cup of coffee, and some memos. The skeleton is typing a message that says "I hope this email finds you well".