senil888 asked:
The Transportation Workers Union won a pretty big contract for on-board Amtrak workers recently. Featuring a seven year wage increase (backdated to 2022!) and ten weeks of paid parental leave!
https://www.twu.org/twu-wins-largest-wage-increase-for-on-board-workers-in-amtrak-history-with-paid-family-leave/
Let’s Go! This is fucking awesome!!
Rating Swing States based off their transit infrastructure
Anonymous asked:
to be completely honest and in the most positive way possible, i never checked your actual blog before and only interact with your posts when they appear on my dash, so since my dash is 90% trans autistic women with incredibly niche special interests i always just assumed you were also along that vein of person
Are trains and urban design niche special interests?
Is it really a gay bar if it isn’t in a walkable historic neighborhoods with good transit access?
Oh yeah, the whole internet thing doesn’t affect Amtrak because it runs off Linux, I forgot about that fact
I am addicted to stamps
Wizard Stamps
Massachusetts is just California with shittier weather
Anonymous asked:
Stumbled upon this post tumblr.com/amtrak-official/756979579402452992 while looking for a different one and had to do a double take. It is insane to see a blog with amtrak in its name make the same argument that is made against amtrak year after year, namely that "you are … paying a company that can't manage its own finances to stay afloat." Support or oppose tumblrs push to become user-funded for whatever reasons you like, but don't push such obviously misguided arguments.
Amtrak is a federal service, it should have no expectation of profitability, tumblr is a private corporation with no connection to the government. That right there is a massive difference
Person online: you can’t say [insert thing], if you think it’s okay to say [insert thing] you need to learn your queer history
Queer People Historically: said [insert thing] frequently
Let’s make a stamp, here are some pieces of rubber
First we sketch out a design
Then carve out the inside
Remove the outside of the image too
Put ink on the stamp
And place it on paper
