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benjojo posted 13 Feb 2025 15:45 +0000

Rapture on the Elizabeth Line

a photo of the seating on the London Elizabeth line train platform, nobody is sitting on the seeds however the white concrete wall underneath it has the silhouettes of people due to the dirt and greece left behind by people leaning on the walls

sa@chaos.social replied 13 Feb 2025 16:22 +0000
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@benjojo or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Shadow_Etched_in_Stone

benjojo replied 13 Feb 2025 16:24 +0000
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@sa yeah that did also cross my mind but it's a little bit too grim for me to reference

lx@swiss.social replied 13 Feb 2025 18:45 +0000
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@benjojo Is that the perspective or is the wall really curving in that much?

benjojo replied 13 Feb 2025 20:38 +0000
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@lx it's mostly dirt by the looks of it

jay_peper@chaos.soci.. replied 13 Feb 2025 21:05 +0000
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@lx @benjojo yes, it is a curved wall of a tunnel. You're not expected to sit there for long, the next train for you will arrive in less than 10 minutes

jay_peper@chaos.soci.. replied 13 Feb 2025 22:41 +0000
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@lx @benjojo (it's also one of the least-curved curved walls of the London underground, as these tunnels are comparatively huge)

DynHafren@mastodon.w.. replied 13 Feb 2025 21:37 +0000
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unspecified horror

@benjojo 😂This was unexpected. My ex-TfL colleagues are trying to decide what to do about them, including leaving them!

benjojo replied 13 Feb 2025 23:58 +0000
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re: unspecified horror

@DynHafren it's a fun bit of environmental storytelling!

harry_wood@en.osm.to.. replied 14 Feb 2025 02:27 +0000
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@DynHafren @benjojo Here it shows some colourful vinyl (wipe clean?) artworks, but that article is from a year ago, so I guess they didn't do it to all the seats: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67959169

fredbrooker@witter.c.. replied 14 Feb 2025 04:30 +0000
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