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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 11h

Just another traffic- calmed street in #Zürich, this one in Oerlikon. Trees planted on varying sides create chicanes, benches invite lingering, polkadot remind drivers to slow down. Neighbors say space fills with kids and adults on weekends.

A quiet european suburban street on a grey day. 4-story buildings line the street, which is narrowed here and there to make space for trees and benches. A swirly wooden slat art bench is in the bottom right of the photo.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 15h

All the Beths in Bryn Mawr agree, reelect @katiecashman.bsky.social

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 1913 | Norwegian Jew, Samuel Nachemsohn, was born in Oslo. A salesman.

In #Auschwitz from 1 December 1942. He perished in the camp on 22 January 1943.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Black and white portrait of a man in a light-colored shirt, looking thoughtful.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 1d

Playground mountains, for climbing in many different ways. #Zürich

Photo of playground equipment. Center frame is a pair of large rectangular tan and brown structure that look like very tall rectangular hunks of rock, with dark brown in the crevices and tan on the raised bits. Each one is covered with bouldering stones, small knobs all over. Between the two is a spiderweb made of rope. They are installed on top of a blue rubber surface.

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 2d

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Froggie vs. ICE: The asymmetrical symbol of a failing authoritarian state.

You’ve seen the video.
An inflatable frog at a Portland protest.
Unarmed. Unbothered. Unapologetically absurd.
And ICE panics.

They fire pepper spray up a frog caricature's ass.

The frog wins.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 2d

And, being chauffeured is relaxing.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 2d

The city of #Zürich replaced a parking lot with riverside seating, opened just a few weeks ago. Even on a chilly fall day, if the sun is out it fills up!

Photo of a shallow river, with low white stone seating installed down the edge of the riverbank in the foreground. Lots of people are sitting on the the stones in the sunshine, with bikes parked behind them. A bridge with multiple layers crosses the river in the distance. There are several large grassy sandbars in the river.

A zoomed in photo of stadium seating along a river bank. The whole seating area is visible, and covered in dozens of black and red and white and blue dots that are people. The seating goes up to a retaining wall that supports a covered bridge across the river. Trees and tall buildings are in the distance.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 3d

even setting aside whatever it means for the vote on the release of the epstein files, we're at a very grim place if the republicans are straight up refusing to seat people democratically elected to congress

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

Today marks yet another day that Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Adelita Grijalva her right to govern.

She won her special election on Sept 23rd but has yet to be sworn in.

Why? Because she will become the 218th vote needed to discharge the release of the Epstein files.

Say her name.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 3d

Freewheel, huh? It only took 10 years for Freewheel to support bike advocacy in some way. (New owner, maybe?) Congrats!

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 3d

This is what I found when I returned to my #Zürich apt in the late afternoon. I leaned over a 150cm high pile of metal plates to take the pic. Accessibility is not even an afterthought. 2/2

Shown through a blue metal gate, the walkway is filled with silver and red metal stacks. Most are pipes. There is no clear walk space. The bottom of the photo shows a pile of metal plates outside the gate.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 3d

Another cross-cultural surprise today, this is what I found when exiting my #Zürich apt this morning. I needed to reach the gate on the far end. 1/2

A narrow gap between two buildings that is filled with piles of metal, the parts of an as yet inbuilt scaffolding. Stacks of flat metal panels, piles of metal pipes. There is no clear path.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 3d

How, how can you stand it? So many forums! (Thanks, I read all your threads!)

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 3d

My favorites! Are yours full of bees?

A flower bed, lots of green below a riot of pale pink five-petaled flowers with puffy golden centers. Many are in bloom, there are also many buds.

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TransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social · 3d

Your regular reminder that robustly funding public agencies to develop in-house capacity instead of outsourcing to consultants saves money and time.

🕷TarantulaMask🎃 @octopusmask.bsky.social · 3d

Doing everything with consultants has so many drawbacks. I would love to work for a government agency that is staffed to do capital work itself for a while. Just to see how much of a difference it makes.

You know how much time I spend just getting contractors and consultants to agree to do things?

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 4d

Newly noticed Jugenstil details and mural in central #Zürich

Jugendstil arched doorway in red stone with an arched lit set of windows showing yellow walls and a mural above. Between arch and windows the entire red stone panel is carved with fine swirling patterns, around a large brass plate that reads "Ringhof." Peering closely, the yellow mural is a larger than life road cyclist pressing hard.

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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 4d

📣Join us SATURDAY 10/11 for a joint Organizer Training with @moreneighbors.org and @welcomingneighbors.us 🤝

This is the first in a 3-part series that will be a great resource for newbies to political advocacy and veteran organizers alike. (1/3)

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Organizing Training Cohort: N4MN & Sustain Saint Paul

We invite you to join Sustain Saint Paul and Neighbors for More Neighbors this fall for a three-part organizing training series designed to grow your relational organizing skills, investing in yoursel...

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KellyO @tripletheblue.bsky.social · 9d

Vote for Katie Cashman, Ward 7!!!

Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 9d

Elizabeth Shaffer is a Republican donor with Republican priorities.

Her campaign is backed by Republican donors and landlords responsible for hundreds of property violations.

Ward 7 deserves a real Democrat, not a Republican donor backed by more Republican donors.

Title text: "Elizabeth Shaffer: Republican donor with Republican priorities." Above a screenshot of a Republican donation from Shaffer and the following text: "If you donate to Republican candidates and 20% of your donors are Republicans and you're anti-labor and pro-criminalizing marijuana, should you be running as a DFL candidate? These are good questions for Elizabeth Shaffer. Learn more at www.elizabethshafferfacts.com"

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 5d

Backyard view, Kreis 5, #Zürich

Photo taken from a tip floor window, showing the backs of buildings, the nearest one pale green. The center of the block is filled with trees as tall as the buildings.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 6d

This street in old #Zürich used to carry 20,000 cars a day. Since it became (mostly) car-free 20+ years ago it's most full off pedestrians, bikes, and trams.

A street with a pair of tram rails, a few bicyclists, and lots of people walking. One car is parked. The street is open on one side and has 5-story historic buildings on the other. It's sunny with a few clouds in the blue sky.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 6d

Odd book choice. I read Bowling Alone as a grad school assignment 25 years ago. I've been thinking about all Putnam's blind spots ever since.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 7d

After walking past 100 times, I just noticed that this brick (left column)was laid with a recess to house the downspout.

Yellow brick building with orange brick accents. There are matching columns on either side of vertically stacked windows. In the left one, the brick was laid with a small vertical cavity just big enough for the copper downspout that is now installed in the recess.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 8d

The oldest building in #Zürich, a tower that's not quite 800 years old. 3.5m thick stone walls at the base.

A stocky tower above a river bank. The base is rocks in concrete, above is three floors in beige plaster, topped by a red tile pyramidal rood with a lightning rod. It sits among trees, and in front of a long, flat, grey modern building.

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Ine Harsten 📎 @iharsten.bsky.social · 8d

I anledning måneden vi er inne i.

What to do if There's a Witch at Your Door

STEP ONE: Invite them in.

STEP TWO: Make tea.

STEP THREE: Plot against the puritans.

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Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social · 9d

I'm a fan of the sundial as building facade decoration. Practical for the whole community, lower maintenance than a clocktower.

A beige stucco building below a blue sky. In the center is a sundial painted/mounted on the building. The center is a spiky yellow many petal sun. Underneath the hours are painted on an arc that looks like a long wavy ribbon, far apart on the left and close together on the right. A triad of metal rods holds the gnomon in the right spot to cast the time shadow.

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