The flotilla of ducks at the annual Minnehaha Creek Duck Race in Minneapolis!

Of all the ways to make a building more interesting - ornament, different materials, artwork - articulation has got to be the worst. Each of the extra corners from the building shifting in and out is a potential leak, and the yellow planes are extra walls that reduce energy efficiency.

You can see the Minneapolis Mayday Parade this Sunday! It's so great. www.maydaympls.org

My fav on this #Zürich West building is the facade. There are 3 floors of housing on top, extended out from the old building and supported by concrete pillars. They added a glass facade a few meters out from the original brick. Photo taken standing between the two looking up. 2/?

Plenty of creative reuse of historic buildings in #Zürich, this one is in an old industrial neighborhood that's filling with homes around some remaining industry. The warehouse floor is the highlight. It's lined with shops; the open space often hosting temp uses may someday house a market. 1/?

A quiet street in the heart of #Zürich, just a few steps away from Stadelhofen train station.

This part of Alito's opinion is frankly terrifying. Note the language of "mere" disparate impact. For the nonlawyers, "disparate impact" is the type of case you bring for housing or employment discrimination where the defendant does something discriminatory without an overt statement of intent.

A #Zürich community center has an animal program where children sign up to take care of the animals for six months (every day, holidays included). I spy a goat, a llama, and horses.

Entrance to a new tram depot in #Zürich built into the ground floor of the building with the animated horse sculpture on the roof.

A perfect spring evening in #Zürich when everyone is outside picnicking and playing.

Watch the bees enjoy their homes.

Good argument for state intervention into the zoning and building codes; we need to lower the bar for new housing. streets.mn/2026/04/22/a...

The #Zürich neighborhood planning tours are full of gems. This is the oldest (secular?) building in the city, Hardturm. Built in the 12th or 13th century, the walls are 3.5m thick up to 6m high. In 1693 it was renovated (add bay windows!) for people to live in it! (Still residential use.)

I spy some construction site art in #Zürich

Bern, obere Altstadt

Prefect transit station entrance. Clear signage. Convenient access (at both ends of the platform). Real-time departure info visible before entering.

Sahan’s analysis of court records and federal deportation data represents the most thorough accounting yet of the Minnesota children detained during Operation Metro Surge. By @bzosiad.bsky.social and @cynthiatu.bsky.social

Confirmed ICE flight, Tue April 21, est arrival: 12:45 PM. Shackled detainees will board at Signature Aviation between Terminal 1 & 2. Observe from Terminal 1 parking ramp - gold 7 is best. Since Jan 1, we've tracked 90 flights through MSP, carrying ~3,388 people out of Minnesota.

Zürich's Sechselaeuten festival is a four-day spectacle with costumes and parades, concluding by burning a firework-filled snowman on a bonfire. Organized by (sealthy) Guild members, it used to mark extending the workday until 6, thanks to long evenings. It's an anti-May Day.

Current events in #Minneapolis #Minnesota

Palermo's antique market isn't great just for the antiques. It's an amazing street to hang out on. Check out that shade. (Then, zoom in and check it out again, especially the trees. More in the 🧵) 1/3

Today is day 137 of the ICE occupation of MN. A group of organizers were discussing the lessons of the last 5 months, and came up with two key lessons Minneapolis residents have learned again and again: No one is coming to save us. and We keep us safe. Let’s keep taking care of each other.

Prosecuting rapes, robberies, murders is something you get no matter who you elect as county attorney. But there is actually a meaningful difference when it comes to how committed they are to holding law enforcement accountable. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I've wondered about Italian street materials for 3 years. They are stone slabs, covered in small irregular divots. "How?" In Sicily, I saw the "How" firsthand. This guy was working hard, sunglasses his only protective gear, flakes of stone flying, manually texturing the stone.

I was handcuffed/charged with jaywalking (didn’t) holding a large camera taking a photo of street outside this McDonald’s. While detained, MPD ignored multiple burglary calls. I had to take it all the way to trial where they tried to shake me down for a plea before dismissing 1 min before trial.

Construction workers use a simple pulley to lift heavy blocks into a 3rd floor unit on a narrow street. Palermo, Sicily

I loved it so much, I filmed it .....at about 4am

I took an overnight train from Milan to Sicily, and the train drove onto a ferry, we all got off and enjoyed the boat, and then the train drove off the ferry.

Examples of a quick paint fix to add a sidewalk, found in Sicily. Not an endorsement of this approach.

Closer view of this walkway integrating history and current development in Palermo, Sicily

Palermo, Sicily invites people enjoying the waterfront or convention center to check out ancient ruins with this pathway between a fountain and an excavated wall.

Block interior in Palermo, Sicily

Bottlebrush tree on Sicily

They have a thing for carving faces into facades in Syracuse, Sicily

Syracuse, Sicily, found on one of many alleys.

Street in Caltagirone, Sicily

It’s day 122 of the ICE occupation of MN. Today’s ICE reports are concentrated in suburban locations, reminding us once again that ICE is still here, even when activity in the city centers has slowed. Meanwhile, StandWithMinnesota.com is still raising emergency rent funds. Let’s keep showing up.

Construction-free awning for a sidewalk cafe. Catania, Sicily

Caltagirone, Sicily

Not only are renters people, renting can be great. Toilet breaks? No hot water (real example from 2 weeks ago)? Call to get it fixed.

Despite claims from administration officials that the level of agents in Minnesota would return to pre-surge levels of about 150, a motion filed in federal court Friday by U.S. Department of Justice attorneys reported that almost 500 agents remain in the state. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!

The temporary construction crane reappeared on my #Zürich street, and I'm the wierdo taking pics of the racks used to load windows.

Fascinating poll on how pervasive ICE invasion was in the central cities. Almost one-fifth of St. Paul encountered ICE; more than a quarter of Minneapolis did. Either figure is astounding & awful; indicates Mpls enforcement was roughly half again more intense than St.P.

In three months, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social has: -Vetoed an eviction extension that'll cause mass homelessness of our immigrant neighbors -Never stepped out on a patrol during federal occupation -Private meeting with Tom Homan with records deleted -Told ICE to fuck off, did nothing about it

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

A sidewalk cafe in a Lyon intersection, protected by enormous concrete dice, which do double duty as extra seating.

It’s day 113 of the ICE occupation of MN. ICE activity has been lower, but the needs of our community in recovery are incredibly high. Families are job hunting, learning to live without an abducted bread winner, and trying to find their feet. Please give as you can at StandWithMinnesota.com

I've never noticed this #Zürich building during the da, but tonight the wooden beams glowing inside forced me to stop and gape.

It is spring in #Zürich, this is taken while crossing the old moat, Schanzengraben, on a pedestrian bridge.