@danielhcantwell.bsky.social
Registered architect. Municipal musings, mainly.
Looking up between several skyscrapers against a clear blue sky in Chicago. The buildings frame the scene from each corner, and a striking diagonal shadow - cast by the Sears Tower - cuts across the sky
Get you a skyscraper so tall it casts shadows in the sky
16.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 144 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 0Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.
15.10.2025 18:25 — 👍 600 🔁 290 💬 8 📌 13Foster + Partners are doing pubs now ? Economic indicator, perhaps ?
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On this date in 1964:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice. At 35yrs old, he was the youngest to ever to receive it at the time.
#BlackHistory #Blacksky
youtu.be/5r98tT0j1a0?...
Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia
(Rijksmuseum)
The Oct. 18th "No Kings Day of Peaceful Action" has now surpassed 2,500 community events across all 50 states, per No Kings organizers.
All of these events were "organized by average Americans across personal, political, and geographic demographics."
The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.
13.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 4051 🔁 1073 💬 80 📌 89He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
—Declaration of Independence, 1776
Presentation slide showing Windows logo and text 'Windows 10 support ends October 14, 2025' with a presenter standing beside the screen
Windows 10 support ends tomorrow.
They designed it to be EVERGREEN. The UI is still modern. It works flawlessly. Users love it.
Microsoft is killing their most successful OS for literally no reason except to push Windows 11.
This is customer-hostile nonsense.
March 17 is Italy's National Unity Day.
13.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That's Saint Patrick's Day, no?
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“Fiction.”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...
Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)
Lyonel Feininger, The Steamer Odin, II, 1927
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135831
Clinton CTA station at 540 West Lake Street, opened 1909 and renovated 1994-1996 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Clinton CTA station at 540 West Lake Street, opened 1909 and renovated 1994-1996 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
12.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 01h40m of @flightradar24.com NYC-bound traffic sped up by 20,000% down to 30 seconds.
It’s not too often we see all three major airports using the same runway 4 approaches. It’s beautiful.
This is how you write a headline. Finally @cnn.com
11.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 1574 🔁 550 💬 61 📌 28A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
11.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 8171 🔁 1953 💬 150 📌 121He means to do harm. Q.E.D.
11.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And their trucks had the wrong tires, it seems.
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Meanwhile the world has stopped buying American orange juice.
It now trades at 43% of the price it went for when Trump took office.
I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.
You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!
Go on...
10.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's right.
10.10.2025 22:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Lost ? Wasn't awarded at best.
10.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'Courage and integrity'
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Remember this post? The Wall Street Journal just confirmed it was meant to be a DM to Pam Bondi.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Uh, Lincoln Memorial rotation ?
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