Csilla Gal
@cgal.bsky.social
Urban climates and other human habitats.
Architect by trade, urban climatologist by profession.
Chicago 📍
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Architect by trade, urban climatologist by profession.
Chicago 📍
Header: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c31432
Avatar: Giacinto Brandi, L'Architettura(?)
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
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Dear @markey.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @hickenlooper.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @lujan.senate.gov
I don't care how good you are, I will donate to your primary opponent unless you call for Schumer's removal
I don't care how good you are, I will donate to your primary opponent unless you call for Schumer's removal
None of the 8 are up in 2026, this is the trick Schumer is playing on the rubes. The entire caucus is unified on the deal. These 8 are just taking the heat because they can afford to.
The only reasonable position is to primary every D who won't call for removing Schumer.
The only reasonable position is to primary every D who won't call for removing Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Dear @markey.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @hickenlooper.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @lujan.senate.gov
I don't care how good you are, I will donate to your primary opponent unless you call for Schumer's removal
I don't care how good you are, I will donate to your primary opponent unless you call for Schumer's removal
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The Criminal podcast's latest episode: "Rogers Park: The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago — and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors" thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...
Episode 339: Rogers Park (11.7.2025)
The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago – and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors.
thisiscriminal.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Criminal podcast's latest episode: "Rogers Park: The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago — and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors" thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...
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An update from the NWS on the potential snow event. Read it.
One key: “…As a result, the expectation is for the lake effect snow bands to be unusually intense with peak snow rates of 3 to locally 5 inches per hour, frequent lightning and thunder, and pockets of hail.”
#ILwx #Chicago #ChicagoWX
One key: “…As a result, the expectation is for the lake effect snow bands to be unusually intense with peak snow rates of 3 to locally 5 inches per hour, frequent lightning and thunder, and pockets of hail.”
#ILwx #Chicago #ChicagoWX
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
An update from the NWS on the potential snow event. Read it.
One key: “…As a result, the expectation is for the lake effect snow bands to be unusually intense with peak snow rates of 3 to locally 5 inches per hour, frequent lightning and thunder, and pockets of hail.”
#ILwx #Chicago #ChicagoWX
One key: “…As a result, the expectation is for the lake effect snow bands to be unusually intense with peak snow rates of 3 to locally 5 inches per hour, frequent lightning and thunder, and pockets of hail.”
#ILwx #Chicago #ChicagoWX
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Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
Thread by @CSElmendorf on Thread Reader App
@CSElmendorf: I stumbled across the work of Arthur E. Stamps III this morning and, wow, my eyes have been opened! He's was (is?) an architect in San Francisco who wrote scores of academic papers on th...
threadreaderapp.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
Lolsob
White House Makeover - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Lolsob
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Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik
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Thread.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Thread.
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Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency
Perfect gift that also supports a good cause! 💫
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Perfect gift that also supports a good cause! 💫
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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A middle school kid just came to the door dressed as "An AI Overlord." I asked if she was good or evil. "Evil, of course." I laughed and said the future was in good hands, to which she replied, "No, it's not."
Protect these kids at all costs.
Protect these kids at all costs.
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A middle school kid just came to the door dressed as "An AI Overlord." I asked if she was good or evil. "Evil, of course." I laughed and said the future was in good hands, to which she replied, "No, it's not."
Protect these kids at all costs.
Protect these kids at all costs.
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On the East Wing and the coming ballroom, which is more Tsarskoye Selo than Monticello (a line I thought of too late to put in the piece)
‘The demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St Louis in 1972 marked the point at which a hidden process, the ebbing of confidence, became spectacular. And so it is with the East Wing.’
Will Wiles finds the symbolism of recent events almost too on-the-nose
Will Wiles finds the symbolism of recent events almost too on-the-nose
So, goodbye East Wing. What’s next for the West Wing?
The dissolution of certainties about American power now has its perfect visual emblem – in the form of bulldozers reducing part of the White House to rubble, writes Will Wiles
buff.ly
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
On the East Wing and the coming ballroom, which is more Tsarskoye Selo than Monticello (a line I thought of too late to put in the piece)
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Billie Eilish told the billionaires in attendance at the @wsj.com Awards to "give your money away, shorties," not eliciting applause from Mark Zuckerberg
Billie Eilish Told 'WSJ' Awards Attendees To "Give Your Money Away, Shorties" (Mark Zuckerberg Did Not Clap)
Did you know that the Wall Street Journal holds an annual awards show? It does. The newspaper’s Innovator Awards have been happening since 2012. Per the newspaper itself, this particular awards gala “...
www.stereogum.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Billie Eilish told the billionaires in attendance at the @wsj.com Awards to "give your money away, shorties," not eliciting applause from Mark Zuckerberg
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One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children.
Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.
We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.
We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children.
Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.
We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.
We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
It was Wrigleyville, the home of the Cubs!
A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.
October 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It was Wrigleyville, the home of the Cubs!
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Amazing story - but please consider very carefully if you really have the skills + equipment - the ice services of both Greenland ( @dmidk.bsky.social) and Canada are seeing increasing numbers of sailors getting into trouble thinking that declining sea ice means "ice free" + it absolutely doesn'ty.
🇧🇷 VIDEO Brazil woman sails solo through Arctic
Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink says she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage -- a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago.
Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink says she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage -- a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago.
October 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Amazing story - but please consider very carefully if you really have the skills + equipment - the ice services of both Greenland ( @dmidk.bsky.social) and Canada are seeing increasing numbers of sailors getting into trouble thinking that declining sea ice means "ice free" + it absolutely doesn'ty.
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ok who did this? ☹️
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
ok who did this? ☹️