Em
@emcroissant.bsky.social
she/her | 25 | ✡️🇮🇪 | in my Architectural Historian Era | Charleston-based Architectural Historian | UCL Bartlett MArchitectural History | CofC BA Historic Preservation; Jewish Studies | still loves the moomins 🩷
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Em
@emcroissant.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Suppose I should actually introduce myself instead of just lurking.
I love architecture, history, and both of those things together. My research interest is Preservation of Holocaust Sites and Memorial Architecture and sometimes I yap about that.
But I’m also gonna nerd out about fandom stuff 😚✌🏻
I love architecture, history, and both of those things together. My research interest is Preservation of Holocaust Sites and Memorial Architecture and sometimes I yap about that.
But I’m also gonna nerd out about fandom stuff 😚✌🏻
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We now have Tropical Storm Chantal. It’s 150 miles SSE of Charleston, moving N at 2 MPH. No change to the Tropical Storm Watch for the Charleston metro, but a Tropical Storm Warning is now up for Georgetown & Myrtle up toward Cape Fear.
July 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We now have Tropical Storm Chantal. It’s 150 miles SSE of Charleston, moving N at 2 MPH. No change to the Tropical Storm Watch for the Charleston metro, but a Tropical Storm Warning is now up for Georgetown & Myrtle up toward Cape Fear.
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Mayor Brandon Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 62%, and now has the lowest homicide rate in Baltimore history.
How did he do it?
NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.
Socialism works
How did he do it?
NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.
Socialism works
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Mayor Brandon Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 62%, and now has the lowest homicide rate in Baltimore history.
How did he do it?
NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.
Socialism works
How did he do it?
NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs.
Socialism works
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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Petition to Sadiq to keep the pride flags on regent street up all year round as a Glinner deterrent
July 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Petition to Sadiq to keep the pride flags on regent street up all year round as a Glinner deterrent
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Whenever I see women speak out against their rap*sts and name them, I see those women then shamed by the public. How come rap*sts never receive that level of being shamed???
July 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Whenever I see women speak out against their rap*sts and name them, I see those women then shamed by the public. How come rap*sts never receive that level of being shamed???
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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Been 20 years since I’ve been to the Alhambra and it remains pretty damn stunning
July 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Been 20 years since I’ve been to the Alhambra and it remains pretty damn stunning
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24 deaths reported so far from flooding in Kerrville, near Austin/San Antonio, TX.
Several summer camps were active when the flooding started, including 'Camp Mystic' which houses 750 girls for a week-long camp at a site along the river. 25 girls are missing.
A parent's nightmare.
Several summer camps were active when the flooding started, including 'Camp Mystic' which houses 750 girls for a week-long camp at a site along the river. 25 girls are missing.
A parent's nightmare.
Update - Perspective of the flooding in Kerrville, TX. Horrifying
July 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
24 deaths reported so far from flooding in Kerrville, near Austin/San Antonio, TX.
Several summer camps were active when the flooding started, including 'Camp Mystic' which houses 750 girls for a week-long camp at a site along the river. 25 girls are missing.
A parent's nightmare.
Several summer camps were active when the flooding started, including 'Camp Mystic' which houses 750 girls for a week-long camp at a site along the river. 25 girls are missing.
A parent's nightmare.
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The most 🤮 part of this whole bullshit thread from the NYT:
Pat “But Her Emails” Healy is now NYT assistant managing editor for STANDARDS AND TRUST.
This is like making Trump a chief anti-corruption officer.
There is no stronger confirmation that the NYT execs hate real journalism.
Pat “But Her Emails” Healy is now NYT assistant managing editor for STANDARDS AND TRUST.
This is like making Trump a chief anti-corruption officer.
There is no stronger confirmation that the NYT execs hate real journalism.
Our assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, posted on X today in response to feedback on our recent reporting on Zohran Mamdani.
July 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The most 🤮 part of this whole bullshit thread from the NYT:
Pat “But Her Emails” Healy is now NYT assistant managing editor for STANDARDS AND TRUST.
This is like making Trump a chief anti-corruption officer.
There is no stronger confirmation that the NYT execs hate real journalism.
Pat “But Her Emails” Healy is now NYT assistant managing editor for STANDARDS AND TRUST.
This is like making Trump a chief anti-corruption officer.
There is no stronger confirmation that the NYT execs hate real journalism.
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Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't.
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
In response to violence in DC and Boulder, American Jewish leaders are doubling down on conflating Zionism with Jewish identity—even as they insist that it's wrong to target Jews for Israel's actions. This response won't protect Jews, writes publisher Daniel May:
jewishcurrents.org/the-tangled-...
jewishcurrents.org/the-tangled-...
The Tangled Knot of Anti-Zionist Violence
Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.
jewishcurrents.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't.
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
One thing about me is that I’ll watch the WORST movies/shows if my favor actor(s) is in it, but will avoid even the best movies like the plague if someone I don’t like is in it
June 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One thing about me is that I’ll watch the WORST movies/shows if my favor actor(s) is in it, but will avoid even the best movies like the plague if someone I don’t like is in it
I’m just waiting to see how the zionists are going to justify their genocide with this one. It’s funny in an actually devastating way how delusional they’re becoming each day.
June 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’m just waiting to see how the zionists are going to justify their genocide with this one. It’s funny in an actually devastating way how delusional they’re becoming each day.
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Psst…we're going to let you in on a secret.
The best view of Seven Sisters is actually from Seaford Head, looking from the iconic Coastguard Cottages.
📷 Alan Crozier
The best view of Seven Sisters is actually from Seaford Head, looking from the iconic Coastguard Cottages.
📷 Alan Crozier
May 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Psst…we're going to let you in on a secret.
The best view of Seven Sisters is actually from Seaford Head, looking from the iconic Coastguard Cottages.
📷 Alan Crozier
The best view of Seven Sisters is actually from Seaford Head, looking from the iconic Coastguard Cottages.
📷 Alan Crozier
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If you’re a leftist, you need to be discussing disability rights because it’s one of the most pressing issues of our time. People are becoming more and more disabled in a society that has been allowing high risk people to die. Eugenics is happening RIGHT NOW!!
May 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you’re a leftist, you need to be discussing disability rights because it’s one of the most pressing issues of our time. People are becoming more and more disabled in a society that has been allowing high risk people to die. Eugenics is happening RIGHT NOW!!
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Here's a glimpse into the people, places, life, and culture of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.
📷 Browse through what Palestine was like: aje.io/7tepix
📷 Browse through what Palestine was like: aje.io/7tepix
May 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Here's a glimpse into the people, places, life, and culture of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.
📷 Browse through what Palestine was like: aje.io/7tepix
📷 Browse through what Palestine was like: aje.io/7tepix
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Palestine in the early 20th century - a thriving trading nation or ‘a land without a people’?
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
May 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Palestine in the early 20th century - a thriving trading nation or ‘a land without a people’?
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
As we mark 77 years since the #Nakba, historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
Watch the film: aje.me/palestine
Idk I just feel that if your country is “so dangerous” & you’re “constantly afraid of bombings” or your country is “constantly being attacked” & the people feel “oppressed,” then you shouldn’t be inviting people to come visit, right?
So then why do I still see emails & ads for Hillel Birthright? 👀
So then why do I still see emails & ads for Hillel Birthright? 👀
May 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Idk I just feel that if your country is “so dangerous” & you’re “constantly afraid of bombings” or your country is “constantly being attacked” & the people feel “oppressed,” then you shouldn’t be inviting people to come visit, right?
So then why do I still see emails & ads for Hillel Birthright? 👀
So then why do I still see emails & ads for Hillel Birthright? 👀
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A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh
May 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh
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A beautiful morning for our lambs looking forward to a chill out time in the shade
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A beautiful morning for our lambs looking forward to a chill out time in the shade