Matt Bergstrom
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Chicago architecture and history, papercraft and postcards - https://www.wurlington-bros.com/
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Edward George Bruton's velocipede. (1889) by Robert Pittis Scott, from Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion.
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Edward George Bruton's velocipede. (1889) by Robert Pittis Scott, from Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion.
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Source: @bpl.boston.gov / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187
#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
Cardboard 2-flat miniature spotted at Project Onward’s cardboard show. Love the little butterflies!
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cardboard 2-flat miniature spotted at Project Onward’s cardboard show. Love the little butterflies!
All of Manhattan made of balsa wood and styrofoam
Trucker's viral scale model of every NYC building to get official showing gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
Trucker's viral scale model of every NYC building to get official showing
Joe Macken's Museum of the City of New York exhibit is over 20 years in the making.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
All of Manhattan made of balsa wood and styrofoam
Missed this anniversary yesterday: On Nov 18, 1755, an earthquake hit Boston, knocking down the iconic grasshopper weathervane off Faneuil Hall
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Missed this anniversary yesterday: On Nov 18, 1755, an earthquake hit Boston, knocking down the iconic grasshopper weathervane off Faneuil Hall
Miniature room sculpture by artist Itzi Licona at Intuit Art Museum
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Miniature room sculpture by artist Itzi Licona at Intuit Art Museum
Last warm day till spring in Humboldt Park
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Last warm day till spring in Humboldt Park
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#OnThisDay Nov 8, 1898: The Kensington Runestone is "discovered" on Olof Ohman's farm near Alexandria, Minnesota. Its engravings tell of Vikings who traveled here in 1362. Scholarly consensus classifies it as a hoax, but there remain true believers convinced the stone is authentic.
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#OnThisDay Nov 8, 1898: The Kensington Runestone is "discovered" on Olof Ohman's farm near Alexandria, Minnesota. Its engravings tell of Vikings who traveled here in 1362. Scholarly consensus classifies it as a hoax, but there remain true believers convinced the stone is authentic.
On this day in 1910, excavation began for the 792-foot Woolworth Building, then the tallest in the world
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
On this day in 1910, excavation began for the 792-foot Woolworth Building, then the tallest in the world
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Happy Halloween! Would you ring the doorbell of this haunted paper house?
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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
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I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
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I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
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October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
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was wondering why all the honeycrisps we bought the past two years, even from the fancy local grocer, were mushy, mealy messes and i guess this is a legitimate thing, unfortunately
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre
An investigation into the Honeycrisp apple and how a complex string of events led to a decline in the quality of a beloved apple variety.
www.seriouseats.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
was wondering why all the honeycrisps we bought the past two years, even from the fancy local grocer, were mushy, mealy messes and i guess this is a legitimate thing, unfortunately
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
www.seriouseats.com/how-honeycri...
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My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
A silly little papercraft project I designed for this weekend's upcoming International Paper Modelers Convention in Sterling, VA. Print one and build it at: ipmc-info.org/free.html
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A silly little papercraft project I designed for this weekend's upcoming International Paper Modelers Convention in Sterling, VA. Print one and build it at: ipmc-info.org/free.html
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In stunning development, sinking of Titanic no longer world’s largest metaphor
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In stunning development, sinking of Titanic no longer world’s largest metaphor
Out on the street among hundreds of thousands marching for Liberty #papercraft #papermodel #statueofliberty #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Out on the street among hundreds of thousands marching for Liberty #papercraft #papermodel #statueofliberty #nokings
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A drawing of a “BRAIN WORM” on a street sign in Uptown
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A drawing of a “BRAIN WORM” on a street sign in Uptown
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“There’s no indication that Vance has divested from AcreTrader, and there’s every indication that that investment remains in place.”
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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.
The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“There’s no indication that Vance has divested from AcreTrader, and there’s every indication that that investment remains in place.”
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
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#OnThisDay Oct 8, 1956: Southdale, the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the world, opens in Edina, Minnesota. Architect Victor Gruen, later realizing his invention had not lived up to his utopian vision of a car-free public square, became the biggest critic of malls until his death in 1980.
October 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#OnThisDay Oct 8, 1956: Southdale, the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the world, opens in Edina, Minnesota. Architect Victor Gruen, later realizing his invention had not lived up to his utopian vision of a car-free public square, became the biggest critic of malls until his death in 1980.
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a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny
defector.com/treasury-dep...
defector.com/treasury-dep...
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Here is how the first Peanuts comic strip appeared in Charles M. Schulz's hometown newspaper, The Minneapolis Star, 75 years ago today, Oct. 2, 1950. With an accompanying introductory article but missing one panel of the strip.
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Here is how the first Peanuts comic strip appeared in Charles M. Schulz's hometown newspaper, The Minneapolis Star, 75 years ago today, Oct. 2, 1950. With an accompanying introductory article but missing one panel of the strip.
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The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
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Chicago, Illinois, 2025:
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
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"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Chicago, Illinois, 2025:
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...
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Frank E. Noyes, as editor of the Daily Eagle in Marinette, Wisc., loved being pedantic and putting up plaques. A 1938 marker at the 45N parallel near Peshtigo satisfied both. It notes you’re actually 9 miles S of halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. www.mnmuseumofthems.org/45th/Oconto....
September 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Frank E. Noyes, as editor of the Daily Eagle in Marinette, Wisc., loved being pedantic and putting up plaques. A 1938 marker at the 45N parallel near Peshtigo satisfied both. It notes you’re actually 9 miles S of halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. www.mnmuseumofthems.org/45th/Oconto....