Janne K. Flisrand

Fantastic lichens of Finse, Norway

For 3 weeks I asked my nibling, "What's your voting plan? When/where will you vote? How will you get there? Who with?" Today, "I'll go to the church after school a day I don't have much homework." So, we looked up her (not-church) early & Nov 3 voting options. Check in w/ and help your folks!

Mpls Elections is the most visible beacon of functional gvt. They make it easy to 🗳! They're also a a model of inclusion, good at comms & customer service, train once-a-year staff well, build a pipeline of voters. Gut the team ➡️ undermine trust in elections & gvt. Budgets reveal values.

The Utrecht library is worthy of a pilgrimage.

In the real world, actualizing the right to housing requires that there are enough homes. This might seem self-evident, yet a surprising number of people struggle understanding this.

I walked through this tunnel in the bike-friendliest city in Europe, Utrecht. It seems this wide space that hosted an ample sidewalk and reasonable bike lane wasn't big enough for all the cyclists, so they reallocated the street to cyclists and the bike lane to pedestrians.

✅ Absentee ballot accepted!

Many (most?) pre-war multifamily buildings in the Netherlands have two sets of stairs, parallel and interlocking, so residents share stairs with people living in apartments diagonal from their own. Why'd that become the default here?

Many (most?) pre-war multifamily buildings in the Netherlands have two sets of stairs, parallel and interlocking, so residents share stairs with people living in apartments diagonal from their own. Why'd that become the default here?

10 October 1913 | Norwegian Jew, Samuel Nachemsohn, was born in Oslo. A salesman. In #Auschwitz from 1 December 1942. He perished in the camp on 22 January 1943. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

I wandered into the lobby of this #Zürich building to check it out during the day. It's a media company's office - transparency is on theme.

Minneapolis just looks like this

My 18-year-old nibling just spent 40 min on the phone with me to verify her voter registration & review her sample ballot. She asked about political parties, who I like and why, and what a constitutional amendment is. Next week, she's going to tell me her voting plan. Who're you helping vote?

This graph is a good reason to introduce my new paper: By Generation and by Design: A Review of the Empirical Rent Control Literature. This paints a (somewhat) misleading picture of rent control evidence because it groups all rent control together regardless of design feature.

We are excited to announce Team Minneapolis for this Thursday's Sibling Rivalry! First up, the Night Mayor of Minneapolis, Ian Ringgenberg! 🪓 Tickets still available: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

I wandered past someone cleaning one of these mostly self-cleaning public toilets in #Zürich. Check out the closet of cleaning supplies integrated on the back of the WC!

Get your tickets for this event on Thursday. It was a blast last year!!

While #Zürich fountains often have dog-friendly designs, this is one is dedicated solely to animals. It reads, "Rudolf Koller Dog Fountain on the 100th anniversary of the death of the Swiss animal painter, January 5, 2005."

this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept

I've been wondering about the purpose of these metal strips lining the main train station in #Zürich. Apparently, one bit got bent (damaged) so I now know it's possible to put a wall up around the station.

So etwas sollte man als Linker auch wissen und ernst nehmen.

I love when you can get a peek at how buildings were constructed. #Zürich

A new-to-me view of the historically low Limmat River in #Zürich, taken from one of countless stairways that go from walking paths down to the river's edge at nowhere in particular.

Yet another European heat wave is waning, so here's a #Zürich plaza in the summer. It is one of the city's biggest heat islands. This summer, they mounted umbrellas in the pavers to provide some shade.

I prefer this #Zürich bas-relief, next door to the cool/creepy face

More whimsy in #Zürich, all the ground-floor windows had similar Space Invaders accents.

Der #slowUp Zürisee dieses Jahr war grandios, da komplett durchgängig bis nach Zürich. Die ganze Strecke zwischen #Rapperswil und #Zürich war durchgängig so wie auf den Bildern befahren. Diese Menge an Personen zu befördern, wäre kapazitativ mit dem MIV […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

I can't decide if the face on this #Zürich façade is cool or creepy. What do you think?

Some WSJ headline writer is apparently tired of tenants winning, but the reporting is fine: Haddox’s new place didn’t require months of paperwork or administrative bottlenecks. She applied and moved within a week. “This was way easier because the market had gone down.” www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

I love how light reflects on the Limmat River at night.

I watched the work of a crew using a concrete saw to remove a huge poured pilings that had held up the bridge they are now deconstructing. I'm not the only one who appreciates the two replacement bridges, as I had company watching with me.

Calling all Neighbors! 📣 We are excited to host Sibling Rivalry II: Here We Go Again! N4MN and Sustain Saint Paul will go head-to-head to raise organizational funds, supporting more homes. The need-to-knows: 🏡 Black Hart of Saint Paul 🏡 Thursday, October 8th, 6-8pm 🏡 Tix: $30 Reserve your place

'Nicht mehr oder noch nicht' #FotoVorschlag 📷 #Ricoh #GRIIIx 🇨🇭 #Zürich

Our chair @ericagibson.bsky.social shares some quick tips on voting from abroad - it’s time to send those ballots in now! Go to www.votefromabroad.org for more info!

You'll have to click into the photo to see how amazing this #Zürich building looks behind a disco ball in the sunshine.

Speaking of the European drought, this is the river flowing out of Lake #Zürich, the Limmat. It is feet lower than usual, visible on the white section of this wall, and kindly explained by one of my neighbors.

The European drought: Lake Zurich (Switzerland) has the lowest level in 75 years, the start of measurement records.

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

The well-designed and run #Zürich HB train station is the best. It flows seamlessly into the surrounding neighborhoods, avoids annoying rider bottlenecks, is bike accessible w/parking, and has a river running through it. It's the heart of the city, the place to meet up. Or to catch a train.

I have a two-step plan for Minneapolis to activate parks. First, allow more dense housing around the perimeter of the park - taller, smaller setbacks, family-unit sized homes. Second, fund the Parks well enough that they can fund programming.