Quote Tweet
Israeli man stabs Israeli Jew after 'mistaking him for Arab' ind.pn/1X0fQY6
1
14
3
Follow
g.i.l.l.y
@gillyarcht
i do architecture. art. find beauty. activise. creator/founder: local radio radio.garden @gillyarcht@mastodon.social
g.i.l.l.y’s Tweets
We used to have Art Deco power plants
Quote Tweet
Art Deco styled control room of the now defunct Kelenföld power plant, built between 1927-1929. Budapest, Hungary.
1
2
3
Why did cloaks ever disappear from fashion? It’s literally a blanket that you tie around your neck. Like, 24/7 blanket access
44
66
347
1
Governors Island, 2011.
(At the time, I thought it was conceptual art, but now I’m not so sure.)
4
1
13
Trump had a Chinese bank account while President. Save your bullshit over a balloon.
629
2,857
15.5K
Gonna go on the Ted Talk circuit to talk about my electricity fast and how it connected me with my shtetl ancestors and the wisdom they proffered for the long apocalypse.
1
21
Show this thread
I had totally missed this, maybe someone sent me one, but who blow-dries their mail?
Quote Tweet
Thermochromic stamps issued by USPS commemorating the 2017 total eclipse of the Sun. The hair dryer warms the stamp, changing the black, to reveal the Moon. I bought two or three sheets when they came out, thought I'd used them all, but recently found an intact sheet.
Show this thread
0:17
530 views
2
2
8
I walked into this place in 1971 with my mouth agape, and it remained open the entire time I was in there
Quote Tweet
1
1
13
Sunday sky out the back window
2
7
Magdalena Abakanowicz in front of her monumental tapestry installation in the Bois le Duc room of the Provinciehuis van Noord Brabant in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Photograph by Jan Nordahl 1972
5
19
There are 24 Jewish members of the current US House of Representatives. Of those 24, 22 of them, or 91.6%, voted against stripping committee assignments from Ilhan Omar.
Tell me again how this is about what actual American Jews want.
77
404
1,944
🧵RECAP OF TODAY’S DEFENSE: Despite the freezing weather, people came out to delay anti-abortion harassers as they processed to the clinic!
We delayed them for 1 hour, and blocked them with umbrellas outside the clinic so folks could access healthcare without seeing weirdos :)
16
246
1,161
Show this thread
Trump lost the election because he was the shittiest most embarrassing excuse for a “President” in American history who tanked our economy, ruined our world standing, committed endless crimes, emboldened Nazis, and sabotaged our pandemic response killing over a million Americans.
761
3,661
18.3K
Show this thread
⬆️⬇️
Quote Tweet
...“limited self-steering capability”, the main characteristic of a balloon being of course that it can only go up or down…
Show this thread
1
1
I took a bit of time to dissect the “spy balloon” story - both how it is portrayed in the US and China’s response.
As you'll see, the more you think about it, the more stunned you get at the sheer absurdity of the whole thing.
A small 🧵
601
5,224
21.1K
Show this thread
Oakland hills, just hoovering up the rain
9
The Muppets should have taken more cities
3
285
1,093
the man literally shot down a balloon you cannot accuse him of not doing enough on inflation
71
2,528
21.9K
imagine shooting down the spy balloon and it explodes in a giant cloud of pink smoke and glitter and then you hear a family in the distance cheering
55
2,799
33.2K
To escalate, US could deploy thousands of Festo AirPenguins with censorship-free wifi extenders
Quote Tweet
BREAKING: Chinese balloon is part of a fleet of surveillance balloons that have spied over five continents, U.S. Defense official says - Reuters
Show this thread
1
2
8
What if China uses the balloons to see that we have horrible pedestrian infrastructure and uncontrolled sprawl
6
77
432
Show this thread
I’ve been shot
My battery is low and it’s getting dark
9
35
186
“I felt a breathlessness and began gulping for air,” she said. “No matter how hard I was breathing, I was not getting air. It felt as if I was holding my breath, but I wasn’t. It filled me with a primal fear, like drowning.”
Quote Tweet
The pork industry has argued that its gas chambers for hogs are "animal friendly" and "painless." Then an activist sneaked into a meat plant and at risk to herself installed spy cams in the gas chamber--and the videos are devastating. My column with video: nytimes.com/2023/02/04/opi
Show this thread
1
1
Every few years I save up and buy a seventeenth century book and today a tiny treasure has arrived
34
40
901
This will never NOT be true.
Quote Tweet
If Black kids are old enough to experience racism, white kids are old enough to read about it.
4
6
I want to take a break from unprecedented times
5
18
85
Meanwhile, if you’ve ever had to use the Heimlich maneuver on someone larger than yourself, you know the trick is to get close, and grab your fist tight, well under their ribcage, pull in deeply
Quote Tweet
Watch this amazing video. The water bottle cap gets lodged in his airway. He can’t breathe. His teacher saved his life.
This is why everyone needs to know the Heimlich Maneuver!
0:59
8.8M views
2
4
Sometimes I love the sheer absurdity of being a queer chaplain in a red state. My pronouns are prominent on my badge. The patient was lonely and an elder and of course a Fox news watcher. The patient wanted to talk about the Chinese spy balloon that would turn people gay.
28
16
456
One of my favourite finds in Edinburgh :)
2
21
158
WTF is going on in Luxembourg???
58
96
704
Show this thread
Not sure I'll ever complain about the cold again. Right now, the Mt. Washington Observatory in New Hampshire is the coldest spot on Earth with an air temperature of -45° and winds over 100 mph. That's an all time record low -106° wind chill for the US.
101
644
2,113
There’s some very basic to-do list in here, now how do we possibly get everyone to listen to those people who are concerned and thinking ahead, like , so they won’t be left saying ‘toldya’ afterwards…
Quote Tweet
Bird Flu & it’s #H5N1 strain is spreading, raising the risk that a new variant could spread to people. “This time, we have not just the warning, but also many of the tools we need to fend a pandemic off. We should not wait until it’s too late.”
By @zeynep
nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opi
1
2
Being in another country, the UK feels like a crumbling mess. Public transport here (I’m in Germany) is faultless: fantastic trains, constant buses, cycle lanes everywhere. It’s clean. Money invested into making life easy and pleasant. Makes such a difference.
1,778
3,546
32.6K
Still, it’s the only way anybody has found to repurpose glitter
Quote Tweet
Exactly the footwear I would NOT have imagined being worn in the 21st Century. #GernsbackContinuum
1
3
Pete Reed, a volunteer medic, was killed by shelling in Bakhmut, Ukraine yesterday while trying to evacuate civilians. One of the most selfless people I've ever met. Rest in peace, brother.
396
2,538
14.3K
I think the point of all this is to keep everyone distracted from climate change by constant war, until about 2030 when it's very obviously too late.
42
94
825
So you guys were all dissing us Jews for having secret space lasers, but with Chinese spy balloons floating around, who ya gonna call?
94
334
2,439