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Saint Paul - Urbanism and climate

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Big storm last night

Front on picture of a small apartment building with two trees in front of it. One of the trees is leaning back against the front of the building with its roots pulling up

Side view of the same tree as the previous picture. The tree is leaning at a 60 degree angle, over the sidewalk.

A tree just past its sappling phase completely folded over from the storm, with nothing obviously on it.

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's always looked this way, right?

Map of north America with Minnesota as part of Canada

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Friday was a good night to be at a cabin up north

Green northern lights in the sky, with silhouetted trees and a cabin lining the horizon. Orange light is shining through the cabin windows.

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Looking down Selby this morning

High contrast photo of a dark street under an orange sky, with the hazy silhouette of the cathedral looming in the distance

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

While poking around at the Saint Paul city survey map (as one does) I noticed an oddity around Lake Phalen, the golf course has a grid of city owned right-of-way covering it. Was this a relic of a plan that never came to be? A former neighborhood demolished by urban renewal? I sure couldn't say.

City surveyor's office map of east st. paul around lake phalen, with the public owned right-of-way highlighted. An urban grid of right-of-way covers phalen golf course.

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Snowy snowy Dome

Picture of the cathedral in Saint Paul somewhat whited out by snow

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Snowy Minnesota flag

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My bet is on pond fish

Store advertisement sign which says "NIAGARA AQUARIUM. GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS. JUST KIDDING - POND FISH"

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It's worse than that. ChatGPT automatically assumes men are older than women (due to age disparities in online representation), associates older people as more qualified (due to more senior titles in online representation), and entangles all three factors. Unsurprising but awful.

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Last two planes trying to pull in to MSP ahead of the storm thought better of it at the last second

Flight path of a delta airlines flight which descended on approach almost to the runway threshold before deciding to go around. A second plane that abandoned their approach is also in frame.

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If you live in this area you have an election tomorrow! I'm very excited that Peter Wagenius is running to represent Senate District 60. He's been an impressive driving force for Sierra Club's work at the capital and really understands the connections between climate, land use, and transportation.

Senate District 60 map - North East Minneapolis

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

You can use "sea level rise" simulators to get a rough idea of what 10ft of storm surge in Tampa looks like and it's real bad folks coast.noaa.gov/slr/

Neighborhood north of St Petersburg FL under water 3 miles inland

A ring of flooded neighborhoods around Hilsborough Bay, with significant flooding on the east edge of Old Tampa Bay

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Special delivery across the street

Looking out the window at a tree lined street. There are cones blocking off half the street. A crane arm towers over the trees twice their height. It has lifted a medium size cardboard box into the air.

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Convenient timing to be in North Dakota 5 miles from Canada

Greenish northern lights above a flat,black horizon with an airplane's contrail cutting through it

Streams of greenish northern lights flowing together in a triangle-ish pattern

Parallel vertical streams of pale green northern lights with a telephone pole in front of it

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

It's a little surprising that it's on such a steep slope but not like in a ravine. The amount of broken plates and bottles makes me think it's human garbage and not from an eagle or something, no sign of a good perch above. And it's a really big pile.

The pile is a little ways up a steep slope

Looking uphill at the midden, lots of broken plate and bones and shellfish shells

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

I came across a decent size midden on the hillside behind the Villas of Lilydale Senior Apartments along the Big Rivers Trail but I'm having a hard time imagining why it would be there specifically

An old pile of broken bones, plates, shells, and sticks

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Somehow it seems right that for North America the furthest point from any ocean is basically Wall, SD, based on my totally professional google maps exploring

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

What really was surprising though was to see that this neighborhood was already mostly empty lots back in 1999, 10 years before the crash. It's the same for other neighborhoods in this donut around downtown too.

Black and white screenshot of Core City, Detroit from 1999. Each block is about half empty lots

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

This is a neighborhood labeled as "core city", it's just a mile and a half from the center of downtown.

A map of "Core City" Detroit, the majority of most blocks are empty lots

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Zack @kcazllerraf.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Related: Queens of the Stone Age!

Photo from a Queens of the Stone age concert at the armory

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