this post is a fucking journey

2003: first american apparel retail stores open 2005: adderal xr approved for adolescents 12-17 2008: night ripper released

one neat architecture trick is that if you want to invent something that already exists but are really only interested in it as an abstract formal exercise you can just say it’s for refugees

We talk about how social media effects teens but I was looking at some resistance posters account today and thinking how much it must break your brain to be in your 70s and suddenly have 20k followers

faregate implementation at south station continues to be a nightmare although the technical issues are getting better. the problem is architectural—they just rebuilt the entire concourse without planning for faregates and the circulation just doesn’t work.

In general the story that gets told is one of the Frankfurt kitchen influencing American homes, which fits a general desire to see architectural influence flow from high to low ,but Schütte-Lihotzky was explicitly inspired by American domestic scientist Christine Frederick.

It has become fashionable to hate on the open concept kitchen but it is worth pointing out that the compact, enclosed, “fitted“ kitchens that it replaced were themselves an ideological project with somewhat sinister implications.

@mrbeast do a truman show u coward

i didnt expect this to become a thing i keep posting about but if I see one more of these charts that starts in 1995 i am going to become the joker

with all due respect to the guardian I don’t think there is a novel yet written that has a number of twists and turns that can compare with this yelp review of a motor inn by my house

fuck that gimme your top 10 academic nonfiction:

I can’t prove it but Im almost certain that these floral languages were completely invented by publishers and no one used them in real life.

a lot of people who see themselves as "art knowers" fall into the trap of thinking that art either is or should be a meritocracy–that paintings that sell for a lot of money, or are prominently featured in textbooks and museums should be of innately higher "quality."

just got a shuffle hoe for the first time and it is genuinely game changing

Maybe I have it! There used to be an underground comfort station on Weybosset, right in front of PPAC, which according to a NRHP listing was built in 1913.

Ok, here’s a question for any Rhode Island history buffs: the state currently offers a Class L liquor license, seemingly added in 1980, which is reserved exclusively for “ancient underground comfort stations” that had been operating since 1913. Anyone know the story?

the problem isn’t just that the accounting is fuzzy, which it is, it’s that “economic impact” isn’t a real thing. it’s a term that exist purely for this kind of analysis—there’s no preexisting baseline that new projects are adding to.

Something I’ve always felt-and which this essay gets at is that some architectural writing is bad because many architects are bad writers, their education does not train them to write well, and there are no professional penalties for being bad at writing. However…

economic impact analysis isn’t a real thing pass it on

It’s me, the heroic, productive developer. I’m watching expected rents plummet, by 20%, 40%, 80%! Still, I don’t stop building. The landlords, my natural enemies, cry out for mercy but my heart is hard. I’ll never stop building, not ever.

Dr. & Mrs. NJ are the people who keep the Serious Ceramics Studio or the Museum of a Particular Woodworking Guy afloat in the kind of midsize town that has suspiciously good sandwiches and coffee. They have enough money to do this, but (crucially) not enough to be on a big museum board.

I think part of it is that these jewelry makers are often coming from a "studio craft" background, rather than fashion or fine art, and jewelry is one of the only studio crafts where the margins/price point work in a general retail environment, so people interact with it more.

I’ve met adult Americans who thought the dollar value of government services they receive should correspond exactly to what they personally pay in taxes. importantly, they didnt identify as hardcore libertarians, they just assumed that was supposed to be the deal.

Reddit remains, if nothing else the great stronghold of confidently incorrect answers

Do not let yourself be seduced by these reprobates.

attempts to explain declining american birth rates often focus on one generations worth of change, and can miss how long this trend has been going on. i think people should at least consider that the big story isnt reagan, isnt 2nd wave feminism, isnt cell phones, its baumols cost disease

either this woman at the bar is giving an oscar-worthy job of faking interest or this guy at the bar is outpunching his weight class to a level they should teach in history books.

There is an epidemic of men bravely admitting they were “wrong about trump” who would commit hari kari before acknowledging that there were approximately 500,000 non-binary college sophomores with purple hair and septum piercings who were right about the exact thing they were wrong about.

A propo of nothing but the Mt Cuba trial garden reports are the best public horticulture research out there right now and I’d love to see every land grant extension office start cranking out something similar

I really don’t understand the subset of people on this site saying, “yes, data centers are bad but blocking them opens pandoras box to blocking things like wind farms or infill housing.” We’re doing that already! Pandora’s box has literally never been closed!

Just turned a corner in the Stop and Shop, saw this guy, screamed, and dropped an entire gallon of milk on the floor.

This is an editorial cliche that annoys me to no end: curating articles around a "concept" (actually just a word), soliciting a range of submissions too diverse to speak to each other in any meaningful way other than that they shoehorned the secret password into their abstract.

RON HARPER JR START???

just browsing etsy, catching up on the latest releases from the google deepmind botanic garden.

the pandemic-era market for “rare” houseplants has crashed, partly due to the advent of low-investment home tissue culture setups. some plant collectors bemoan the tissue culture aspect of things but I honestly think this is a tale as old as time.

the key for understanding this guy is that, while I’m sure he does want to live forever, he also REALLY wants to be a youtuber

I’m still very much enjoying myself but this might be the worst book ever written

I remember october 2001 when my high school bought a new, much larger and american flag that was too heavy and just kind of flopped listlessly until they went back to the old size a year later

NYT says Epstein referred to the built structure as a “mosque,” but that the architecture was specifically modeled after the Yalbugah hammam.

understanding the thinking of people who voted for trump and no longer support him is important because we would like there to be a lot more people like that, but I also don’t think any of those people are particularly credible sources for understanding their own thought processes

People joke about Japanese transliterations of English words but the French turning “bowling green” into “boulingrin” tops them all I think

it is very funny that they got an assassination attempt by a clearly lib coded perpetrator and the thing they all decided to try and manufacture consent for was the ballroom

future admins should explore the possibility of converting the ballroom into an aquarium

It’s funny how many responses to this are like, a drug and alcohol free cafe space with lots of board games and comfy pillows and movie nights… which is great, but that’s called your bedroom. you’re describing your bedroom.

there’s an interesting parallel between how victorian fern-hunting was understood as a “safe“ activity for young women to engage in, potentially in mixed company, and how 1970s fern bars like TGI Fridays positioned themselves as “safe” place for single women to go out in mixed company

what‘s interesting about this to me is how it reimagines the relationship between work and ”passion”— how can your work be connected to what you are passionate about without “your work being your passion”

jimmy goldstein is uhh… not looking great these days?

jeff green playing playoff minutes in the year of our lord 2026