elianna of southwest alliance for equity describes politcians who want to alleviate suffering, who want to cause suffering, and those who are indifferent. says some minneapolis city council members may be latter, not doing enough to help, urges them to talk to colleagues & constituents who do more

picturing a roomba bouncing off this as it goes about its vacuuming chores each day

thomas jefferson popping ale bottles off a fence with a flintlock pistol in between shooting speedballs, this is originalism

The Jacket™️ was spotted at Allianz Field this afternoon.

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on top of everything else in this friggin’ world, duckbldg you were the best at this genre of website, honored to be a mutual, best of luck in life and everything, we’ll miss ya

One can just see that while need is growing and funding is shrinking, we’re headed towards a mutual aid mess next month and I. Am. Freaking. Out.

Current state of affairs in Southwest Minneapolis: students are too scared to wait at bus stops and parents need help getting their kids to school. (This reflects crowdsourced data that show many ICE observations at bus stops)

A challenge for ppl in MPLS who are returning to work after being in hiding is covering the cost of before &/or after school daycare. The Kenwood PTA fund helps them do this in addition to helping w/ rent & groceries. Please donate if you can! Need is growing faster than funds! gofund.me/0e1d324cb

The need for groceries & money for rent & utilities has actually *increased* in February for families at Kenwood School as the surge & supposed drawdown drag on. We need your help to keep families fed & housed as we approach March. Please donate if you are able to do so! gofund.me/31dac2905

Way back in 1992 Destro warned you about what was coming and you didn’t listen.

zoning is the devil until you need it koch bros are the devil until you need them the life of a yimby bro has many asterisks, these men are more complicated than they look

I mean, you should’ve done housing instead of parking while Northstar was in service and then maybe it would *still be in service* — an apartment in between a walkable downtown riverfront and a commuter rail station was…right there!

Hat tip to Arsenal. They took a big step forward today on the path to that dream 2nd place finish! 👏

Declan Rice scores for Spurs!! COYS!

no it doesn’t

So is ArchiPAC gonna ask Hakeem Jeffries for its money back now that we know he’s in the Epstein Creep Club?

Kind of interesting that Harbinger Production/Factory_OS is going under because US has trouble competing on manufacturing, where Katerra was more about not understanding proj delivery. One of these days someone will bring the entire req’d skillset to the table…or not. Wouldn’t hold my breath on it.

Bruh. Anthony? That’s Kelvin’s uncle who retired from football in the ‘90s. Not feeling great about the StarTribune’s new MNUFC reporter, who came from the Twins beat and is bringing all that negativity with him in his 1st depressing article.

Chagos Archipelago resettlement effort needs to be a reality show lmao

Charlie Munger’s dream lives on!

Just had to stand and applaud this one. Dude hires his friend for a fake position and takes kickbacks off the friend’s salary. It all gets discovered as a part of the employer, Optum’s, fraud investigation work for the MN government lmao

developer included this floor plan in a presentation of their ai schematic design tool. i think they thought it was good.

benewah dairy milk bottle #1, cedar street, spokane, washington, 1980

So you’ve got all the cost of bringing a fire suppression line to the bldg, a riser, trunk line, branch lines through the *single* stair well, an FDC panel et. al. but are supposed to realize some massive savings by not branching to the units and hallways c’mon Illinois, that’s just vibe legislating

has anyone studied the spatial efficiencies of unisex, multiocc restrooms providing req’d fixture counts in a single space relative to their separated counterparts because it would be a funny way to passively push back on all this bigoted trans bathroom ban nonsense truthout.org/articles/sta...

for me, jogging this border pattern too soon w/out maintaining the width of the white tile buffer between it and the wall it is a far, far worse error

explained to someone that the blue checks on here can sometimes be crazy ignorant or whatever using the recent example of the one who said we could be spending the ice warehouse remodel moolah on making them into housing instead -- we're inventing new ways for blue checks to be dangerous over here

Not sure what to make of the cosmic coincidence of losing Jackson on the 6th anniversary of Andrew Weatherall’s passing, but to invoke the old Irish phrase that Weatherall returned to the zeitgeist: “Fail we may, sail we must”

window slop sims-ass house

ARCHSTD.SHX spotted in the East Wing presentation drawings lolololol

Contrast this ⬇️ With this: bsky.app/profile/jcha... On the day of the "Mission Accomplished" announcement, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social is off centering himself on national media, while actual leaders (@jchavezmpls.bsky.social @elliottpayne.org @doronclark.bsky.social) are still here defending us.

still looking for those photos of amy klobuchar on the streets standing up to ICE like we saw from jason chavez and elliott payne and doron clark, to name just a handful of electeds who are out here protecting people

Wild that AIA MN members get harmed by the federal government, who has invaded our state and AIA National has nothing to say. Wilder still that members active in National only say stuff on social media, rather than via National.

The contrast between these 2 newsletters is nuts. On the left is AIA MN, focused on the only news that matters; & the right is AIA National avoiding talking about that same news. Everyone at AIA National, including the volunteers on every cmte (esp mf'ing ArchiPAC), should be ashamed of themselves.

a visual metaphor for chicago’s toilet paper scene

keep a glossy wallet size of this on me at all times so that i can take it out to look at and feel better whenever stress is getting to me

With Puerto Rico in the discourse, I will remind US architects that a national pricing book is used by our friends in PR and it really is a great (if not perfect) system to work under compared to our race-to-the-bottom fee idiocy here.

when will national media figure out where this building is actually located

Today in actual words thrown together: "Red Lobster teams up with Vaseline for a kissing booth in New York City"

Having concluded my 1st yr on this site, here are my observations: •Bizarre that ArchiTwitter has made peace w/ YIMBY bro accts here wtf, assuming blackmail •Lots of Stancilposting, unhealthy •Ppl saying “we don’t do this/that here” L.M.A.O. 🖕 •Too much mindless reskeeting! Be more selective ffs!

ring commercial reminded me of this

“We are in a small community outside Minneapolis”

Impossible to express how pissed I am at the cowardice of the architects inside AIA w/ all the influence to make a stand just staying silent right now. There are grannys from deep red twin cities exurbs doing work on the ground here w/ more balls than all of you combined. Shameful.

There are architects & AEC professionals on here w/ huge followings that don’t say shit about our trade org, AIA’s silence on DHS violence. Do something w/ your audience to show our profession doesn’t want AIA complicit in bankrolling politicians who enable all this. Where are you???

The ArchiPAC Cmte dismantling it all & resigning, signaling that AIA mbrs won’t bankroll congresspeople for enabling the govt violence & murder in MPLS is such an easy decision relative to the decisions we make in this city each day under occupation. It’s past time to #DefundArchiPAC so get it done.

Infuriating that @aiaofficial.bsky.social's ArchiPAC has given this coward $10K over the last 2 years alone. All 10 members of the ArchiPAC Committee are supporting the status quo of daily terror in Minneapolis by bankrolling status quo cowards like Jeffries who enable this violence. Shameful.

RIP to a real one.