Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
We got some guys
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We got some guys
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Seems bad, idk
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Hey they're based in Cleveland (all roads lead back to Cleveland)
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If i had a time machine
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Huh
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I'm just amazed it took this long
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Lol
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Wanna bet control gets divided between oligarchs?
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I really want to go but every show I'm interested in this summer has been when i have the kids. Lame!
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We're back, bb!
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Damn, i wasn't familiar with you Michigamme
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Inshallah
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Big FRP and Big GRFC need stopped!
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Pop Blursed America
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I've also seen developers get completely eff'd because of construction delays
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Massively! I have been a part of projects were Budget problems have been fixed by finding ways to shave time off of the construction schedule, which saves the owner $ on carried interest on the construction loan, which then reduces the note they carry after stabilizing the property and onward
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Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
Oh crap, they're trying to ban a style that has been out of vogue for 45 years! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
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If you're cold, they're cold!
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After a mass shooting in Minneapolis killed two children and injured at least 17 other people, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve criticized the inaction to reduce gun violence. "It’s such an indictment of our society, our lack of regard for life."
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Atelier MAGA is hiring! Weeee! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Idk man, Walk This Way had some impact. Would we have Fred Durst without it?
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She could do the funniest thing
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That was what i referenced!
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Made an uncle kracker reference at bocce and no one caught it. Sad!
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Its neat that we're now clearing the undesirables out of our national capital like we're some kind of bizarro central asian autocracy (my apologies to the fine people of Turkmenistan)
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The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.
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Sad!
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That's a bad at work for a dog
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This is what i think about while eating dinner in my empty house after putting in 12 hours at the office and before i fire up the electric revit machine to put in a few hours before getting up at 5am and doing it again tomorrow.
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They project to be a plurality around 2175.
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I don't think people are talking enough about how that if current growth rates are maintained, the Amish will be the majority of the USA populace around roughly 2200.
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Rust truly never sleeps.
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I spent a ton of time this winter doing field work for a facility assessment of r̶e̶d̶a̶c̶t̶e̶d̶ (major sportsball stadium). I suspect a huge amount of the push is that enclosed stadium that's not exposed to the weather is not going to cost nearly as much in literally neverending maintenance.
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Dude's Rock
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Swag so hard
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The Dems are cooked as long as these two are treated with anything more than "that's a great story, Grandpa!" level of seriousness
David Roberts (@volts.wtf) reposted
🧵 In the last decade, reactionary centrists convinced the US billionaire class that young people -- students, political staffers, their own employees -- have gotten unacceptably uppity & woke. The entire billionaire class, including purported Democrats, eagerly accepted this story.
Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
Incredible
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rest in piss, Hulk.
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Civil engineers don't do anything within 5 feet of the building
Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
Poorly written ariel castro joke aside You may not believe i cursed the browns in 1989, at the age of 5, after beating the Steelers 51-0 — but if you look at the history of this team since YOU CANNOT PROVE I DIDN'T
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I love this place!
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All of this is allegedly. I've just heard rumors such things happen. The company i keep would never do this.
Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
If you're an engineer, and in particular a civil engineer, you should be aware the architect has a group chat with their other architect friends where they vent about how frustrating you are to work with. You're the only discipline where this consistently happens. Ftr, I'm not the one venting!
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Palazzo della banca delle chiavi
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Its kinda bullshit that an American can no longer come home from work on a summer day and know you can flip on the TV and have roughly five different baseball games to pick from (and always your local team) without subscribing to a closed garden streaming service.
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The devil is in the metadata - Mies van der Rohe
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Maybe the client list is the friends we made along the way
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Not sure about takeaways here but people with retina problems definitely have other significant health issues. I will not be reflecting on what this means for me.
Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
In the waiting room for my one month follow up at the retina specialist. To get a sense of the vibe, there are other three people here with walkers, two people with canes, one person on an oxygen tank, and now a guy in a wheelchair just rolled in. I'm probably the youngest person here by 25 years
Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
Been really getting into buildings lately
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That’s the curse — once you see the trick, you can’t unsee it.
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He probably expressed empathy or something
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The 10% alcohol is, uh, interesting
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This is how fake news thrives
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I feel seen
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Which leads to questioning if you should be questioning yourself and then
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A neat thing about ADHD is that no matter what you're doing, you're choosing to do the wrong thing at the wrong time due to poor executive function
Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
A guy who calls it a Horizontal Assembly instead of a floor.
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Manifesting success!
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God is in the details!
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Might pivot to become the 4th best air bnb house flipper in Utica
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He's the Nick Castellanos of family vacations
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And eat some reindeer if you're a meat eater
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My Helsinki advice is to see as much alvaro aalto architecture as you can. The Kiasma Art Museum designed by American architect Steven Holl is also wonderful (if you're a person deeply affected by the play of light and shadow on physical space)
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I took a ferry each way across a frozen gulf of finland in **checks notes** 2005. It was cool as hell! Tallinn is a super neat city.
Sad Dad Urbanist (@theeferringer.bsky.social)
Tired: discourse regarding how building codes, namely double stair egress and allowing Type V wood construction up to five stories, have shaped the 21st-century american built environment Wired: discourse regarding how the Davis-Bacon Act has shaped the American built environment since 1931.
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**james Murphy voice** I WAS THERE www.vice.com/en/article/c...
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this 4th of July is a great time to reflect that a year ago we had an elderly president slipping into senility surrounded by people focused on keeping the neo-liberal status quo in place. This year we still have an elderly president slipping into senility, but now his advisors are fash.
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Women's Euros are on, for those that celebrate
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Trump Vs Musk, please?
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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[NYT, 17-writer byline] Zohran Mamdani Once Laughed at a Joke Mocking the Confederacy According to leaked documents from an anonymous Stormfront contributor,
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Cleveland contains mysteries unknown to mankind: shipgoo001 www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...
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It should be noted that Chris Farley OD'd a few weeks after this episode. Its really hard to find anything online from it but for the Bosstones performance.
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11/addendum #2: You didn't ask for it, but here's a hastily generated visual timeline
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I'm just glad my doom scrolling until 1am on IG last night resulted in me seeing a reel using a video clip from Silver Springs from the live performance of The Dance, which made me think "fucking hell, I forgot how much that live album slaps. Also, could anything be more peak boomer?" wasn't a waste
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10/addendum #1: A friend also pointed this out to me: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones seminal performance of The Impression That I Get on SNL (hosted by Chris Farley!!!) happened two minths later, on October 25th.
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9/ Its August 19, 1997. A beautiful summer day. You return to school soon. Your parents are listening to their new Fleetwood Mac CD, driving home from Camelot Music at the mall. You're thinking maybe some of your parents music isn't so lame after all (not that you'd tell them). Life Is Good.
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8/ Anyway, this is it. The date of death for the American century, our short lived "post-history" American and western cultural, economic, and political hegemony writ large.
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7/ This is THE moment before Columbine, before Bush v. Gore, before 9/11. I could go on. Yet our current future was silently in motion. But on August 19, 1997, there was no reason to believe anything would change anytime soon. The past was done, the present was profitable, the future frictionless.
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6/ The Dance is not just the return of a Boomer rock band (which also set the monetization model of bands "returning") It’s the moment (in retrospect) when the cultural triumph of the postwar Western arc of peace, profit, and (pop) music hit its peak. The apex of the American Project.
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5/ In the next 18 months: – Clinton impeached – Bulls "Last Dance" ends in a final championship – Columbine – Kosovo bombed – Dot-coms start collapsing – Al-Qaeda bombs U.S. embassies – Woodstock ‘99 devolves into fire and sexual violence on pay-per-view
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4/ But also - within days to weeks later – The Kosovo insurgency was escalating – The KLA was arming – Bin Laden declares war on the U.S. – Linda Tripp was taping Lewinsky – The Bulls were starting their Last Damce – Dot-com stocks were priced like dreams Cracks start forming immediately