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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 12h

You have approximately $4M worth of gadgets and highly-compensated labor. Can you find the village idiot hiding in the cornfield?

Excerpt from BMTN article reads: "“The driver, later identified as 52-year-old Steve Oachs, of Watertown, allegedly gave the deputy a false name before fleeing on foot through a cornfield.
Oachs then came out of the field and was picked up by a friend in a vehicle that was stopped by police a short time later.
During the second traffic stop, Oachs once again fled on foot into a cornfield.
Despite police setting up a perimeter, using drones and the Minnesota State Patrol helicopter to assist, Oachs was not found.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wait. This guy had made *multiple* AI videos about the MPS transformation…and we’re…cheering him on?

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the kind of creative thinking that's going to keep neighborhood storefronts from going dark...

Excerpt from BMTN article reads: "At the time, owner Franz Gilbertson told Southwest Voices that he isn't planning to close anytime soon, but is ready to be done.
“It could be a dildo store, it could be a coffee shop,” he said of the space's potential."

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The correct voice to use when reading this…

Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons with a speech bubble and the quote: “Interrupt the reciprocal visual relationship between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, you *urge* them! This stupid letter is already in their circular file. lololol

Excerpt from AN article reads: “The letter reads in part: "AIA urges the Council to advise the Secretary of the Interior that the proposed
250-foot triumphal arch must not proceed at Memorial Circle."

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

UK architects finally have to do continuing education and I was surprised this many fucked it up during the first audit lol

Excerpt from BD Online article reads: “The ARB removed hundreds of architects from the register during the first year of its new mandatory CPD system, according to the regulator's new report.
Last year was the first full year that registered architects were required to comply with ARB's mandatory CPD scheme, which was introduced to improve competence in the profession following the Grenfell Tower fire.
The regulator estimated that more than 85% complied with the new statutory requirement with 270 removed from the register for non-compliance.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Holy shit MM is taking a VP role at AIA National. Sad news for MN, but National now has a real one working for them.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A hand holding a cane emerges from under Wright's cloak to point at the Eames desk & Louis Ghost chair. Two young assistants pick up the furniture & leave the house. The discarded furniture is later seen floating several yards out from the shoreline of Cedar Lake.

Photo of a bedroom inside FLLW's Neils House (Minneapolis, 1951) shows the aforementioned furniture placed against a stone wall opposite a twin bed.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these best-of lists for cities in the us frequently reveal a tacit objection to places w/ reputations for harsh winters, but not for places that have no reproductive or trans rights -- cute little town, if you have a miscarriage or walk into the "wrong" restroom you're going to jail, but so cute! 🥰

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Autodesk “tokenwalls” are just begging to be billed direct to the client, & w/ the expansion to API data, begging to be billed directly to the party req’ing the external data. Which A/E firms out there will have the guts to do it though? Autodesk’s got its feeble user base firmly under its spell.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cool chart! A veritable who's who of teetering retail concepts and questionable real estate deals. lol

An Axis bar chart showing what retailers used to operated in spaces taken over by Spirit Halloween. Text breakdown is as follows:

Spirit Halloween stores: What they used to be
Most common previous tenant in retail space housing a Spirit Halloween store this season.
Nationally
Joann
Big Lots
Party City
Rite Aid
Sears
Tuesday Morning
Bed Bath & Beyond
CVS
American Freight
Value City Furniture
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26
25
25
22
22
103
100
88
153
Twin Cities metro area
Joann
Party City
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Data: Axios analysis of Spirit Halloween store locator; Chart: Brad Jennings/Axios

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

had to drive way out into the fuckin slurbs this morning, plenty of stopping in traffic and at lights, and damn there are a lot of cars out there w/ expired tabs, like anecdotally 15-20%

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

should probably do this research w/ the e-bikes that have integrated tech and/or companion apps too

The Verge headline reads: “Your car's data privacy problems are worse than you think
A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party domain. And over half were pinging advertising companies.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look. All I’m saying is that $33M of Minneapolis taxpayers’ money is buying multiple Dodge Durango SRT Hellcats and Doughboy above ground pools for Anoka and Ramsey households. We should maybe think about reining this in. And maybe that shouldn’t be controversial.

Excerpt from Strib article reads: “ “Peterson and eight other MPD leaders were closely questioned Monday about spending and overtime by the Minneapolis City Council during a budget meeting.
“The number, the dollar value, is very high and I would say, inexcusable,” Assistant Chief of Operations Mark Klukow said when asked how the department spent $33 million in overtime last year, blowing its budget of $6 million.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The fridge interior decorator video reminds me of how much of my time has been spent designing the interiors of commercial coolers and freezers — actually critical for planning great commercial kitchens — but still very lol-able work…lol

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2026: A retired hillbilly gym teacher & football coach expresses bigotry against furries working in commercial aviation. 2259:

Starfleet member Shiboline M'Ress aboard the Federation Starship USS Enterprise.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That Pepsi commercial that shows USB Stadium with an enormous parking lot in front of it filled with tailgaters is a spectacular work of car fan fiction.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

well, mps just dropped new info on their transformation page and a video to go with it explaining why they proposed what they proposed will be interesting to see if these updates get discussed/amplified at anywhere near the level they were from the original announcement

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

fwiw the post about slow escalator speeds in the usa shows the wrong speed (slower than max allowed) & also fails to lend context -- for 26 years it's been at this rate in an attempt to balance the safety of universal design for all w/ efficiency, something in which the usa leads the world

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plants and art are a wonderful way to make sure your SUV doesn’t feel lonely or unwelcome! And air conditioning to keep your truck in the comfort range all day! 🥰

Photo of a garage interior with a polished concrete floor, painted exposed trusses and shiplap walls adorned with artwork and wall units filled with potted plants. An SUV is parked amongst the decor.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

no shortage of simps on websites like this who would side w/ donny on this, if it was any other bldg and any other client. what will they say now 🍿 😂

Excerpt from WaPo article reads: “James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Quartz is the corniest bullshit material ever, and it kills fabricators. I constantly talk clients out of it and it awesome to see it finally get examined by the big news orgs -- especially overpriced and overrated Cambria and their Trump-supporting POS CEO.

Excerpt from Bloomberg article reads: “ “The litigation poses an existential threat to the artificial stone industry, especially for Cambria, which only makes artificial quartz slabs. “The enormous resources required to defend against these lawsuits, coupled with the potential risk of nuclear verdicts, place an enormous burden on us,” Shult told lawmakers. “The legal fees for just one trial can be millions of dollars, and we are currently defending against 400 of them.” (It’s now over 600, with more in the works, according to attorney James Nevin, whose firm represents many of the plaintiffs.) Juries have ruled against Cambria in two of the three cases that have reached verdicts, including Jordan’s, in which the manufacturer owes about $7.7 million to Jordan and his wife. The company has settled several others on undisclosed terms.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothing like getting together with other Master Specifiers at a beautiful destination to do some master specifying together.

A banner ad for CSI's retreat reads: "MSR Master Specifiers Retreat 2027 Winter MSR February 17-19"

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Went to 40th anniversary Transformers movie re-release & funniest part I didn’t remember was Bumblebee & human dad, Spike, after a bomb fails to destroy Unicron. Bumblebee: “Didn’t even dent him!” Spike: “Shit!” Right in middle of cartoon PG movie for 8yr olds — lmao Accurate for a 1986 dad too.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Vikings in that week 2 playoff picture 💪

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everything that makes my ice cream spot in Minneapolis charming is illegal in most of the US: - zero parking - no setbacks - mixed use - single-stair buildings - a piazza width most fire departments wouldn’t allow I think it should be legal to eat ice cream on a piazza in any US city, by right.

A photo of the charming piazza of Sonny’s Ice Cream taken on a summer evening following a rain storm, with the wet surfaces glistening under the lights.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🎶 “I see salmon and powder blue and I want them painted beige. No colors anymore, I want them to turn beige.” 🎶

AN headline reads: “Google shares new Thompson Center renderings for Chicago flagship”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

he seems very certain, maybe all their funding should be donation-based

Excerpt from Strib article reads: “Kevin Rofidal, spokesman for the Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police, said supporters of the mounted patrol were told not to solicit donations because the council was unlikely to approve the gift.
Council approval is required under statute for all monetary endowments.
"It's unfortunate," Rofidal said of the unit's recent disbandment. "It's also unfortunate that they weren't even given a chance to go raise money because I know when it comes to animals - whether it's police dogs or horses - I think the public would be behind this ... and they weren't even given that chance."”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bizzaro Opta: “18th place Tottenham’s leading goal scorer in all competitions, Connor Gallagher, has scored more goals than all but one player in 1st place Arsenal’s squad. Crisis.”

Photo of Mikel Arteta on the touch line looking down with hand over face in disappointment.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Podcast where each episode they interview a person about why they left the stickers on their appliances and/or electronics.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is the rendering style you use when you’re in love (with clients’ wives) 🥰

FLLW’s Winslow House as rendered for Ausgeführte Bayern und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. A period in which his obsession with Japanese woodblock prints was on full display in the renderings produced by his studio. Shout out to Marion Mahoney!

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

when it goes from a matter of pubic interest to a matter of public interest

Strib headline reads: “Judge throws out former Viking Matt Kalil's lawsuit over ex-wife Haley Kalil's sex life remarks
A judge said the comments were made in the context of subjects that are a matter of public interest.” I’ve highlighted “are a matter of public interest.”

Excerpt from Strib article reads: “The conversation veered toward the couple's divorce, to which Haley said sexual intercourse was virtually impossible and that her husband fell into ".01 percent of the population" that would leave her "in tears." At one point, she compared his anatomy to "two Coke cans, maybe even a third."”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Noise on Bde Maka Ska Pkwy could be resolved by the city closing it to motor vehicles. A ban on audible doorbell cameras could be enforced by a firmware update that uses location to disable the feature. Wouldn’t hold my breath on either of those happening though. www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

minnpost.com

SHHH! From motion sensors to car engines, Minneapolis noise pollution can be hard to ignore and harder to stop

As if leaf blowers weren’t enough, the Minneapolis City Council is set to vote this week on the perpetual noise of doorway motion sensors.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

RE: MPS Transformation Stated purpose is equitable outcomes. Undertones of reality are need for cost reductions. *No one* (MPS, MFE, media, you, etc.) can explain clearly how we get to the goal stated in the purpose or how bad the finances are that req the cost reductions so we know how much.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i have a few of these that came included w/ hardware (can’t remember which) back in the day???

Excerpt from Stuff article reads: “ But the company is now fighting against such horrors, because a product’s price has been sliced in half (more, in fact), while the product itself has not. The new Apple Polishing Cloth costs just $9/£9 – less than half the price of its predecessor. And if”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

do rapids have a groundskeeper…or are they just letting their pitch go au naturel

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

watching sang bin go on after getting pulled down by a keeper and score a massive goal in the usoc semifinal — i want that for mnufc 😢

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