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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 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

There will be no interrupting of reciprocal visual relationships OR overwhelming of calibrated horizontal character on these dorks’ watch! 😤

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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 cramming their learning units in during Christmas vacation, they’re just like us! ☺️

Excerpt from BD Online article reads: “The report also found the number of CPD activities undertaken by architects fell below standards expected, with a median number of four against a recommended number of eight.
It admitted there was "significant variation" in the quality of recorded reflection, the process by which architects summarise how their learning affected practice.
The ARB said the CPD reflection remained a "year-end compliance exercise" rather than a core part of professional development, adding that compliance data alone "cannot demonstrate whether CPD is producing
better professional outcomesồẠạ”

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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

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

bi's list came out today and has carmel, in on it, which means i'm once again reminding everyone that it's actually called karen, indiana -- but yes, so cute with all the fake old fashioned architecture and what not! 🥰

Current headline reads: "Carmel to sue Minneapolis for security costs"

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

also many of the smaller cities and towns are giving

Photo of a washing machine's settings with the dial set to "Whitest Whites"

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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
31
26
25
25
22
22
103
100
88
153
Twin Cities metro area
Joann
Party City
2
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

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

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 · 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 · 24/09/2026

okay, but at least one of these is just the packaging from women’s hosiery

1971 Magazine advertisement for L’eggs hosiery showing their plastic egg packaging…and of course, a women’s legs.

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

also gonna make a submittal review stamp that looks like this

Photo of stairs on a floor plan with “OK!” written in black Sharpie over it. The WaPo caption reads: “SOUTH STAIR
Trump appears to sign off on a preliminary design for the south staircase leading to the planned East Wing ballroom in mid-2025. (Obtained by The Washington Post)”

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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

Look at this bullshit lmao YOU’RE COOKED MFers!

Excerpt from Bloomberg article reads: “ “Cambria has urged jurors to see its product not as a threat to workers’ safety but as a boon for the health of their children. “We all cut chicken on our countertops, and we all have kids who eat off the countertops sometimes,” company attorney Lindsay Weiss said during a 2024 trial. Because Cambria’s product is less porous, she argued, it’s more hygienic: “It’s safer for us.””

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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 · 19/09/2026

This urbanism copypasta brought to you by:

An unbans skeet showing a narrow ancient street filled with bistros in Spain reads as follows:

“Michael Schneider
@michaelschneider.com
Everything that makes my dinner spot in Spain charming is illegal in most of the US:
- zero parking
- no setbacks
- mixed use
- single-stair buildings
- a street width most fire departments wouldn't allow
I think it should be legal to build this in any US city, by right.
2:07 PM • Sep 19, 2026
Everybody can reply”

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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

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 · 17/09/2026

What on earth is going on at Moona Moono

Photo from the cover of Uptown Quarterly of a busy dining room in Moona Moono and the woman in the foreground with her back to the camera is missing f half her head with another woman sticking out of the missing part???

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

sorry fellas, you’re just gonna have to do the work yourselves…but that’s good news, right!?

Excerpt from BI article reads: “Last month, two Teams messages in a group for some engineers with access to Anthropic's Claude asked about a new error code: "ExceededBudget" and
"Budget=2000.0."”

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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 · 15/09/2026

would like to trade his superior xG for mac allister’s aG

Live xG for this match shows Kudus 1st, Koumas 2nd, Mac Allister 3rd

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If Andoni Iraola dresses in yellow he’ll look exactly like Ted from Curious George

Screenshot of Ted in his yellow shirt, tie, and pants gesturing like WTF to George who’s off screen.

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Xers setting the trends for the alphas and zoomers

Excerpt from FastCo article reads: “According to Evans, after initially over-indexing with middle-aged men, its key demographic is now 14-to-25-year-olds— and the company is careful to keep its prices accessible for them. Blood Records, which”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think the buried lede here is why the hell do you have 5 cameras at your house, creep

Excerpt from The Verge article reads: “ “I currently pay $40 a month for Apple One Premier, which includes 2TB of iCloud storage and gets me HomeKit Secure Video support for five cameras. With the new pricing tier, I keep those benefits and now get Apple Intelligence on one camera. But to get it on all five cameras, I’d need to pay an additional $60 a month. That’s $720 a year, for a total of $1,200. ”

Excerpt From
“Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Was just reading up on Gillette Stadium, which was built by a billionaire who likes to get handjobs from trafficked women & who’s been in the news today and found this nugget — jfc Populous, how are you that bad at managing DD lmao

Excerpt from Wikipedia entry reads: “The stadium was designed by HOK Sport (now
Populous). Kraft wanted it modeled on M&T Bank Stadium which had opened in Baltimore in 1998. Kraft insisted on it having a "front door" with a Disneyland-like entrance. Populous went through 200 designs before coming up with one that Kraft liked. 39. The entrance includes a lighthouse”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Was thinking about that person’s 9/11 thread and the connection they made between the ridiculous NYT rendering of the mountain compound and G.I. Joe’s HQ, it was a great connection to make. Here’s how that appeared in 1982. Once again, Larry Hama is an oracle lol

The 2 page spread showing a Conway 2-point perspective illustration of a multistory underground bunker capable of supporting a small army and accompanied by small floor plans for each level. It’ called The PIT. Yo Joe!

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Architect here. Yours is 1 way to see it. For me, AI data center development not only fucks up chipset & memory prices for consumer’s iPhones, but as the WSJ chart shows, they’re taking top $ bids from our ltd labor pool fucks up the math for constructing buildings *other than data centers*

Excerpt from TCB article reads “Data center construction continues to expand.
At the same time, construction for everything that's not a data center. This stunning chart
from the Wall Street Journal was making the rounds last week:”

Excerpt from TCB article reads: “As construction of housing, commercial properties, and more face a contraction, we are facing a situation that is going to put increased pressure on the entire construction industry. If Minnesota follows along with the states pursuing moratoriums or bans, we might lock out the one industry that seems ready to keep a large number of people working in trades employed as the economy wobbles.”

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Katerra Historical Society @lilboolean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Apple owes Pornhub a mention at their next event. This is incredible loyalty…

Excerpt from Mashable article reads: “ “Few events lure people away from Pornhub. The World Cup was one, and yesterday's Apple Event was another.
Apple fans typically close their Pornhub tabs at the start of these annual September product launches. Android users, however, don't seem to care. That was the case in 2025, and this year, Pornhub told Mashable that Android traffic remained close to average throughout the event.
But for Apple users, it's a different story. In fact, Pornhub saw the biggest decline in pageviews during an Apple Event in the past five years — and you can probably guess what for.

Two minutes before the event started, Pornhub pageviews on Apple devices were down 19.1 percent compared to an average day. Anticipation was high, as rumors of the foldable iPhone had mounted for weeks.”

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

rich people’s stupid kids are a critical component for getting fresh meat…I mean people, on the road to the american dream

Excerpt from WSJ article reads: “down as reliably as a bank account. About 40% of the children of the top 1% fall out of the top fifth of income entirely. Which is precisely why the door stays open for new entrants.”

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