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Zach Mortice

@zachmortice.bsky.social
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Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not. zachmortice.com

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
⬇️ describes about 80% of the economy
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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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joe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 29/09/2026
i saw it in a vision
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DEADWOOD AT 24 GTFO
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My wife just told me that when our oldest niece was born she kept wanting to call her by the name of their family dog from when she was a kid
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The machines have an exact measure of exactly what your life is worth
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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Plus Pool’s boosters have presented its origin as a sort of chill parthenogenesis—a concept springing fully formed from the doldrums of 2010’s record-breaking New York summer.” James Andrew Billingsley is too cool for Plus Pool in NYRA no. 51. nyra.nyc/articles/plu...
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ll start worrying about AI ending humanity when the Chinese do
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Human targets were marked by the IDF by hacking into cell phone networks. One interviewee estimated 60-70k Gazans had been marked-clearly including many, many people beyond those considered Hamas fighters-and another said it did not distinguish between kids and adults. The interviewees said the targets were hit at night when they were home with their families, who they could hear through their phones before initiating strikes. "How could you bomb when you hear a crying baby inside?" Abraham asked one of them.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026
My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out
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Neo-post eco-andean modern-brutalism architecture @theeferringer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A man finds Buddha in his twilight and all libs do is judge him! Sad!
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some excellent news, reported by @zachmortice.bsky.social: “Wedge, A new peer-reviewed scholarly architecture journal will publish the canceled Palestine issue of the Journal of Architectural Education” www.archpaper.com/2026/09/wedg...
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I AM THE CODE" is usually something the architect says while practicing their villain laugh
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OrcGirlBoss @orc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gas high
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Bae Blade 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗡️ @baeblade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Max sliders/ min sliders
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Albany Park is the most Chicago of Chicago neighborhoods and I will brook no disagreement on this matter
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Best thing i’ve read in a month. The worst malfeasance from teachers and admins here could be avoided by democratic control of schools. In Chicago parent councils can fire principals! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you president Trump for keeping lefty design critics in business! 🫡
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Urbicide
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 18/09/2026
Carrie Fisher flirtily stealing Peter Weller's glasses was possibly the sexiest a woman has ever been
Four photos of Carrie taking and wearing Peter's glasses
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 19/09/2026
“Poncho Munch for Deano Bonano” is quite literally indistinguishable from the ‘Italian’ brainrot my kids say
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Atlantic article pitch—The Art of ‘Good Enough’: Why the AI Apocalypse has me Not Responding to All my Emails
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◤◢◤ tmhector, AIA ◢◤◢ @tmhector.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m the only one with clarity of purpose in this revit model
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big emotions listening to the Magnetic Fields in the coffee shop bathroom
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Welcome to the revolution, former fracking industry CEO Chris Wright
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Predominate mood of my mid-40s is the surreality of how my life has simultaneously turned out so much worse and so much better than I ever could have imagined.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The two warring sex cults that rule America are fighting
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fix has been in for a long time but obvs they made the Thompson Center boring and that’s a loss for the public realm
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Watch till the end b/c he almost starts crying when the local NBC affiliate asks him where he’s been www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...
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Where has State Rep. Hoan Huynh been? NBC Chicago tracked down the 'missing' politician
People in Illinois’ 13th Legislative District contacted NBC Chicago wondering where their state representative was. So, we tracked him down.
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My state rep is doing the Nathan Fielder meme. Haven’t heard from him in months & he got rid of his entire staff after getting less than 2% of the vote in IL-9 primary. I’m trying to get him to sign a letter advocating for more money for CPS, but he’s busy hanging out with the shisito peppers.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026
trans people are by and large the working class. we get paid less than cis people overall (trans men make less than cis women, and trans women make less than everyone). we face housing and job discrimination. when will the conmentariat get this into their goddamned heads
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Folks, they're making Louis Kahn hot.
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New Louis Kahn biopic dropping! deadline.com/2025/08/grif...
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Griffin Dunne, Alexis Bledel, Ben Rosenfield, Molly Ephraim & Jennifer Beals Starring In ‘Joy Will Prevail’ About Revered U.S. Architect Louis Kahn
Griffin Dunne, Alexis Bledel, Ben Rosenfield, Molly Ephraim & Jennifer Beals Starring In 'Joy Will Prevail' About Revered U.S. Architect Louis Kahn.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Absolute fucking gibberish
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Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tonight!! And book publication day is today! Order from your favorite bookstore!
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of flipping an actual coin my 10-yr-old is using Google browser app; time to move to the swamp and drink dirt tea
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
youtube is out of control. told a friend i watched a movie and wasn't sure if i liked it, he said 'oh i thought this was a great explainer' and sent me a link...fucking thing's twice as long as the movie itself. enough
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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO OUR GUY 😭😭
Original little tikes car. A bright red body with a yellow roof.New little tikes car. It is all beige.
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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
those beige eyesores look like the villains in a toy story movie
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The product does not make money. This is a way to make money.
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The entire AI-Will-Destroy-Humanity-Next-Tuesday discourse is just apex predator rot-monetization, not gonna let it ruin my weekend
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 11/09/2026
watching the iphone duo video and realizing... the 16:9 days are over... we are entering the era of 4:3. the baggy jeans of aspect ratios
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are really in the Waluigi phase of 9/11 remembrance
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Justin Fowler @jmfowl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
found Kendrick Lacar
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 11/09/2026
how do we not have these in chicago
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