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scatterplot of religious denominations by income and education level, with a general linear trend from baptist churches through evangelicals, a mainline-catholic-mormon clump, then episcopalians?, then various jews and hindus. mazel tov?

Income, education, and religion are independent of each other, so I would love to see which is driving which.

I had to look this up and I am utterly bored by the discourse already.

all the lines are basically flat, showing less than 2% increase in republican support by income.

Had to do a double take at this graph from @ryanburge.bsky.social, showing how completely religious affiliation swamps income for predicting who voted for Trump in 2024. www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/why-religi...

Moneo is among the GOATs in general.

Both of these projects were in Arlington County VA btw. So I am not sure where the requirement came from.

I have to assume that half the hate for Latinos is because the Hispanophone world is just too good at designing buildings.

These are really excellent renderings as well.

Great interview with Dorothy Provine, who I guess is the Mother Ann Lee of DC government records.

Love a good artifact box; only thing that could make it better is using rammed earth.

Clive should stick to writing up country houses.

Did he borrow that jacket from Lurch?

I mean, what is going on with that shirt in general?

When I have done rooftop dog runs, we were required to put a sensor-actuated valve that switched the flow from sewage to storm when it rained.

Not sure how small we would have had to make it before we could avoid the storm connection.

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The challenge this year is to move the full appropriation forward. The contract was awarded in 2024 and the first payment was released to the contractor, who mobilized. However, the 3/4 of the funding was pushed back to 2027 (FY28).

This is not an ideal way to run a construction project.

Great! So please email your councilmembers and the mayor to make sure they don't try to cut it from the budget again.

BLDUS, Future Firm, D’Arcy Jones, French 2D among 2026 Emerging Voices winners The Architectural League of New York just dropped this year’s Emerging Voices winners, spotlighting s...

More and more people are saying bld.us represents the low-key, regenerative future of American architecture.

mayoral order establishing the DC Archives from 1986

Rendering of the new DC Archives building. It's a big box with a glass panel. Archives and windows don't mix unfortch

Happy 40th Birthday to the District of Columbia Archives!

This year we're getting you a gift that's 30 years overdue: a new home that will make DC's largest historical resource secure and accessible for the first time. 🗃️ @dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social

There are a couple of prog rock moments in it so you won't leave disappointed.

The most audacious designers in America?
In an alley on Capitol Hill?

It's more likely than you think.

BLDUS, Future Firm, D’Arcy Jones, French 2D among 2026 Emerging Voices winners The Architectural League of New York just dropped this year’s Emerging Voices winners, spotlighting s...

More and more people are saying bld.us represents the low-key, regenerative future of American architecture.

Doesn't appear in the movie.

And you googled it. That's the twist!

I cannot get the soundtrack to this movie out of my head. Yes, it's a musical made from Shaker hymns, but not in a cheesy way, and also not in a pointlessly transgressive way, and smuggling in a ton of experimental music techniques in a way that is just works perfectly.

Agree. I was surprised Derek has talked about his technique so openly given how brutally competitive the industry is.

The other thing he realized was that humiliating people on the street about physics knowledge garnered an audience, but not the right one: not one that wanted to learn.

This one might be a harder lesson for academic outlets, alas.

This is literally how I think about various talks, even when there's some level of participation/seminar.

Derek Muller (PhD) explained that he didn't hit his stride until he started to structure the videos around posing something mysterious or interesting, and bringing the audience in as partners in discovery. This is—I am sure you're yelling at your phone—also how detective novels work.