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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️

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I am writing a book about the ways the founders of American urban planning experimented on the neighborhoods of Washington, DC before World War II. I am also a licensed architect.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 14m

Certainly a key moment

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 27m

Yeah and I want 10,000 words or a podcast series on all the messy drama that is surely behind just the exhaust valve

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 33m

Part of his success is not taking every shot. A lesson at odds with posting.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 34m

OK so what is the history of the inflatable costumes that everyone’s wearing to the protests. Who invented them, what is the innovation, did the original frog guy just have it around? 🗃️

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 4h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 3h

Today's fancy boy: Newlands loses all his friends in Congress for being a backstabber.

newlands, in his wacky suit, is being shunned by all the members of congress.

Newlands' reception when he returned to the House of Representatives after his treachery to
Stewart.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 5h

Heurich House Museum @heurichhouse.bsky.social · 6h

Lawrence Gichner (who replaced the turret roof) was born in DC in 1907 to Ernest and Helen Gichner. His father apprenticed in metalwork in Vienna, Austria starting at 14 years old. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1888 and opened a DC shop DC with the slogan: “everything in sheet metal.”

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

No… but maybe William Stewart was among the nephilim.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

The whole movie looks insane and I am not sure which way it will go.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Kim has asked me to post more fancy boy Newlands cartoons. I've thought long and hard about it, and concluded it's a great idea.

francis newlands arriving in a very fancy stagecoach and that insane suit.

william sharon (who is ten feet tall for some reason) explains to him that the good people of nevada have had enough of his fancy boy antics

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

John Catsimatidis will be in the next Josh Safdie movie!??

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Yes but what people think of when invoke Nazis is not a legalistic method of discrimination. As Whitman explains, the laws weren’t the source of hate, they were a way of squaring their exterminationist ambitions with the rule of law. Famously, they stopped caring about that.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Let her do the National Anthem at a UFC fight for real.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

My takeaway from The Smashing Machine is that Nala Sinephro needs to be getting more work.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

These are all from the Carson City Morning Appeal, a Democratic machine newspaper. They went after him for switching from Democratic ticket to the Silver Party and then stopped as soon as he switched back, lol

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 1d

Because he's a very fancy boy who hides in the cloak room when the call to action sounds.

francis newlands running into the congressional cloakroom. he is wearing the same ridiculous suit as before. the cartoon is about the silver issue. I don't know what that's about. Find a different historian who cares about economics.

francis newlands pouting in the congressional cloakroom. he is wearing the same ridiculous suit as before

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

rekt

fancy boy newlands is called from congress by a messenger from his golf club

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I didn’t mean that. You just wouldn’t have time to even think about what you’re missing.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe having another kid would fix it.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

True heads will note that the code traces its history to Herbert Hoover's building code committees.

John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 2d

The ASA A40.8 was the national plumbing code that never was. The code committee dissolved before a second edition could be produced due to lack of consensus in the 1960s.
This code was even developed under the guidance of Robert Wyly at NIST, whose work created the foundation for drainage theory.

Cover of the “National Plunbing Code - Minimum Requirements for Plumbing”

FOREWORD
The need for a generally accepted standard code of minimum requirements for plumbing has been recognized in the country for some considerable time. From time to time various organizations in this field have published recommended code requirements and some of these have had considerable influence on local codes.
An early and comprehensive effort in this direction was made by the Subcommittee on Plumbing of the Building Code Committee of the U.S.Department of Commerce. The work of this committee resulted in the publication in 1924 of BH2 "Recom-mended Minimum Requirements for Plumbing in Dwellings and Similar Buildings"
. This was followed by several revisions of
which the last,
entitled BH13 *Recommended Minimum Re-
quirements for Plumbing." was issued in 1932. The National Association of Master Plumbers published its "Standard Plumbing Code" in 1933 and the latest revision of this was made in
1942. In 1940 the Subcommittee of -Plumbing
of the Central
Housing Committee on Research, • Design, and Construction issued a report BMS66 "Plumbing Manual" the provisions of which formed the basis for regulation of wartime plumbing. In addition many states have enacted laws regulating the design and installation of plumbing equipment. Cities also have municipal ordinances and rules goveming this type of equipment and its installation.
The Sectional Committee on Minimum Requirements for
Plumbing
and Standardization of Plumbing Equipment, A40,
was organized under the procedure of the American Standards Association in August, 1928. Therefore, in 1934, when the Subcommittee on Plumbing of the Building Code Committee of the U.S.Department of Commerce was discontinued, the ASA added the task of setting up minimum requirements for plumbing to the scope of Sectional Committee A40.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

Newlands was also an original member of the Bohemian Club, alongside Henry George and Ambrose Bierce.

So many world-historical jinks, lost to history.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

Most photos of Francis Newlands online are from late in life when he dressed conservatively. However, as a young man, he was a clothes horse and a trendsetter.

Once in politics, the image became a liability; cartoonists loved to portray him as a ridiculous dandy, as here.

old bearded man (william stewart) shaking hands with a man in the loudest check suit possible, a monocle, spats, ludicrous cuffs, and a flower, and for some reason a tiny bowler hat

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

I though it was guttural g.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

They ran the streetcars on that weird stub route because 90% of the tracks were there in anticipation of a future network.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

I mean if only they were shutting it down for a good reason. The program has been slapdash and leaderless for years.

It’s sad because the tracks were put in with a Great Streets project, well in advance of expected operations. It was almost good planning (design was always bad tho)

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