namhenderson
@namhenderson.bsky.social
An ex-liberal arts student now in healthcare informatics. Friend of architects and lover of design. Interested in: learning/teaching, religion(s), sustainable ecologics/ies, technology and urban(isms). Also on; Archinect, Flickr, Soundcloud. + He/him/his
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"Amazon likes to present itself as a retailer. But in reality, it is infrastructure: the invisible circuitry that now runs logistics, communications, surveillance, and war."
The 44th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.
The 44th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.
PI Briefing | No. 44 | How we Make Amazon Pay
For the sixth consecutive year, workers around the world are organizing to Make Amazon Pay.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Amazon likes to present itself as a retailer. But in reality, it is infrastructure: the invisible circuitry that now runs logistics, communications, surveillance, and war."
The 44th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.
The 44th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.
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This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
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There are very important lessons here for Trads who aren't fash regarding aligning yourself with this regime over aesthetic preferences of buildings (and resultant professional opportunities).
In reality, no one will learn anything.
In reality, no one will learn anything.
Trump replaces architect of White House ballroom project www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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"Minnesota may be cold, the people here have warm hearts... Minnesotans not only welcome refugees, they also sent one to Congress"
I haven't lived there since the 90s, but Ilhan is my mom's rep
I haven't lived there since the 90s, but Ilhan is my mom's rep
The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Minnesota may be cold, the people here have warm hearts... Minnesotans not only welcome refugees, they also sent one to Congress"
I haven't lived there since the 90s, but Ilhan is my mom's rep
I haven't lived there since the 90s, but Ilhan is my mom's rep
“[T]he Justice Department is determined to try again.”
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"Jonathan Hale spent four Saturday mornings painting crosswalks with neighbors at Stoner Park this summer. After the city removed them, he went to the press and vowed to repaint them.
The city painted official crosswalks a week later."
reasonstobecheerful.world/los-angeles-...
The city painted official crosswalks a week later."
reasonstobecheerful.world/los-angeles-...
People Are Painting Crosswalks Across L.A. to Protect Pedestrians
Fed up of waiting for the city to tackle traffic fatalities, Angelenos are taking street safety into their own hands — one bucket of paint at a time.
reasonstobecheerful.world
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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John Coltrane Quartet in full flight.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
John Coltrane Quartet in full flight.
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Should i do Epstein McMansion Hell
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Should i do Epstein McMansion Hell
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Ah man who could have predicted it?
Trump replaces architect of White House ballroom project www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Ah man who could have predicted it?
#ICYMI "The demolition of Upper Room raises the following concerns: a) how could this happen with seemingly little notice; b) what alternatives to demolition were considered; and c) what will become of the remaining public art commissioned for Battery Park City" www.tclf.org/auspicious-s...
From “auspicious success” to complete rubble—the untimely demise of Ned Smyth’s "Upper Room" | TCLF
This one slipped under the radar.
www.tclf.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
#ICYMI "The demolition of Upper Room raises the following concerns: a) how could this happen with seemingly little notice; b) what alternatives to demolition were considered; and c) what will become of the remaining public art commissioned for Battery Park City" www.tclf.org/auspicious-s...
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this is like a background graphic for a scene in a Verhoeven movie
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is like a background graphic for a scene in a Verhoeven movie
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Would I date this Denver building?
State Capitol Annex
Wears cuff links to a school production of Our Town. Started greying at 24. Steinway smile. Swoon.
BUT… lives in his sibling’s shadow. Major dome envy. Our insecurities meet like fire and gasoline.
It’s a no, but sad about it.
State Capitol Annex
Wears cuff links to a school production of Our Town. Started greying at 24. Steinway smile. Swoon.
BUT… lives in his sibling’s shadow. Major dome envy. Our insecurities meet like fire and gasoline.
It’s a no, but sad about it.
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Would I date this Denver building?
State Capitol Annex
Wears cuff links to a school production of Our Town. Started greying at 24. Steinway smile. Swoon.
BUT… lives in his sibling’s shadow. Major dome envy. Our insecurities meet like fire and gasoline.
It’s a no, but sad about it.
State Capitol Annex
Wears cuff links to a school production of Our Town. Started greying at 24. Steinway smile. Swoon.
BUT… lives in his sibling’s shadow. Major dome envy. Our insecurities meet like fire and gasoline.
It’s a no, but sad about it.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social be better/resign your leadership post please!
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social be better/resign your leadership post please!
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Comedian Tig Notaro tells me losing her friend Andrea Gibson has been "one of the most confusing grieving processes I've gone through." The death of Colorado's poet laureate has made Notaro open to the idea of an afterlife.
Read/listen to our chat about the new documentary Notaro co-produced:
Read/listen to our chat about the new documentary Notaro co-produced:
Andrea Gibson’s compassion shines in the film ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’
Documentary shares the story of Colorado’s late poet laureate
www.cpr.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Comedian Tig Notaro tells me losing her friend Andrea Gibson has been "one of the most confusing grieving processes I've gone through." The death of Colorado's poet laureate has made Notaro open to the idea of an afterlife.
Read/listen to our chat about the new documentary Notaro co-produced:
Read/listen to our chat about the new documentary Notaro co-produced:
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I tried to look at the past 13,000 years of beer brewing from a bird's eye perspective. That leads to some reflections I certainly didn't expect.
A simple way to put it: there are three kinds of beer, but not the ones you expect.
www.garshol.priv.no/blog/439.html
A simple way to put it: there are three kinds of beer, but not the ones you expect.
www.garshol.priv.no/blog/439.html
Malt, Mould, or Saliva | Larsblog
Personal blog of Lars Marius Garshol.
www.garshol.priv.no
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I tried to look at the past 13,000 years of beer brewing from a bird's eye perspective. That leads to some reflections I certainly didn't expect.
A simple way to put it: there are three kinds of beer, but not the ones you expect.
www.garshol.priv.no/blog/439.html
A simple way to put it: there are three kinds of beer, but not the ones you expect.
www.garshol.priv.no/blog/439.html
"I am pleased to welcome Ma Yansong...among the most important on the international scene...The future he imagines is not dark and dystopian, but joyful and utopian, nourished by fantasy, narrative, body, transcendence, organism." www.domusweb.it/en/speciali/...
Ma Yansong, founder of MAD, is the new Guest Editor of Domus 2026
Ma is the youngest — and the first Chinese architect — to curate the magazine’s upcoming ten issues. With a manifesto that calls for rethinking architecture through its deepest emotions.
www.domusweb.it
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
"I am pleased to welcome Ma Yansong...among the most important on the international scene...The future he imagines is not dark and dystopian, but joyful and utopian, nourished by fantasy, narrative, body, transcendence, organism." www.domusweb.it/en/speciali/...
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"Both men were born the same year in the outer boroughs of New York, raised in lower-middle-class Jewish families and fell in love with a certain kind of patrician, WASP-y Manhattan life that they discovered mostly through the movies"
Opinion | Robert A.M. Stern Designed New York City Like a 1930s Movie
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"Both men were born the same year in the outer boroughs of New York, raised in lower-middle-class Jewish families and fell in love with a certain kind of patrician, WASP-y Manhattan life that they discovered mostly through the movies"
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"In times of rapid change to a physical and cultural landscape, we become more aware of the historical weight of the present. I realized if I wanted to photograph these buildings and the people occupying them, I’d have to start immediately, before there was nothing left but rubble."
—Liz Moskowitz
—Liz Moskowitz
The Texas Department of Transportation is annexing properties along I-35 in Austin to make way for an expansion of the interstate. Here are some of the people and businesses being displaced:
Along a Path of Impermanence
A documentary photographer records some of the people and places being disrupted by an expansion of Interstate 35 through the center of Austin, Texas.
placesjournal.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"In times of rapid change to a physical and cultural landscape, we become more aware of the historical weight of the present. I realized if I wanted to photograph these buildings and the people occupying them, I’d have to start immediately, before there was nothing left but rubble."
—Liz Moskowitz
—Liz Moskowitz
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Perfume lovers, take note:
As we enter the Liminal Space of the Calendar, it becomes even more important to treat yourself gently, and well. Here you can try some of my favorite grounding and uplifting offerings from a brilliant creator, all wrapped up together and on sale through tonight.
Perfume Discovery Sets
Experience high-quality, sophisticated fragrances with a Perfume Discovery Set, featuring unique compositions that highlight the artistry of independent perfumery.
shop.chrisrusak.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Perfume lovers, take note:
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final word on this topic imo
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
final word on this topic imo
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I'm back @99percentinvisible.bsky.social talking about the Pulitzer and design for kids in an episode devoted to Sesame Street 99percentinvisible.org/episode/649-...
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm back @99percentinvisible.bsky.social talking about the Pulitzer and design for kids in an episode devoted to Sesame Street 99percentinvisible.org/episode/649-...
KIDS ARE PEOPLE
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This was a proper country once.
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This was a proper country once.
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It appears the fascists have decided that NREL is now an oil and gas research lab.
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It appears the fascists have decided that NREL is now an oil and gas research lab.