Would I date these Denver buildings? York Street Yards Bike everywhere Maté drinkers House plant junkies Obsessed with Kraftwerk Looking for a poly thing We’ll become friendly is all
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
"What we have is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one." I wrote about AI, carpentry, and Enzo Mari, for @emergencemagazine.bsky.social. You can read (or listen to) it here: emergencemagazine.org/essay/benchm...
Don't be frightened to display your talents
wrote about harry weese's first baptist church in columbus, which is beautiful and unexpected and also quite funny—turning the corner in the most ordinary postwar subdivision and you're faced with a romanesque fortress church but hey it's also totally modern www.postcard-past.com/first-baptis...
The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
wrote about what a drag it is to take a piss in public for @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/go-pi...
Go Piss, Girl | Kate Wagner
A new book explores a consistent, albeit under-examined, public policy failure: providing the general public with a place to do their business.
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"While bands like Black Sabbath and Mötley Crüe occasionally invoked Lucifer in their lyrics, Venom summoned the devil so often that he might as well have been sitting in on keyboards." 😍 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/a...
He Pushed Heavy Metal to Even Darker Extremes (Gift Article)
Conrad Lant, the frontman for Venom, took the stage name Cronos, pioneered black metal and more or less made Satan a sideman. He has died at 63.
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#ICYMI "By successfully combining enforcement and social services, Denver demonstrates that cities don’t need to choose between those binaries...The balanced approach has shrunk the number of encampments across Denver, the Urban Institute’s evaluation found." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...
Opinion | We Know How to Fix Homelessness. Why Don’t More Cities Do It? (Gift Article)
It takes doing things conservatives and progressives both dislike.
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Tomorrow! I speak with Aminata Niakaté, Deputy Mayor of Paris & Les Écologistes spokesperson, & Éric Daniel-Lacombe, architect & urbanist, moderated by LA's own Frances Anderton, architecture critic & author, on City Living: Reimagining Urban Ecologies. www.eventbrite.com/e/city-livin...
City Living: Reimagining Urban Ecologies
Albertine Conversations is a program created by Villa Albertine in partnership with universities across the United States.
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My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"
Most issues with bias in Wikipedia would be most effectively solved by paying underemployed academics to write articles. The idea that an “interactive project” whose title has big SEO conflicts is going to rival Wikipedia really misunderstands how ordinary people get information.
Morgan Jones@morganj0nes.bsky.social · last wk.I don't disagree with any criticism here particularly but I think that taking aim at Wikipedia, one of the great achievements of humanity, in this internet context, is reckless and dumb www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Star Trek (1966) "The MIT Museum unveiled an extraordinary piece of television and cultural history: the original 33-inch Starship Enterprise model that helped define sci-fi and sparked generations of scientific ambition." It will remain on public display at the Museum through March 28, 2027. 🔽
Arundhati Roy on how India's movement started...in BU! "Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, calling some unemployed young Indians cockroaches, Abhijeet Dipke, a student living in Boston, posted...on Instagram: “What if all cockroaches come together?” Millions responded." thewire.in/rights/cockr...
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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Closing out the night listening to www.nts.live/shows/the-nt... via #NTSRadio
NTS Guide to: The Midnight Synthesizer 14th September 2026
Playing Ethiopian Pop, Ethiopian Jazz. In the early 1980s, a handful of Ethiopian musicians began experimenting with electronic instruments. Instead of the usual brass ensembles that were ubiquitous i...
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"The basics of scanning are free, and like Nearby Glasses, ZuckOff scans signals sent by Bluetooth devices in your vicinity and identifies them using the data they’re sending." www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-a... via @popsci.com #SFUAB #thisisfine
How to tell if someone is wearing smart glasses near you
These two apps help you determine whether someone nearby is wearing smart glasses nearby so you can avoid unwanted recordings.
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My book is here and it is, in my humble opinion, extremely beautiful!!!! It officially comes out in 1 week! Thank you x a million to designer Natalie Olson and to @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social xoxoxo I hope you enjoy my big book of grief and regret and love.
Never the Same River | Oct 1: Dan learns weather can change and needs a waterproof setup. youtu.be/oEqUO1Ti-94?...
Never the Same River: October 01 Toronto Photowalk and Detrashing
YouTube video by Dan Seljak (Another Glass Box)
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NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · last wk.NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
france has been a lot of unfortunate things so it's important to understand that the protests right now are led by high school students from the banlieues, that is marginalized communities intimately connected to france's colonial history always treated as second citizens by the french state