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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 22h

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 22h

in/out, landscape, 2026:

Out: swoopy precast bench planters, carex pennsylvanica, low contrast gray paver blends, meadows, corten edging, cercis canadensis

In: oversized timbers, carex woodii, glazed terracotta tile, thickets, belgian block, cercis canadendis var. alba

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 2d

getting a cool new job designing greenways and multimodal transportation projects, then realizing too late this means all my projects use DOT documentation standards

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

Another thing I see all the time is splitting a multi-structure development into multiple phases which is typically a much smaller change (percentage wise) for architects than it is for other disciplines.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

little bit of this guy going on too tbh

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

def depends on project type. I think the worst is maybe public/private or certain kinds of design/build.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

in my experience changes always creep in somehow. then we’ve already billed 100% for CDs, and as subs we almost never have bid phase fee so we end up borrowing from CA and just kick the can down the road

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

Obviously variable, but I feel like CDs lose about 1-2% completion a month they sit fallow.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

curious what people think is the “shrinkage rate” on contract documents. As in, if you deliver a client a 100% bid set and they sit on those documents for 12 months, what is that “100%” now the equivalent to, in terms of work required to get it out the door again.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

We are not talking at all enough about how insane this cast is

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

me, in the middle of watching one of the most visceral and original car chases of the last 25 years of film: I wonder if benicio is going to walk down a hallway again

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

genuine would watch read a phone book type shit

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 4d

just saw one battle after another, benicio del toro is our greatest living actor

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 5d

Mark when his house gets upzoned

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 6d

someone at dennis mires architects has to do the cutaway for this building. come on, you know you want to.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 6d

But for those who don’t know, here’s what’s getting torn down, we used to be a country, etc, etc

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like there’s six different jokes you could make here

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, this looks great!

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

Called it, I guess

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

But also, vaccines were always a better target because (1) people don’t like needles and (2) they‘re mandated by government experts and the whole movement is based on distrust of expertise and public enterprise. Going after a widely-available consumer good just doesn’t have the same juice.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

Part of it is that conspiratorial movements don’t actually want the government to reveal the truth, because then their entire identity as conspiracists collapses.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

I have no evidence but I kind of suspect that the tylenol=autism thing isn’t going to have legs in the alternative health crowd the way RFK might hope.

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

But McKibben would also point out how fossil fuel companies have strategically emphasized individual action to pre-empt or distract from collective action or regulation. So is there a “good” and a “bad” way to promote individual action? Or is the difference just the motives of the person doing it?

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 7d

The other thing I wonder about is the slippery boundary between what is collective vs individual. For example, I see people like Bill McKibben sometimes promote the idea that by demonstrating and talking about individual action those actions can become ”contagious,” and have a collective impact…

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