Saturday Tweets: Goodbye 2018

...the 19th century, successfully cloned. https://t.co/FHL7Nzgj6H pic.twitter.com/dsAFkVoUp2 — Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) December 27, 2018 The shutdown comes to Joshua Tree, where, with no federal employees to keep an eye on things, people are littering, lighting illegal fires, and “stringing Christmas lights from delicate Joshua trees that they are supposed to leave untouched.” https://t.co/vfr6fh6vvN — Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) December 27,...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Flowers, Peach Mustard and the Patron Saint of Dentists

...t.co/HTvnmQhjm1 Yates Thompson MS 3, f. 284v #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/6bBT8oJy3d — Dr Alison Ray (@liber_ray) August 30, 2018 Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose: A red rose is surrounded by couplets with music inscribed on two circular staves, in a choirbook produced in 1516 by Petrus de Opitiis of Antwerp for King Henry VIII Royal MS 11 E XI, f. 3r https://t.co/VxvAtWqYwg pic.twitter.com/PuKPx7OL75 — Dr Alison Ray (@liber_ray) Sep...

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Saturday Tweets: Taking Back the Wheel

...ptember 7, 2018 Behold, the 86 cm “Cycletrack” that Los Angeles celebrated completing this past week: pic.twitter.com/Ievz64sVri — Erik (@erik_griswold) September 3, 2018 looks like a plague of locusts https://t.co/fdwWLs4KZv — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) September 2, 2018 The world needs leaders who refuse to fly, not another airport runway for the UK | Letters https://t.co/Ypp9dnur0X — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 4, 2018 Ed Marston, for...

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Saturday Tweets: A Solar Powered Blog, Caravansaries, Moths and Michaelmas

...co/IZb5rn4vvY — Strong Towns (@StrongTowns) September 28, 2018 pic.twitter.com/9YKuEgexZD — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) September 28, 2018 We grieve, with the entire Los Angeles food community, the loss of our friend, colleague and former Co-Chair Ernest Miller. An exuberant teacher, passionate advocate for real food and an encyclopedic resource of all things edible, he will be deeply missed. pic.twitter.com/bOzcaZUDeE — Slow Food L.A. (@slowfoodla) Sept...

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Saturday Tweets: Cats, Silicon Valley and DIY Bus Benches

...assiaLupo for the invite!#whatMadeThis#totoroshow4 #giantrobot pic.twitter.com/3ez2tnfZHi — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) November 29, 2018 oic she’s an authoritarian transhumanist, explains a few things… https://t.co/pEoNznY1BB — Corey Pein 😃🤑😐😩💀 (@coreypein) November 30, 2018 Every McDonald’s Touchscreen in Study Tests Positive for Fecal Bacteria https://t.co/f7SiJFR6te — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 30, 2018 New #Podcast: Off-Grid Liv...

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