Saturday Tweets: Rainy Day Tweets

December 8, 2018

Great resource for LA County urban farmers! https://t.co/gFgitxww6i — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) December 8, 2018 L.A. Adds Lanes For Cyclists To Recover From Getting Hit By Cars https://t.co/wmEvQHwCJM via @theonion — Colin Bogart (@ColinBogart) December 8, 2018 Metaphor alert. https://t.co/NG3LzEazzM — Peter Flax (@Pflax1) December 5, 2018 If You Can't Bike On It, It Doesn't Belong In the City https://t.co/7QXjPmbIRN via @RebelMetropol...

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127 Apocalypse Now with Father Mark Kowalewski

Mr. Homegrown

November 16, 2018

Age of Limits, Podcasts, Thoughtstylings

...t, seem off-topic. But I think it’s safe to say that within the DNA of the urban homesteading, permaculture and ecological movements is a concern with how the world might end and the possibility of either hastening, postponing or avoiding the collapse of human civilization. Then there’s the fact that a significant portion of U.S. government officials believe in some form of a “rapture.” Of course there are many divergent opinions on the nature of...

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Saturday Tweets: A Big Excuse to Post Cats with Mustaches

Mr. Homegrown

July 28, 2018

Saturday Linkages

3 Comments

...canyon streets” and “no setbacks” as a negative aspect to architecture and urban design: pic.twitter.com/RbVvKEN4EO — Pushing The Needle (@pushtheneedle) July 27, 2018 URL: https://t.co/zX4xznNBIV — Reader (@readiesresearch) July 22, 2018 Sharing Stuff without Apps – https://t.co/BqjMgOz84H — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) July 22, 2018 How jeans are distressed at the sweatshop https://t.co/svVoG5rTSm — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 27, 2018 Coffee...

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Saturday Tweets: Screens, Model Villages and Walkable Cities

Mr. Homegrown

October 27, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...nterested in the @ucce_la Master Gardener Program? Come out to @OpenSilo‘s Urban Ag Happy Hour next Tuesday, 10/30, from 6-9 to talk gardening and learn about the program! Join us at the Highland Park Brewery, 1220 North Spring Street, Chinatown. pic.twitter.com/HcFwyn8J2F — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) October 22, 2018 In the walkable city, people gather in a piazza, square, or plaza. In the automobile city, it’s called an intersection. (And nobod...

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Worst of NextDoor

Mr. Homegrown

February 28, 2020

Thoughtstylings

14 Comments

...nity is somehow more “open minded” than other parts of the country or that urban people are more progressive than rural people. These are stereotypes that I’ve been guilty of harboring in the past. We are all, myself included, easily sucked into the sort of hateful trolling that Silicon Valley has found a way to monetize on social media. How do you keep people glued to a website like NextDoor? Just offer the spectacle of your elder neighbors teari...

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