Saturday Tweets: A Flying Shame

February 23, 2019

..., led by sports personality, now with 30,000 followers, 100% rise in train bookings on some routes, 3% drop in flight bookings: https://t.co/RUyCTARdHA — StopFlying.org (@stopflying) February 18, 2019 humanity is doomed https://t.co/CZj3UOgnSF — Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) February 18, 2019 my cat needs a backup beeper pic.twitter.com/9pt9HAvZJ0 — A Cat IRL (@computerpaws) February 18, 2019 It is time for a cat by Ulisse Aldrovandi pic.twit...

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Notre Dame on Good Friday

Mr. Homegrown

April 19, 2019

Design

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...re Dame Cathedral went up in flames this week I thought immediately of the book I’ve been reading in the evenings for the past few weeks, J.W. Mackail’s Life of William Morris. Morris was obsessed with Medieval architecture and visited Notre Dame and many other French churches on a trip in 1855. Later in his life Morris founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (which still exists) as a response to the poorly considered renovatio...

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Our Hot Streets Are an Opportunity

Mr. Homegrown

September 6, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Design, Transportation, Water and Power

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...a more radical alternative to business as usual. As Mark Fisher says in a book everyone should read, Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative?, The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in t...

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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Links

Mr. Homegrown

April 20, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...chow (@GardenForkTV) April 15, 2019 The best blog on the internet is now a book: https://t.co/4SROqUmtsg — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 15, 2019 Here’s Japan’s most famous minimalist https://t.co/wifBJIIVIG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 14, 2019 “growing evidence of the terrible impact traffic air pollution has on young kids.” @MayorOfLA, we urgently need bus lanes, bike lanes, and congestion pricing. #EnvironmentalJustice https://t.co/1hbe...

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Saturday Tweets: Culture as Subculture

Mr. Homegrown

May 25, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...played a critical role in the birth of #Chaos theory. Astonishing story about underlooked #WomenInSTEM. Thanks to @QuantaMagazine for bringing this to light. Hope it’s headed for a movie https://t.co/BHbDeCH8Uy — Margaret Wertheim (@margaretwerth) May 20, 2019 According to the book Kebra Nagast the Ark of the Covenant given to Moses by God, was bought to #Ethiopia by Menelik I 10th c. BC. #Tabot is the Tablet onto which the Ten Commandments were...

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