Saturday Tweets: Urine Tanned Leather, Grass Huts and Unpleasant Design

How to build a grass hut https://t.co/iF7VQwb9vr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 4, 2016 Electrocuting People Was Basically America’s Favorite Pastime in the 1920s https://t.co/Nkrwu0ATMu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 4, 2016 Urine Tanned Salmon Leather https://t.co/dmYEUxQ7eF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016 Unpleasant Design https://t.co/YjJK3N3oGF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016 Meet Balmuda, the $230 Toaster From Japan ht...

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Saturday Tweets: Long Hot Summer

3D printed sundial projects digital time https://t.co/FmyRbmNzq0 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 20, 2016 Three shirts, four pairs of trousers: meet Japan’s ‘hardcore’ minimalists https://t.co/kwtAqHbbcj — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 20, 2016 Setting Up a Workshop https://t.co/Nh5CXTmw7S — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 21, 2016 It’s going to be a long summer: 66 million dead trees in California could fuel ‘catastrophic’ wildfires https://t.c...

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Saturday Tweets: Moving Plants on the Subway, Punk Rock and a Cute Medieval Lion

https://t.co/W2Lao0FKDk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 25, 2019 Climate change and the Apocalypse | ContraPoints https://t.co/Qb8gpOYx6v via @ContraPoints — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 2, 2019 Only in NYC: Straphangers wait for man to load plants, trees onto subway https://t.co/y0BlNZaFRw # via @ABC7NY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 25, 2019 What a treat! https://t.co/ufVyKYdkoA — William Morris Soc (@WmMorrisSocUK) May 28, 2019 I can’t stop...

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Saturday Tweets: Big and Trainy

Pedestrians enclosed behind gates that only open so often. Cities reordered to a potentially “antiseptic” level to accommodate self-driving cars. This is what AV industry reps are telling the New York Times they envision. Pretty alarming stuff 😱https://t.co/27brdgWAUa — Streetsblog USA (@StreetsblogUSA) August 2, 2019 Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/MQGfUeTWmZ — Larry the Cat, Esq. (@Number10cat) August 3, 2019 No surprise that the @LosFelizLedger...

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Saturday Tweets: Addictive Snacks and Ninja Houses

"3 Addictive Snacks That Are Actually Good for You" (the chickpeas are killer) https://t.co/u79ixiFHLG — Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) January 23, 2016 Ninja House: Open-Ceiling Layout is an Agility Course | Designs & Ideas on Dornob https://t.co/6V12RzOYJD via @dornobdesign — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 19, 2016 Build this Solar Powered Hydroponic Water Garden on Wheels – MUST READ! https://t.co/PXhU21ji7m — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Jan...

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