Saturday Tweets: It’s 2017!

Yup. It's officially winter. As Rilke so poetically put it, a time for tending to one's inner garden. pic.twitter.com/hPRVsYdAQb — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) January 6, 2017 Top 10 shrubs for winter, picked by @bramble36 https://t.co/bWFTOcHVk5 pic.twitter.com/cTOIyap8tz — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) January 6, 2017 $100 for a tablet and foldable wireless keyboard https://t.co/9sKiq88hv3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 6, 2...

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Saturday Tweets: Squirrels and Other Stuff

More treasure for our Squirrel Files: Sneaky squirrels have stolen dozens of candy bars from convenience store https://t.co/78VxfA1FNq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 13, 2017 New book of seminal essays and ideas from the iconic Whole Earth Catalog https://t.co/EzVRGlLMjl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 13, 2017 Researchers design a handheld centrifuge that only costs 20 cents to make https://t.co/j1aPLieniW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Ja...

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Saturday Tweets: Don’t Fear the Green Reaper

Don’t fear the Green Reaper: The story of the Department of Energy’s dubious mascot https://t.co/IpN5JwiwLU via @muckrock — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 1, 2019 £300,000 Margaret Thatcher statue needs plinth ‘to keep out vandals’ https://t.co/kTiV8Mkw4J — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 1, 2019 1) LED streetlights are one of my pet peeves, ever since they installed some just outside my bedroom window a few years ago and the light relentl...

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Saturday Tweets: Hello 2019

The sad decline of One Times Square. From beautiful Beaux Arts flatiron, to modernism, to giant billboard. And despite the shortage of land in NYC, the building has been vacant for years. pic.twitter.com/GvP2UT0EZe — Robert Kwolek (@RobertKwolek) January 2, 2019 “When we renovate this old building, let’s kill everything that was interesting, charming and beautiful about it.” #DesignFail pic.twitter.com/BmKXppYkHu — George Hahn (@georgehahn) Janua...

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Saturday Tweets: Dutch Bicycles, Landscaping and a Ski Sled

Want to feel old? This is what a Dutch bicycle looked like 50 years ago and what it looks like today. pic.twitter.com/aSkz1jeOpv — Bicycle Lobby (@BicycleLobby) March 30, 2017 Claudia West on functional planting https://t.co/jB6cAdWxeF — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) March 31, 2017 How to make a coin sorting machine from cardboard https://t.co/26ofyfDi5f — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 31, 2017 Weed cloth always fails https://t.co/yYNVAJbXUr...

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