30 years ago there was an elevated freeway in front of the San Francisco Ferry Building – we most definitely can and must retrofit our cities for a healthier, more sustainable future pic.twitter.com/laoA7nzexI
— CreateStreetsAmerica (@CStreetsAmerica) March 8, 2019
Cardboard Cactuses For Your Home Decor https://t.co/TJnGeKaam1 via @iRecyclart
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2019
Kimchi Kraut! https://t.co/og1x4tenop
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2019
Build a Border Wall? Here’s an Idea That’s Better for Communities and the Climate https://t.co/uLJ6KbXkpa
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2019
I’m a sucker for simple, traditional Midwestern architecture –
It’s still beyond me why we stopped building this stuff.
Here’s where to buy prints: https://t.co/GU0X0ESg8W pic.twitter.com/zvNxNkdr25
— Nate Hood (@natehoodstp) March 8, 2019
@rootsimple I saw this and thought of you and your plan to make a uniform –https://t.co/79OrLIN1nP
— estuvam_nunez (@estuvam) March 5, 2019
The Captain Hindsight Award https://t.co/e1XfKCVXh7 via @wordpressdotcom
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2019
This is the kind of thing a big share of our affordable housing dollars should be spent on: acquiring existing housing and keeping it affordable for the long run. Forty units for $7.1 million — $178k per unit or about 1/3 what we pay for new-build. https://t.co/8XgUxacf70
— Shane Phillips 🚶♂️🏘🌳🌇🚉🚲🛴 (@ShaneDPhillips) March 9, 2019
Trying to imagine what it would be like to have a mayor who even acknowledges traffic deaths https://t.co/erGRICVzwO
— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) March 9, 2019
Glad that scooter problems can now be reported on the @MyLA311 app, but why can't the piles of trash, palm fronds, and wayward couches that block LA's sidewalks also be picked up within two hours? https://t.co/G2FDYjkvxE pic.twitter.com/SiLZyuVMhX
— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) March 7, 2019
Watch the moment a paraglider makes a safe landing only to then be attacked by a kangaroo. Straya! pic.twitter.com/nqStQnV9gk
— SBS News (@SBSNews) March 8, 2019
What if you could get around quickly and reliably in a state-of-the-art vehicle that you didn’t have to drive, park, fuel, or insure? No, it’s not an Uber or a self-driving car… it’s the bus! Our latest episode, “Making the Bus Sexy Again,” is here. https://t.co/Qn6WT81cQU pic.twitter.com/xxdXriepKI
— The War on Cars (@TheWarOnCars) March 7, 2019
I quit as a math teacher in the public schools in America when I realized I had to choose between doing the BS to prove I was doing my job, or actually doing my job. Complying with the BS made real teaching impossible. My wife's last day in public ed is March 15, similar reasons.
— Jonathan Webster (@JonathWebst) March 4, 2019
Alleopathy–a chemical inhibition used by a plant to reduce competition–can be used as a design tool to suppress weeds. Wonderful groundcovers like Antennaria plantaginifolia planted underneath established perennials can help to reduce weed pressure. https://t.co/PG56m0hpdU
— Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) March 4, 2019
Alias: a smart-speaker "parasite" that blocks your speaker's sensors until you activate it https://t.co/uvSQXWz9kK
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 4, 2019
Goodbye Sidewalk Trees https://t.co/6MmMq42ay7
— Benjamin Vogt (@BRVogt) March 3, 2019
Haha. Our neighbours just accidentally connected the porn film they were watching to one of our Bluetooth speakers.
— Jonathan Healey (@SocialHistoryOx) March 2, 2019
i'm struck by how many readers get trained to read poetry as a decoding process or a riddle-solving. rather than "just" enjoying language and imagining what's happening on the page. a deer can be a symbol of something "profound." or it can be a deer. the sound "deer."
— Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites) March 2, 2019
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Detect #earthquakes #volcanoes and more from home. Become a #CitizenScience "Shaker" today: https://t.co/EJKlmcHPV4
— Raspberry Shake (@raspishake) March 2, 2019
“We will not accept a life in fear and devastation. We have the right to live our dreams and hopes.”
Some school strikers have written an open letter.#climatestrike #FridaysForFurture #schoolstrike4climate https://t.co/sf3uOLWQvR
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) March 2, 2019
If this is wrong, I don't want to be right pic.twitter.com/eTA6u41uc8
— 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) March 3, 2019
— Cats (@SpaceCatPics) March 2, 2019
Caption this…🔥🔥🔥
pic.twitter.com/NVvkhpuvkj— Kevin W (@kwilli1046) March 7, 2019
— 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) March 8, 2019
Current Mood pic.twitter.com/Z9AcFLDzKQ
— Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) March 9, 2019
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Interesting clip of paraglider person being attacked by kangaroos.
It reminds me of one of the pioneering hot air balloon flights, which landed in a rural area. The local peasants seeing a flaming, smoking conveyance descending from the skies, quite reasonably assumed that the passengers were demons and chopped them up with agricultural implements.