“What is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” RIP to Mary Oliver. Here’s her reading “A Summer Day.” https://t.co/LQPIIeySI2 pic.twitter.com/JRpjH7V0Ab

— Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) January 18, 2019

The Malatestiana Library in Cesena, Italy is the progenitor of millions of local public libraries from Bombay to Budapest: https://t.co/n95hZnogbU pic.twitter.com/tjqkAqvjvA

— The Millions (@The_Millions) January 16, 2019

Southern California // Big Crops, Big Money.

Rare front page of the Los Angeles Times Annual Midwinter, from January 1915@KCET @JDevis @ginapollack @LAFarmGirl @RachelSurls #LAFoodways pic.twitter.com/Q3EyWeUWJo

— ADSAUSAGE (@adsausage) January 17, 2019

Russian company wants to put giant ads in low-Earth orbit; they could display corporate logos “and other brand emblems, as well as allow governments to flash urgent notifications during emergencies.” https://t.co/PljGlFFhOv pic.twitter.com/KcaIHkhyPM

— Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) January 17, 2019

ok this is the Groverhaus thread. it's time we put this shit on twitter for real. no one rational will ever buy an archives account again so pic.twitter.com/kaKIPGTYIV

— stephen can you hear me its grim fandango (@3liza) July 30, 2017

Cars vs. Guns? A recent study showed that guns are now the second-leading killer of kids in the U.S. But what does it say about our culture that we seem to gloss over the first? (Spoiler alert: It’s cars.) The new episode is here! https://t.co/Ar0Rt595qU

— The War on Cars (@TheWarOnCars) January 14, 2019

Mutiny on the Sex Raft: how a 70s science project descended into violent chaos https://t.co/IJRLHHSjki

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 14, 2019

WHY HAS "SWEET CHILD O' MINE" BEEN BLARING ON REPEAT FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS??? pic.twitter.com/m3xhIUYBIc

— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) January 13, 2019

"Evolution may have less to do with rising above one’s peers than learning to get along with more of them." The first #TeamHuman excerpt has been published on Medium! https://t.co/B3fA5JR7uo And yes: get the book!

— douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) January 14, 2019

These LA teachers striking against privatization + demanding smaller classrooms/more support for their students is a whole 2019 mood
💃🏿💃🏼💃🏽 pic.twitter.com/iMska5whpH

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 14, 2019

"How do we want to live among technology and each other? Why are cities treated like app platforms?"https://t.co/mgDlZ747vQ

— Carol Romero #NiUnaMenos (@_carol_romero) January 18, 2019

22000 on schoolstrike in Switzerland today. And way over 30000 in Germany. The people are rising. The world is at a tipping point. Now we have to continue pushing hard! Everyone is needed. This is just the beginning. #FridaysForFuture #schoolstrike4climate #ClimateStrike https://t.co/qp8oLReSd1

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) January 18, 2019

Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/dyMe6NjkcD

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 19, 2019

According to technocratic fantasies, data will soon make politics irrelevant, and those who refuse to accept “what the data says” must be malevolent or stupid. It should come as no surprise if this view leads citizens to discredit data-talk entirely.https://t.co/hTpNeEWA86

— The New Atlantis (@tnajournal) January 11, 2019

The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End https://t.co/Gtj1LMbRQ9

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 13, 2019

"We cannot dominate nature for much longer, but neither can we retreat from civilization. This cannot be a war between those who want to preserve nature against those pursuing progress. Team Human includes everybody." – #TeamHuman, #73https://t.co/QCJ0NgBZtt pic.twitter.com/SejMTV8z6H

— douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) January 13, 2019

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— Cats (@SpaceCatPics) January 11, 2019

”Daddy, what did you do during the sixth mass extinction?”#ExtinctionRebellion #JoinTheRebellion pic.twitter.com/RS10pjy1iw

— Extinction Rebellion Skåne (@SkaneXr) January 11, 2019

hoosier black cap black raspberries, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1908 pic.twitter.com/gQ3VHURtYH

— old fruit pictures (@pomological) January 11, 2019

Franciscus versus his evil opponents. pic.twitter.com/t0a35Kofzg

— JESUSISM (@OfCatholics) January 11, 2019

Sad if environmentalists wax poetic about electric individual vehicles rather than examine a basic mass-transit approach.

Good for private car capitalists' profits but neither necessary nor justifiable economically, ecologically, or otherwise.https://t.co/ErPt98yjZY

— Richard D. Wolff (@profwolff) January 9, 2019

Meanwhile, “Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why.” Next week, the World Magnetic Model will be revised—it “underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones.” https://t.co/uW9aCCmatf

— Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) January 9, 2019

Looks like Google isn't giving up on developing AI weapons after all https://t.co/5KsMYIyKNv (via @TimothyS) pic.twitter.com/hcHN3XwPOh

— Corey Pein 😃🤑😐😩💀 (@coreypein) January 9, 2019

'Right to repair' gathers force
Or at least obligation not to sell "land-fill".
And maybe access to spare parts.
Maybe we'll also decide that designed obsolescence is unethical too. #ClimateBreakdown#ExistentialThreat#breathehttps://t.co/OmMdYeeeDP

— Tom Butler (@TheTomButler) January 9, 2019

Self-driving Tesla knocks over autonomous robot https://t.co/ergHYw4Czn

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 9, 2019

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— raskolnikov did nothing wrong (@hannahgais) January 9, 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) January 5, 2019

The Pallas’s cat has the best facial expressions pic.twitter.com/w6lB4UNRnq

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 4, 2019

Succulents grow the most during the spring and summer. Once fall rolls around the plants like to take a break. During their fall/winter dormant period, watering should be reduced… – See more at: https://t.co/ittkS9W3d1

— World of Succulents (@SucculentWorld) January 2, 2019

Unsurprisingly self-driving cars are not as easy to make as boosters said 2 years ago. Also, looks like they’ll be used to automate and deskill the heavily unionized transportation sector: https://t.co/cCYUu2POXy v

— david a banks (@DA_Banks) January 5, 2019

Happy National Bird Day. Starling murmurations function through chaos theory and critical mass mathematics, but they also wander into the realm of poetry, imagination, and spirit. Look up! https://t.co/b9LryeadcQ

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt (@LyandaHaupt) January 5, 2019

Amiens Cathedral Labyrinth @atlasobscura https://t.co/oIfyEO2Jnt

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 4, 2019

Forbes is developing AI that writes first drafts of articles https://t.co/ycIOqxhtWi

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 4, 2019

I just published https://t.co/T4SvMFOgCY

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) January 2, 2019

Some people say, “I don’t think it’s right for the government to restrict car usage; people should be free to do what they want.”

But they’re forgetting that by designing streets like this, many local gov’ts have already effectively banned riding a bike, with a penalty of death. pic.twitter.com/SfWJ4E4m7q

— Laura Goodfellow 🚌🏃🏼‍♀️ (@transitrunner) January 2, 2019

#UCDavis‘ @JamieLPeyton continues success with innovation burn care for animals. https://t.co/0vGIzPC3V3

— UC Davis Vet Med (@ucdavisvetmed) January 2, 2019

Photos Document the Decorated Clay Houses of a Royal African Village https://t.co/u46HgnlFNu

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2018

Centennial at Tejon Ranch https://t.co/DMXelleR6H via @wordpressdotcom

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 22, 2018

Got in our @Zipcar we've been driving for 3 days. It doesn't start. Call Zipcar and get told that the car can't access the internet so it won't start. The only option is to have a tow truck come and tow it to somewhere where it has internet.

— Keith Smiley (@SmileyKeith) December 27, 2018

it took 1000s of years to get the amount of work to create light down to trivial amounts so everyone could use it

it took just 10 years to fuck it up and need a few megawatts of servers to turn one bulb on from the couch pic.twitter.com/ikgelQR3Ls

— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) December 27, 2018

Can corporate architects be done for unintentional manslaughter? How office design can kill employees…. https://t.co/sGIzkHR0pD

— Cameron Sinclair (@casinclair) December 27, 2018

“Many arborists assumed these stumps were dead, but Milarch and his son, Jake, discovered living tissue growing from the trees’ roots…” Giant coast redwoods, cut down in the 19th century, successfully cloned. https://t.co/FHL7Nzgj6H pic.twitter.com/dsAFkVoUp2

— Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) December 27, 2018

The shutdown comes to Joshua Tree, where, with no federal employees to keep an eye on things, people are littering, lighting illegal fires, and “stringing Christmas lights from delicate Joshua trees that they are supposed to leave untouched.” https://t.co/vfr6fh6vvN

— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) December 27, 2018

anyone want a home built to look like a castle by people whose experience of castles is limited to Game of Thrones and various Las Vegas resorts? https://t.co/kQfZv7i4Q4

— soor ploom (@spindlypete) December 26, 2018

To come to modern mathematical ideas of space, humans first had to concieve of it as an 'arena' in which things might be. My essay on the history of space as a scientific concept is Editors Pick 2018 at @aeonmag https://t.co/XcpSJ0WEt3

— Margaret Wertheim (@margaretwerth) December 27, 2018

Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound | Maryanne Wolf https://t.co/yfoBmftqXq

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 26, 2018

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— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) December 25, 2018

"One of the deepest ironies of our current situation is that the modes of communication that enable today’s authoritarians were first dreamed up to defeat them". https://t.co/Irigyf6QSc

— lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) December 24, 2018

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— Meow Meow BEAAAAAMMMMMZZZ (@MeowMeowBeamz) December 21, 2018

Gaudete https://t.co/Z2ww43F4JM via @YouTube

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 26, 2018

CHARGING YOUR PHONE ON MY XMAS LIGHTS??? 👀 pic.twitter.com/CVFvrYvcSD

— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) December 17, 2018

"CHICKEN FOUND IN BLUE PANTS" pic.twitter.com/vcavTdL6jQ

— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) December 18, 2018

Douglas Rushkoff: Join "Team Human!" https://t.co/fNNqfE1Hep

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 18, 2018

Solemn Christmas Mass at @stjohnsla Monday at 10:30 PM. Ancient liturgy and beautiful music: https://t.co/JoQ3Go14x2

— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 22, 2018

I do love the way that Georgian binders whacked in their tooling by eye. Modern binders are far too precise. https://t.co/ZsZsXCsoJ0

— Allan Barton (@vitrearum) December 18, 2018

“Until you start focusing on what needs to be done, rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope.

If solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.”
– @GretaThunberg

A must-watch.pic.twitter.com/RboPxtIIEj

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 16, 2018

"The audience for these ratings [in uber & yelp] is the company and the worker rather than the public at large, which makes the experience less like using a megaphone and more like using a mandatory snitch line” https://t.co/A7eiEAi4Fb

— david a banks (@DA_Banks) December 18, 2018

Would if —and hear me out here— instead of a car in an underground tunnel we use a whole bus. And maybe that bus is customized to run on a track. No that’ll never work never mind.

— david a banks (@DA_Banks) December 19, 2018

this skips McMansion Hell and is actual hell https://t.co/HNFST4ambo

— kate wagner, an architecture critic, (@mcmansionhell) December 20, 2018

Who needs a picture of my cat napping with a sweet potato in a salad bowl this morning? pic.twitter.com/i6d80QOpAQ

— Lisa Gabriele (@lisagabrieletv) December 21, 2018

Arthur bidding farewell to his knights as they set forth on a quest for the Grail @BLMedieval Royal 14 E III f. 93v pic.twitter.com/AqqV1QyUVF

— Dr. Melibea (@melibeus1) December 22, 2018

Last day of class
[Morgan, MS M.905, 16th c.] pic.twitter.com/I3avWl9KuG

— Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) December 13, 2018