#Buildings

Deeply suspicious that the current residential property investing fad among high-salary young people is going to produce a bunch of little slumlords. The formula being: buy a cheap property in
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Last week @alexevansuk and I launched the #LongCrisisScenarios with @localtrust.Four stories about worlds where we polarize or act collectively, centralize or give everyone a role. A thread on some of
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Ughhh I get that "peaceful protest" is something that ytppl love to see bc it's calming to think that change happens when people behave themselves, but that rhetoric is what
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A reminder: culture is worth 5% of the GDP, $111billion. More than agriculture. The arts are central to culture and alone are worth $4.8billion. They employ hundreds of thousands of
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The AMAZING Background Art of Amphibia, a thread; Buildings and Natural Places! (1/4) (2/4) (3/4) (4/4) Indoors BGs! (1/4) (2/4) (3/4) (4/4) These were the best examples I could find
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hongrui 02 today’s tutorial, ping mentioned about combining two concepts to get the best of both worlds (the water bottle analogy) to solve the problems caused by the bottle, and
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Thinking about the “Neo-Andean” architecture that flourished in Bolivia under Evo Morales. These are all by architect Freddy Mamani Mamani’s work also influenced the work of other Bolivian architects The
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I’m getting concerned that the damage from a storm system called “derecho” isn’t getting much national news coverage. THIS MATTERS. Why? Money and help follow news coverage. This isn’t a
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horrifying images out of portland, which has a lot fewer buildings than i thought oh sorry those were from when obama sent militarized shock troops to crush the standing rock
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The southern wind was creeping around him, the queen and bronze vultures were trilling as they bounced away, and Isou was idly envying the dead when he came upon it:
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Say whatever you want, but Trump’s law and order message is working with white voters.Biden’s soft condemnation of rioting/looting frankly doesn’t go far enough, and that needs to change.If it
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It’s official, palshttps://twitter.com/BenjaminMillar/status/1263759518082596871 I’m actually a bit ambivalent about this because it doesn’t seem like something former patients are happy about! sorry the reappraisal of brutalist archi
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The Chinese magazine Renwu just published a long feature on “algorithms and food delivery drivers”.Apparently the delivery platforms ask drivers to follow ***walking*** rather than driving directions, so drivers have
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What's going on in France and why are arabs boycotting them ( a thread ) 1. Stabbing of two Muslim womenTwo days ago two Muslim women were repeatedly stabbed near
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Time to tweet my SBOE testimony. I'm on a panel with the DFER lobbyist. Oh joy of joys. Makes my testimony extra delicious. Our District leadership needs to wake up,
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If you’re having a shitty day, just remember that you cannot fuck up as badly as the engineers in charge of the railway station in Alexandria (Egypt) who accidentally built
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