Wrath Of Gnon

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2026-08-30 21:45:20 UTC

The beauty of building with what you have rather than what you are told you need. Tom Ruby (@bgcts) First and foremost, a cordwood dwelling is accessible to anyone with wood and arms to cut and lift it. It is simple. Not easy, simple. If you have wood and mud and ash you can build a home. There's a very old cordwood cabin in Copper Harbor. For us, we peppers 2 summers to do this so that it'd last. We tested last summer by building a chicken coop. Took lessons and incorporated them into this build. We learned that Poplar debark very easily when cut down (and the bark dried rock hard if you cut and flatten it. Can be used for roof shingles. Maple is difficult to debark. Oak easier than maple but only when freshly cut. We made a 10" ruler and sorted the logs with a hand saw and then cut with chain saw. Takes discipline to make plumb cuts. We built a rig to put the logs on to help with plumb cuts. Saved all sawdust for use in mortar. Poplar dries much lighter than oak and maple making it good to use, but we have oak and Maple and Walnut in there as well. Bought inexpensive Poplar framing wood from Amish to frame the cabin for load bearing and are putting cordwood inside the 4x10 framing wood. You can buy portland/type S for mortar but that defeats our purpose of using local materials. Ag line is $12/ton from our local quarry so that is a great filler. We saved wood stove ash over the winter and have more than enough. Clay below the topsoil comes from our hillside. As for mortar discipline, we learned last summer that if too wet it will crack and pull away from the wood. But even that is repairable with pointing and relayering. This time we have a more peanut butter consistency and are leaving space inside the ends of the logs for touching up after it dries. We have a good natural reaction cycle happening with the mortar so that's good. This is an accessible process. It is very forgiving. And it allows for varying anesthetics from lots of big logs with small fillers to all small dowels. All work. I have several books on the process and there are cordwood homes around the world. As https://bitter.st/wrathofgnon said 2 years ago, "just use your local mud or make some." He was right. — https://bitter.st/bgcts/status/2094061953173860709#m
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2026-08-30 05:25:44 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Unpopular opinion: Thomas Aquinas College in California, a Great Books Catholic College with no majors, provides a far more serious undergraduate education than Harvard.
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2026-08-21 09:00:21 UTC

Thrift, antique and vintage clothing stores are very badly organized: "Here's 55 random white or off-white shirts have fun finding one that fits" or "here's 29 dinner jackets with a few tuxedos and stealthy blazers thrown in, enjoy finding your size none of them are marked cause we don't bother with that." Instead they should be thematically ordered in some way, by size and/or coordinated setups: "Here's three setups of trousers, jackets, shirts, that all go together, each to fit a roughly defined common sized person, our really odd items or sizes are over there. These two would fit you." Then you can say "I like this style and this is my size" and the shop staff can show you close alternatives. Something to start with. Nobody feels like shopping after having tried to figure out the 38th indecipherable size tag.

2026-08-21 03:25:10 UTC

Comparing European limited warfare of the late 17th to 18th centuries with what they found in North America: “The American Indian who lay in wait for the earliest colonists had, unfortunately, not read Grotius or Vattel.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans, The Colonial Experience, 1958
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2026-08-05 03:10:11 UTC

Since the 1629 wreck of the Batavia is in the news again, here is the Tuscan style classical portico that was part of the ship's cargo. A ready made construction complete with instructions on for assembly at the Dutch VOC fort in Indonesia, the Kasteel Batavia. https://tetanggaexhibition.com/en/node/18
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2026-08-05 01:55:11 UTC

This graphic please but for Australian cats:
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2026-08-05 01:40:17 UTC

We need a graphic like this but for water depletion, dead salmon runs and groundwater, but it is pot farms:
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2026-08-05 01:40:13 UTC

No bad idea is ever so bad it can't get worse: “Groundwater pumped to irrigate cannabis crops in California's Emerald Triangle can cause some streams that normally run year-round to dry up entirely during summer.” https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/media/media-releases/2026/08/running-dry--cannabis-farming-is-changing-streams-in-california-.html
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2026-08-04 05:15:10 UTC

Every single problem we face as humans on this Earth has already been solved in some way or other. Our times, our fears and desires, our pains, our blocks and stumbles, are not unique. We just need to reach back and pick and chose. We might not always find what we are looking for: we might find something different that also works, or stumble upon something we had discarded that can be dusted off and used again. One thing is for sure though, there is not now nor ever will be, a tabula rase, a clear table from which to start. For better or worse, everything about us came from somewhere, out of something. The tabula rasa is a utopia. delusional ideal or an ideology. The sooner we abandon this dumbest of all ideas to come out of the Enlightenment, the better.

2026-07-24 01:15:26 UTC

Canada speed-running the "Monty Python sketch" to real life horror as usual.
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2026-07-23 23:30:17 UTC

Where bamboo grows it is an excellent "first responder" in restoring and charging aquifers, stopping erosion, and lessening the risk of landslides. It can also be planted to protect water bodies from nutrient leeching and as a byproduct you get fuel, building materials, industrial raw materials, food etc. Tree planting can then take place to slowly replace the first protective zone of bamboo for a more permanent solution decades or centuries out. Planting and harvesting bamboo can be done with the simplest of hand tools by anyone able to perform even the lightest of physical work.
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2026-07-23 03:30:17 UTC

Built in Tokyo in the mid-19th century and moved to Kamakura in the mid-20th century, the former Watsuji residence. Very charming from the garden entrance.
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2026-07-22 09:55:10 UTC

What feudal laws governed rural towns and villages when it came to forestry and poaching of precious wood in the domain of Shinano (modern Nagano Prefecture) in the early nineteenth century, and how enforcement and punishment were handled when it came to ordinary commoners. “In the old days, when a tree fell in the Kiso, a head went with it.” — Before the dawn, Shimazaki Tōson (1872-1943)
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2026-07-13 05:55:10 UTC

The organic way of city growth: mature cities, rather than growing like a cancer out of their bounds and limits, send out colonies to form new ones. Léon Krier illustrated it thus:
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2026-06-17 23:25:10 UTC

Fukui Station is filled with dinosaur statues and replicas, I would have been thrilled as small boy. Apparently this one is Fukuiraptor.
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2026-06-17 05:50:10 UTC

"Approximately 25% of adult women have been sexually assaulted in England and Wales since the age of 16." "D-Day on June 6, 1944, where Allied forces sustained over 10,300 casualties out of about 160,000 troops, representing an overall casualty rate of roughly 6% during the initial assault." I'd rather storm a Normandy beach in 1944 than be a young woman in the UK. At least I'd be allowed to carry assault weapons and get a medal at the end.

2026-06-15 23:20:12 UTC

“Like plants, men can not exist without roots.” — Dominique Venner
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2026-06-14 23:20:13 UTC

Rammed earth "art" in Yokohama's Minato Mirai Grand Mall area. Leaving the nonsensical "artiness" aside, it is interesting from the aspect of physical materials. Rammed earth using different soils for different layers (normally you'd use the best possible local soil to achieve even strength and durability). These were made in 2015 and after 11 years of wind rain typhoons and the usual subtropical extreme humidity it seems to have held up well enough with zero maintenance. There's some biological surface reactions as well as weaker layers losing more material than is should have (the effect of mixing layers of different materials) and what looks like mechanical damage to the corners. The white granite tops come without any overhang or dripline so they also likely accelerate deterioration. If used to build homes or more useful structures I'd probably put on a proper roof and if possible some sort of cladding. Still, it holds up really well, proving once again that rammed earth works in any climates.
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2026-04-13 01:35:20 UTC

I have a feeling the house was meant to have wooden or plaster cladding, or even did have it once upon a time. The restored building does not have it though. These larger log mansions were usually built to imitate more expensive stone castles.
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2026-04-05 03:05:12 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Comment l'immeuble du 64 Boulevard Barbès a été surélevé d'un étage, par le bas en 1868. Dans ce qui était alors le Bd Ornano les travaux d'Haussmann ont nécessité d'abaisser le chaussée d'où ce procédé ingénieux qui "tient" toujours, 158 ans plus tard: http://actionbarbes.blogspirit.com/archive/2017/08/24/histoire-des-rues-de-la-goutte-d-or-le-boulevard-barbes-3095612.html
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2026-04-03 15:00:23 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Applications to all our craft workshops are open until the 24th of May! -The Round Table of Architecture- 👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DWosICOCBGi/?img_index=1 👉 https://www.latablerondearchitecture.com/en/ateliers
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2026-04-03 13:05:13 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Obviously wise counsel from Wrath, and why we need to reform construction, which has been regulated into fragility. Prescriptive building codes generally disallow many traditional methods and components (site-made windows, un-rated insulation, etc) without an engineer's certification. As this is prohibitively expensive for one-off construction, even when a traditional method outperforms the industrialized method, it's disallowed because it isn't certified. The contractor must therefore buy components that depend on the global supply chain. Even during lockdowns, when deliveries of window packages were delayed by many months, permitting and inspection departments did not ease their requirements. It was and is effectively illegal for your local cabinet maker to make your window. Humans have been building homes forever, but only in the last 100 years did governments begin requiring that we build them with materials and components sourced globally. One of the main reasons why architecture is so soulless.
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2026-04-03 11:20:13 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
This is some of the best design and construction advice I've heard in a long time... thanks!
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2026-04-03 11:00:24 UTC

The Duke of Sussex has the chance to make the most epic comeback in the history of Western Civilization right now.
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2026-04-03 05:30:18 UTC

Build with what is immune to global supply chain disruptions.
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2026-04-03 03:05:20 UTC

This office building in Tokyo, post-war, cheap and dirty corrugated iron cladding, is more charming and interesting than almost anything built in the last half century in this metropolis.
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2026-04-03 03:05:13 UTC

Wait. Berlusconi was on of us...?
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2026-04-02 01:00:25 UTC

It wouldn't be difficult to set up a small building crafts school to teach young couples how to build their own homes. Programs to fund students exist almost everywhere in the world. The materials are not expensive. There is ample lands. Why not let your municipality become the first to give young citizens a chance to start a new life debt free?
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2026-04-01 13:50:13 UTC

We must close the nutrient loop. By any means necessary.
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2026-04-01 13:40:13 UTC

You do not hate the modern world enough.
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2026-04-01 03:00:26 UTC

Schools (being already divided by neighborhood) could get a mix of "adopted insect species" and encourage their students to set up micro habitats for breeding (or to simply exist) insects.
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2026-04-01 01:40:14 UTC

Anywhere the humble birch tree grows in abundance is a prime location for where to build sod or turf roofs. Urban or suburban or rural, it works anywhere, uses no plastics and no fuel or electricity at all and literally grown on trees and the turf we walk on.
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2026-04-01 01:10:20 UTC

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/more-hedges-lead-to-more-insects-even-in-relatively-green-agricultural-areas

2026-04-01 01:10:18 UTC

“Field margins where hedges have been planted attract twice as many insects as those without hedges. This holds true even in agricultural areas that already contain plenty of natural habitat.”
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2026-04-01 01:10:14 UTC

When I first joined Twitter back in 2014 I shared a scientific article with the word "impacted" in the headline and got such a beating from people like @380kmh and I think @lueyee too (my memory is hazy) that I can't use that word at all even when it is legit. Now every-time I see it in print or online I cringe. Every day on Twitter is a new learning experience but it is funny what sticks the hardest.

2026-03-31 23:05:11 UTC

Lügenpresse.
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2026-03-31 13:10:11 UTC

The coolest thing about the "back to the earth wool carding victory gardening orchard planting hippies" is that they love nothing more than being helpful. The words "Can you teach me how to do this?" is like catnip to them.

2026-03-31 13:00:36 UTC

If you live in the northern hemisphere now is when you look up how to grow herbs, vegetables, fruits etc. on any speck of land you might have access too. If nothing happens this summer your friends and relatives will love your gifts of fresh home grown produce. If something happens, well, no need to brag about it.

2026-03-31 13:00:34 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
“If you meet anyone in a pub or at a party who says he is an architect, punch him in the face.” Auberon Waugh
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2026-03-31 13:00:31 UTC

Since modern housing is mostly plastics and caulk, you can imagine what is happening to building material prices right now. Luckily we still know how to build energy efficient homes without a speck of plastic. If we want to.
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2026-03-31 13:00:28 UTC

Granites, marbles and limestones (in that order) holding up well. Sandstones and slate not so much. However, these are the results from this climate and this application only, even though the general trend should be similar worldwide. All stone types have their own pros and cons.
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2026-03-31 11:00:29 UTC

Hahahaha

2026-03-31 11:00:27 UTC

“Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.”
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2026-03-31 05:00:25 UTC

Probably one of the most famous Kansas City residents worldwide, William "Count" Basie (1904-1984) lived in this small house on 1327 Brooklyn Avenue maybe 1927-1935, it looks like a balloon frame construction. Sometime between 2019 and 2022 it burned down, because of course nobody cared about it. It was once part of a dense neighborhood of mostly Sicilian immigrants. Today an empty lot.
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2026-03-31 03:00:28 UTC

The most innovative thing you can do today is build something radically old.
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2026-03-31 03:00:24 UTC

Our modern disposable architecture makes less sense for each passing day. Build to last with natural materials to the human scale not the factory scale.
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2026-03-31 01:55:11 UTC

Modernism (and whatever variants you might be thinking of) is impossible without cheap and abundant oil. Everything from foundations to the sealants you need to stop water from tearing it apart. Traditional architecture and the humble vernacular will persevere though.
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2026-03-31 01:30:22 UTC

Kamakura streets. #GoodUrbanism means narrow streets for people where cars are guests.
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2026-03-31 01:10:15 UTC

Kamakura restaurant. #GoodUrbanism is detailed.
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2026-03-31 01:00:24 UTC

Three points: Wood lasts longer if given the chance to breathe. Build so that if one part or one piece gets damaged you don't need to replace the entire structure. Eaves matter, and the undersides of eaves matter for people who spend time underneath them.
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2026-03-30 11:15:17 UTC

A people that forgets its past has no future.
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2026-03-30 09:25:21 UTC

"Roman spenglerien".
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2026-03-30 09:25:18 UTC

The Matsuyama Tatami Store has been a family business for over 80 years, a stone throw from the fifth largest train and subway station in the world (over 760 million passengers annually). Now in its fourth generation ownership. The city grew up around it. Photo from 2018.
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2026-03-30 09:25:12 UTC

We should try an anti-jubilee: instead of pardoning criminals we declare one month a year when all violent criminals sentenced will receive unpardonable five-fold punishments. Just to see how much violent crimes drop. And if it has a large effect we make the five-fold rate permanent. Repeat as necessary.

2026-03-30 07:30:17 UTC

There's been a lot of comments about the effect of the Anglosphere starting to see Japanese content on their feeds. But let me add to that: Japanese users are also starting to see tons more anglophone content than they used to. And what they are seeing is unsettling to say the least.

2026-03-30 03:25:22 UTC

This must be embarrassing for all the "first world nations" in the world.

2026-03-30 03:25:13 UTC

Castillo San Cristóbal was the main defensive fortress of San Juan, on Puerto Rico, built by the Spanish 1634-1783 in stone on 27 acres, and the largest fort they ever built in the New World. Since the fortress had no access to fresh water engineers built five large cisterns connected by channels and pipes to to collect all rainwater that fell on fort, making it completely independent on any other water sources. The cisterns together held almost 800,000 gallons and with frequent rains it would essentially never risk running out of water. The system was in use until 1898 when San Juan was captured by the U.S. who feared the Spanish had poisoned the cisterns. In 2011 the rainwater harvesting resumed and the fort is now self-sufficient in facilities water.
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2026-03-30 01:05:13 UTC

Almost anyone can build their own home. It isn't esoteric knowledge and doesn't involve fine rapid motor skills requiring extreme precision like playing the violin. Just like sewing a pair of pants or even a whole suit, every step of building a home can be accomplished by taking time to carefully complete every step of the process in order using the correct techniques depending on the materials used. But there is no way an amateur can build homes more profitably or efficiently than a professional home builder. That takes experience and skills beyond the ability of most individuals these days. It is the same with clothing. I buy my suit because it is cheaper for me to get it off the rack than it is for me to make it myself. The interesting difference is when you want something not available on the market, or when the market is so distorted as to make even the DIY approach more efficient. Or better even. I am convinced that the modern home (housing, to be exact) is now more expensive, more unhealthy and more wasteful than what you'd have if you built it yourself. A lot of what I post about here is myself looking into what it would take to create homes and communities by ourselves rather than relying on banks, governments and industry. You can learn too, by tagging along with me.
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2026-03-29 23:05:12 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Timelapse of a real half-timbered house by Holzbau Pappe
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2026-03-29 13:45:17 UTC

The traditional latticework of the tea houses in Kanazawa are called kimusuko (木虫籠), and installed in such a manner that in the daytime you have almost a full view of the outside, but from the outside you can not see almost anything of the inside. It is all because of the trapezoid shape of the lattices. In the old days before electric lightning this was the perfect solution for busy streets and more private interiors. But these days, no matter how well designed the lattices are, at night the situation becomes a little of the opposite with better views of the inside than of the outside. Presently curtains or sliding paper doors are used from dusk to shield the interiors.
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2026-03-28 14:55:20 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
“My father observed that most buildings, and most buildings that we truly love, are not the work of architects. The agreeable settledness of the old English town, he reasoned, was the work of local craftsmen…” —Sir Roger Scruton
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2026-03-28 14:55:17 UTC

Exactly.

2026-03-28 02:05:14 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
What the NYTimes described as a “small art school in Queens” that somehow nabbed $2m in NEH funding is actually one of premier (if not the premier) institutions of figurative sculpture in America today. If you don’t know Grand Central Atelier, you should now. They’ll be essential contributors to the next great monuments and works of figurative art. I’ve been lucky to interact with the tiny group of recent graduates from their sculpture program (Maia Williamson, Sam Davis, and Monumental Labs’ very own Julian Prairie) and they are some of the most talented sculptors of their generation. The political angle of the article and in fact the politicization of classical art in general is quite funny to watch. From what I see, the people who generally teach and learn at GCA and other classical art schools are nowhere near being the MAGA types that media coverage would have you imagine. Really happy for Grand Central Atelier. The NEH did well here. Link to article below.
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2026-03-27 12:00:25 UTC

Ginza, Tokyo. The building to the right is a long shopping mall built underneath the elevated railway lines.
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2026-03-27 00:55:12 UTC

The home of legendary Portuguese art deco architect Francisco Augusto da Silva Rocha, built in sun dried mud brick (adobe) in 1906, Aveiro, Portugal. Four floors.
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2026-03-27 00:45:16 UTC

A private residence built in sun dried mud brick, adobe, in 1783, Casa de Carcavelos, Vila Verde, Portugal.
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2026-03-27 00:25:11 UTC

Built in 1651 in sun dried mud brick: Igreja Velha de Quintãs, in Aveiro, Portugal, by the architect Mateus de Couto.
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2026-03-27 00:05:19 UTC

The Murphys Hotel, in the village of Murphys, Calavaras co., California, is one of the oldest continuously operated hotels in the state. Built in beautiful ashlar limestone, of which the county is famously well endowed with.
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2026-03-27 00:05:15 UTC

The Alta Vista neighborhood (Fort Collins, Colorado) has the northernmost substantial collection of vernacular adobe buildings in North America. Here is one charming family owned home, built in 1921, still in good shape, but the sheds could use a bit of maintenance.
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2026-03-26 22:45:15 UTC

Come to Japan. People here don't care about being seen as avant garde and subjecting their audiences to daring programming. In April alone we have Wagner, Brahms, Dvořák "New World"), Bizet, Verdi, Haydn (several), Bruckner, famous movie music in symphony versions, video game music concerts, Beethoven, several of Schubert and Mozart (I'm seeing Don Giovanni), Poulenc, and so on. And this weekend Sibelius. To mention the first few results from a search.
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2026-03-26 14:25:12 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Brit rulers welcome, and are even eager for, every humiliation. But there is still one thing they won't stand for.
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2026-03-26 08:25:17 UTC

One of the, if not the, most accomplished illustrators of historical architecture and landscapes in the world.
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2026-03-26 08:00:27 UTC

https://bio.au.dk/en/about-biology/news-and-events/show/artikel/gps-data-afsloerer-vilde-heste-og-kvaeg-skaber-en-mere-robust-natur

2026-03-26 08:00:25 UTC

"Feral horses and cattle create a dynamic that passive nature management—simple land abandonment—cannot match. By keeping small patches completely open while allowing others to grow, the animals create a patchwork of habitats with varying resilience."
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2026-03-26 04:25:12 UTC

This ramp, along with the one belonging to the Waitrose supermarket in Poundbury are the two most beautiful ramps I have ever seen. Photos by @SCP_Hughes
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2026-03-26 04:15:17 UTC

The man who changed my life. Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) The single most insightful person about modernity and enduring truth over the past century is GK Chesterton, a 300+ pound British journalist with bad teeth. He was only right about literally everything. — https://nitter.poast.org/JeremyTate41/status/2037004769676410990#m
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2026-03-26 04:15:15 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Not all ramps are created equal. Never permit performative plastic.
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2026-03-26 02:25:15 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
"I'm at the Starbucks!" "I'm at the Family Mart!" "I'm at the combination beautiful @wrathofgnon-core traditional Starbucks and Family Mart."

2026-03-25 14:00:33 UTC

Ginza, Tokyo.
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2026-03-25 02:15:17 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Kundera brilliant on his country’s name. Wonder what he made of the appalling neologism ‘Czechia’?
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2026-03-24 12:45:18 UTC

I suspect this polite Citoyenne of Nantes would agree with me.
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2026-03-24 12:00:31 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
Celebrating the birthday of William Morris, born on this day in 1834. He played a central role in the Arts and Crafts Movement, championing the value of handmade craftsmanship at a time when the Victorian era was defined by industrial progress.
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2026-03-24 12:00:27 UTC

RT @[email protected]:
A revolution is on its way in Europe. New schools are being founded to restore the crafts and beauty in architecture. Support La Table Ronde de l'Architecture in their quest to create the 'Anti-Bauhaus'
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2026-03-24 08:35:20 UTC

The town of Tønsberg, Norway planned a new modernist building by the main square, but a counter proposal was given and according to the local newspaper. after 5,000 votes the result was firmly—92%—for classical architecture in harmony with the existing town architecture. Obviously the architects and modernists are upset the people aren't buying their ugly proposal.
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2026-03-24 06:00:24 UTC

The best time to plant a food garden was ten years ago. The second best time is today.

2026-03-24 04:05:30 UTC

The Old Post Office, Rampisham, Dorset. Originally two cottages joined into one, rubble stone and chalk block walls, thatched roof, early 18th century. The roads have been somewhat improved but unhappily so, for the village ducks.
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2026-03-24 04:05:27 UTC

“Although the cottage orné period became firmly established during the early part of the nineteenth century, the impetus towards the picturesque had started much earlier in the eighteenth century. A few wealthy landowners in Dorset built groups of model thatched cottages, landscaped into the surrounding scenery for the labourers working on their estates. Eventually, they became more ornate as the architects began to play a greater role in their design. The eventual passing of the cottage orné period was partly due to the rich deciding that they preferred to spend their holiday leisure abroad, in warmer climes than in England. Nevertheless, even to the present time, many people still dream of living in an idyllic thatched cottage in the countryside, with visions of climbing roses, honeysuckle and clematis on the walls. The more rustic its appearance, so the greater the charm of the thatched cottage in attracting a town or city dweller. Many people retire to such cottages, to fulfil a lifetime's ambition to escape from urban surroundings and industrialization.” — Michael Billett, 1984
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2026-03-24 04:05:23 UTC

“Although the cottage orné period became firmly established during the early part of the nineteenth century, the impetus towards the picturesque had started much earlier in the eighteenth century. A few wealthy landowners in Dorset built groups of model thatched cottages, landscaped into the surrounding scenery for the labourers working on their estates. Eventually, they became more ornate as the architects began to play a greater role in their design. The eventual passing of the cottage orné period was partly due to the rich deciding that they preferred to spend their holiday leisure abroad, in warmer climes than in England. Nevertheless, even to the present time, many people still dream of living in an idyllic thatched cottage in the countryside, with visions of climbing roses, honeysuckle and clematis on the walls. The more rustic its appearance, so the greater the charm of the thatched cottage in attracting a town or city dweller. Many people retire to such cottages, to fulfil a lifetime's ambition to escape from urban surroundings and industrialization.” — Michael Billett, 1984 Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) The cottage orné style, popular in the 1810s and 1820s, pioneered by the architect John Nash (1752-1835). Probably the cutest architectural style ever invented. Characteristic are the cusped eaves, to add even more flair to the ornate roofs. — https://nitter.poast.org/wrathofgnon/status/2036267305278255343#m
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2026-03-24 04:05:19 UTC

Any country that doesn't replicate what El Salvador managed in mere months is telling the world their only purpose is to protect criminals and terrorize law abiding citizens. They are themselves criminals.
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2026-03-24 02:35:17 UTC

The cottage orné style, popular in the 1810s and 1820s, pioneered by the architect John Nash (1752-1835). Probably the cutest architectural style ever invented. Characteristic are the cusped eaves, to add even more flair to the ornate roofs.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d11a283f1082175ac50e51fa7c7940bd8cb82ea1bb7cf2a0fe1845e0234a7334.file
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2026-03-23 22:55:16 UTC

The epitaph Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote for himself 1834. Buried in Highgate, London.
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2026-03-23 12:25:14 UTC

Ochanomizu.
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2026-03-23 10:15:13 UTC

On the Tommies (enlisted men) ward in 1915. Some things never change.
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2026-03-23 10:05:09 UTC

If enough of your generation shows that you won't roll over this whole thing will be over in less than three years. The opposition has nothing once the silent majority switches on.

2026-03-23 06:00:32 UTC

In a better world this would be the national headwear of the USA, instead we got the baseball cap.
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2026-03-23 06:00:27 UTC

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2026-03-23 04:00:29 UTC

This is Millan House, on Lennox Hill, Upper East Side, Manhattan NYC. Built in 1931 for Rockefeller by NY state architect Andrew J. Thomas who was famous for being cost efficient as rental homes for employees of the Rockefeller Institute(their director was the first tenant). Romanesque Revival on the street side, and Italianate on the garden side. The animal themed door surrounds are carved limestone. Once it represented an almost philanthropic interest in beauty and honest labor. Today, it wouldn't be difficult to copy these and have them machine carved and replaced, or remade to fit other buildings in other cities around the world.
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2026-03-23 02:35:13 UTC

Always with the pattern noticing, Steve.

2026-03-23 00:45:20 UTC

https://cordwoodconstruction.org/kinstone-cordwood-chapel-stone-circle
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2026-03-23 00:45:17 UTC

The Kinstone Chapel, hand built in 2013, stone base, cordwood wall, round-pole roof and reed thatched roof. Fountain City, Wisconsin.
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