Wrath Of Gnon

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Traditionalist. #GoodUrbanism

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2026-04-03 11:20:13 GMT

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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2026-03-15 12:01:46 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
If you believe beauty is subjective, you will likely produce nothing beautiful. If you believe, for a moment, it might be real, then you start to examine what makes beautiful things beautiful: alignments, symmetries, proportions, profiles, orders, harmonies.
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2026-03-15 02:16:00 GMT

Norwegian medieval kings had laws against littering. Maybe modern Norwegian kings should demand their army of bureaucrats enforce the ones they have now.
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2026-03-14 12:01:04 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
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2026-02-10 00:05:53 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
They will often justify demolishing buildings like these because “there are so many others exactly like this”, so why does it matter if we lose a few They will keep saying this until there are hardly any such buildings left, and then claim only the best ones survived. Slow change is dangerous because once people forget the past, it’s easy to convince them of what wasn’t.
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2026-02-03 10:35:45 GMT

Chronic lower back pain cost the US $100 billion annually directly and two or three times that if you include indirect costs like loss of labour. However simple walking for about 1.5-2 hours daily reduced the risk of developing it by 23%. The cost reduction for society encouraging us to walk more and drive less are potentially huge (not even starting to count all the other health positives of walking). Why not start with encouraging the building of walkable mixed high density neighborhoods and towns that was the human norm for thousands of years? And make them walkable. We know from studies on campuses and theme parks that even Americans are happy to spend far more than 2 hours on their feet if they can be distracted by alluring or interesting surroundings.
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2026-01-14 00:16:01 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
Happiness is a choice, I tell myself, and that usually works. But when something disturbs my peace, nothing brings it back as well and as quickly as walking. Slightly annoyed? Around 1 block. Seriously irked? Around 2 blocks. Angry? Around 3-4 blocks. Anger is rare for me now.
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2026-01-08 02:05:48 GMT

"Heavy snow is knocking out our buses, car traffic is stopped and trams are derailing! What should we do?!" "Old trams."
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2026-01-06 10:45:51 GMT

I would welcome this kind of democratic process. Everyday we are confronted with appalling waste of money and resources by politicians who hide behind the parliamentary processes and only shows their faces when it comes time to milk the electorate for fresh votes.
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2026-01-06 10:01:07 GMT

On the conservatism of Herbert Butterfield and the secular vision of original sin: “When we abandon the notion of original sin, we come to think that evil is concentrated entirely among our enemies, and that none of it lies in ourselves. By projecting all evil onto our opponents, we authorize ourselves to "treat the political enemy as subhuman, irredeemable." Political struggle then takes on existential stakes, becoming a war between the righteous and the wicked—with ourselves, of course, on the side of the righteous.... In political life, certain ideas motivate people to crush their enemies and to pursue final solutions. One of them is self-righteousness; another is utopianism.” https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/herbert-butterfield-and-original-sin
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2025-12-24 10:45:49 GMT

"The future belongs to those who show up."

2025-12-16 00:55:52 GMT

Finally some nice words for neolithic farmers: “Where there was once mainly forest, there were now smaller patches of forest...A farmed Europe had a wider range of habitats for plants to live in than an unfarmed Europe.” https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/farmers-boosted-europes-biodiversity/
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2025-12-15 06:15:56 GMT

If this is your aesthetics maybe you are the bad guys.
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2025-12-14 10:15:57 GMT

Article from 2021 but the situation in America is getting worse year by year. Rising estrangement in families and among relatives is probably a key factor in the explosive rise in homelessness. https://theconversation.com/family-rifts-affect-millions-of-americans-research-shows-possible-paths-from-estrangement-toward-reconciliation-165781
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2025-12-14 10:05:47 GMT

The ongoing Cultural Revolution in the West: "The data paints a troubling picture of U.S. adults stretched thin between societal division and personal disconnection." https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2025/11/nation-suffering-division-loneliness
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2025-12-14 06:01:46 GMT

The money in solar isn't in electricity, it is in installation. Once that is done the solar power farms are more or less abandoned and when it comes time for major maintenance and/or removal, the owners are long gone, having disappeared in a maze of sub-contractors and international schemes. Left with the mountains of toxic waste, ruined land, irreversible pollution, are the people.
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2025-12-14 02:05:47 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
🇹🇷 THEY ARE ALSO TIRED OF MODERNISM: A beautiful thing with internet is how ideas spread like wildfire. In architecture people have realized all over the globe that they are not alone in disliking modernism and yearn for a beautiful and meaningful built environment.🧵
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2025-12-12 12:25:48 GMT

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want more children and more families you give young men a higher income.
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2025-12-12 12:05:55 GMT

They think we can have order without hierarchy. They believe we can have progress without vision. They believe in education without learning, in health care with neither health nor care. They believe we can have safety with vigilance and law without justice. They ask for freedom without accepting obligations. Yet they will receive the opposite of everything they ask for. Theirs are the ruins, and all we can do is to remain standing.
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2025-12-11 04:05:50 GMT

"The study estimates that 2,406 buildings in Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai are already at high risk of structural damage. If current subsidence trends continue, over 23,000 buildings could face a very high risk within the next 50 years." https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/09/science-sinking-Indian-megacities.html
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2025-12-11 04:05:46 GMT

At @StrongTowns, @Edward_Erfurt writes about zoning as a homage to Léon Krier. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025-12-09-zoning-and-the-erosion-of-civic-life-notes-inspired-by-leon-krier
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2025-12-11 02:01:38 GMT

"We have discovered the only insect native to Antarctica!" "We regret to inform you that it is getting sick from eating micro-plastics." https://news.mgcafe.uky.edu/article/university-kentucky-finds-antarcticas-toughest-insect-already-eating-microplastics
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2025-12-11 02:01:35 GMT

You like astrophysics? Thank an English Dominican Friar. https://theconversation.com/how-a-medieval-oxford-friar-used-light-and-colour-to-find-out-what-stars-and-planets-are-made-of-262652
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2025-12-10 00:01:15 GMT

Infrastructure disappear, buildings disappear, even memories disappear. In one hundred years many of our developments and new towns will have faded away for ever as even the last digital records of them ever existing quietly dies on some hard drive in an attic.
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2025-12-06 08:25:46 GMT

The WH is obviously correct here, and all Western media and politicians can do is the usual name-calling instead of doing even the bare minimum of fact checking. Spain is an extraordinary example in itself. But it isn't only Europe. Japan and Australia/NZ are also being targeted. https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-05/trump-tells-europe-it-is-facing-civilizational-erasure.html

2025-12-05 00:55:59 GMT

"A short interaction with a chatbot can meaningfully shift a voter’s opinion about a presidential candidate or proposed policy in either direction, new Cornell research finds." https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ai-chatbots-can-effectively-sway-voters-either-direction
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2025-12-03 12:01:39 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
UC Berkeley has a new super important finding. It turns out that violent people are still violent when they move somewhere else. Neither the press release/summary and the article has any mentions of genetics.
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2025-12-03 08:05:57 GMT

They created the color guidelines for buildings in Visby, Gotland, Sweden. Possibly the most beautiful city in Scandinavia. https://gotland.se/download/18.77d939c18afea4fb126634/1697016616395/F%C3%A4rgtraditioner%20i%20Visby%20innerstad.pdf
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2025-12-02 00:55:45 GMT

Life needs boundaries: “Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Christianity is the only frame which has preserved the pleasure of Paganism. We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff’s edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries. But the walls were knocked down, leaving the naked peril of the precipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they were all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had ceased.” ― G.K. Chesterton

2025-12-01 12:05:52 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
How did the Icelanders get so strong? Well, for 100s of years, it appears wages on fishing ships was linked to physical strength via the lifting heavy stones test.
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2025-11-26 02:05:44 GMT

It would be easy for immensely wealthy places like California to build entire neighborhoods or cities impervious to wildfires. But of course they won't. However as an experiment it would be interesting if California could allow a single street to be built using traditional earthquake and fire-proof building methods: thick walls of earth, no gutters to collect flammable debris, windows and doors that can be easily sealed with wet clay and shuttered to not shatter from heat, and tiled roofs that won't catch fires from embers. Like the Japanese Kura storehouses. A system of neighborhood covering sprinklers would also be extremely efficient and not even require a new type of homes. Fire season is coming. As usual.
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2025-11-20 02:35:48 GMT

Progressives have been on a one hundred year long quest to suppress traditional architecture, to ridicule its defenders, to make the practice of it impractical and illegal. Academia has been captured and fundamentally altered for ever to cater to modernist ideology. All schools everywhere now teach nothing but modernism ideology. There is no freedom of speech or thought or expression: it has been wiped out, or where the physical object itself is too large or conspicuous, mothballed and quarantined in layers of ordinances and red-tape. Don't come to us and say that we are the authoritarian, the unreasonable and the irrational. YOU, the architect, the planner, the politician: YOU are the authoritarian tyrant ignoring the people at best and attacking them at worst, in perfect stochastic terrorism. YOU are not the plucky rebel against a hoary tradition. Have some dignity. Step back. Repent. Posterity will judge you harshly for what you have done to our cities and homes.
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2025-11-20 02:15:55 GMT

"Why are traditionalists so authoritarian!?! Why don't you just see that if the client wants modernism then that is what the architect will build!?"
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2025-11-20 02:01:39 GMT

The value in restoring objects is not only material, environmental, physical. It is also spiritually and emotionally important. It connects us to generations past and future, freeing us from the oppressive monotony of the merely present. A course in window frame restoration would do more good for our mental wellbeing than any number of drugs and therapy.
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2025-11-17 00:01:50 GMT

On the late James Stevens Curl: ‘That architecture schools continue to this day to peddle these myths frustrated Curl more than anything. Design is taught like a religion, he concluded, where the natural and innate appreciation of beauty is knocked out of students from day one and replaced with an ideology that elevates abstraction and novelty. Young people are plied with a particular received wisdom and made to “look with their ears”’. https://thecritic.co.uk/a-transcendent-life/
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2025-10-22 23:16:49 GMT

#Tradition
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2025-10-22 23:16:42 GMT

#YesKings Monarchy is the highest form of human government.
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2025-10-20 23:05:49 GMT

I have never seen such low quality concrete work in a first world city. No doubt working at those heights is difficult. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15208677/park-avenue-tower-cracks-j-lo-new-york.html

2025-10-20 09:15:49 GMT

The future belongs to the fertile and increasingly faithful.
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2025-10-20 05:01:45 GMT

"Higher levels of screen time in early childhood are associated with lower scores in reading & math on Ontario’s standardised tests, each additional hour of daily screen time associated with a 10% drop in likelihood of achieving higher academic levels." https://www.sickkids.ca/en/news/archive/2025/screen-time-linked-to-lower-academic-achievement-among-ontario-elementary-students/
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2025-10-19 09:05:41 GMT

You either have one border around your country or you end up having countless small borders around everything you wish to defend.
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2025-10-18 11:01:59 GMT

The 1905 proposal of Slussen between Södermalm and Gamla Stan in Stockholm (maybe one of the finest urban scenes in the world). Compare with what they actually got after the latest rebuild. Shared by @arkuppror and @michael_diamant in Sweden.
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2025-10-06 09:15:51 GMT

A one line question about music taste is often quoted as the easiest way to tell those double digit IQ crowd from the those of triple digit. I am ready submit for your consideration another one: the ability to understand aphorisms.

2025-10-05 23:01:21 GMT

Open borders means that you compete with the poorest of the world for jobs and the richest of the world for homes.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/03ead14affabcd6fd335e6f4cb34601b2b08c999c54ab2fbe07d3bad78b9e5a1.file

2025-10-05 01:25:47 GMT

Architectural Uprising in Lørenskog (Norway) shares this vision of what could have been. (left is reality, right is a rendering), had someone in city hall stood up for beauty instead of silent conformity.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8c8f2d29e1f28a1c2970790afaea881c309f79860e46ede0599e41fe8ebc24ff.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d798be8fed716c81f1021b9ea036ed5cbdf7d5fac20f39936021f71efe00a470.file

2025-10-05 01:25:43 GMT

Shared by @arkuppror, a remade warehouse in siglufjörður, Iceland. Beauty is a choice.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/50a3388fd820dc371d35dd76c173592a8e9a286be90febf6425b6cc936bb23dd.file

2025-10-01 11:55:49 GMT

“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.” — Russell Kirk #RussellKirkMonth
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1e674bfbf026196ba7f823d22533a98f617f9f3c1f15543d61025ee82336cc44.file

2025-10-01 09:45:51 GMT

Why are modernists so hostile to building anything that people would actually like? Possibly one of the most gifted young architects in the world, Swedish Nils Freckeus, won a competition in the city of Uddevalla with this plan for a new neighborhood in the traditional 19th urban style beloved all over Europe and especially in Scandinavia. Of course the Chief Modernist critic in the country went berserk in his condemnation in media.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7baf664c841829e97a7c3b82392c9607d0a406164c8a41d4707299bb1a66b990.file

2025-10-01 03:46:01 GMT

Love your daughters: "Self-esteem appeared to be influential factor for women thinking about having a family. Those w. lower self-esteem were less likely to have children, & FiF graduates tended to report lower self-esteem at age 16 than other graduates." https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/women-breaking-educational-barriers-less-likely-to-become-mothers/
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5876d32816cf81d20f34bdf1b67d56e441641a6c0a4db92f5f470979dd930df5.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/85c5a15ff358bd0fed758fcf4c68ef7b6229c5d0d5419d5cdccaff9b353761fb.file

2025-09-29 15:01:52 GMT

Our most important buildings, our religious and civic buildings, should be embedded into the cities they belong to not cut out and set apart in some four lane traffic island or modernist wet dream of a 'tower in a park.' You should turn a corner and stare straight into the cathedral or the senate, not go on a ten minute promenade through multilane streets and clumps or 'urban parsley' (those useless and incomprehensible bits of large bushes and lawn every city on Earth thinks it must have).
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/894cec9e58d18a644d80648f2c99f40c36493ba8c33308eeb71e54444caea410.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3b849ebcdd8622e8f732d456c68ef43c9681babbfb7e3625e5b5700d3f0e9261.file

2025-09-26 17:01:55 GMT

I don't know if the cemetery came before the forest, or if it was the other way around. No matter: both trees and people here have deep roots.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1046d8bd2e8cee3e2de4af7d5cc33a1459a9a21d037eaff0996fa1f0d8057108.file

2025-09-17 15:05:44 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
Elitists believe it is virtuous for them to control others and gatekeep the future. Eugenics may have fallen out of favor many decades ago, but we are still governed by misanthropic, technocratic, Progressive Era institutions that were manufactured from the same glass and steel.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6cb0b4ae9ec359bb83288d57dd7b5cc3f306e736f8fd5d322c924da917eae70b.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e1a405e42ce5f04a9607c50d0f3bcda28ad495555157ae78a9950e7802b3ded8.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/604d1f4bf969aa7b1b51ed0ff6c1fc11691341a5f4c1ab80da495ca2e79b9808.file

2025-09-15 13:01:34 GMT

A lot of the political mayhem we are seeing now stems from the fact that the Oligarchy have realized basically anyone can aspire to do what he did for his country. The crown is literally in the gutter waiting for a worth man or woman to pick it up. But you will never do it if you play the game by their rules or worry about what the journalists will say.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e580d5f2c0fa885106c4d9cf2d9ca651c30ae9919a7e6440522b1c8d1802d222.file

2025-09-15 13:01:24 GMT

"We excel at creating ugliness, and it’s always at great expense: Let's be honest, London is no longer beautiful." by @boys_nicholas and @createstreets https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/london-ugly-architecture-design-create-streets-b1242799.html

2025-09-14 03:30:46 GMT

Never speak to journalists. It is never "just this once."

2025-09-12 11:15:49 GMT

Even the dimmest of minds or the most fervent of its followers can no longer deny that democracy as a concept is dead (was it ever alive?). What will come now will make the bloodiest of civil wars seem tame and constrained.

2025-09-09 23:05:49 GMT

It is far easier to prosecute and punish the small things—the litterer, the shoplifter, the violent drunk—than to wait until the inevitable tragedy.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/595b20197da558eacdf7bd3afdcc8e73a10e753064b8f311d8e3574381311532.file

2025-08-31 05:01:44 GMT

With colleagues at a bus cafe in the most touristy part of Kyoto we get a lesson in pattern awareness and stereotypes: the staff can not clear the tables, and for that reason there is "return tray area". Nation A arrives, finds a table cluttered with cups and wrappers. Quietly cleans it up, take their repast, leaves their table spotless. Nation B arrives, finds clean table, leaves all their garbage behind. Nation C arrives to cluttered table, doesn't mind, eat and drink amidst the detritus and filth and leaves the table even worse than they found it. Nation D arrives, in their native language they loudly curse the syphilitic human beasts that did this, with frowns they clean up the table and have their drinks and snacks, cleans up table as they leave.

2025-08-28 11:05:49 GMT

When I wrote about this in 2020 I got death threats from Americans. ""3 min after contaminating a wooden board 99.9% of bacteria had died, while none of the bacteria died on plastic. Bacterial numbers actually increased on plastic cutting boards held overnight at room temp., but the scientists could not recover any bacteria from wooden boards."
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/395b67f7f415733a659d70c2553dc066caa7dbe32c2dcd1024aa5cc535999912.file

2025-08-26 01:25:44 GMT

“We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” — The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c820a381bb0392170fcd4e3f54aded8b33cae903ccf8f6c6c2adc7a22c93a888.file

2025-08-25 03:01:45 GMT

Wonderful. Godspeed!
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4e1db698aabc947413a8343a41c7e2d7f75db9eb3ff642e2e1f522deba210472.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3c0d1accfd1a81ae8028e1ea415d0f3cd14f9b6208dced12a9c8f98ec869ed66.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/35c5065bc5b971dcfb44295688901d5477955f839067cb51af45ece5fe5ea19d.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/15d71cb0268798b80553f5b6de68a82a1cc2fc2c38722dd75c3f602a01ce7d53.file

2025-08-14 11:05:39 GMT

On Japanese Twitter the big outrage de jour is the editor of an art journal dissing his hometown for being lacking in culture ("there's nothing but a shopping mall"). Obviously small town people are offended and pointing out the particular charms of his particular hometown (and doing absolutely valid but also nasty comparisons to the other kind of cultural nadir that he currently resides in, a nouveau riche tower apartment) while calling for his public apology. The sad thing is that everyone involved is correct but nobody wants to admit that the other side has incredibly valid points that are never ever in a million years up for public discussion. In Japanese media today you will find a thousand published articles about the Gaza conflict but not a single article on the ongoing aesthetic impoverishment of Japan. It is depressing.

2025-08-13 23:06:48 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
While Britain and the US tore up their trams after WWII, Germany kept theirs. 60 cities still run trams today, stitching together city centres and walkable, low-car neighbourhoods. How did they do it? I wrote an article about that: https://www.createstreets.com/the-country-that-never-tore-up-its-tracks/
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b8e182e4724db23549193379b84c841da8c39894d47469ed43e78218267d692a.file

2025-07-30 01:05:50 GMT

With wolves back in Yellowstone the aspen trees can grow tall again. https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/yellowstone-aspen-showing-signs-recovery-following-1995-reintroduction-wolves-park
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d6caea76445bd8cdf1e1b01ed0fc9bcbdefdfe56d52b1f4f6e375a697951093a.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1874c41b447e98326f6aa59fd8ff3e4ae7f8c2e627476c976cfb9de127c28dfe.file

2025-07-28 23:20:51 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
Do anything it takes to be with your babies while they're babies. Life is so long. This is such a short period, relatively.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2390601983387438001b25fe6a414dc9bf5321242dd01baffb4a52fd93c0e3c8.file

2025-07-23 03:50:59 GMT

"The study found 68% of participants reported difficulty focusing, while many described struggling to complete schoolwork or engage with content lasting over a minute: “TikTok has made my attention span so low that I can't even watch a one-minute video.”" https://www.ntu.edu.sg/news/detail/international-study-shows-impact-of-social-media-on-young-people
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5dec0d121148c9d732b8b1dd0cd810be9cc93c9badcdbfc07cf1b83e1008e6cf.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e2265d130202d5b141e6be6cd3d99ad64fe234a90eea9f29f463ffae2aa30011.file

2025-07-23 03:05:40 GMT

New adventures in how solar farms screw things up: "Solar farms look like lakes to birds – and it's messing with their migrations" https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/articles/solar-farms-look-like-lakes-to-birds---and-it's-messing-with-their-migrations
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8ef2870ea2cdf742dd2a5eee3bc4244eeb7d45167d8227d0955005e4e757458e.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d99e06f59676e16c0f023061177ed8a1fe4071078044809911ca3b28013f856f.file

2025-07-16 09:55:42 GMT

You most likely can't build your own home. Neither can you grow your own food or speak your mind unless you are fully compliant with the latest dogma. You can't dance nor can you woe, but you know how to do human window shopping on Tinder. Most likely you don't know how to dress well enough to flatter yourself. You can't speak well enough to earn the admiration of your peers (because school doesn't believe in norms). You can't make money unless it is by usury, nor can you save it: inflation and fiscal easing will eat it up. You don't know what you want because your dreams and desires have been muddled by advertising and competition. If you have children chances are that they don't even know if they are boys or girls. All your life you have been lied to: "You can be anything you want." "It is never too late." You are rootless and most likely uprooting others. Not like the farmers fleeing the dustbowl: you are the dust. Or will soon be. "Who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday's splendid future?" The time for wrath is long overdue.

2025-07-15 11:01:49 GMT

Four floors and trams are the sweet spot in terms of livability, healthy living, access to urban amenities and density.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5c6b662906b16d979cd9554ae90b9006a8f25cdff740d5e1bb96736afe4dc58d.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7c8a9b4ba3ffc2f83d1105ce51a8bf2737f09ddb58f7ec6ece7fa86d9121bfb3.file

2025-07-03 01:46:39 GMT

If you want to build your own here's the recipe, from then on it isn't difficult to figure it out as you go along. Again, great photos. https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/our-glencoe-turf-house-is-taking-shape
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8763bca922841c2c9885e5f9615e62daf9022534cfbfc589f0aef361368601f3.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d3e804b5ce21bc4f1f5d931c152a19c05653a803a21dac86c2f14281cdc7150b.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/00bcb3786f17ee563aad8042e7d7a6c5a9095c4b1aa521227c4d11cd42eb1edf.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/40d18fccf624d687424e057c7ae2ee91786964d3ea84030ff32216aa2857ee23.file

2025-07-03 01:01:51 GMT

I believe that we have already reached history singularity. There are books and documentaries and movies being made about current events while still ongoing. People write history books in anticipation of events. Even more damning is that all current history wether pop or academic is more about the current times than whatever it is supposedly describing. There is simply no truth or even attempt at objectivity. It is all mere commentary on ongoing political events and cultural revolutions.

2025-06-16 12:25:11 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
We are doing it wrong.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/16c276b85ecd37af1d3f35d8825b31daec600997fc41fdfa80ffeea0885260bd.file

2025-06-03 10:50:13 GMT

“Happy the man for whom a flourishing fatherland gladdens and fortifies the heart! Being reminded of mine is like being pitched into the mire, like having the coffin lid slammed shut over me...”
— Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion (1799)
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3409414ba1b0732557b8504187e04d3c88b013dfbef2b1c9e44a62a3951e7031.file

2025-05-07 14:40:17 GMT

It is illegal to build today the kind of places that we love the most.
https://nitter.poast.org/Prep4Disasters/status/1920099955353518285#m
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1e6352ac3f4650a64ef1de052ee025bc7c12d8f40e3651d3cf10af68c7d95983.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0afe98906c15e0a75a76a9490446070a3d78416f8bff32351c89fef0cddb654e.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/92c256272f1baa27fcf504cc93fb624fe0e7a645ea3f93aae63bc9a238283614.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/704009e9209a47c5087130f77fff6a17bd532917da9c2764919832671dcafbea.file

2025-05-06 23:35:10 GMT

Regarding the ever ongoing debate on suburb vs. urban life for families. If you liv in a car dominant society and you are used to driving everywhere, it is an easy trade-off to move out to suburbia or new developments to acquire that "space" (or backyard). The cost of doing so is small compared to the savings from avoiding the negatives of city life in most of the contemporary West. However, I believe it is dishonest to say that children or teens (who can't drive anyway) are more keen on having the "space" rather than easy access to friends and peers to play with.
Having said that, most of our cities (even here in Japan) are now so completely uninhabitable by children acting independently that even relatively safe and clean urban environments where public transit is cheap and efficient have stopped offering the benefits of urban life as perceived by children.
When the benefits of living in the best possible cities are outweighed by the simple fact that any child is never more than one false step away from sudden death on city street, and there is no viable alternative, you will get children who learn to self-medicate this modern illness with voluntary isolation, games, social media, etc.
Children don't want a backyard, parents want backyards. Children want other children, but we as a society have decided that cars are the most important thing in the world.
So we have doomed ourselves to live in a sort of urban or suburban prisons.

2025-04-27 21:50:29 GMT

“It is especially awkward, when the young man who has never learned anything except how to hate his own father and grandfather, is suddenly called upon to love all men like brothers.” — G.K. Chesterton
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e6bc00778dc13a265978f771606e30a1c7bee6800fcb667e7b444ad914f42de9.file

2025-04-20 23:30:19 GMT

Drywall is manufactured from mined natural resources often with a mix of recycled contents from coal power plants, contaminated with heavy metals, arsenic, off-gassing formaldehyde etc. The production is energy intensive. Installation is hard on human bodies leading to more cases of occupational injures than almost any other building trade. At the end of its lifecycle (currently a couple of decades at most) it is inevitably landfilled leading to further pollution.
Or you can go with wood paneling. It literally grows on trees, a huge carbon sink, lasts for many centuries, so clean you can compost it, no off-gassing, and when you move house or tear it down, you can take it with you and reuse again and again.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/509fd0d767ff16b6f570080de0c67d2999493feb6ef0a0ab9b4ad4c7f4746371.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3ddb1e125f77d8083aabc7bf79a9571208d6885e9807631ebe7f4cbe4ff43279.file

2025-03-26 22:35:08 GMT

Somehow this doesn't surprise me at all:
"Los Angeles has some of the strictest tree planting rules in the nation. These policies limit tree growth, worsen shade disparities and don’t improve safety."
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/tree-spacing-study-shows-path-to-cooler-neighborhoods/
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b5f6ec1395c2a008d859f66d136d924be66393aa022e020eb5b3bcc5c17e7068.file

2025-02-25 22:55:19 GMT

The secret to raising the fertility rate is improving the economy for the men who can no longer form families: "Our research indicates that improving economic opportunities for men without a college degree could substantially increase marriage rates, particularly in poorer communities and among non-college-educated women. Doing so, could not only benefit the current generation but also increase the share of children born into married, two-parent households, potentially improving outcomes for children born to low-income mothers." https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/02/struggling-men-hurt-noncollege-womens-marriage-prospects
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/78c90d51fed0b2dfdc7b1f0d43d7f828eb2f914db4d99f68ea7b0b5088be72c8.file

2025-02-24 12:42:35 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
Ice age ponds in Britain, called 'pingos', are being identified and restored across the country. Now ancient seeds which have been preserved in layers of Palaeolithic soil are germinating, bringing back older and lost wetland plants.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6d0db4f32e75e867459125e0d75ec4555961aa4aa58a961b143453344bec1b1b.file

2025-02-24 11:05:18 GMT

Teach all children cursive writing. It will help them, especially if they are dyslexic: "When writing cursive, the word becomes a unit, rather than a series of separate strokes, and correct spelling is more likely to be retained."
https://dyslexiaida.org/why-bother-with-cursive/
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0e509d1ab52ee2323e597b70271ea140eb310d520b2051d6e8fb77411b4e7ad0.file

2025-02-13 15:15:22 GMT

At the Nishihonganji temple in Kyoto (current buildings from 17th-18th century) you can spot many example of playful woodwork, umeki, used to repair knotted wood. It is a thrifty use of wood that would otherwise have been discarded. There are mountains, hearts, birds, fish, elephants, plants, incense burners etc. You can tell the carpenters that built these almost 400 years ago enjoyed their work.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1ccb79eb58d817915567a882eb1282dee8fd14e4e3f11cccef36cbec25a003ab.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f84e81aa8978b72e08cc9551646779c5340e24a57f2f4858a15a0b2df4f9d796.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ee878993861be491391513d432ea364412b2759f0979981840962dbe18ee8201.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0d9a9ef91b6cc6d293d546101eb8ee2db8f7657ded7489c7d0699b216b9297b4.file

2024-10-22 09:45:13 GMT

German experiment on 4-day weeks finds no reductions in productivity and many gains in wellbeing. Not surprisingly since a lot of jobs/schools consists of make-work, meetings and busy-projects. https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=14338
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9cb1255294acae664ad8680f455f8509da518eb93c55ee212c27bb62a865fb40.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/52ea3c3a0e33809cab802a050025a725f4c27d22e5681942f86480da9d8c6f4d.file

2024-10-10 09:15:14 GMT

"Intellect built a Senate-house, glorious in its kind; and now it costs her a well-nigh mortal effort to sweep it clear of vermin, and get the roof made rain-tight." — Thomas Carlyle quoted in the 1881 "The Philosophy of Carlyle by Edwin D. Mead
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/03591f3b3c686f03d6db1e97236b0c0d84dea8fdec9250a80cfebb816ee63240.file

2024-10-07 23:30:15 GMT

RT @[email protected]:
Learn a trade, practice your art, produce Beauty.
Take your life in your hands by using them.
Associate and organize. Form guilds and unions to thrive.
This is the gate for knowing who you are.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/54c01bb3d88c42b2264891570e9698906c4c5127d3ba927eee0e463cf160b6ef.file

2024-09-10 12:15:17 GMT

"I am a 'conspiracy theorist'. I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire. If you don't think so, then you are what is called 'an idiot'. If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called 'a coward'." — https://nitter.poast.org/DavidBCollum
https://nitter.poast.org/mattwridley/status/1833449355459572114#m

2024-09-09 10:25:12 GMT

Adventures in messing up ecosystems: when bat colonies collapse, farmers are forced to increase their use of toxic pesticides (to stay ahead of debts), which then contribute to hundreds of dead human infants. https://epic.uchicago.edu/news/some-1300-us-infants-may-have-died-because-bats-vanished-heres-how/
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f5a67d9ea94526a805ba917d356413ea66fdfdbc56b280419061e2ac3722bf8e.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/38f35bc71854f6b9c70c041e81c4385af418484616e5ac0c5c27a22fa677093e.file

2024-09-02 22:40:14 GMT

"California Condors are particularly vulnerable to lead poisoning because, as scavengers, they feed on animal remains. If an animal is shot with a lead bullet, scavengers who feed from the carcass may consume lead."
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/one-of-the-last-california-condors-in-zion-national-park-dies-from-lead-poisoning-3161241/amp/
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/364b69dfe292c58fd141e5844326300b2a1a5a836c3d6b0f995b04e9fba06fbf.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/00305d75afe62ee408a9815b4c6cc76a1e314968f60b483537c16e19e3b00236.file