Reading the list of awardees of the ACX Grants Results 2025 by @slatestarcodex Impressive stuff. If only a couple of them pan out as expected it will have been money well spent. Even the goofy ones I know you will make fun of. What projects can we think of with an urbanist view?
RT @RizomaSchool@twitter.com: Have any of you heard of Madison Indiana? Was there this weekend and it might be the most beautiful town in America. Every building more beautiful and detailed than the last. Had never heard of it! https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1e0e452205ff865b560321c11a6f74716ffe380236a9f716d58b9877fe15d3d3.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/38a96e1043e6de31be937afec67e5cf3d81c2428f7ab2a83f172efdb1788a2a4.file
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RT @_F_B_G_@twitter.com: A final thought on this. If it wound you up and you don’t go to church: start going. A) because you clearly have a sense of the sacred. That is best off expressed in a specific place B) your voice has a lot more credibility when speaking against this sort of thing if you do
Nature is truth and truth is beautiful. And nature is beautiful at all levels. The majestic sunset is in its way as perfectly sublime as the tiniest of butterflies resting on a flower. The beauty of nature and its order is manifest everywhere. Us humans, through art and wims and fashions, we have to work a lot harder. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1962e70bde33eb9ee680b8f3c7ac6f52db9686db9c14a822809474861b31b543.file
All models lie. The only thing we can trust is that which has been tried and tested.
Imagine going to university with the dream of increasing human knowledge and ability, and ending up spending x years on a 97 page paper no one will ever read not even your parents. Imagine going to university to study English Lit. because you love Jane Austen only to read about deconstruction and colonialism. And so on.
The Middle Ages didn't have welfare, but it had jobs for those who needed them, and there was charity asked for and given, to those who couldn't work. A system far superior to what we have now, where the "market" takes the profits and society is forced to handle the losses. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1b2ab13f8105310190ae0fb3edbd01efd964fef4bb1ccffda75e8a33e979b4dc.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f23893afdd190bf7fc15923dbf6191c2e87551a19e8a253fb6a55cf4e761558d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ca40426424ba2beec83d40940e74a9a15f80d78df5d571c19663c8dc1dba7fcd.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/fe5a0f98a1cdf71513bb9399980f6fc5faf3070cfea3ee7df8800519444f5f90.file
Maybe the finest example though, and also one of the latest, are the walls at the 1481 St. Osyth's Priory Gatehouse in Essex, near Clacton. Still in remarkably good shape. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/23f618b61ae7f8534cfdb90775bbe5a84862175b758f46a8f3e761d9ce9bfcc8.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5ffa0a5da80449db45e2f6c3bd489dffa450dc8710f9940c49166e66da094ef7.file
Flushwork is the name of a late medieval technique to decorate plain stone surfaces or to rubble masonry walls. It uses sliced pieces of flint to create patterns or mosaics carefully mortared onto stone. It was especially common where good stone was hard to find but there was money to spend on this time consuming decoration. Here Church of St Peter and St Paul in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1b2ab13f8105310190ae0fb3edbd01efd964fef4bb1ccffda75e8a33e979b4dc.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f23893afdd190bf7fc15923dbf6191c2e87551a19e8a253fb6a55cf4e761558d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ca40426424ba2beec83d40940e74a9a15f80d78df5d571c19663c8dc1dba7fcd.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/fe5a0f98a1cdf71513bb9399980f6fc5faf3070cfea3ee7df8800519444f5f90.file