The National Trust has long since been captured by its enemies. I assume officers are elected or appointed in some manner or fashion. How many right thinking young men and women would it take to recapture the NT and oust the revolutionaries? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/630161f03915a85de2052da04c783d318f32137f59e017d77e7a6f673646f81a.file
Bats are great at reducing insect pests in agriculture, but to get their free services you need to preserve pockets of the natural landscape where they can roost.
Bats consume pest insects over intensively managed agricultural areas – if there are sufficient natural habitats nearby - Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Bats such as the common noctule consume pest insects over intensively managed arable land and thereby support sustainable agriculture. A new study ...
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Rue Crémieux in Paris is widely regarded one of the most charming streets in the world, consisting of plaster stone or brick townhouses of tree stories. I think it would take a complete amateur with a couple of days training/instruction about 4-5 months of labor to build the walls alone, and then a similar amount of time for the rest (floors, interiors etc.), using basic machinery (cranes to lift the stone etc.). The price excluding your own labor would be very low. The resale price would be multiples of the investment. Why doesn't any small- to mid- sized European city set aside the the land, provide a pattern-book and organize a weekend course before setting self-builders lose on the site? The materials, quarried stone, could be had extremely cheaply if bought in bulk from a suitable nearby quarry. The footprint of each building is about 1346ft² / 125m². https://hell.twtr.plus/media/72150c98177054745a7c4034459f87c60cc8b1dfb5faec9fcb670e349d29792f.file
Cherry orchards in Michigan employ falcons to ward off birds: less losses and cleaner produce.
Michigan cherry farmers find a surprising food safety ally: falcons
Nov. 27, 2025 - By keeping hungry birds — and their droppings — off farmers’ fruit, kestrels could help in more ways than one.
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Order vs. Chaos. Order is organic, natural, fractal, human scaled, resilient, sustainable, analog (Paris). Chaos is one-size-fits-all, inorganic, unsustainable, vulnerable, machine-sized (Brasilia). https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5775308e77e60928beb8bdf733dccb2c483038375065f817103dcb4d0d227505.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8f233a329ba75c397a2c81d4294268617897e23627439eba132bdfd326d2358a.file
Every single time, without fail, any country, any sex, any level of education, any age, the results are universal: everyone wants classical or traditional architecture. People even prefer the classical or traditional architecture of countries they know nothing about, when asked to compare with modern architecture. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d72d6df40a969009cba041abe55b556e12062c2993266439c5781aeba0e98558.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9df15c1e607e54189600aba1f1356a77bcef83eb960b134fdbbb34c3b10db1c3.file