Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley Twitter profile

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1 year

It’s coming up on 2 years since we removed our grass lawn and replaced it with mostly native plants. Things are growing in and filling out nicely

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“Something called ‘vernacular architecture’”

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Surprising stat of the day: Under the New Deal the CCC planted *2.3 billion* trees — 12 for every American living at the time, and half of all trees planted in US history

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Really feeling this today

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@jpbrammer Rise and crime

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The fact he’s in Portland is so funny…gotta be battle ready to eat some wild Coho salmon then swing by Powell’s City of Books

Fredo Fabrucci: The Actual Devil

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1 year

was absolutely howling with laughter when he busts out the fuckin armor, my man is equipping a rainbow six loadout to go get a slice of pizza

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This anecdote about John Le Carre forcing Robert Gottlieb to take him out for a nice lunch, instead of eating tuna sandwiches in the office as Gottlieb preferred, is pretty funny

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Tina Turner was an absolute legend with one of the greatest comeback stories ever, and I love this tidbit about how David Bowie helped her pull it off

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I can usually fend off acute climate anxiety but these last 36 hours, I don’t know

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I see the smiling lessons are going well

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Asked my HS son how his European history class is going and he launched into a long and extremely detailed diatribe about “historiographic differences” with his teacher. This is why he has a 2.7 GPA

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2 years

RIP to a real one

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basically sucked ...guitar and drums pretty ok ...keyboard was awful ..his bass with left hand was abysmal, horrible ...square wheel bad ...and Morrison was no effing good as a singer or poet ..poser ....sorry

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“The ‘woke’ woman classicist who translated Homer did a terrible job. I don’t read Greek myself, but here’s why: 1/96” is peak $8 blue-check discourse

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@weirdlilguys pinning me down

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@MattZeitlin My college roommate (in the UK) always wanted to eat Chinese food out of a paper takeout box like she’d seen in movies

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@nataliesurely I thought it was unintentionally quite revealing of how a person can get trapped in their own victim narrative (even when Demi Moore offers gentle correction!)

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2 years

I ran 10k for the first time, please clap

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7/10 are SUVs or trucks

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The feminine urge to morph into a tree

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@mcmansionhell It’s really getting out of hand

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10 months

How can you have a MoMA exhibition dedicated to you and not be a public figure

Neri Oxman: Material Ecology | MoMA

Exhibition. May 14–Oct 18, 2020. From tree bark and crustacean shells to silkworm webs and human breath, nature shapes Neri Oxman’s innovative design and production processes. As a designer, archit...

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@rhymewithocean I'm a woman who looks at the flight map for hours straight sometimes, AMA

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Net-zero pledges / IPCC reports

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6 months

Both dogs and children are often annoying. What’s changed is that dog people are in denial about it now as much as (maybe more than?) parents.

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8 months

Ugh, losing DCist really sucks. And the story raises some questions: Why not use just use the "sticky" WAMU brand more for digital? Kojo is a legend, but what about cultivating new voices and new audiences?

Sara Fischer

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Exclusive: @WAMU lays off 15 staffers, shutting down @DCist in effort to focus more on audio projects More on @axios

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I truly thought this steak was injera bread

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@TheStalwart It’s the chicken breast of beef

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@jdcmedlock Sedona has got to be part of it, somehow

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@sarahmanavis God the breaker-upper looks so smug while doing it too

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8 months

Solar installations on American farms have increased 30% since 2017

Solar Use on US Farms Jumps 30% in Five Years

Solar is in on the American farm, while the uptake for wind power is slowing.

www.bloomberg.com

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1 year

Would be nice to have somewhere to sit down 🤷🏻‍♀️

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2 years

@alex_shephard Oh man…listening to NY tonight. Stevie Wonder is immortal though, right?

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1 year

Sorry for the Earnest Tweet but today I ran my 25th @parkrun — my 23rd 5k since October. A few years ago I never would have imagined it was possible due to my general unathleticism and 9 of my vertebrae being fused together. But I keep going out & doing it, at my slow-ass pace

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2 years

counterpoint: it’s very funny

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2 years

That’s a lot of people who all could have said no

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

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Architects working on ‘The Line’ Morphosis, OMA, Peter Cook, Adjaye Associates, Peri Cobb Freed & Partners, Studio Fuksas, Tom Wiscombe Architecture, UNStudio, Coop Himmelb(l)au, HOK, Oyler Wu Collaborative, and Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

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V interesting story: Overworked and feeling that US culture doesn’t prioritize their wellbeing, Black professional women are moving to Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa and elsewhere. “Outside of the US, money often trumps anti-Blackness,” said one

Black Women Are Banding Together to Leave America Behind. Here’s Why

Groups like ExodUS and Blaxit Global provide advice and support for women who would like to find a better quality of life outside US borders.

www.bloomberg.com

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Spelling Bee is really taking the piss today

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“There was a lot of money that rushed in without really understanding that this is actually just farming.”

Venture Capital’s AI-Run Lettuce Farms Are Starting to Go Bust

The pitch for vertical farming had all the promise of a modern venture capital dream: a new way to grow crops that would use robots and artificial intelligence to conserve water, combat food insecu...

www.bloomberg.com

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Some of America's fastest-growing metros are in the hail belt. As hailstones grow bigger (due to climate change) and have more roofs and cars to pummel, hail damage is surging. Check out our @climate interactive on this rising extreme weather peril:

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2 years

I love that Ed Begley takes transit to the Oscars every year

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Ed Begley Jr. and his daughter Amanda arrived at the #Oscars by taking the subway and showed off their transit cards on the red carpet. “We got off at Vine and walked here. Public Transit is the best way to get around”. Hell yeah.

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1 year

Maryland caviar

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When Seattle's new workforce housing, Heartwood, opens this summer, it'll be the tallest mass timber building in Washington State. Would be quite soothing to come home to this:

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2 years

Rapidly becoming single stair pilled…read thread for why

Larch Lab

@Larch_Lab

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2 months ago, an article in the @nytimes tried to get at why apartment buildings in the U.S. are so large, and so incredible bland. Posited modulation, design review, cheap materials. It's none of those. It's our building code. Us, in @archpaper :

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My son just mentioned that a journalist spoke at his high school a few days ago. “Who?” “Uhh, Carl?…something…Bernstein?”

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I wonder if the people who ban teens from malls also complain about how kids today spend too much time on screens

The Mall in Columbia will require chaperones for minors on weekends

The "parental guidance required" rule will take effect on March 31.

www.cbsnews.com

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Today is the 5th (!) anniversary of my book Radical Suburbs. Thank you to everyone who has bought it, checked it out of the library or read a page over someone’s shoulder on the bus. And of course to @belt_publishing

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(From the book Nature’s New Deal)

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Returning from vacation to learn this series my colleagues and I are incredibly proud of is a Pulitzer finalist. Pretty f’in stoked

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@business

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In 2023, Bloomberg examined how private investors are commandeering public water for profit. Read the series, "Water Grab," a 2024 Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting:

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People are saying this is the rare non-fashy portrait bust account so now feeling slightly guilty about dunking

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1 year

@tressiemcphd Also, in my experience Boomers were reluctant to say to Gen X, why don't you host this year...for a long time

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1 year

You know who likes this kind of weather? Harmful algal blooms, unfortunately

Toxic Algae Outbreaks Off US West Coast Set to Worsen With El Niño

A harmful algae bloom off California is thought to be poisoning dolphins and sea lions. El Niño may make such events more common—but not everywhere in the US.

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2 years

@mnolangray My former boss took the train from Manassas into DC every day for like 20 years

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2 years

1/Light and air are good. Most people don’t want to live in windowless shoeboxes even if they support density. 2/EVs are not a magic bullet but the US can’t reach climate targets w/o them. 3/Except for fine dining, suburbia has better food.

Nia 🪩✨✈️💫

@_johnsonator

2 years

What unpopular urbanism opinion will land you in this position?

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Who owns the North Pole? As polar ice melts, countries are vying to claim more of the Arctic seabed in a contest with big implications for global power—and the climate. FREE to read, incl amazing maps of nations' redrawn continental shelves:

Russia’s Next Standoff With the West Lies in the Resource-Rich Arctic

Billions of dollars worth of oil and metals could lay below the melting Arctic ice. A race for control is underway.

www.bloomberg.com

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People uprooted by climate change "move in ways that are turbulent, involuntary and only quasi-permanent ... By the end of the century, our ideas about what 'home' means will have been substantially unsettled." @jake_bittle

Opinion | They Were Proud Houston Homeowners. Then It All Fell Apart. (Published 2023)

Five years after Hurricane Harvey destroyed their home, Becca and Sergio Fuentes are still rebuilding their lives.

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

@jmfowl Gaudi is tacky

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Smith Island, MD, one of the most at-risk places in the US from rising sea levels. A beautiful, precarious place

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7 months

Celebrated my 23rd anniversary with @lawrencehurley by visiting the wonderful church we got married in: St. Catherine’s, Hoarwithy, an Italian Romanesque fever dream in the Herefordshire countryside

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The Paris Olympics won't have a lot of eye-popping new architecture, since it's mostly using existing buildings in order to cut carbon. Where it is building new - like the Aquatics Center in Saint-Denis - it's prioritizing wood. @FeargusOSull @jsyche

Why the Paris Olympics Will Be a Modest Showcase of Wood Architecture

Seeking to boost sustainability rather than build grand monuments as host of the 2024 Summer Games, Paris has turned to flexible, reusable timber.

www.bloomberg.com

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2 years

@sarajcarr But how will you know what European cities look like, and American cities could if we changed zoning codes?? J/k happy birthday!

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@maxthegirl Yes, because I need to save my energy for insisting on “who” instead of “that” (eg, “The woman WHO played the piano…”). Many writers are doing away with “who” for some reason

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Just a heartbreaking paragraph

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I’ve reached “the bar at Old Ebbitt is actually not bad and you can hear people talk” age

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Climbed the tallest peak in the US* today *east of the Rockies, but still, 7242’

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Catching up on yesterday’s much mocked op-ed. Hard to believe it’s not satire. This is a literal pull quote!

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2 years

Don’t be put off by the length—you can break it up—this @KnowYrEnemyPod is such a humane, compelling discussion of a figure who was obscure to me despite his profile. And it reveals some early fissures in the current culture wars

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Millions of Americans are caring stepparents who make a positive difference in their stepkids’ lives. As a culture we really ought to show them more respect

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“Do the work” has me vaporized

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The guy the NY Times found to defend legacy admits really hit it out of the park

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I was at a park today and there was a pay phone by the ranger station, and a dad was showing it to his kid. The kid picked up the receiver and said What’s that weird noise? and the dad said, That’s called a dial tone. Happy Father’s Day to all dads who keep the Old Ways alive

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2 years

So cool. People thought pozzolanic ash was the one secret to Roman concrete. But: “Previously disregarded as merely evidence of sloppy mixing practices…tiny lime clasts gave the concrete a previously unrecognized self-healing capability”

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I never thought I’d become a color temperature bore either but we recently got recessed lights and the spectrum you can choose from is 2700k (warm white), 3000k (a bit cooler) up through 4 levels of operating room. How are people lighting their houses (and cities) like this

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This is young Gen X erasure (typical)

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@amandakhurley

2 years

Data suggest that long Covid “is keeping the equivalent of as many as 4 million working-age adults away from work – roughly the number of disabled veterans in the US.”

farhad manjoo (former bluecheck)

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Where have all the workers gone? They’ve got long Covid. Mass Long-Covid Disability Threatens the Economy

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The big picture:

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They had the best team name imo (Running on Time & on Budget)

Secretary Pete Buttigieg

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A little rain didn't stop team DOT from participating in the ACLI Capital Challenge yesterday morning before heading to the office. Great to get out and run for a great cause.

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My article on Seattle’s new mass timber housing complex, Heartwood, and its architect Susan Jones is in the Seattle Times:

First-of-its-kind timber apartment tower opening soon in Seattle

Susan Jones, who runs the small design studio atelierjones in Seattle, is one of the leading authorities on mass timber in the U.S.

www.seattletimes.com

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It’s incredible that women completing marathons — as 100s of 1000s do every year now — was thought to be *physiologically impossible* well within living memory

London Review of Books

@LRB

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‘Women weren’t allowed to run further than 200 metres at the Olympics until 1960 (they ran the 800 metres in 1928, but were said to be exhausted by it; the 10,000 metres and the marathon weren’t added until the 1980s).’ @Davidsgoldblatt :

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Oh man. He seemed like one of the less-bad stars of an often toxic profession. The behavior alleged is exploitative for sure

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