Isn’t it great that humanity never came to rely on fossil fuels for our energy needs?
Once wind turbines and photovoltaic cells were invented in the 1600s, they became such a feature of our landscapes that it’s hard to imagine masterpieces without them #vangogh #dalle2 Two centuries before Van Gogh, Vermeer took inspiration from the new technologies appearing around him in the Dutch Golden Age #vermeer #dalle2

I'm fascinated by object-labelling memes knowyourmeme.com/memes/object-l… as a kind of hybrid metaphor / mental model illustration—a rapid, relatable way for people to create "diagrams" of how they imagine concepts relating to each other, via properties of objects as metaphors

A thread: If we're categorising these somehow, one interesting subgenre is about *material properties* as metaphors: something is heavy, or weak, or spiky, or disintegrates easily (it's interesting how many are about mental health)

Day 100 of #petrolstations

Imperial (W. Eves)

R.E. Stothard, Lockton, North Yorks, 1993 flickr.com/photos/danlock…

A photo that means a lot to me—here I am, 11th birthday, with Bob the border terrier, in Lockton village, with a '20s Bowser pump. The garage is now @Locktontearooms And, reaching Day 100 of this incredibly niche set of tweets, I want to say: when I started this back in December, as a kind of Christmas diversion, I had no idea that 3 months later it would be become a way of keeping a kind of sanity and connection with the past amidst the fear