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Weekend Linkages: Happiness is $5.99

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Saturday Linkages
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...How to have a Great-Looking Native Plant Garden There’s a run on horse pills and it ain’t about horses Looking back on #Jamgate The art of dump picking Riotlandia: Why Portland has become an epicenter for far right violence The Carbon Footprint Sham The strange world of grammar conspiracies A very groovy 1972 art history lesson from John Berger...

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William Morris is the Marie Kondo We Need

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...o inaction. It says that you don’t care about future generations and should just give up. As Assata Shakur says, “Our young people deserve a future, and I consider it the mandate of my ancestors to be a part of the struggle to ensure that they have one.” You can read Morris’ speech, Art and Socialism in a book Architecture, industry & wealth; collected papers for free on Archive.org....

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Make Your Own Furniture

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Design
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...h! Now for some more advanced manuals that will require a proper woodshop: Arts and Crafts The ugly truth is that, while I admire 70s furniture manuals from afar, I much prefer Arts and Crafts era furniture which, unfortunately, requires a more substantial investment in tools and training. But there’s one thing this style of furniture has in common with the 70s stuff above. Gustav Stickley encouraged his readers in his magazine The Craftsman to ro...

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Relax and Enjoy the Soft Caress of the Fun Fur

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...1970s equivalent of today’s ubiquitous live edge river table. Driftwood was mandatory prior to 1980. At the very least you had a driftwood coffee table. Only the upper crust had a driftwood throne like this one. Who knew you could make a kid burrito with 70s fiber art? I do like the idea of sleepable art. This kid, however, looks terrified and/or trapped in her 70s sculptural play environment. Someone please suggest the right prog rock concept al...

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