Saturday Tweets: A Big Excuse to Post Cats with Mustaches

July 28, 2018

...rong: the Bingo Game https://t.co/kPqIAiULLP pic.twitter.com/54dPyzxres — Carter Rubin (@CarterRubin) July 24, 2018 Cats with mustaches are https://t.co/qZOq7FATk8 — Imgur (@imgur) July 27, 2018 Ahead of tonight’s #bloodmoon, we’re revisiting medieval beliefs about the moon and its effects on humans: https://t.co/hellRSrhUm #lunareclipse2018 Additional MS 17987, ff. 49v-50r pic.twitter.com/cB5z5JoQzf — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) July 27, 2...

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Saturday Tweets: Rats, DIY Plastic Recycling and Old Flatbread

Mr. Homegrown

July 21, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 21, 2018 This. https://t.co/2NWgzLIoxp — Martyn Schmoll (@martynschmoll) July 19, 2018 Rat management in school and community gardens. https://t.co/ODWFffKZ8v pic.twitter.com/7Q54UUYa8y — UC IPM Urban Program (@ucipmurban) July 19, 2018 This sums up my problems with Steven Pinker: https://t.co/IGYey5ks2i — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 18, 2018 Found: 14,400-Year-Old Flatbread Remains That Predate Agriculture. #ca...

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Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

Mr. Homegrown

June 9, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...rower) June 9, 2018 Fire prevention … goat browsing #goatsquad #citygoats #urbanagriculture @ucanr @ucdavisvetmed @UCUrbanAg pic.twitter.com/98Noy6XipG — Alda Pires (@piresalda1) June 9, 2018 First time I’ve seen a canoe being towed on the downtown #yeg bike grid. #yegbike pic.twitter.com/QcemoJhr2M — Damian Rogers (@abcrimlaw) June 7, 2018 Vacant land and urban agriculture are rejuvenating wild bee populations. Bees love cities. What can cities d...

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New Sill Plate and Joists

Mr. Homegrown

May 28, 2018

Design

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...ld have spent doing the things that normally take up the time of glamorous urban homesteading bloggers in the big city such as pondering avocado toast recipes or dehydrating loquats. After much all caps thinking, I came to the conclusion that we need a kind of time traveling Dr. Who character whose sold mission would be to stop misguided remodeling projects in the past. He’d spend a lot of time in the 1960s and 70s halting bad patio pours, stoppin...

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I Deleted my Facebook Account

Mr. Homegrown

April 23, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...n-target information. Facebook knows that I’m an epee fencer who practices urban homesteading, reads Rowan Williams and goes to Nick Cave concerts (damn, that’s all pretentious!). But it also seems to think that I’m an African-American who grows with hydroponics, rocks out to the Queens of the Stone Age and loves Honey Baked Ham. I suspect much of the data Cambridge Analytica gathered was, similarly, off-target and useless. How to #DeleteFacebook...

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