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029 Toasters, a Pledge and a Compostable Christmas

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Domesticus, Podcasts
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...a conversation about compostable Christmas decor. During the podcast we mention: Maker Manifesto (we meant the Maker’s Bill of Rights). Designer Thomas Thwaites’ toaster project DeltaToast An Italian non-electric toaster called the Tostapane which is available at Fante’s Kitchen Shop Cats knocking over Christmas trees If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. Y...

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Saturday Linkages: A Happy Yam New Year

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Saturday Linkages
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...Yam courtesy of Doug Harvey. Make yourself a rowboat in 2020 Sidney Barnsley architect and craftsman Alan Moore on William Blake’s contempt for Newton Are cats modernists? Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire Contrapoints on canceling Lawn out. Wildflowers in. “Act natural” pic.twitter.com/9rTkgM73te — Animal Memes (@AnimalMemer) December 29, 2019...

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Coming Together by Being Apart

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Thoughtstylings
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...ncisco to take care of a relative. So I’m alone in the house with our dog, cats, chickens and bees. How ironic that this nightmarish new reality should arrive in the middle of Lent to force us all out into a period of collective separation. I’ve been struggling with that separation. In a crisis our moral instinct tells us to come together. Staying apart feels selfish. It’s counter-intuitive that the best expression of community right now is a lack...

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There she goes, my beautiful world

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Design
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...sant space to work in. So amidst the tools are a few tchotchkes, images of cats and Bernie Sanders signs to remind me of happy before-times. Spending time in this space does not completely allay a foreboding sense of anxiety about the world but it’s certainly better than sitting in the house doom scrolling Twitter. One of those Sanders signs says, “Fight the Power” a kind of pun in that I’ve, unintentionally, managed to assemble a work practice th...

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