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Saturday Tweets: Bird Eyesight, Making and Marginalia

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Saturday Linkages
Clear-cut tropical forest revitalized with industrial orange peel waste https://t.co/tGl1sbVvif — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 2, 2017 Support A Skid Row Bike Lane – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/dLzwO0MFXk via @Change #bikeLA @lacbc — Colin Bogart (@ColinBogart) August 31, 2017 Right so I was researching bird eyesight and can someone explain why these feel like really obscure memes pic.twitter.com/qXkJg16iCV — max ✨ (@naxxramen) August...

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Misadventures in Laser Cutting

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Design
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...l wood box. Laser cutters can also cut entirely through thin materials so that opens up more possibilities to do things that would be difficult to do by hand. I’m intrigued, for instance, with the possibilities for making three dimensional folding paper cards. You could also use the laser cutter for screen printing, making stencils, wood inlay or marquetry. Many thanks to the knowledgeable staff of the Octavia Lab!...

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Making the Shed Great Yet Again

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...owing our late doberman Spike guarding me while I worked on our then 90 now 100 year old shed. Guess what I’m doing over 20 years later? Working on the same shed. Me in 1999. In 2020 I need glasses. The shed has gone through two previous improvement battles starting with shoving a foundation under it, electrification and strengthening the floor followed by a somewhat misguided attempt at insulation and ceiling covering. Over the past few years the...

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Eating the Void: On Making a Raw Café Gratitude Chocolate Hazelnut Pie

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Food
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...ipe enjoins me to “Consider that a leader always apologizes first and takes 100% responsibility. Where in your life can you take the lead?” It turns out that the owners of Café Gratitude call it a “a school of transformation disguised as a cafe” and have, allegedly, forced employees to attend culty Landmark Forum seminars. During the pandemic I watched several acquaintances go from this new agey/business ontological/wellness world into a deep and...

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