Saturday Tweets: Hogweed, Newcastle Disease, and Crochet Hyperbolics

June 23, 2018

The fabulous, but rather seriously hazardous Giant Hogweed has now been found in Virginia. If there were a plant to lure me into a toxic trap, this gorgeous umbellifer would be it. https://t.co/cWTXa0n8Ya — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) June 22, 2018 If my essay about fascist engineers could stop garnering on-the-nose examples that'd be great. https://t.co/fxZjdeUnfc pic.twitter.com/Q788LyQdIS — david a banks (@DA_Banks) June 21, 2018 New V...

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Saturday Linkages: The King’s Hand

Mr. Homegrown

December 12, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone What Is Metabolic Rift? The Ecosocialist idea you’ve never heard of and might need Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: South Korea study shows coronavirus’ spread indoors How Previous Epidemics Impacted Home Design Luxury Sneaker Markets Are a Preview of Capitalist Dystopia Farmers Reject Biden’s Pro-Corporate Rural Advisers Out in the wild: how Ken Layne created an alternative to clickbait in the deser...

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Saturday Linkages: New Root Simple Compound?

Mr. Homegrown

December 5, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...Just in case you’re in the market for a very strange Goldfield Nevada property complete with pipe organ If you do buy that compound you’ll want to watch this movie filmed, partly, in Goldfield Yes, there’s a subreddit dedicated to power washing How to Tap Less on Your Phone (but Get More Done) A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air...

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Saturday Linkages: Squirrels, Dry Winter, Workbenches

Mr. Homegrown

November 28, 2020

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...The best thing I’ve learned this week is that when squirrels fall/jump – they land like superheroes pic.twitter.com/XuY80hCuNp — ᴊᴀᴄᴋ 👑 ✨ (@JackDMurphy) November 27, 2020 I Twitter thread on what it’s like to work on Black Friday in the U.S. Very dry weather across California through mid-December Make Christmas Ornaments With Toilet Paper Rolls A disaster water filter kit Free e-book on building your own workbench...

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Saturday Tweets: Bees, Fireflies and Food Waste

Mr. Homegrown

June 16, 2018

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#longlivetheswarm https://t.co/ecdgLZTF9S pic.twitter.com/Kzj5577b0u — Natural BK Trust (@NaturalBeeTrust) June 15, 2018 I’m watching hundreds of fireflies in my small yard filled with plants, no chemicals used. Over my next door neighbor’s fence, not a single firefly. They spray weekly for mosquitoes. Here’s how to help fireflies https://t.co/j3Vfurc11Z — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) June 13, 2018 “The promise of the car is a myth, and we can...

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