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Saturday Tweets: Passover/Holy Saturday Edition

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Saturday Linkages
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...oot Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 The Best Alternative For Every Facebook Feature https://t.co/4MRpqnZ1cn via @WIRED — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 How to delete Facebook https://t.co/mKzU0RdoJj via @Verge — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 Africa is littered with abandoned poorly-planned aid projects https://t.co/3S3MK8Ucam — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2018 I ditched Facebook in 2013, and it's been fine (Opi...

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Pegu Club: The Perfect Summer Cocktail

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Food, Recipes
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Don’t you hate those internet recipes with the book length introductions? So let’s get straight to the point. It’s hot, there’s a lot too worry about in this world and you need a cocktail. You need to make the Pegu Club your official summer libation. Pegu Club Cocktail 1 1/2 ounces gin 3/4 ounce orange curaçao (or Triple Sec if you’re cheap like me) 1 teaspoon lime juice Dash bitters Shake with crushed ice, strain and serve in a martini glass wit...

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Our Hot Streets Are an Opportunity

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Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Design, Transportation, Water and Power
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...a more radical alternative to business as usual. As Mark Fisher says in a book everyone should read, Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative?, The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in t...

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The Twittering Machine

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Thoughtstylings
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...d I want to find the escape hatch in the Spectacle. Seymour notes that we are in an age in which we are all writing more than we ever did, in the form of posts, texts etc. But he asks are we “more being written than writing?” The book leaves me wanting to disappear into my wood shop to commune with a carefully curated set of had tools for the rest of my days on this earth. I’ve embedded an interview with Seymour on the appropriately named This is...

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