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Saturday Linkages: Can’t Stop the Memes

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Saturday Linkages
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...Turn Off Your Mind, Relax—and Float Right-Wing? Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine “Cocaine of the sea” — the illegal fish trade of the Mexican cartel and Chinese mafia Meaty meals and play stop cats killing wildlife, study finds NeoPixel Ancient Oil Lamp Kelly Norris on New Naturalism and Informed Plant Choices Grow Your Own Giant Sequoia Tree I love lava...

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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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Allegedly Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder Not Rat Proof

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Gardening, Pests
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...our backyard. A young coyote visited last week and, last night, our indoor cats got in a full on cat fight on either side of a glass door with a visiting outdoor cat. Our new bird (rat?) feeder has a lever that closes when a heavy animal steps on it. This is supposed to deter squirrels. As you can see from the photos, rats easily hacked their way around this problem by shimmying between the lever and the food. Perhaps I can just weigh down the lev...

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Weekend Linkages: Umarells and Oki Dogs

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...A friend left a bag of ratchet straps and one of the cats has been sitting in it for a week I think being an Umarell is in my future (thank you to John Zapf for this mind blowing Wikipedia article) A 2-way wrist radio At SXSW, A Pathetic Tech Future Struggles to Be Born “We’ll see you all at Oki-Dogs”: The story of L.A.’s legendary punk hangout (with hot dogs) Down on Alvarado Street by the Pioneer Chicken Stand...

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