Excuses, Excuses

...I’ve been absent for awhile due to a mountain of volunteer responsibility that devolved upon me in recent weeks. Everything is okay and I’ll be back to thoughtstyling here soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this inexplicable chicken nugget intervention I spotted on a recent dog walk....

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Weekend Linkages: You’re Either On the Bus or Off the Bus

...ogle map of Los Angeles air raid sirens The strange world of r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix The Bus Stops Here: What it’s like on six Los Angeles bus routes that are crucial lifelines for under-served Angelenos Sabadell Spain’s new bus mascot The FDA’s Warning About NyQuil Chicken Resulted In Around 7,000 Searches For It On TikTok Profiting from poison: how the US lead industry knowingly created a water crisis Workers creating music in a scrapyard in Indo...

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Weekend Linkages: Throwing Axes in the Garden

...rights if you know where this is and leave a comment . . . Aubergine dip, chicken skewers and beans with dill: Yotam Ottolenghi’s Persian recipes Bunya nut bounty: How to process and cook Australian native bunya nuts Block ads and trackers with a Pi-hole A Twitter thread on what a Pi-hole is Elon’s Biggest Boondoggle: Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell cities a hole in the ground? Philadelphia Becomes First C...

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Allegedly Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder Not Rat Proof

...t companions. I have taken steps elsewhere in the yard to reduce rats. The chicken feed gets locked up at night (the critter cam showed the rats are active between 11pm and 4am) and I try, not always successfully, to keep things neat. Back in the 90s I worked at a mouse infested TV station. We had a scale model of a set that was being built for a talk show. One of my coworkers had the bright idea to put a camera on the little set and smear it with...

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Weekend Linkages: I Looked at Twitter So You Don’t Have To

...id is still wreaking havoc The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island Council member’s emails show inconsistencies with stance against bike lanes My neighbor’s dog smells the chicken I’m grilling They still make nice new buildings A thread on eco-fascism cats CAN’T have a little salami You can visit Mt. Wilson! Editors note: new post coming tomorrow, God willing....

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