Weekend Linkages: Throwing Axes in the Garden

August 14, 2022

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

Mr. Homegrown

September 25, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...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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Excuses, Excuses

Mr. Homegrown

February 21, 2023

Thoughtstylings

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...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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A NSFW Mushroom

Mr. Homegrown

June 3, 2024

Gardening, Mushrooms

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...e edible or not. Now I just enjoy looking at them (and occasionally eating chicken of the woods, the only one I feel confident enough to identity). This weekend in Pomona I spotted the notoriously NSFW stinkhorn mushroom which I’m pretty sure is Phallus hadriani. It fruits quickly with the tip oozing a slimy substance attractive to insects. I witnessed a pill bug and some gnats circling the morel-like tip. Stinkhorns use these insects to distribut...

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Saturday Linkages: Gaslighting the Quarantine Cats

Mr. Homegrown

June 13, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...remely unsafe” measures to sanitize their food and kitchens 3 Reasons Your Chicken May Display Red Legs Time to Get Blueberries in Your Freezer? Strawberry Feijoa Jam Your wedding’s been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good Inside NextDoor’s Karen problem What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride Writer Lane Moore condensed my mood in a Tweet, is anyone else feeling gaslit all the time lately? I’m wearing my mask everywhere I go, I...

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