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Lehigh Valley Workshop’s Infinite Subversion

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Thoughtstylings
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...e past few months I’ve been attempting to lift the hood a bid on the whole urban homesteading thing. As Frederic Jameson says, “We have to name the system.” This mapping and naming process is the first step towards constructive work. LVW is attempting to do just that and the fact that your right wing relatives and your hipster artist types all follow him in Instagram says something about the value of his strategy. You can find LVW on YouTube and I...

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Weekend Linkages: AI, That Damn Metaverse, Living Pantries and Compressed Air

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Saturday Linkages
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...Image from the deep internets. The stupidity of AI Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland. No, Cities Aren’t Doomed Because of Remote Work Los Angeles’s Metro Is Using Classical Music as a Weapon ‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy...

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007 RIP Handsome, 3 Power Tools You Should Own and Hipster Compost

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Podcasts
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...ecent comment on the blog we review an old post on three power tools every urban homesteader should own: drill, circular saw and jigsaw. Lastly, we expand on a recent post about composting brew waste, coffee grounds, juice pulp and coconut husks. In other words, “hipster compost.” During the discussion we answer a reader concern about black solider flies in compost. For more info on soldier flies (they are beneficial in compost but can be a proble...

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I Made an Enzo Mari Table and So Can You

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Design
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...s fantasy plays out in the furniture I’ve build for the inside of the house. Such is the fate of attempts at revolutionary design within our post-modern age. Everything gets subsumed within a vast parade of styles and one can easily imagine this table on sale at Urban Outfitters at your local mall. Mari, who we lost to COVID in 2020, had the genius and grace to acknowledge the contradictions in his own work while not letting this discourse get in...

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Allegedly Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder Not Rat Proof

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Gardening, Pests
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...cilmen! Just kidding. It was rats. This discovery caps off a busy week for urban wildlife in 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 th...

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