Weekend Linkages: A Random Beginning to 2023

January 8, 2023

...Church members propose urban village for congregation A Very Moynihan Train Hall Thanksgiving: ‘Wow, I Can’t Even Sit Down?’ Hero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards Gramsci on hating new year’s day 2-Dog Backpack Boat: the Dogmaran Are Aliens Who Visit Earth Likely to Be Socialist?...

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Weekend Linkages: Better Streets, Rental Gardens and Roombas That Spy

Mr. Homegrown

August 7, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...Medicine cabinets in the Pacific Ready Cut catalog. Better streets via AI New (and Old) Books for Urban and Rental Gardens A tread on why Amazon buying Roomba isn’t a good thing Strange Zillow listing of the week...

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Weekend Linkages: Scatological Jumpsuits

Mr. Homegrown

March 6, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...Urban spelunking: Flushing out the reason for that lone basement toilet Loungin’ – The Original Onesies Dog Poop – The Secret Ingredient in Victorian Leather (Thank you Lee for the link)...

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Wake Up and Fight

Mr. Homegrown

January 4, 2022

Thoughtstylings

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...I were chasing clicks, I would have given up long ago. Almost all of the “urban homesteading” blogs like this one disappeared years ago. That’s the result of many factors. One is the rise of social media, as capital found a way to monetize posting and shift the fruits of that monetization away from creators and towards large companies like Meta (gag) and all the others: Twitter, TikTok, YouTube etc. I’m sorry to say that I bought into the optimis...

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Weekend Linkages: Fall Fig Leaf

Mr. Homegrown

November 14, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Homemade Harissa Sauce Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild A timeline of Food (via Recomendo newsletter) Saturday afternoon Ikea trip simulator Just in case you need a centaur costume Art, Hoax, and Provocation The quiet, monochromatic urban landscapes of Russian painter Vladimir Shinkarev In dystopia news . . . Against artsploitation That strange 1990s swing revival thing An interactive world music map (via Recomendo newsletter)...

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