Wake Up and Fight

January 4, 2022

...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: 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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Reject Modernity Embrace Post-Capitalism

Mr. Homegrown

July 4, 2022

Thoughtstylings

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...hat profiles the erasure of African-American neighborhoods in the name of “urban renewal” during the 20th century. In Instagram, Susaneck posts before and after photos showing once thriving neighborhoods turned into the sort of horrific landscape depicted in Skeleton88 and Octopolis’ YouTube videos. The Segregation by Design website takes a systematic approach, showing how redlining and demographics were weaponized to eradicate minority neighborho...

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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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2022 in Review: Cats, Mushrooms and Politics

Mr. Homegrown

December 31, 2022

Thoughtstylings

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...apture at least one swarm of bees and hand them off to a friend who has an urban farm and apiary. Kelly and I have a pet sitting arrangement with some friends of ours. When we go away they watch our menagerie and when they go away I head out to Pomona to look after Harpo the parrot and his dog, cat and gecko companions. Random Wanderings When you see a display of fake plastic corn dogs you have to take a picture. I tried and failed to get through...

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