Saturday Linkages: Squirrels, Dry Winter, Workbenches

...The best thing I’ve learned this week is that when squirrels fall/jump – they land like superheroes pic.twitter.com/XuY80hCuNp — ᴊᴀᴄᴋ 👑 ✨ (@JackDMurphy) November 27, 2020 I Twitter thread on what it’s like to work on Black Friday in the U.S. Very dry weather across California through mid-December Make Christmas Ornaments With Toilet Paper Rolls A disaster water filter kit Free e-book on building your own workbench...

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Saturday Linkages: The Phantom Framer

...Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth 20% of epidemiologists are crazy Interview with a Zine Maker: Linda Leigh of Skid Row Zine I know this is old news but . . . Minnesota man claims he was mistaken for Sasquatch by Bigfoot 911 team The Phantom Framer In a dream last night a neighbor told me that this song has to do with farmers markets: https://youtu.be/6hZcWCm8URg...

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Saturday Linkages: Arboreal Angst

The Emperor Charles and ‘Carlina’ in Giovanni Cadamasto’s herbal: Harley MS 3736 via Medieval Manuscripts Blog Arboreal Angst: a short history of recent architectural/plant mashups Louisville needs trees! Cedar plant swing holder Ancient watering hole in Southern Arizona at risk from border wall construction On the Surprising Benefits of an Un-Mobile Phone Is Our Fear of Smartphones Overblown? Same Pesticides that are Killing Bees Significantly S...

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Saturday Linkages: One Brutal Week

...How to Make an Old-school Neon Street Sign Concrete jungle: the brutalist buildings of northern England – in pictures McModernism, USA Coronavirus: Sweden keeps its laid-back COVID-19 strategy Ford Pinto Race Car Eats Wall At Daytona The potato head of Palencia: defaced Spanish statue latest victim of botched restoration...

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Saturday Linkages: Agitated

...Engraving from the Kelmscott Chaucer. The Baffler serves up some Fresh Hell Kentucky politician with a demented hatred of trains Dreaming octopus changes color I ‘stormed’ Area 51 and it was even weirder than I imagined Handsy old goon supports fossil fuels If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them M.I.T. Media Lab’s crackpot plant computer What if America Took Amtrak Seriously?...

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