Weekend Linkages: Perfection Salad

January 16, 2022

Strange Zillow listing of the week Frank Sinatra’s Chatsworth Home Listed For $21.5M (It’s actually kinda nice) Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem Climate change, rising temperatures will lead to rise in kidney stones – study Vision Zero failure: 18 bike riders killed in Los Angeles in 2021 Gas stoves and indoor air quality There is No Red Pill Hacked Prius Running on MUNI Power Lines (spoiler: this is...

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Weekend Linkages: Turtles All the Way Down

Mr. Homegrown

January 23, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...Cactus at the Huntington Gardens. Meet the LA Collective Taking the Plant World by Storm Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme What If We Just Stopped Being So Available? Target Supremacy: What You Should Know About the 2013 Security Breach How to do a campaign ad Hobby tunneling...

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Weekend Linkages: Hot and Cold

Mr. Homegrown

February 6, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whale A Magazine From 1997 Is Selling For Thousands of Dollars Online Because of QAnon Tent-safe DIY heaters for unhoused people cost just $7 to build...

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Weekend Linkages: May Day Edition

Mr. Homegrown

May 1, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...Billy Bragg sings the Internationale William Morris How I Became a Socialist Vision zero is going well here in LA Riding a bike in American should not be this dangerous Texas Plans to Punish Companies That Move Away From Fossil Fuels Buckets and Hydroponic Baskets for Growing Summer Veggies I’m for more caftans The right kind of worker (a podcast episode for your May Day)...

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Weekend Linkages: Squirrels, Brad Pitt and Lenin

Mr. Homegrown

February 13, 2022

Saturday Linkages

...Furniture by William Morris Uber’s plans include attacking public transit Behold, the southernmost Lenin statue in the world Rack of squirrel, anyone? The chefs putting invasive species on the menu Mold, leaks, rot: how Brad Pitt’s post-Katrina housing project went horribly wrong...

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