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Bike to Work Week

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Bikes
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...the backside of the map and there’s another copy of this same image, this time occupying fully a third of what could be useful space for tips on how to bike in LA. Like the MTA, the LADOT seems more interested in spending lavishly on curious promotional efforts that simultaneously make it seem like they are doing something while subconsciously discouraging anyone from actually riding a bike. After all, if the kind of middle class folks this map a...

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Friday Afternoon Linkages–Some Fun, Some Scary

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Thoughtstylings
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...had a hectic finishing of the sampling program yesterday and this past night. An extensive area of intense methane release was found. At earlier sites we had found elevated levels of dissolved methane. Yesterday, for the first time, we documented a field where the release was so intense that the methane did not have time to dissolve into the seawater but was rising as methane bubbles to the sea surface.” No comment other than . . . yow! Full stor...

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Reject Modernity Embrace Post-Capitalism

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Thoughtstylings
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...o be believed, there are always opportunities to be chased or created; any time not spent hustling and hassling is time wasted. The whole city is forced into a gigantic simulation of activity, a fanaticism of productivism in which nothing much is actually produced, an economy made out of hot air and bland delirium. Capital demands that we rip out a perfectly good 1920s bathroom and replace it with the latest stream of vomit from Home Depot. And wh...

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I Made a Bee Vacuum

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Animals, Bees
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...n, by the way). We had to Sawzall the bin apart, unfortunately, and by the time we started removing the comb, most of the bees had settled into a hard to access corner of the bin. With the bee vac, we were able to quickly vacuum up those bees and get them into their new home. Bee vac on top–box with relocated comb on bottom. Image: Andrew @ortofarms Then, as usual, with this otherworldly creature, something unexpected happened. A cluster ended up...

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The Gathering Storm

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Thoughtstylings
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...us, who lived in Altadena at the time. In a recent column for the New York Times “As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles” Peter lamented the climate driven destruction of his former hometown. I’ve been watching this week’s tragedy unfold from afar, piecing the story together through local news reports and texts and videos from friends, some of whom have lost homes, trying to figure out what has burned and what hasn’t. Our...

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