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Saturday Tweets: Rainy Day Tweets

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Saturday Linkages
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...December 7, 2018 My report, "Empty Seats" showed that 40% of Uber and Lyft time in the Manhattan CBD is spent without passengers (betwn drop-off & next pickup) — more than yellow cabs. Dead time leads to the large increases in VMT that Alejandro also found. https://t.co/YjolfbafVZ — Bruce Schaller (@Bruce_Schaller) December 7, 2018 Advent calendar: Day 6 pic.twitter.com/6DseQQtaVw — 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) December 6, 2018 Cross inscribed st...

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Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

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Saturday Linkages
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...browsing #goatsquad #citygoats #urbanagriculture @ucanr @ucdavisvetmed @UCUrbanAg pic.twitter.com/98Noy6XipG — Alda Pires (@piresalda1) June 9, 2018 First time I’ve seen a canoe being towed on the downtown #yeg bike grid. #yegbike pic.twitter.com/QcemoJhr2M — Damian Rogers (@abcrimlaw) June 7, 2018 Vacant land and urban agriculture are rejuvenating wild bee populations. Bees love cities. What can cities do to love them back? https://t.co/A7mrxmd5...

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Safety Films Night

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Bikes
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...nter is located at 1200 North Alvarado Street @ Sunset Blvd. Map This ain’t a safety film and we won’t be showing this gem on Sunday, but it reminds us that we need to write about the aesthetics of urban homesteading. Something about the three-way nexus of Germans, country music, and “new wave” speaks to the notion of growing food and keeping livestock in the city:...

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Sorting the Digital Photos of a Digital Pandemic

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...ome it was a a world of anxiety, literal blood and guts and for others the time to kick back on the couch and watch every episode of Tiger King. But this is, of course, too much of a dualistic view. Many who were stuck at home also had to deal with the reality of panic over finances and taking care of family members. And most of us, including a lot of Useful People, ended up spending a lot of time looking at screens and this is where the paradox o...

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Seaweed Foraging

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Food, Foraging
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...drator or in an oven at the lowest setting. As it was dark and cold by the time we got home we used Kelly’s step mom’s oven. Our very small Kombu haul dried and ready to use. You should only harvest what you have space and time to dry within 24 hours after harvesting–the sooner the better. It’s legal in California to harvest up to 10 pounds of seaweed for personal use without a permit but you’ll probably want to harvest considerably less than this...

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