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Smaugust 2025 art challenge (there are dragons)

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Painting the Glorious Revolution (Discworld fan art)

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garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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ethics and philosophy

my thoughts are sometimes better expressed by others.....

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Are hobbies dead?

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art

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What's for Dinner?

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Glazing and underpainting - for the frugal oil painter (grisaille, brunaille, verdaille, etc)

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

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Seth's Lazer-Focused, Long-Winded, Lively List of Lab Lessons (BEL)

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Mistborn score - any good?

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The Glorious Revolution - 25th of May - Pratchett and discworld

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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Making my own watercolors with natural pigments (both homemade and storebought)

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Catherine The Grateful - not permaculture farm, lessons from the field (BEL)

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Americans with recent experience buying from Canada? (Summer-fall 2025)

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JP and The Eternal Now (BEL)

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How can I put a shade on this lamp?

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toilet alternatives

earth auger style toilet

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Hobbit Home Progress.

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my thoughts are sometimes better expressed by others.....

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Developing A Lifestyle Of Learning The "Wild Grocery Store"

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Lightweight Rocket Mass Heater Mediterranean Climate

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combo passive solar thermosiphon + rocket stove water heater design

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Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

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dyeing

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chickens

Chicken Manure

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How do you cook your weeds?

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Looking for property in north/western Nevada to purchase/lease/rent

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Easiest and Hardest Seeds to Save

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Permaculture Baby Names

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crowdfunding

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greenhouses

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My first Yacon harvest

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PEP Badge: Oddball

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social justice

For profit vs not for profit

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personal challenges

Unusual purchases you’ve made approaching or in your 40’s…

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urban gardening

Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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pep nest

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Project creep - Hobbit Forge

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Loving the new email style

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paul wheaton's pseudo blog

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homestead

The aging homesteader

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My version of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"

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Matt Walker tiny cookstove build in Portugal

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hugelkultur

My first Hugelkultur turned into a flachkultur

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34F Looking for a homestead hunny

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