Michael Marmot (@michael561) - Proof of Brain

Michael Marmot

North Shore, Minnesota, USA

about 1 month ago

Heart Attack Snow Folks up here call it “heart attack snow.” You might have heard the term before, or muttered it yourself halfway through a too-long driveway with a too-small shovel. It’s the…

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about 1 month ago

FreeCompliments

Ashes to Open Sky; What the Emerald Ash Borer Is Teaching Lincoln Park The Trees We Chose The first thing to know is this wasn’t inevitable. The emerald ash borer didn’t choose Lincoln Park. We did. Not deliberately—not with malice—but through the…

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about 2 months ago

Crows at the Creek There’s a little creek that runs behind our apartment. It’s not much to look at, especially in the colder months when the trees are bare and the water runs low, shallow and…

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about 2 months ago

climate-breakdown

Not Quite Spring, Not Quite Winter A few months back, a neighbor told me that Duluth always has two false springs. He said it with a kind of worn certainty, like it was something you just come to accept after a…

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about 2 months ago

Worms Again, with Context I’m getting back into worm composting. Not scaling up. Scaling down. A decade ago, I was living in a rental house with no yard and too many roommates. I started worm composting…

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about 2 months ago

Helping Ducks in the North Shore: What I’ve Learned Spending time near water—whether it’s Lake Superior, an inland lake, or a quiet marsh—means sharing space with ducks. They’re just there , part of the landscape, dipping under…

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2 months ago

No-Buy Sat Stacking I put together this little guide for friends on how I "stack sats," and figured I'd share it more broadly for anyone interested. A satoshi (or "sat") is 1,000,000th of a…

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3 months ago

US Sovereign Wealth Fund: A Postcolonial & Biopolitical Critique The announcement of a US sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a striking shift in economic policy. SWFs are traditionally associated with resource-rich nations managing national…

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4 months ago

Excited to Make Matsoni Yogurt My family and I are about to embark on a small but exciting culinary experiment: making matsoni yogurt at home. After ordering a starter culture online, we’ve been diving into…

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4 months ago

Hive Exploration, January 14th 2025 I haven't been super active, on Hive or elsewhere. I think the exhaustion from the previous year has been catching up. So, most of the changes in my Hive wallet are coming from…

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