Rachel (ɹeɪt͡ʃəl) Taylor, envelope maker ✉️

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theoretical writer/conceptual artist, amateur built environment critic. interests include: sign painting, urbanism, mail, all kinds of making things, brutalism, surreal things, stationery, plants, upcycling, clothing/textiles, material culture

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overheard at the grocery store: "I don't believe in organics"

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Your middle name is not important. No one cares. No one even knows it. No one cares! Unless you do exactly one particular thing.

this man ate my son

Poor birds. Rockets blew away local bird habitats: "Although the flight was considered a success, it left behind trails of smeared egg yolk on the ground near the launch site." www.yahoo.com/tech/spacex-...

SpaceX rockets blew away local bird habitats after Elon Musk 'misled' NPS officials about expansion, NYT reportswww.yahoo.com The New York Times reported that operations at SpaceX's Starbase in Texas is damaging the environment, including a local migratory bird habitat.

I really like the design of this flyer

"The Fallow Frames Biennial is an upcoming public art festival that will be held [in Ridgewood, Qns] on July 13th and 14th, where local artists are invited to use 24 abandoned tree beds to stage site-specific installations and performances." www.fallowframes.org

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if you're playing with a cat correctly, you'll be working roughly 900 times harder than the cat. 99% of the effort must be yours. playing with cats is not about exercise, it's about drama. And cats are harsh critics. they need to BELIEVE that plush banana is afraid for its life.

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We each experience a house from a different perspective.

@joshuajfriedman.com I think you'd appreciate this packaging www.ocelotchocolate.com/shop

Ocelot Chocolate — Buy organic craft chocolate bars made in Scotland by Ocelot Chocolatewww.ocelotchocolate.com Buy organic craft chocolate bars made in Scotland

Citymapper does a version of this (and I think it's the only app I know of that does) but since there isn't a numbering scheme with the actual train cars and exits, it just says front, middle or end of the train.

Would more people donate blood in the US if we had a mascot like this?

Kenketsu-chan, a blood fairy with blood drop ears, is Japan’s blood donation mascot.

@ad-mastro.bsky.social this may be of interest to you wtop.com/local/2024/0...

‘Really striking’: Residents leaving DC region are moving further away to rural communities - WTOP Newswtop.com Residents moving from D.C. and its surrounding suburbs are relocating further away than they have in the past, part of a national trend of remote workers leaving metropolitan cities for small rural co...

@heatherwgaona.bsky.social have you ever seen this species of slug around here before? I think I saw one of these today www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61428-A...

Western Dusky Slug (Arion subfuscus)www.inaturalist.org Arion fuscus, also known as the 'Dusky Arion', is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs. (Source: Wikipedia...

I'd wondered in the past whether the Old Bay flavored filet-o-fish was only a regional thing available in Maryland but not nationwide, and today I finally looked it up. It's also sold in Delaware, DC, Virgina and West Virginia, but not other parts of the country. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

Baltimore McDonald's To Offer Old Bay Filet-O-Fishwww.cbsnews.com McDonald's has officially teamed up with Maryland-based McCormick & Co. to introduce a limited edition sandwich.

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Don't go to the zone of totality without reading Aaron Short's story shedding light on the eclipse — and how bad our transit is: usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/04/e...

Eclipse Special: Bad Moon Rising for Transit Users Who Want to See the Show — Streetsblog USAusa.streetsblog.org The eclipse will bring darkness to a swath of the country — but also shed some light on how bad our transit is.

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This is the quirky scientific research report I needed today. hub.jhu.edu/2024/04/...

Science shows Baltimore's cats are friendly little guyshub.jhu.edu Johns Hopkins postdoctoral researcher Charlotte Fare has conducted a semi-quantitative analysis of the cats of Baltimore, surveying the appearance and disposition of a subset of the city's felines

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"When it comes to these wilder finds, I’m generally not listening for the quality of the 🎶. Often, I don’t listen at all — just browse the song titles + imagine what kind of person might pair [X with Y]. It’s like seeing the contents of someone’s medicine cabinet or rolling away with the wrong 🛒."

In Defense Of The Digital Eavesdropperwww.bylinebyline.com For chronic eavesdropper Mia Freund, Spotify Friend Activity is a dizzying world full of strangers' secrets and hidden tales.

quick, let me go look up how to care for snails and/or slugs in the event that I find one I could take in

My daughter is a floral designer and she brings home every snail she encounters at the flower shop. I think she has six right now. There’s a whole little snail village in her terrarium. Cottages and whatnot. 😂

I'm contemplating how it might be possible to make the shoes in order to have a party like this, and who I'd invite to have a varied range of heights which are then equalized with the shoes during the party

Same height parties are a very interesting idea. I mean I worry about ankles, but … interesting.

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If you're boiling a lot of eggs this weekend save the water for your garden. It will be very high in calcium & plants love that.

When selling installation artworks, some think it's okay to split up a large installation into smaller parts to sell piecemeal (which makes it easier to sell these kinds of artworks), whereas others think the installation should be sold as a single, complete entity. www.huffpost.com/entry/sellin...

Interesting article about "micro apartments" (aka single-room occupancy units) in the PNW region, where some cities have altered their zoning codes to allow more of this type of housing. apnews.com/article/micr...

Homelessness, affordable-housing shortage spark resurgence of single-room ‘micro-apartments'apnews.com Boarding houses that rented single rooms to low-income, blue-collar or temporary workers were prevalent across the U.S. in the early 1900s.

Even the Joann location(s) around here don't have a great selection of nice fabrics for sewing garments, it's primarily quilting fabrics or other fabrics that aren't the kind I want to make garments out of, even if they technically could work.

Which is now the only fabric store in most towns. (Michael's mostly sells precuts, which are great for quilting and terrible for anything else.)

"How do you acquire stomach acid like a vulture if you are a human?" (vultures have extremely acidic stomachs which allows them to eat decaying carcasses, since vulture stomach acid can kill all the harmful bacteria present in carcasses) www.quora.com/How-do-you-a...

More parachute posting: I just saw this parachute featured in a US Army recruiting ad airborne-sys.com/product/t-11...

T-11 Army Troop Parachute Non-Steerable | Airborne Systemsairborne-sys.com {:en}T-11 Army Troop Parachute non-steerable for military jumpers. Carries an all-up weight of 400 lbs. Max deployment altitude of 7500 ft. {:}

@ad-mastro.bsky.social I was going to call your attention to this just from seeing the headline, started reading and didn't pay attention to the byline since this isn't in your own primary newsletter, then later in the middle I realized "oh wait, *you* wrote this" bsky.app/profile/nate...

If you were going to make an unofficial WMATA zine, what would you put in it? nypost.com/2024/03/13/u...

An unofficial subway magazine is baffling the MTA — and delighting...nypost.com The New York City subway now has its very own unofficial publication, and the only way to read it is by riding the rails until you find a copy.

The evolution of cursive styles over the years is interesting to me. I assume my own natural style is relatively contemporary since I haven't specifically learned to write in any historical styles. wtop.com/government/2...

Curious and fluent in cursive? The National Archives is looking for you - WTOP Newswtop.com The National Archives in D.C. is looking for volunteers who can sift through documents to shed light on famous names in history and the lives of everyday Americans.

This was a pretty interesting article about a net-zero ADU a woman built in Cleveland Park. She bought a sliver of property adjacent to her own to build it on, using various recycled materials, like steel for the exterior. www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/03...

She built one of the most energy-efficient homes in D.C. Here’s how.www.washingtonpost.com The city’s first “net-zero” accessory dwelling unit took two years and about $200,000 to build. Its owner learned some valuable lessons along the way.

There's some commercial that shows pigeons on top of a building trying to watch TV through a window in another building, which made me wonder what happens if birds actually do watch TV. Apparently they can get unsettled by noises they hear on a TV. www.parrotforums.com/threads/does...

For those of you who enjoyed my previous thread about parachutes, I've figured out which type of (black) parachutes probably appear in this photo. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

TOPSHOT - CORRECTION / Aid parcels are airdropped over the northern...www.gettyimages.com TOPSHOT - CORRECTION / Aid parcels are airdropped over the northern Gaza Strip on March 8 amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement. The US military said it carried out a fresh.....