The Aerobic Digest
The Aerobic Digest 3: Hexagonal composting is the future
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The Aerobic Digest
The Aerobic Digest 2: Like baking a cake really really slowly
Make oddkin with your compost heap
The Aerobic Digest
The first Aerobic Digest
You have to start somewhere. Here is where it starts.
Composting
Encouraging air flow in the heap
Today I implemented something new with my active heap. Because I mulch most chunky things and am increasing the moisture content (the last couple of heaps dried out from heat) the lower middle of the heap tends to get a bit stinky. I add a fair amount of dry carbon
Theory
Maybe inmates should take over asylums?
Nice observation in Jaymo's 301-second podcast (with transcript for those can't be dealing with podcasts) that the term the inmates have taken over the asylum assumes that this would be a bad thing and that the people previously running the asylum were doing a good job.
Gender
Queering the Normal
This interview with Tilda Swinton is a delight on so many levels. I commend it to you without question. So much in there about the importance of art, and also the importance of not doing art, of just being. She's such a breath of fresh air, both cleansing
Capitalism
Owning a trampoline
One lockdown phenomena I've seen very little written about was the rapid spread of trampolines across suburbia. From my back garden there were four within hearing range, sproinging away and very occasionally falling into glorious synchronisation as eight small feet hit the springs at exactly the same time,
Cooperatives
Oikos and Co-operatives
Oikos, from the Greek for 'household', is a new term to me, and it's made up of letters arranged in such a way that it refuses to stick in my brain, so I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head around it, but
Cooperatives
Elinor Ostrom and the miracle of the commons
'The Tragedy of the Commons' is one of those terms that is often taken at face-value and assumed to be true. Humans, when left to their own devices, will consume and exploit everything they can until there is nothing left and they all die. The theory was devised
TV
A new Curtis lands
So there's a new Adam Curtis film out. It's 8 hours long over 6 chapters and in it he attempts to explain, or outline a theory explaining, how we have gotten to where we're at at this moment in time and why the world
Socialism
Exeunt Corbyn
Waaay back in 2000-whenever-it-was, when the world made a smidge more sense, I joined the Labour party to vote in the leadership election. You could call me an entryist, but I'd pretty much always voted Labour and been on the cusp of joining for a while. I voted
Media
Thoughts on The Social Dilemma
So there's this new documentary, The Social Dilemma, which goes into great detail about how terrible the social media industry is for its users and for society in general, ultimately concluding that unless something changes we could see the end of democracy as we know it. Netflix bought