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Month: February 2025
Test Post for WordPress
This is a sample post created to test the basic formatting features of the WordPress CMS. Subheading Level 2 You can use bold text, italic text, and combine both styles. Bullet list item #1 Item with bold emphasis And a link: official WordPress site Step one Step two Step three This content is only for …
Darren Allen on civilisational collapse
There’s a debate about whether humans are in a ‘collapse era’. Here’s one of our favourite authors, Darren Allen’s take.
Running Bitcoin Core like a pro: validation, pitfalls, and practical choices for an experienced operator
Okay, so check this out—running a full Bitcoin node is one of those things that feels both simple and endlessly deep. Whoa! My instinct said “just run the client and you’re done,” and then reality hit. Initially I thought disk was the only bottleneck, but then I realized bandwidth, CPU, and a few subtle config …
An amateur winemaker’s calendar
Amateur winemakers are not a uniform bunch. We are diverse and unconstrained by market forces or labeling laws, or much of any legal prohibition except good common sense.
Feb 2025 news from the commons movement in Stroud & Liverpool
This is the first monthly news update for what’s happening in the budding commons movement in Stroud and Liverpool, plus Mutual Credit Services and our partners and friends around the UK and the world.
Grow your own flowers to avoid the environmental horrors of the global flower industry
See our flower growing topic for tips on growing your own flowers; and see below for the problems associated with the flower industry, that you’ll avoid. The global flower production industry (the floricultural industry) is worth approximately €64.5 billion and is typically limited to socioeconomically developed countries such as the US and European countries. The …