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Michael Marmot

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Apr 3, 2025, 2:05 PM UTC

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 kind of snow that’s heav…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Mar 31, 2025, 1:26 PM UTC

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 usual compound habi…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Mar 28, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

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 brown. But it’s a fixture…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Mar 27, 2025, 1:10 PM UTC

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 couple decades on the h…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Mar 26, 2025, 3:24 AM UTC

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 out of necessity. Just…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Mar 15, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC

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 the surface, paddling th…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Mar 13, 2025, 9:00 AM UTC

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 Bitcoin, or a 21,000,000,000,…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Feb 6, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC

Announcing Automated Stablecoin & Blue Chip Liquidity Pool Supply Vault

I'm excited to announce the creation of Vault 5464, an automated stablecoin & blue chip liquidity pool supply vault on the Arbitrum blockchain. Liquidity pools have come a long way since they fir…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Feb 5, 2025, 1:18 PM UTC

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 surpluses, not with a count…

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Michael Marmot
@michael561 Jan 27, 2025, 11:34 PM UTC

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 what makes this traditi…

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