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welcome to the cotkey ride home for thursday, February 25th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

How to make your clothes last longer and practice the art of radical keeping, according to the anti-Marie Kondo.

A segment about Buttergate in Canada that's not really about

Buttergate after all. And a browser extension that shows you what the internet would look like

without big tech. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

One pandemic trend has seemed to be getting rid of stuff.

As we spend more time in our houses, lots of people have been tidying up or redoing rooms

and generating so much stuff they're getting rid of that the New York Times yesterday

called it the golden age of free stuff,

in an article detailing how upper middle class people have discovered dumpster diving and branded it

as stooping for their thousands of Instagram followers. And hey, listen, tidying up is great. Refreshing

your space is great for mental health, and buying or finding used instead of buying new

is also good for the environment. But there's also a great argument to be made for holding

onto things and for fixing them when they break instead of immediately throwing them out

and buying a replacement. Orsolo de Castro is an activist and former designer, described by

the Guardian as a kind of anti-Marie condo.

She counters fast fashion and throwaway culture with radical keeping.

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