Cory Doctorow on Nostr: You find the weirdest stuff in your walls. Our house was built in 1949 and we're its ...
You find the weirdest stuff in your walls. Our house was built in 1949 and we're its third owner, and I have *no idea* what those other people were doing, but at one point someone installed a junction box full of live, bare wires that they filled with crumpled newspaper (!); and don't get me started on the decision not to put vapor barriers in the kitchen windows.
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