Bread isn’t bread anymore.
Honey isn’t honey anymore.
Once, bread rose with the help of wild microbes. Once, honey carried the memory of a hundred flowers.
My new essay asks:
What happens to a culture that forgets how to work with living systems? open.substack.com/pub/collapse...
Wow! Beautiful
Did anyone have Adolf Hitler winning an election on their 2025 bingo card?
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The problem is thinking one guy is the dark chapter. He’s a footnote in the dark chapter of the empire of modernity.
There’s never good news about commercial industrial activity.
The forest doesn’t need to be governed. It’s the people trying to destroy it who need governing.
The #timelapse video I filmed at #sunrise this morning with the DJI Osmo Action 6. #wawx
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That’s pretty damned good, especially for an action camera. Nice to see your posts again Andy.
I’m writing a second book called BECOMING EARTHKEEPERS. I’m publishing a first draft of each chapter on Collapse Curriculum. The first chapter deals with what modern life has done to us and starts the journey of reclaiming ourselves from the machine.
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Yes, fossil fuels are at the center of it all. Although if they were suddenly replaced with any other form of intense energy, I’m not sure it would be any better, other than the absence of carbon pollution (not to undermine the importance of that last bit).
Rather than neoliberalism? Not sure what you mean.
The silent revolution of neoliberalism. It is the worst of the worst form of capitalism. It’s accelerating ecosystem destruction, and turning human living into a nightmare. But it is the natural outcome of technological society that replaces human freedoms with systems and efficiencies.
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
Eugene Ionesco
The dominant narrative: Democrats want to give a person a fish; Republicans believe in “teach a man to fish.”
Reality: the industrial system, fully supported by both parties, is killing all the fish. No fish for anyone.
Apparently @safety.bsky.app believes Sarah did not “Walk The Line” even the their line is invisible and arbitrary. As these things tend to go, eventually there’s no one left to censor except you. So they will.
Great minds… I just wrote about these sadly forgotten auks. Tip of the iceberg.
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That ranking thing is bizarre. I was #11 a week ago. Lol. While the ego appreciates it, at the end of the day, I only care if it helps shift consciousness, even a little.
Hard truth… but 💯 truth.
Worst of all, neoliberalism has put into place so many self-protections, it’s virtually impossible to change within the rules of the system it’s housed in. The system is lost. It can’t/won’t be reformed from within. We must collectively choose a better way.
Public spaces reflect and reinforce culture. Capitalism produces spaces that are clogged with vehicles, ads, pollution, plastic and pavement. There is no longer any space for children, pedestrians, nature, public gathering, socializing, or anything else that makes us human. We need to take back space for people.
It is truly incredible how much the public “commons” have been totally decimated by this capitalist incarnation we call “neoliberalism.”
Republicans are shitting on voter-lead initiatives all over the country, showing their dedication to states’ rights, as long as the people aren’t involved.
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Sorry, just saw this. Yeah, I changed it to be under my name. I guess I need to update the linktree.
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Yes! Thanks for your words. Glad it was helpful.
Nailed it
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most people don’t want the truth—especially not the kind that tears at the myth of progress, the lie of civilization. Because to truly see—to really let it in—would mean everything they depend on is soaked in blood and ash.
It’s always “what’s in it for us”—we measure wildlife by its utility. It’s unthinkable that nature has intrinsic value beyond our selfish interests.
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Learn more below. Part Two is not about slogans or marches—it’s about formation. Resilient, decentralized, invisible. The ghost in the machine is you, is us, is everyone ready to resist not with hope, but with discipline. The cell is the crucible…
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Let me break it down for the folks in the back:
You cannot extract your way to harmony.
You cannot innovate your way out of a death cult.
What the Sámi and other indigenous people are facing is the latest mutation of empire—a "green" empire, sure—but it’s still empire. Just with better branding.
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"I’m so sick of millennial’s attitudes lately... walking around like they rent the place."
- credit to Logan Lisle