It’s wild to see folks on bluesky wrestling with the knowledge that they’re unlikely to outlive this dark turn in America. And what that means for them, for their kids. I say “wild” because the responses are predictably dark (nihilistic if not suicidal) or tone-deaf (“You gotta keep fighting!”) but so few have walked through what this really means and… Read More
How to Prepare (Not Prep) for Uncertain Times… and Build a Better World in the Process
The world is absolutely crazy right now, and yes, it’s Trump’s fault: There’s a lot of very understandable free-floating stress (punctuated by moments of terror and glorious protests), but the response I’m seeing is often a reflexive turn toward rugged individualism—Quick! I need to learn how to grow my own food!—a pulling away from community rather than leaning into it…. Read More
SOLAR: How to Get Started and Why You Should
I put solar on my roof three years ago, and since then, I’ve helped plenty of solar-curious friends figure out the options—there are plenty (and you don’t need a PhD in Environmental Engineering to figure them out). GET SOLAR TO SAVE THE PLANET People immediately want to know if solar will save them money, or how long it will take… Read More
Cory Booker Just Told Us: It’s Up To Us
My friends and I had an impromptu watch party as Senator Cory Booker didn’t just break a record, he performed a massive service for the country: his stamina and determination and incredible eloquence at any time, much less after speaking for twenty-five hours straight, all in service of calling out the fascist takeover of America, the people who were being… Read More
Anger is Not the Opposite of Hope
A nightmare woke me up in the wee hours. My subconscious was once again doing the work of processing the daylight horrors of the world. But my barely-awake body was so full of fear hormones I knew the only way to dispel them was to literally physically get out of bed: move the body, complete the “wake the fuck up”… Read More
Doing Nothing Will Lose You Everything
Folks like to blame the internet for everything, and I’m the first to say Technofeudalists, tech companies, and especially tech billionaires are a real and present danger, but we didn’t get to this stage of society breakdown overnight or even in the last eight years. Neoliberalism and cowboy conservatism have corrupted the culture for decades before the internet. “Greed is… Read More
Investing in Better Social Media
We all know social media has changed us: in the best case, it lets us connect with people we would never meet and stay in touch with those we already have. But the dark side is fully manifesting and so we need to evolve. I’ve been giving conscious thought for years to the question of HOW? How do we escape… Read More
Make Something BETTER
I’ve been processing a lot since the election. My latest take is that radical disruption often opens up the possibility for change that you normally really would not make. Things you’ve been putting off. Ways of limping along that worked okay. But disruption shoves you out of the comfort zone and makes you do stuff—and sometimes that stuff is really… Read More
Dyson Spheres for Space Locusts
I’ve always thought Dyson spheres were the most absurd idea. What “civilization” would be so rapacious as to *enclose an entire star* to meet their “energy needs”. That’s not a sign of “advanced intelligence”—that’s space locusts. It’s only now that I’m making the connection between the economics of “constant growth” and how that permeated the thought processes of generations of… Read More