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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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...

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The problem is thinking one guy is the dark chapter. He’s a footnote in the dark chapter of the empire of modernity.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

There’s never good news about commercial industrial activity.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The forest doesn’t need to be governed. It’s the people trying to destroy it who need governing.

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Andy Zahn @andyzahn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The #timelapse video I filmed at #sunrise this morning with the DJI Osmo Action 6. #wawx youtu.be/541GM77-qQc

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Sunrise Timelapse filmed with DJI Osmo Action 6

YouTube video by Illuminationsfromtheattic

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

That’s pretty damned good, especially for an action camera. Nice to see your posts again Andy.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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. open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

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What Modern Life Has Done to Us

Chapter 1 of Becoming EarthKeepers

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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).

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Rather than neoliberalism? Not sure what you mean.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” Eugene Ionesco

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Great minds… I just wrote about these sadly forgotten auks. Tip of the iceberg. open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

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The Great Auk and the Culture That’s Killing the World

And Towards a New Culture That Listens, and Resists

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It is truly incredible how much the public “commons” have been totally decimated by this capitalist incarnation we call “neoliberalism.”

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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. open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Yes! Thanks for your words. Glad it was helpful.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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… open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

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Ghosts in the Machine: Total Resistance, Part II

Why Cells, Not Movements, Will Outlive Collapse

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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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. open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

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Green Colonialism Is Still Colonialism

How Tech Utopians Are Rebranding Empire—And Who’s Standing in the Way

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"I’m so sick of millennial’s attitudes lately... walking around like they rent the place." - credit to Logan Lisle

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My buddy Nate on the value of community in a collapsing world…. “Your neighbors can lend you an extension cord or hand you a beer. Online communities can send thoughts and prayers. The exchange rate of thoughts-and-prayers to tangibles is usually unfavorable.”

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Elon isn’t even American… what does he know about American values? FFS

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The operators? They are important, but everyone has a role to play. Learn more below. open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

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Total Resistance, Part I: The Duty to Resist

The last line of defense is you.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Youth move fast, learn fast, and act without hesitation. Builders create the food systems, clinics, and mutual aid networks that keep us alive. Communicators shape the message, spread the truth, and keep the morale strong.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Latest in the series just dropped! One thing I enjoyed from the book Total Resistance, is that Hans von Dach laid it out clearly: every person has a role in the fight for freedom. Elders carry wisdom and memory. Women organize, coordinate, and run the nerve centers.

Image of Sophie Scholl, the Student Who Defied Hitler.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

After writing about the book Total Resistance, some people asked me what is the law on speech that talks of guerrilla warfare in a modern context. I wrote a piece that summarizes law in the United States on this topic. I hope it helps. open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

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Resistance and the First Amendment: What You Can (and Can’t) Say in a Dying Empire

Understanding the legal boundaries of revolutionary writing in the United States

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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Resistance and the First Amendment: What You Can (and Can’t) Say in a Dying Empire

Understanding the legal boundaries of revolutionary writing in the United States

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Finally…. American is back!… back to not even pretending to have any concern for the environment.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

These are good films. Free too.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Tactical pants are more than just gear—they’re survival tools. I put CQR vs. 5.11 Tactical through 3 years of hell. One brand still works. The other? Velcro failures, busted seams, and potential disaster. Find out which is worth your money. 👇 collapsecurriculum.substack.com/p/i-tried-tw...

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I Tried Two Different Pants for 3 Years—Here’s What Happened

The Importance of Durability in Survival Attire

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Eventually things like democracy and even biology simply get in the way of advanced technological society. Astounding read (albeit long). Long story short, the tech bros don’t think democracy is good enough any more. Neither is the Earth or you. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

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The Plot Against America

How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Politicians and the environmental organizations they fund pat themselves on the back for protecting one area while they support destroying the adjacent area. It doesn’t work like that. It’s just virtue signaling… greenwashing. Meanwhile mass extinction is worsened by human activity every day.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Intuition, feelings… often dismissed, are wisdom and truth that aren’t on the logical quantitative side. Sometimes this dichotomy is described as masculine vs feminine. I think science and rational thought have also hijacked morality. Many people believe there is no truth outside the empirical.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So what’s the basis? Just curious what he would have said.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Explain in what way you can’t maintain things without the global expanse of industrial civilization? I’ll tell you what the hell my point is. You can’t maintain Earth with industrial civilization. Produce only whatever is necessary to keep the toxics safe. It’s really not that hard in concept.

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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I think you miss the point. No one is saying don’t maintain those things. But by clinging to industrial civilization for these reasons, we only make the end game worse.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/02/2025

The collapse of global industrial civilization is happening much faster than expected. It hurts terribly to watch these evil people do their evil things. But I keep returning to the truth that the faster modern civilization is gone, the better off everything else will be. Is it good or bad?

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