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Squirrel the Riveted

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Michigander. Doomer Optimist.

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Hadden Turner @haddenturner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The most fitting way to honour Mr. Berry’s life and legacy, is to make his costly words mean something in your life; to change — really change — the way you relate to your local place, your neighbours, and the wild creatures who also call your place home" overthefield.substack.com/p/wendell-be...
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Wendell Berry 1934-2026
The day I knew was coming has arrived with all its solemn finality.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Love Bluesky's hatred of rural areas, the elderly and farmers specifically
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Bunkunin @bunkunin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In Defense of the Fourth of July jacobin.com/2026/07/inde...
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Energy Doc Brown needed to power his flux capacitor in Back to the Future: 1.21 gigawatts Energy needed to power a proposed OpenAI / Oracle data center in Saline, MI: 1.40 gigawatts
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My first thought is a basic property of abundance is that it doesn’t require distribution
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
“In a world of widely distributed abundance”
In particular, we expect the future to provide new and hopefully better ways to live a fulfilling life, and for more people to experience such a life than do today. It is true that work will be different, the economic transition may be very difficult in some ways, and it is even possible that the fundamental socioeconomic contract will have to change. But in a world of widely-distributed abundance, people’s lives can be much better than they are today.
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playon.bsky.social @playon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires? "During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat... waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier." www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-priv...
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Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?
During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/01/2025
All of my parents cutlery is family made and easily into its second century of daily usage.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“DEI was a failure. It was a failure not because it wasn't implemented properly or because we didn't try hard enough. It was a failure because the civil rights movement wasn't about elite diversity in the first place -- it was about lifting up the poor.” www.theamericansaga.com/p/dei-is-a-f...
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DEI Is a Failure Because the Civil Rights Movement Wasn’t About Elite Diversity
The tide is turning against modern diversity bureaucracies. But that's not necessarily bad news for progressives, at least if they believe in the goals of the civil rights movement.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Like anything, context matters. Find common ground on the right stuff.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“This has got to be a society-wide cultural shift that we have to stop looking at this vital force of nature as something we can conquer or control, and learn how to live with it” 🔥
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Dating from the 1050s, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, this is Britain’s oldest door, made from oak, in a passage leading to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey www.westminster-abbey.org/history/expl...
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
+ for advocating for adaptation and resilience - for using the term “mindbomb”
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
They shouldn’t have to work in these conditions. Masks or no masks
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Sam Knowlton (@samdknowlton) on Twitter:
"The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.
If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."
- Bill Mollison
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Said goodbye to the sweetest chinchilla yesterday.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Trying to figure out whether “actual people” refers to everyone in red states or just those that vote blue.
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Spoontaneous @spoontaneous.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
'Thuya Burl Tripartite' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Thuya burl, Serviceberry and Ebony with Holly spacers. The bowl is Serviceberry wood... a favorite! An understory tree that is native to Canada and every U.S. state except Hawaii. #spoon #spoontaneous #art #craft #design #woodworking #carving 🥄
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Banjo the Riot Elephant @richargh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
You know that screenshot is very old because Google is still showing the best result at the top.
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Orthodox Mason @orthodoxmason.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Progress on the timber framing elements for our current project. #timberframing #architecture #design #home #vermont
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I wonder how Arthur Schopenhauer (1766-1860) conceived of health. Probably very different than we do today
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“Social science and medicine are not interested in discovering causation. They are looking for evidence to justify policies that will impact populations of people. And statistics has been one of the most powerful methods for population-level, bureaucratic assessment” www.argmin.net/p/bureaucrat...
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Bureaucratic Statistics
A few thoughts about a reframing of statistical methodology
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“In our exuberance to find these cancers, we have basically turned a lot of healthy people who are not destined to die from the cancers into patients” www.carolynbarbermd.com/9242-2/
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The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers are being overdiagnosed in America
In 2009, Laura Esserman, a breast cancer surgeon and oncology specialist in San Francisco, co-published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggesting that it was time...
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting." Illich, Deschooling Society
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me. In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
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Sim G @sim.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Just a reminder since it's garden-planning season for those in the northern hemisphere, that Permapeople has a free and non-commercial garden planner. More elaborate than a grid-based planner, and more suited for food foresters and homesteaders, but it's awesome! permapeople.org/plans/new
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New garden plan | 🌱✌️ Permapeople
Create a new garden plan with Permapeople
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Michigan plans to clear 400+ acres of state forest near Gaylord for solar farm www.mlive.com/environment/...
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Michigan plans to clear 400+ acres of state forest near Gaylord for solar farm
Officials with the DNR recently assessed 1,200 acres of public trust land in Otsego County near a major power transmission line to decide whether it was suitable for solar arrays.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
“It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?”
Social media post (Hacker News perhaps?)

If all farmers suddenly disappeared tomorrow we'd go hungry for a little bit before we figured it out and were just fine. And that's because it's a job that literally anyone could do. We have the farmers we do because they're the ones who inherited a shit ton of land from their great grandfather, not because they have some highly specialized set of skills the rest of us couldn't possibly figure out with just a few google searches.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
LotR, the cheap movie version.
Calvin &Hobbes strip with Calvin and Susie Derkins, only with dialogue replaced by confrontation between Éowyn and the Lord of the Nazgûl. The replacement works perfectly with the strip.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Nice to see old Bernie resurfacing again
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Do you like foam products? Can you see why we use straw as insulation? Air insulates. But the reason is not so much the hollow core. #strawbuilding #nonfossil
Microscopic image of straw shows very porous outer parts.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
What’s new about this is not that you might be talking to a bot but that it’s clearly labeled as such
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
My wife is a willow weaver. Here’s a coffin she made (right) and a coffin base in progress (left). I made the “bodkins” (awls) for her with a blacksmith friend recently.
Willow coffin base with willow weaving tools, including two hand forged “bodkins” (awls).A willow coffin with pine base and handles made of salvaged dock rope. Behind it is a row of live willow trees.
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Richard J Hewitt @richardjhewitt.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A well-written & thoughtful piece. Traditional small farms are widely abandoned - here in Spain very few remain, mostly farmed by older people with other sources of income (I.e pensions from work in the city). It should be possible to make small farms profitable but policy makers don’t care.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Ever since the class project on ancient Egypt, the children have taken to calling a particular grave 'the Moss Mummy'. They leave her all sorts of afterlife offerings. I'm told she is fond of sherbet dabs, rhubarb and custard chews as well as certain bubblegum cards. – Joanna Vickers, 1982 #VOH
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I often browse the comments on articles like this because it is striking how little difference of opinion there is on this site. I’m always on the lookout for thoughtful disagreement. Frequently disappointed.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I agree with this article, and apparently disagree with like 99% of people on this site, judging by the comments.
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 01/01/2025
My best lightning video of 2024. This slomo shot is insane. Really love how it disappates at the end
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Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My 2nd most popular Substack essay detailed how and why knowledgeable and intelligent people are especially prone to bias, tribalism and extremism -- but are also especially likely to view ourselves as *less* susceptible than most to these very tendencies: musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/smart-peop...
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Smart People Are Especially Prone to Tribalism, Dogmatism and Virtue Signaling
The symbolic professions aggressively select for those who are highly educated and cognitively sophisticated. This is a key source of their dysfunction.
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Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My most popular Substack post came out right after the election. With tons of data, it debunked many popular narratives about why things shook out how they did, before advancing an alternative explanation that better fits with the evidence: musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/a-graveyar...
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A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives
All the prominent but obviously false narratives about the 2024 election prepared for burial in one convenient post.
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Cosmological wonder is at the root of all sacred wisdom. Maybe that’s how return home again to this world, with humility and open minds?
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Illinois’s flag is fine leave it alone.
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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
When the Great Lakes are the new Mediterranean, Rome will be in Michigan
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
"Reading can be slow. It can be quite challenging work – and not simply because our attention has been increasingly conditioned, fragmented with distractions and disruptions. ... So it isn’t simply that we no longer read at length or read deeply; we no longer value contemplation."
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
As a reward from London Transport, Mr Gunter was given £10 (the equivalent of about £350 today) and a day off.
He was awarded the cash at a ceremony, and when asked what he would do with the bonus, he said "five for me and five for the missus"
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
They’re not ripping each other to shreds, they’re debating. Internal debates are healthy, you guys should try it more often.
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what's happening on twitter right now shows just how important it was for left of center people to leave it earlier
these assholes need a target, and deprived of their preferred options they are ripping each other to shreds.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
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Patty Cakes 🌱🌻🍰 @pattycakes101.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Morning all☕ Have a wonderful Wednesday whatever your plans ☕💖xx
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
It must be so *satisfying* to be a beaver
Photo of a tree that was felled by a beaver, with fresh wood chips all around
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