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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 · 09/11/2025
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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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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Ok, I guess they couldn’t come to terms on schedule and location. nypost.com/2024/10/31/u...
nypost.com
Joe Rogan says he gave Harris campaign ‘open invitation’ to sit down anytime: ‘I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up’
The mega-popular podcaster on Wednesday defended his decision to reject the interview based on the ground rules that the Democratic presidential candidate tried to impose — including limiting the t…
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I wonder how many, like Harris, he invited and they declined.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
There are people that actually care what’s in the document and are worried about it, and there are people who just want to stir up outrage. I am careful to make sure when I make claims about a document that I have screenshots or reporting to back it up. It doesn’t take a lot of bandwidth.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Read a 900 page document to find something that somebody just made up? No thanks
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I guess not.
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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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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
He’s trolling.
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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
Maybe an age limit while we’re at it
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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
Seems like he’d be pro illegal immigration if he wanted cheap labor and workers with no rights
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“Project 2025 requires all 18-30 yo serve 1-2 years working on farms as community service” Do you have a source for this?
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Another famous poster:
THE TRUE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE
BY PHILOSOPHER KARL POPPER*
YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE POPPER PARADOX
THANKS TO THIS?
I NEVER SAID THAT!
(PICTOLINE.COM)
POPPER ARGUED THAT SOCIETY VIA ITS INSTITUTIONS, SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO PROHIBIT THOSE WHO ARE INTOLERANT
FOR POPPER, ON WHAT GROUNDS MAY SOCIETY SUPPRESS THE INTOLERANT ?
When they
"are not prepared to meet on the level of rational argument"
"they forbid their followers to listen to rational argument...
& teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols"
THE ARGUMENT OF THE INTOLERABLY INTOLERANT IS
FORCE & VIOLENCE
"LINLIMITED
TOLERANCE MUST LEAD TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TOLERANCE"
WE MISCONSTRUE THIS PARADOX AT OUR PERIL...
...TO THE EXTENT THAT ONE GROUP COULD DECLARE ANOTHER GROUP 'INTOLERANT, JUST TO PROHIBIT THEIR IDEAS, SPEECH
& OTHER FREEDOMS
*Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl R. Popper
Muchas gracias a @lokijustice y asivaespana.com
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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 · 23/01/2025
Just this kind: www.theoryofenchantment.com
theoryofenchantment.com
Theory of Enchantment
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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 · 22/01/2025
Hope it goes well
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Perhaps a silly question but are you dressing warm enough?
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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
“They” in this case meaning people who say they want people in red states to suffer? I think it’s worth pushing back on but if the pushback is merely limiting the desire for suffering to red voters I want no part of it.
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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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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Perfectly happy to stick with “You don’t need zero new cases just a small enough number” as a working definition of the goal.
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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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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I didn’t say zero. Please note the tilde bsky.app/profile/rive...
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The person before you posted “It cannot survive without continual new hosts”. I interpreted that as ~0 (near 0) new hosts. Hence my question. Maybe you two aren’t in agreement on that point.
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
How do you end up with ~no new hosts (transmission ~0) in 6-8 weeks? What policies are you modeling?
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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
What leads you to believe this?
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Maybe it is better
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Squirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
400 acres, I believe
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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
Why even have democracy at all if we have a “racist, uneducated population”? Democrats deserve substantial amount of blame. How much remains to be seen.
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