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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

*It doesn't have to be this way...* You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

“The essence of biodiversity is that diversity gives rise to stability.”

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Former forest beginning a path towards food…

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Deep Adaptation Forum @deepadaptation.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Contentment is sexy.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

“A play with no men and no boats” !! It was hilarious. Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure. #ithaca

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Station Eleven (the novel) first take: In the end I did not enjoy the overall experience. Unfortunately. I hate the idea that some people would act thus. My irrational desire is that humans are kind and caring, even in the worst moments. To be sure, it’s a wonderfully crafted novel. Much to savor.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Resource war on. Offense takes pressure off Defense. The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball. That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Station Eleven finally, eleven years after its release. (High expectations being met.) Planting cherry and birch and dogwood and more. I feel resonance between the two and both offer some A and some B.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Two years ago this was a jungle of privet, honeysuckle, barberry and more. Saving pines that we can, and adding birch, chestnut, dogwood, cherry, plus understory food for us and birds. Dead elm down today - looks like 34 rings. What will the world be like 30 years from now?

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Get yourself a neighbor who lends you his tractor to clean up after the storm.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A healthy local ecosystem, and we’re doing what we can to assist.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

"Fragility is what happens when a local government is overextended, under-resourced, and deeply dependent on decisions made far away." @strongtowns.org: You have not posted a direct link to this final segment in your city finance series - the most effective of the batch IMHO - on your feed.

strongtowns.org

The Opposite of Strong Isn’t Weak. It’s Dependent.

Fragile cities are overextended, under-resourced, and deeply dependent on decisions made far away. New York City and Salt Lake City show us what this looks like.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Lots of headwinds in lots of cities. I wonder how many worried people in #ithaca are working on resilience and adaptation.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Slept on “Poetry is not a Luxury” and coffee with “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Yes and yes. “Death is the final silence.” “Of what had I ever been afraid.” Feelings as spawning ground for radical, daring ideas. Poetry leading to change, a bridge to meaningful action.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Talk loudly and carry a big stick.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Kidding. But it wouldn’t surprise anyone if true.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Stumbled on a phrase that fits my estimate of events beginning last fall: “conditional bilateralism.” VERY conditional. A new umbrella with the US as QB, RB, offensive line, coach, team & league owner. Ground dominance through vertical integration and control of energy and minerals. Resource war on.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

From Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell. A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.

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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter." — Matsuo Basho

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Relevant today, and will inevitably continue to grow in relevance. Adopting a healthy psychological orientation to all the dooms is recommended.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.” - Joanna Macy

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

"I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws." - Zora Neale Hurston (Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A sense of shame is the beginning of integrity. -Mencius

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“Life is the song, death is the bassline—festooned in sweat and grief, we keep dancing.” -Savannah Shange

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Cardinal waits after squirrel jumps the line…

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Human supremacy is like carbon myopia.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Back in the garden at last, and in shirtsleeves.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Presentation by @ontopunk.bsky.social from 2018 still relevant / more relevant than ever.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Patchworking as project, process, & approach…we urgently “need to confront, adapt to, and plan for the ongoing and intensifying fragmentation of existing ecological, social, and psychological systems.”

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Heard Ian McGilchrist recently say something like 'running away' is a tough option but an engaged option. It's a wise move to be sufficiently removed from the pressures and forces that buffet us in modern, urban, Western life. Something good can come from being removed from that.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The present we're in is not the future we expected when we imagined it in the past.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Anticipating the season’s change: a fig leaf in the morning sun, with snow on the ground still, and 70 paw paw seeds now in pots.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Nate says: "I've converged on a story that the stakes of our time are no less than power versus life. That's what's at stake." Paging @womanshining.bsky.social. Have you met Nate and discussed the "power over" and "thriving life" paradigms? If not, that would be a great follow-up conversation!

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"But when, after decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

When looking forward at ever-growing resource wars, the US exercising unilateral nationalism makes sense - -> for the US in the short term **at the expense of the globe in the long term**

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Your well-being isn’t dependent on the New York Times providing information that keeps your psychological prison coherent. 🔥🔥🔥

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#collapse "is not just supply chains failing or garbage piling up in the streets (or worse). It's the breakdown of the ideologies and worldviews that afforded us a some sense of safety and coherence." Excellent piece by Daniel Thorson (on SS or follow him over at the supposedly forbidden site).

intimatemirror.substack.com

Scaling Down the Cliff of Collapse

Choosing Agency When Systems Fail

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

How about a non-ideological approach to life - animal vegetable mineral - that promotes all-flourishing.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems." - Wisława Szymborska

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Springtide Press @springtidepress.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Print therapy with Octavia Butler. #letterpress #parableofthesower

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“In situations of disruption and discontinuity” [i.e. at 'the break'] "it's not time to mope, it's an opportunity to meet the moment, to improvise, to do your thing." - Albert Murray

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Some food for us inserted into a spot that's teeming with food and life for others. We left an abundant patch of wildflowers in the middle of the garden...and planted chestnuts among nurse logs in an overgrown patch...thriving and growing fast if hard to see. A shame a storm snapped that Elm though.

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midnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“To those who will not admit morality without a deity to validate it, or spirituality of which man is not the measure…Lao Tzu’s counsel…must seem incomprehensible, or illegitimate, or very troubling indeed.” - Ursula Le Guin (her note from her translation of verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching)

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