Walking through my neighborhood, seeing so many people living on small city lots using leaf blowers powered by electricity or gas. Our wiser descendants will reach for hand tools for tasks like this, reserving energy usage for work that is beyond human strength.

I have no idea if the internet is already over, but this is a glorious essay. Via @joshua

Regenerative agriculture (like what you see in “Biggest Little Farm”) is animism in action.

Theme music for Spooked podcast makes me happy every time.

The death of the queen has some people pining for the Great Chain of Being. I’m also not a fan of the acid bath of modernity and capitalism, but the re-sacralization of the world will not be accomplished through bad models.

Finished reading The Hobbit. It’s been a few years since the last time I read it. Now moving on to The Lord of the Rings.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of tech billionaires about the future of technology, only to find out that what they were really interested in was how to survive a collapse of their own making. He’s written a book about it. /via Cory Doctorow

Interesting page on permacomputing, a.k.a., “radically sustainable computing.” Plenty of links. This is way out of my league but some of you may find it valuable.

Alan Moore:

I worship a second century human headed snake god called Glycon, who was exposed as a ventriloquist’s dummy nearly 2000 years ago.

For more see here and here and the video below