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Late season and the bees are slowing down, often spending many hours just resting on these chive flowers; some mornings we might find four or five on this plant having slept there overnight. #beestr #homesteading #farming #nature

There were no liquidation events in my hardware wallets today.

I am quite content in the knowledge that my dull, unimaginative use of financial products without leverage will never result in my “being rekt”.

Anyone out there running Omarchy? I seem to have fallen down a rabbit hole and now all I want is a beautiful Linux. https://omarchy.org/

UK: we’re just not doing renewables right yet, apparently. A few more windmills and hundreds of miles of countryside defiled with (more) pylons should fix it, Ed. Energy is life. No coincidence the mind virus has this as a primary outcome. #energy

Today in the rural citadel: russet picking, community apple festival, transfer of barn swallow droppings to raised beds for winter fertilizer, planting of garlic (round one). Tomorrow: church with the family, planting of garlic (round two). Constructive weekend. How are you faring? #homesteading #fall #grownostr #foodstr

They pushed a new Covid batch out didn’t they. Feels like my head is in a vice.

City of Vancouver closing its equity office. First this stuff vanishes from private business, then government orgs, and finally, many years later, from the colleges and universities. Though that’ll be a long haul. https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/city-of-vancouver-shutters-equity-office/

Trying to close an investment account with a major Canadian bank, the branch can’t do it (actual people standing in front of you can’t do it!). No, I must phone and wait in a queue for *an hour* to speak to someone in India. Ah, trad-fi. It won’t be missed.

Just upgraded from an Apple Watch to my father’s old Casio digital. * tells the time * doesn’t need to charge every day * doesn’t need annoying upgrades for woke wallpaper and emoji sets * at almost 40 years of age gives the middle finger to planned obsolescence * connects me in time and space to a parent, no longer with us, and a better decade, manufactured late eighties #freedomtech

Went to get my periodic pile of increasingly worthless cash from a Canadian bank yesterday and noticed, for the first time, that the default withdrawal amounts now include “$1000”. How long before that’s the lowest unit?

Goodness everyone is so bulled up.

We’ve accidentally lived through a pretty hot couple of years for sci-fi TV haven’t we. Dark Matter, Altered Carbon, The Expanse, The Peripheral (sleeper fave for me), Man in the High Castle. I am definitely cold on the cliff-hanger mill at Apple (Silo, Severance) but enjoyed Foundation and For All Mankind.

Watching birds with youngest child. If I had to guess based upon behaviour, I’d say Nuthatches and Swallows look pretty switched on. Finches dumb as rocks.

Watching the deer and finches out of the kitchen window, it’s all a bit Disney out in the sticks this morning.

The tension between assertions that we are close to a golden age with the end of aging due to our technical prowess, and the fact that the globalist technocracy just tried to murder vast swathes of the global population and continues to pursue new and imaginative ways to cull the herd is hard to reconcile.

On a ferry, remembering the year when Transport Canada changed the regs so passengers could stay in a below-decks car hold, as drowning en masse in a steel coffin was preferable to catching a cold.