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