I haven’t talked yet about LA or what is about to happen in DC. I don’t even know how to talk about it. Because we all know from experience that it won’t be the attack on the homeless that stirs the US to its own defense. It’s horrifying. And I can barely look at it.…

Holy shit, this is really happening. If you would like to know what it takes to manifest your dream, it takes decades of optimistic thrusting at the world, decades of diligent practice of your skills, having every notion you’ve ever had be perverted by everyone, and then shat upon officially as law, the dissolution of…

I live in a town full of trucks. It’s the kind of place where you need a truck, and if you don’t have a truck, you are a little bit fucked. It’s a whole county full of Ron Swansons. Everything is DIY. A truck is standard. So why is it I’ve just called two “we…

I love it when I’m right:) Permanent homes FIRST is the only way to combat homelessness. Making people live in dangerous, untenable temporary housing based on arbitrarily determined “merits” and obedience is a failure. Giving people homes makes a happy, healthy productive society. Finland does this: 80% of people who are given housing are able…

BOY, AM I FUCKING RELIEVED. I’ve got the shed, and I have a bucket toilet that boasts a seat that “feels like real leather.” An axe. A toolkit. A bear horn. Check, check, check. I feel safer by the minute. Top priorities now are a motor for the bike, and fencing. And 55 gallon barrels…

Mastadon seems legitimately ethical. But every good deed comes with a punishment. Mastadon is like if Disquus and Old Twitter had a baby. It’s not one website–it’s a decentralized network of sites. But it has the feel of social media that people have come to expect. It feels very much like old’n days Twitter –hashtag…

It started with a fixation on the swirls on the faux-wood floor, and a sudden flea infestation. Sylvia and Hank have been frustrated by fleas. We treated them. They came back. I will treat them again before we leave and hope they don’t follow us. Though Sylvia never noticed the patterns in the wood before,…

I know I’ve got a lot on my plate, so it’s probably not the best time to start a religious cult. But Gavin Newsom is partnering with Big Tech (joined at the hip, they are) to train kids to work in the tech industry and devote themselves entirely to destroying the future, and giving up…

I have a lot of reasons I want to create a space that is both indoors and outdoors, spread out in small buildings designed for different purposes. Mostly that it’s cheaper and more efficient to say, “This sunny spot will grow vegetables well, and if I put a kitchen next to it, that is convenient,…

There is only one way to combat homelessness: give the people homes that they own. We cannot begin to determine who is mentally healthy until people have their basic needs met. And a home is not something you should earn with CONFORMITY. Conformity it NEVER SANE in an INSANE culture. It cannot be. Let’s start…