There is a special fatigue that comes from watching consequences spread beyond the people who chose them.
Next week’s comic is like an issue of Marvel’s “What If” but for This American Dystopia.
The older I get, the less interested I am in being impressive and the more interested I am in being useful. If that’s what a midlife crisis looks like, I’ll take it.
Ate one cucumber and briefly believed in personal transformation.
A person can feel grateful and tired in the same breath. That may be one of the sincerest conditions of adulthood.
Mud season rain really brings out the ancient peasant in me.
I’m fascinated by the fact that the people I trust least are the most obsessed with prediction markets, and yet prediction markets remain one of the best indicators of what’s actually about to happen.
Markets, governments, weather, war: all reminders that stability is often just a successful performance.
It is easier, weirdly, to imagine the end of the world than to imagine your own ending. Apocalypse turns mortality into a plot. Ordinary aging gives you no such courtesy.
The cashier called me “boss” and now I have to lead this nation through winter.
A lot of people feel tapped out, and I get that. But kids growing up now are not inheriting the same ladder. If we stop investing in them because we got ours, we’re just strip-mining the future.
Such a weird message to get in a video about using ai and drones on a farm…
“Circle back” is what you say when you want to haunt someone professionally
From this week’s substack comic: The Ghosts You Carry Into Middle Age. What school budgets, Paul McCartney, and Doomsday Preppers reveal about death and your mortality.
From this week’s comic…
I keep thinking I’m at the end of my rope and then some tiny beautiful nonsense happens in the barnyard
Nothing has prepared me for how often I now mutter “that can’t be sustainable” about the entire visible world
Tears are just eye sweat.
Vermont’s rural character did not survive by accident. It survived in part because VT chose not to allow unchecked development. It’s why VT still looks different from more heavily sprawled states. But yeah, it also created a lot of the State’s current problems, too.
Farm Beef Stew Recipe: chicken stock, carrots, onions, celery, garlic clove, Joey Ramone, head of garlic, potatoes, tomato paste, dried herbs, random spices.
Vermont has about 220,000 head of cattle and 647,000 people. If the cows organized, every 3 Vermonters would have to wrestle one bovine to prevent an uprising. The cows have the weight advantage.
VT Act 181 discourse is weird. Farmers face real pressure: low margins, high land costs, labor gaps, distribution friction and market access. But it is inaccurate to treat every land-use review as an attack on farming. Farming and unrestricted development are not the same thing.
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
A town that closes its school has stopped believing in the future.
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You can have all the success in the world and still end up at eighty-something on a stage, haunted by ghosts of people you lost and things you didn’t say. There’s no version of this where you get away clean. You can’t achieve your way out of regret.
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Kristi Noem
Good cooking is mostly about water management: removing it when you want crispness, preserving it when you want tenderness. Most mistakes are just incorrect water levels.
This tweet is going to live rent free in my brain for the next month. The logic behind it makes complete sense, but at the same time it terrifies me. Like I don’t think I could actually do that with my cattle here in Vermont, but could I?
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