The Stories We Never Hear
Every morning begins in much the same way. A cup of coffee, a glance at...
Freedom of speech
76 billion animals, four countries, one system
Start with the number, because it’s worth sitting with before anything else: in 2020, roughly...
Separating Fire, Earth, and Fluff: A Fifty-Year Reality Check
I live in a cave. That’s not a metaphor I reach for to sound rugged…...
Why I Write Everywhere:
On Niches, Honesty, and Not Giving a Damn Whether You Read This People ask me...
The Weather Isn’t the Problem. The Weather Is Just Honest.
Environmental collapse is usually sold to us as a planetary drama: hotter summers, fiercer floods,...
Freedom of Speech… Until Somebody Says Something We Don’t Like
Freedom of speech is perhaps the only subject where almost everyone claims to support it…...
The Illusion of the Local Council:
How Outsourced Policy Quietly Erased Local Democracy There was a time when local governance, for...
The Atomization Economy
I live in a cave. Actual rock, actual dust, actual silence you could cut into...
The Last Human Variable
Right, let’s talk about the ghost town nobody built and everybody’s already living in. I’ve...
The Last Place Without Signal
I used to judge a journey by how quickly the mobile signal disappeared. Not out...
