As of this writing, Feb 27, 2026, 305 people have signed up as subscribers to this Substack, a big increase in the past month. Thank you to all for your interest! This does present a situation at this end, however. I don't write on a particular schedule, and don't have a definite "beat" to cover as a writer like Joyce Vance does, and do subscribe to her if you don't already! Excellent legal scholarship and lovely chickens!
I write on many different topics, on whatever is annoying me or things I'm really interested in, such as sub-atomic particles which probably bore people to death.
This month so far I have mainly cross-posted a few articles, because they are very important and I haven't got a handle on various world situations yet and have been rather tied up in work around this property, which is a large natural area, over 6 acres (just over 2.5 hectares), with no adjoining private property, in a city of 740,000 people.
This is the view from my office window (taken from outside the window so I don't have to wash it!), looking toward the street which fortunately you cannot see, it's a major traffic sewer. This part of the 2 acre front yard, in late September, in Canada (look - no igloos!). This end of the house I call "The Writer's Block" (yes, double-meaning). These posts are written in MS Word-2013 on a Windows-7 computer.
There's a lot of work in property maintenance here. First part of February was opening orchard mason bee tubes, washing and drying the cocoons, and sending most of them off to Mason Bee Central in exchange for more bee tubes and reeds. Since, then, I've been cutting many hundreds of invasive Himalayan blackberry canes - that's just about done for now then on to the next work. January was cleaning up the greenhouse time. In a couple weeks, the tarp comes off the banana grove (about 40 trees) and greenhouse plastic goes over the peach trees to protect from leaf curl. Bananas in Canada? We're in the southwest corner of the country, Surrey, B.C.
Between that paragraph and next was more blackberry cutting, lunch and making my pizza dough for pizza day which is always Saturday. Yes, I get tired arms from all that cutting, but that's a benefit not a detriment. Really, you need to get at least one muscle-group tired every day, this helps with brain function.
§The Iran situation is complex. Imagine what Americans would
think if there was some belligerent nation using floating
military bases to harass one country after another. Turns out,
that rogue nation is USA. As of the 27th, I had a few more
sentences here, but with it now being Saturday, and the Pedophile
President starts wars after the markets close on Friday, the
Operation Epstein Fury has begun. Here are some pertinent
articles:
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/rip-to-all-the-american-soldiers
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/fuck-everyone-who-made-this-war-possible
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/scott-ritter-full-scale-war-as-iran
https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/us-israel-war-iran-nuclear-weapons-imperialism
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-launches-regime-change-war-iran-vows-strike-back-israel-gulf-bases
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/jeffrey-sach-us-and-israel-attack
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/we-could-soon-die-in-a-nuclear-holocaust
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/seyed-m-marandi-israel-and-us-launch
https://donhank.substack.com/p/americans-will-die-for-israel-but
https://husseini.substack.com/p/us-israel-axis-is-the-greatest-threat
There's a great post today by Ismaele at GeoPolitiQ – The administered State: politics as the management of limits – It is not those who command who govern, but those who define what is possible.
Here are some sections near the end, I would advise reading the whole article. This is Ismaele's English translation of an article by Hakan Illatikdi, originally in Italian and published on ComeDonChisciotte.org on Friday 2nd January 2026. Emphasis as per original:
§The Sodocene as a Theoretical Framework
"Unlike categories such as Anthropocene or postmodernity, which emphasise human impact or cultural fragmentation respectively, Spodocene focuses on the systemic logic of waste: not only environmental waste, but also human surpluses, hollowed-out institutions, exhausted political promises and forms of life rendered expendable."
"From this perspective, the administered State does not appear as a pathological deviation from the modern State, but as its functional adaptation to a civilisation that can no longer expand without destroying its own conditions of possibility. Politics ceases to be oriented towards building the future and redefines itself as damage control, crisis containment and loss optimisation."
Critical Implications
"Thinking about the administered State from the perspective of the Spodocene allows us to avoid two recurring errors:
1. Sovereigntist nostalgia, which imagines a possible return to previous forms of statehood without considering the structural conditions that made them unworkable.
2. Resigned technocratism, which accepts management as the only possible rationality and closes politics as a horizon. The Spodocene does not cancel out politics, but raises its threshold of difficulty. Recovering politics does not mean restoring past promises, but rather interrupting the naturalisation of the administration of dispossession, reopening the conflict where it was closed in the name of technology."
See that point #1 above? That is exactly what people in USA are dreaming of – a return to what came before, before the Pedophile President. "Sovereigntist nostalgia, which imagines a possible return to previous forms of statehood without considering the structural conditions that made them unworkable." Those "structural conditions" that made the previous form of statehood unworkable, were an archaic quasi-constitutional structure that was both functionally deficient and totally useless when not fully populated by functionaries with good intentions.
"You can't go home again" By Thomas Wolfe, published posthumously by his editor Edward Aswell, Harper & Row, New York, London, 1940. From the denouement of the novel:
"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory." (Ellipses as per original)
You the sheeple must do the heavy-lifting – rebuild governance from the ground up, using rational models as guides, meanwhile existing as perhaps the first English-speaking failed state.
§If you would like to have meaningful updates on the SVO (In English: SMO - Special Military Operation), do subscribe to these podcasts: BORZZIKMAN, Military-TV and Freelensia - Freelensia gives you highlights of Maria Zakahova's press briefings, a polar-opposite to what the Pedo-Pres's girlfriend presents at White House briefings. Maria produces her own material, independently, not sucking up to anyone, and likely ending up in numerous autonomous regions.
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