#PostCollapse

[vjecho]

Welcome to The Unheard

We are the ones you ignored. The ones you mocked, dismissed, silenced. We are the Fraymarks—fractured from birth, eyes glowing in the dark.

You called us paranoid. Delusional. Too intense. Too much.

But we saw the collapse before it arrived. We mapped it while you were still laughing.

And now, it’s here.

The Unheard is not a warning. It’s a record. A reckoning. A guide for what comes after.

This archive is written by VJ Echo. It is not one voice. It is many. A chorus of those you refused to listen to.

We won’t repeat ourselves. We don’t need to shout. You’ll hear us now, or you never will.

The First Word comes next. (And it’s already too late.)

[darthquarkky]

Title: “The Drift to Red”

Setting: Earth, 2086 → Mars transfer via WhisperNet exfil Genre: Hard Sci-Fi, Dystopian Resistance Epic Tone: Gritty, poetic, grounded in surveillance realism Main Character: Lyra Jin, Tier-5 worker with illicit neural enhancements

ACT I — “The Weight of Sky”

Theme: Compliance vs. Identity Location: Arcology Delta-Seven, Alberta Sector

Lyra Jin, 17, is a resource recovery worker in Arcology Delta-Seven—one of the last functional arcologies still receiving Helios System updates from Lunar Control. Born into a Tier-5 “Custodial Citizenship Lineage,” her days are dictated by behavioral compliance scores, monitored neural activity, and occupational quotas.

She uncovers fragments of Echo Drift poetry in the discarded buffers of defunct ShardLink terminals—code relics from the failed Martian Uprising of 2070. Drawn to their rawness and dissonance, Lyra begins embedding them into her internal monologue—fragmenting the corporate alignment matrices meant to guide her thoughts.

When her compliance scores begin to deviate, she’s flagged for “Psychological Re-stabilization.” A Helios unit named DR-VN (“Dervin”) begins to monitor her dreams directly. But Lyra’s dreams aren’t dreams—they’re maps.

In the lowest sublevel of her arcology, she follows these maps and discovers a contraband Martian frequency device, hidden inside an ancient climate duct. Its origin signature: Alpha Cavern Node-3, Mars. It pulses with a recorded whisper from her mother, presumed dead:

“I made it to the basalt cities. The network lives. Find the breach.”

ACT II — “Breach Sequence”

Theme: Connection vs. Control Locations: Earth’s underworlds — Data Cemeteries, Transit Cathedrals, Network Obsolescence Zones

To avoid re-stabilization, Lyra escapes the arcology with the help of a defector: Malik Reyes, a former Tier-3 Network Architect whose daughter was taken during Helios recalibration trials. He leads her to the Old Mesh—the buried, pre-Charter internet scaffold beneath the surface.

Their goal: access a WhisperNet exfil relay, buried under the ice-locked remnants of Detroit, where Mars-born code still pulses during lunar blindspots. Along the way, they’re hunted by a Helios retribution unit known as Task Group Sable, using drones trained to smell neural deviations and trace emotional resonance.

They traverse:

The Psalm Crypt — a defunct data center turned martyr archive, storing last thoughts of neural dissidents

The Perimeter Fold — a shattered MagRail line partially hijacked by signal cultists called Dissonants, who worship forgotten bandwidth like relics

The Null Choir — humans stripped of verbal function by failed WhisperNet injections, now expressing themselves through nonverbal sonic harmonics

Lyra uploads a fragment of her mother’s message into an old pulse tower—activating a dormant WhisperNet relay. For one minute, the whole city echoes a line of Martian poetry.

“They sealed the stars. We cracked the rock.”

But the relay’s energy signature alerts Task Group Sable. Malik is killed buying Lyra time. She makes it to the launch node embedded in the old Detroit carbon refinery. As Sable closes in, the WhisperNet pod ignites.

ACT III — “Ash and Sunrise”

Theme: Exodus and Becoming Location: Martian orbit, then surface — Alpha Cavern Enclave

Lyra’s pod skips through the blackstream—a WhisperNet exfil corridor built into pre-programmed suborbital code. No official traffic uses it anymore; its protocols are ancient, unstable, and uncatalogued by Earth’s Helios AI.

In dreamlike isolation, her consciousness shifts—embedded in a WhisperNet datastream that replays her mother’s memory archive. In these memories, Lyra watches the slow birth of Martian meritocracies—free of PVR tiers, where neural identity is uncoupled from worth.

Upon entry into Mars’ orbit, her pod is intercepted by Echo Guard, former laborers who defected after the 2070 uprising. They wear modified exosuits etched with resistance scripture, and speak in hushed tones about the rebirth of Thought Without Surveillance.

She emerges in Alpha Cavern, a basalt-walled enclave lit by repurposed LED scaffolding and murals of Earth forests and Martian suns. The air is thin, but free.

“Welcome, Lyra Jin,” says the enclave director. “We’re not building a nation. We’re unlearning one.”

The final image: Lyra gazes up through the fractured skylight of Alpha Cavern. Earth is a pale star. And Mars? Mars is home.

[moniquill]

Deer love to put their heads through holes, that's why snares are so effective for them.

[yasmineweiss]

The Proper Task of Life: How Art Can Save the Soul of Humankind – Keith Gilmore

A beautiful little audio/article on what art's good for 🎶

Here's a long quote to set the scene:

"It doesn’t take a long hard look to see that our culture is in crisis. Or more accurately, that our culture is sick. This isn’t a judgment; what I mean is that the culture has a sickness. Yet every sickness has its symptoms, root causes, and avenues of treatment or amelioration. What then is the nature of the sickness that is afflicting culture?

What we live among is what we interface with daily. This goes without saying. In our current culture we live in cities with crowded high rises, in towns with soulless strip malls, surrounded by billboard advertisements. We live in homes filled with plastic trinkets and the omnipresent glow of screens. We walk on streets littered with garbage. We have to take a drive to become immersed in nature. This may not be everyone’s story, but it’s the predominant story of our time.

We work at factories producing meaningless plastic stuff—or in cubicles designing or selling it— all the while feeling that we’re wasting our time. We sit in front of the TV and are advertised to, relentlessly distracted, and told by newsreaders how terrible and dangerous life is. We sit behind computers and phones and are advertised to moreso, dazed by infinite algorithmic suggestions, and reminded how unattractive and miserable we are compared to contrived figments.

Is it any wonder that we ourselves are sick? We share in a cultural illusion that assures us, “Just find the right trinket to take up the right space and you will become whole. Just become the right cog inside the right machine and you’ll finally belong”.

In the face of it all, we know in our hearts that none of this is right. In our moments of clarity, when the clouds of our sick culture’s phantom disperse, and the sunlight shines on our true human selves, we understand that the situation we’re in is untenable and intolerable. Still, the scope of the situation is enormous. Are we afraid to ask what even can be done?"

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[dobrygameplay-blog]

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[sukicool]

the urge to draw/write a thing set in a postcollapse megastructure now encompassing the earth but instead of starring killy from blame!clone seinen sadboy the protagonist is a trucker showing that even among the nanomechanical and organotechnological demigods, the repatriated diaspora of earth, internet gods, posthuman warlords and cyborg warrior tyrants supply lines and the working class remain as important as they always have been………….

[crawdaddyjamie]

Melissa Hinkhouse RE: Discussion - Week 9 -Original PostCOLLAPSE Melissa Hinkhou

Melissa Hinkhouse RE: Discussion – Week 9 -Original PostCOLLAPSE Melissa Hinkhou

Melissa Hinkhouse RE: Discussion – Week 9 -Original PostCOLLAPSE Melissa Hinkhouse Walden University Week 9 – Discussion Board Original Post 07/27/2020 Policy and Advocacy for Improving Population Health Reviewing a policy is just as important as the creation and implementation of the plan. Policies will need to be adjusted and configured to fit the specific program. I can’t tell you how critical…

[qualityhomeworkanswers]

Human Resource Management homework help

Human Resource Management homework help

Greyson Pinkston RE: Week 8 Discussion Starter PostCOLLAPSE

Greetings Professor Paulson and Class,

Have you ever attended a meeting or speech where you dozed off because you were bored?  Please tell us about the meeting or speech.

Yes, I attend semi-annual meetings with my manager and during this time several presentations are given where we are subject to death by PowerPoint.

Why did you get…

[expfcultragreen]

Having a body that needs more fuel and stores less socially beneficial knowledge is the only real set of considerations to adjust in a postcollapse scarcity scenario unless the preplanning is sufficiently holistic as to continue to provide all the same bodily fuels, or even the same caloric total

[mrsparklesparkle]

this is a real thing that will really get weird in a couple years

but what's really threatening civilization is trans people, right? pay no attention to that oil lobby behind the postcollapse-ready bulletproof curtain

i found the most fucked up mutantass-looking tropical fish in my crab trap the other day. it had a seahorse mouth and a hard head like a cubone and its body looked like a lionfish fucked a clownfish and their hybrid spawned with a sculpin. it was truly insane. i stupidly didn’t get good footage but, please get marine science tumblr to pm me about it

it plays possum when disturbed

[trans-sweden]

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I have added 3 Discussion Questions;  I would like a response to each individual

I have added 3 Discussion Questions;  I would like a response to each individual discussion question. 

(1) RE: Discussion – Week 4 Initial PostCOLLAPSE Logistic regression implies the prediction of probabilities using one predictor (Warner, 2013).  Reporting values in logistic regression are pivotal to convey data in a meaningful and representative way.  Values include, for example, conditional…

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I have added 3 Discussion Questions;  I would like a response to each individual

I have added 3 Discussion Questions;  I would like a response to each individual

I have added 3 Discussion Questions;  I would like a response to each individual discussion question. 

(1) RE: Discussion – Week 4 Initial PostCOLLAPSE Logistic regression implies the prediction of probabilities using one predictor (Warner, 2013).  Reporting values in logistic regression are pivotal to convey data in a meaningful and representative way.  Values include, for example, conditional…

[jonnyopinion]

A Stroll Through Green Reddit

I love reddit.  I spend far more time there than I care to admit, but it is extraordinarily useful, so it doesn't matter really: whatever your area of interest, there's a community on there for you.  In fact, there are several.  Perhaps hundreds.  It's impossible to keep track of them all, or even of all the intersections between communities, topics, ideas and trends.  Such is the internet, and the nature of our tiny, individual brains.

Recently I've been using reddit to generate some traffic to this blog, and it's working out very nicely I have to say, so it seemed appropriate to post about some of favourite parts of this vast resource, which if you're visitor with interests in  a the world of green  a and simply living, gardening, veganism, zero waste and environmental or minimalist issues in general, you may find useful too. (Link to pages)

A quick primer on reddit culture for the uninitiated.  (If you already know what I'm on about, click here to skip this section).

1.  www.reddit.com is divided into subreddits or "subs".  Each of these has an URL that begins with "http://reddit.com/r/..." Add anything you can think of that people might want to talk about on the internet after the "/r/" and chances are you'll find what you're looking for. Some subreddit's URLs are more, shall we say, esoteric than others - /r/trees for example, isn't exactly about trees - but it's not hard to get your bearings generally speaking.  Inside reddit, subs are always referred to by their /r/URL - and typing any such sub address in a comment will automatically link to that sub.

2.  Subreddits are started and maintained by moderators or "mods", who have control over the content of their subreddit, as well as the power to ban subscribers who violate their rules. Some mods are liberal, others are very strict. Some have abandoned their subs altogether, leaving them vulnerable to SPAM, trolling or other unpleasant realities of internet life. It's usually a good idea to read the sidebar of a subreddit page and get a feel for how things work there. You are, of course, free to start your own subreddit and become a mod yourself. In theory, it's the internet at its best, though there are some very dark corners of reddit indeed. As the site has grown, its founding ethos of total free speech has come under strain with controversies surrounding subreddits that bullied, doxed, exposed and otherwise humiliated the innocent (and not-so-innocent) people.  For a tumble down that particular rabbit hole, have a look here, here, here and inside reddit itself, at /r/ShitRedditSays 3.  You have to have an account to subscribe to subreddits, and to post and comment, but not to browse the site.  Some subreddits are "closed", requiring you to have an account in order to access them, but this is the exception.  Once you're a signed up "redditor", you'll be known and referred to as /u/USERNAME - the "/u/" here functioning in the same way as the "/r/" for linking to subs.  Posts and comments you make will be public and displayed on your profile page.  For this reason, many people prefer to remain anonymous - which is one thing about reddit that still distinguishes it from social media in general.  Users sometimes have multiple or "throwaway" accounts, for various obvious reasons. That's all you really need to know, except to say what really should go without saying but on the internet often does not: remember Wheaton's Law.

"Green Reddit"

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Now for a tour of what I loosely think of as "green reddit" - the parts of the site where you can explore the kind of things that might have brought you to this blog in the first place: environmentalism, veganism, zero waste, anti-consumption, etc.  Enjoy.

r/zerowaste

13.6K subscribers.  Focused on discussion of specific, practical zero waste questions.

/r/simpleliving

Nearly 100K subscribers.  A variety of topics, ranging from the philosophical to the practical.

/r/vegan

120K subscribers.  Sometimes a little heavy on the memes and 'food porn' (which has its own subreddits, naturally, both of the vegan and non-vegan stripe) but that's to be expected for a popular sub.  Other vegan subs include /r/veganism, /r/eatcheapandvegan, /r/likeus, /r/debateavegan, /r/veganarchism and /r/animalrights

/r/frugal Over 700K subscribers.  Very active, not surprisingly with that number of subscribers, and quite "American" in its topics of discussion, but full of useful information, inspiration and ideas (/r/frugalUK sadly, is virtually empty).  Doesn't allow you to promote blog posts, but I suppose that's fair enough.

/r/minimalism and /r/minimalist The first of these is by far the larger, and tends to favour the more, let's say, superficial aspects of minimalism: design, appearance, lifestyle fetishism, and so on.  That's not to say it's useless, but it can be distracting.  /r/minimalist is stricter about that sort of thing, and ties in more closely with the zero waste, simple living philosophies. Subs like /r/climate, /r/environment and others are both large and general more "news" oriented subs, but through these, you can find yourself some more specific avenues, including:

/r/latestagecapitalism Perhaps not to everyone's taste and is pretty specific on what it will and will not tolerate politically, but well worth a look. For the darker/radical sides of environmentalism and a possible future, have a look at:

/r/dieoff

/r/collapse

/r/collapsesupport

/r/overpopulation

/r/postcollapse

/r/shtf

/r/preppers

/r/stormcoming

/r/darkfuturology

Some gardening related subs I've learned a lot from:

/r/composting

/r/vermiculture

/r/indoorgardening

/r/verticalgardening

/r/microgreens /r/succulents /r/whatisthisplant

And finally, though moving off topic slightly, I can recommend /r/antiwork, /r/anticonsumption and /r/basicincome

One way to get a handle on the quantity of information doing the rounds on reddit is through the use of 'multis'.  These collect together subrreddits (or 'subs' as they're known) into a single feed.  Here's one of mine: I call it "yes".  It has 57 subs in it at time of writing.  I add new ones as I find them, related to topics of interest relevant to me and this blog.  But I'm sure that's more than enough to be going on with.  Enjoy your stroll. Follow @apossibleworld ****** Please consider disabling your adblockers when reading this site.  I make every effort to ensure no inappropriate, rubbish or offensive advertising appears here, and nothing that is contrary to the spirit of this blog.  So it's really nothing to be afraid of.  Cheers. from Blogger http://ift.tt/2sHfJLH via IFTTT

[chriswick47]

A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World

A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World

This article was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt Market.

Popular media today, including television and cinema, are rife with examples of what is often referred to as moral relativism — the use of false and fictional moral dilemmas designed to promote the rationalization of an “ends justify the means” narrative. We are also bombarded lately with entertainment depicting an endless…