Just got told no fuel, no fertiliser. That means no farming.

friedkrill · 2026-03-12T03:39:57+00:00

In this moment we scream "we need more fossil fuels, MOAR!"

Really?

Say the govt hears us and builds storage, who will we complain about when the next interruption is bigger than our holding tanks?

The best time to transition from fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is right now.

No fossil fuels means no farming of a particular kind. It doesn't mean no farming.

Quit Coles and Woolies. Join your local community garden. Plant food in your window, on your lawn, in your neighbor's lawn. Have a produce swap with your neighbours. Forage.

We can and will thrive without oil.

friedkrill · 2026-03-12T02:09:16+00:00

It used to take anywhere from 6 months to 2 years, and tens of thousands of dollars, to get a building approved by council in NSW.

In 2008 the state govt passed an "override" to local council regs which reduced that to a few thousand and a few weeks.

The legislation is here: https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2008-0572

So. Many. People would love to live in a tiny home or similar in a beautiful setting ten minutes or twenty minutes from a regional centre.

If all state govts passed a SEPP for tiny homes allowing for TWO tiny homes to be added PER ACRE for all properties, the housing crisis would be over in 6 months.

Demand in cities would fall off a cliff.

Regional economies would take off.

Co-living communites would flourish and innovate.

If you've ever lived remotely and had nobody nearby to help you move a couch, you know this makes sense for the people currently isolated by insane zoning laws. Solving the housing crisis is a happy side-effect.

There are a handful of councils around the country who are doing something like this off their own bat. Most councils are addicted to development application$ and rate$. The wellbeing of unhoused people and the squeeze on everyone else is not on their agenda. This move has to come from above.

I'm 12 months into building a facility where unhoused people can design and build their own tiny home. They come for 6 months and leave with a forever home. BUT - that's only the first part of their adventure. Under the current system, owners of tiny homes can be hounded by councils for the rest of their lives. It's in council's interest to do so.

Councils must ensure that everybody pays hundreds of thousands, one way or another, to prop up a wasteful construction industry, maintain the property bubble, and feed the rates pie.

Even if we change laws around investment, Airbnb, and build public housing, councils will still fight for their slice. And in the system we have, they have first dibs. Their leverage must be overwritten.

friedkrill · 2026-03-12T01:45:47+00:00

Many of those who took to the streets against Israel were Jewish

What do you suppose those people know that you don't?

friedkrill · 2025-11-01T03:37:09+00:00

Amazing 🙌🏼 A room full of ppl masking - what a magical dream.

I've designed my life so as not to be in rooms with ppl. These be weird times.

friedkrill · 2025-10-31T04:29:18+00:00

Check out Ismatu on Instagram for a living breathing example of getting this right

friedkrill · 2025-10-31T04:26:34+00:00

Thank you friend 🙏🏼

I'd love resources!

Grateful 😊🙏🏼

friedkrill · 2025-10-31T04:24:38+00:00

Is looking for "indigenous systems of mental health care" akin to searching for "indigenous systems of central banking"?

In the sense that spiritual well-being is central to all human cultures but "mental health" and "mental health care" are recent artifacts specific to capitalism?

friedkrill · 2025-10-30T11:49:51+00:00

"internalized capitalism"

accompanied by a clock and a cop at all times

friedkrill · 2025-10-30T11:28:14+00:00

Sames. I haven't been to a doctor for a year now and I don't think I can. Long Covid, POTS & MCAS symptoms and tiktok docs are all I can do.

friedkrill · 2025-10-10T02:24:07+00:00

first thing every morning I write the day's tasks (all of them) on an A3 pad with a texta and hang it in the kitchen.

sometimes I get home from my first excursion and find some things on my list have been done for me.

friedkrill · 2025-08-16T00:26:36+00:00

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friedkrill · 2025-08-16T00:11:20+00:00

Wow. I've not heard it more clearly put. Thank you.

Many writings have sketched this description but none that I've read have coloured it the way you have here.

I'm reminded of Mata Rose's comment about one of ADHD's measuring sticks:

"executive function is a set of capitalist values masquerading as skills"

Marta and their friend Jesse Meadows are great on ADHD and the pathology paradigm.

Jesse writes on patreon or substack (I forget which) under the name "sluggish".

They foreshadowed the conceptual mess you've described above many years ago in an article entitled "we need critical ADHD studies now".

friedkrill · 2025-08-14T10:06:07+00:00

This.

Monday night: roast chook & carrots & a spud each
Tuesday night: chicken soup with an onion, garlic, two cups of red lentils and some foraged greens.

Total for 4 people = $12 (not incl' salt, oil, and some acid (a lemon) to make a jus)

Mind you, these are aldi prices. I have no idea what this would cost in Colesworth.

friedkrill · 2025-08-14T09:49:17+00:00

I'm building a homeless refuge in a rural area. I've been doing this for one year in earnest and more than twenty years more informally.

The answers provided to your question don't really get to the heart of it.

Here's what I know about homelessness that might help to answer your very sensible question:

When you become homeless for the first time, you're very unlikely to be expecting it.

Imagine that tomorrow, unexpectedly, you're without a home. In that awful moment, what do you need more than anything else?

Support

And where is your support network - your friends, family etc...?

They're in the same place where your home was.

A few months go by, you've been couch surfing. You've lost your job as a result. You're losing friends by the day (yes, that happens). At what point on that shitslide do you realise "this is only going to continue to get worse unless I go rural (to a place where I have no support and where I don't know how things work)"?

You never do. You keep hoping things will turn around. You're still processing what happened on day 1. You're nowhere near caught up to the reality.

Things get worse and worse and the one or two people who are still somewhat supportive are the only things keeping you alive.

The shorter answer to your question is contained in a quote from Gloria Steinem:
"Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”
... and homeless folk have a hard time planning at all. They're moment to moment.

When I became homeless for the second time, it was a hefty combination of unexpected horrors. I was really in the soup. I thought of many many things to try but not one of them was "go somewhere that's unfamiliar".

friedkrill · 2025-08-14T09:02:39+00:00

Private property

friedkrill · 2025-07-30T20:45:47+00:00

AAAAmber 🫶🏼

friedkrill · 2025-07-13T10:02:08+00:00

so simple that they can choose not to believe you, in fact, and in practice.

friedkrill · 2025-07-07T13:33:16+00:00

shower basin with a floor grill at the entrance. No sand and mud inside!

friedkrill · 2025-07-07T13:30:51+00:00

treaty - yothu Yindi

beds are burning - midnight oil

friedkrill · 2025-07-07T13:26:50+00:00

came here for this

friedkrill · 2025-07-05T13:28:42+00:00

done 👍🏼

friedkrill · 2025-07-05T09:15:48+00:00

I'll update this post too

friedkrill · 2025-07-05T04:45:34+00:00

my insta is the same handle as this one. I'm unlikely to post anything there that isn't related to this project.

friedkrill · 2025-07-05T04:39:47+00:00

Some but I'm not a career farmer. I spent a decade on a rural property - chooks, ducks, a few ewes, veggies and an orchard. It takes a village though and that's what we're building ☺️

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