Bolt

@munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me that is hilarious. Chuckles were had.

Chris Hedges on Substack May 14 2026.

Concise and relatively easy read.

"There is no good outcome for the U.S.

The Trump administration’s obstinacy and Israel’s determination to resume attacks on Iran ensures that the global economy will barrel towards a global depression."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-iranian-nightmare

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Jared Diamond's 2005 'Collapse' book is much more readable than his 'Guns, Germs and Steel' and walks though some historical collapse scenarios. It has been over a decade since I read it so I'm sure the field has evolved and i might be misremembering, but the main gist I recall is there are too many rich people in advanced societies and too much pressure gets put on ecological systems that allowed the civ to succeed in the first place.

@FrazzledBrynn ..... Can you send out actual bricks like that? Stock them in piles at appropriate street corners.