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Oakie McDoakie
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Hermit, ranter, would-be philosopher in a one-room cabin on the Taos West Mesa. No plumbing. Lots of wind.

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Is the U.S. too big for trains — or just too trained to drive?

Money + logistics aren’t the problem. New piece on why high-speed rail is more possible than we’re told.

#PublicTransit #HighSpeedRail #CarCulture #UrbanPlanning
Too Big for Trains? Or Just Trained to Drive?
Money and logistics aren’t the problem. A fact-checked, sass-infused case for U.S. high-speed rail and world-class public transit.
oakiemcdoakie.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"Now that’s a sunflower! 🌻🔥 Photo by @nmrocks.bsky.social. Would love to see one of these in my own garden."

#sunflower #gardening #flowers #NewMexico #nature #homestead
NMrocks🤘🏻 (@wyckedwyre)
FINALLY got a RED Sunflower! Huzzah!
substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I'm always dying; everything is. Not bleak—what Buddhists call Maranasati. Reminds me to appreciate each moment, accept change. Even climate change.

Jessica's (@jessicawildfire.bsky.social) essay on moving from collapse awareness to acceptance is a balm.

#collapse #climatechange #mindfulness
From Collapse Awareness to Collapse Acceptance
How some of us are getting there.
substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
First sign of winter here on Taos West Mesa.

#winteriscoming #Taos #NewMexico #offgrid #homestead
August 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Did you "consent" to be governed by these people?

The theory behind the U.S. Constitution is that the people are in some kind of "contract" with the government—like we agreed to it. Justin McAffee exposes the lie of that—thoroughly!

#SocialContract #PoliticalPhilosophy #Anarchism #ThinkForYourself
The Myth of the Social Contract
Chapter 7 from The Ten Myths of Progress
substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Spotted this tent in Taos's Kit Carson Park. 😢

Rumor says Santa Fe & ABQ started bussing their homeless here. True or not, cities have played hot potato with the homeless for decades.

Taos is small, few services. 😔

Seeing more homeless where you live?

#NewMexico #Taos #homelessness #socialissues
August 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
These onions walk! 👣

Walking onions grow little bulbettes on top that bend over, root, and start new plants—wandering across the garden over the years. They're perennials, too!

#perennialvegetables #offgridliving #homesteading #selfreliance #permaculture
August 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The higher the office, the bigger the jackass. That’s not a glitch — it’s a feature. Hierarchy rewards the ones who claw, kiss up, and step over.

Solution? Skip the hierarchy. Nobody on top, nobody on bottom, nobody forcing you into “team-building” trust falls.

#politics #anarchism #leadership
Why Jackasses Always Seem to Be in Charge
Hierachy keeps putting jackasses in the top offices. We can stop the cycle. Anarchism: no rulers, no suck-ups, no "mandatory fun" meetings.
oakiemcdoakie.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Flat tires: the off-road tax.

This was yesterday, on a forest road halfway up the mountain in Valle Escondido, NM. Tired of the tax, TBH.

Not as bad as when I got stuck on a desert sand dune for three days!

Story: tinyurl.com/oakie-stuck, or link in profile.

#OffGridLiving #FlatTire #Storytime
August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Taos Land Trust and friends have birthed a brand-new horno at Rio Fernando Park.

Other day, I thought the Redi-Wall was stuffed with bubble wrap. Nope. Just a bubble-wrap toupee over every kind of plastic trash you can imagine.

#Taos #PizzaOvenGoals #WhatsInTheWall
August 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Cool map of New Mexico’s pueblos.
1️⃣ Names shown are Spanish or Spanish-ized. Acoma call themselves ʔáák’u (Western Keresan), Hakukya (Zuni), Haak’oh (Navajo).
2️⃣ Not one culture—4 language families: Keresan, Tanoan, Zuni, Uto-Aztecan.

#NewMexico #PuebloHistory #IndigenousVoices #Southwest
August 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
At Rio Fernando Park in Taos: a traditional adobe horno (outdoor oven, under construction) surrounded by Redi-Walls made of steel gabions and recycled bubble wrap.

Volunteers are finishing just in time for a pizza cookout this Tuesday (Aug 12).

Video's on Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DNELcTTKbIC
August 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My little potato patch is finally dying back—just as expected. Harvest time!

Mostly growing sunchokes this year, though. Better survival crop where I'm at. Wrote a Substack article about why.
👉 tinyurl.com/oakie-sunchokes

#gardening #sunchokes #offgrid #oakiemcdoakie
August 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I once got stuck for three days on a desert sand dune. No passersby. No tow truck willing to help. No idea if I’d save the van. (Spoiler: I lived!)

“Stuck in a Hole Where No Tow Truck Goes”
oakiemcdoakie.substack.com/p/stuck-in-a...

—Oakie McDoakie, #OakieMcDoakie

#Vanlife #NewMexico #Storytime
August 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
After Helene, my neighbor went home to Boone, NC. Roads erased, power and phones down, and still the world moved on.

The Big Collapse is already here—in pieces.

But maybe the new world coming will be better? I hope.

A+ piece by @jessicawildfire.bsky.social

#climategrief #Boone #oakiemcdoakie
How Much Will It Cost to Die?
A weird essay about the future.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM