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I think you're underestimating corvids.

Ray Bradbury already did this in "There Will Come Soft Rains".

for anyone that wants whis concept as an entire sci-fi story:

this is almost literally the plot of "children of time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky!

excellent trilogy, but the first part can be read as a standalone story!

Sounds like the scifi short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. It's about a post-apocalypse, automated house that tries to maintain a daily routine, long after humanity is gone.

The octopodes are named Paul and Salome.

Other species will have a really hard time following us, because our own playbook is no longer available.

Extraction of resources out of the ground is getting harder and harder. We've exhausted the easily extracted ore for iron/tin/copper mining, and modern mining of those materials requires much more sophisticated technology. So a Bronze Age and Iron Age can't really come up from the ground up.

And without easily extracted fossil fuels providing cheap and abundant energy, industrialization would be a pretty difficult hurdle to overcome.

The best hopes of a post-human civilization will come from whatever species learns to recycle and reuse human waste.

And maybe the leftovers of human agriculture (any plant species that efficiently produce lots of biomass that don't require active planting/tilling/irrigation/fertilization, whatever domesticated animals can survive as feral colonies) will have lasting effects, too.

Someone is overestimating how long a modern appliance will last.

I see Salome and Paul are up to their usual shenanigans under the sea

Sounds like they do better than us at ruling this world.

Reminds me of 'Service Model' by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I demand more information on the Bronze Age raccoons

Get some Werner Herzog for it and I’m in.

Feelgood dystopian sci-fi for misanthropes should be a thing if it isn’t already.

reads like "There will come soft rains".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1GudkzVDs

If humanity is extinct what triggered the stupidfridge's message about orange juice? If humans aren't consuming it then who is?

This is just copy pasted from the Splatoon lore.

When will my library have this book?

I've thought about this a lot, raccoons are 100% taking over after humans. They already dominate north america and almost conquered Germany. Once human control runs out Europe is fucked and they will eventually take over all of Eurasia.

We can hope.

Octopodes or Octopuses.