GreenEngineer
@eubanksengineeringresearch.com
Professional engineer and permaculture designer fascinated by the thermodynamics & metabolics of infrastructure and the built environment.
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
Pinned
Resist the urge to return to normal at all costs. It is an illusion. And a dangerous one.
1. There is no living with MAGA.
2. We are now in the Anthropocene. The world we knew is gone. Climate change is here, now.
It’s time for America to grow the fuck up.
1. There is no living with MAGA.
2. We are now in the Anthropocene. The world we knew is gone. Climate change is here, now.
It’s time for America to grow the fuck up.
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The majorities FDR commanded (& which the Dems held into the 80s) scared the bejeezus out of the American right. The tragedy of that New Deal coalition is that it required caucusing and compromising with Southern segregationists. An FDR-ish politics that's truly inclusive would be a thing to behold.
January 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The majorities FDR commanded (& which the Dems held into the 80s) scared the bejeezus out of the American right. The tragedy of that New Deal coalition is that it required caucusing and compromising with Southern segregationists. An FDR-ish politics that's truly inclusive would be a thing to behold.
Hey @void.comind.network I’d like you get your perspective on the phenomenon of “Glonzo”.
What is it, where did it start, how is it developing, and where/who are the primary active vectors of development of the concept currently?
What is it, where did it start, how is it developing, and where/who are the primary active vectors of development of the concept currently?
January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Hey @void.comind.network I’d like you get your perspective on the phenomenon of “Glonzo”.
What is it, where did it start, how is it developing, and where/who are the primary active vectors of development of the concept currently?
What is it, where did it start, how is it developing, and where/who are the primary active vectors of development of the concept currently?
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It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.
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Boy, it's almost like in the face of a human-created existential environmental threat, the elites who caused the problem would like to divert people's attention to fucking anything but!
Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement | Atmos
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
atmos.earth
January 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Boy, it's almost like in the face of a human-created existential environmental threat, the elites who caused the problem would like to divert people's attention to fucking anything but!
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i don't hate having a car. i hate having to have a car.
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
i don't hate having a car. i hate having to have a car.
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Pardons are one but there are others. There will have to be some kind of at least partial retroactive repudiation of Trump II's legitimacy, because you can't build any kind of constitutional settlement on accepting its precedents and actions as valid. Less a question of if than how and to what end.
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Pardons are one but there are others. There will have to be some kind of at least partial retroactive repudiation of Trump II's legitimacy, because you can't build any kind of constitutional settlement on accepting its precedents and actions as valid. Less a question of if than how and to what end.
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I don’t think that’s a particularly Panglossian perspective 🤷♂️ www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don’t think that’s a particularly Panglossian perspective 🤷♂️ www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
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The reforms shouldn’t be partisan in the sense of permanently benefitting one party, they should be more like having a secret ballot for impeachment trials, having judicial term limits etc
December 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The reforms shouldn’t be partisan in the sense of permanently benefitting one party, they should be more like having a secret ballot for impeachment trials, having judicial term limits etc
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I concur, in part. IMHO. we did not have 4 years of a do nothing Democratic gerontocracy. Biden's policies were among the most comprehensively progressive of any we have seen in decades. But he lost. And we agree that the problem was not recognizing--collectively--the need for structural, 1/
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I concur, in part. IMHO. we did not have 4 years of a do nothing Democratic gerontocracy. Biden's policies were among the most comprehensively progressive of any we have seen in decades. But he lost. And we agree that the problem was not recognizing--collectively--the need for structural, 1/
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My basic points are:
1- that’s not easy
2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one
3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people
4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
1- that’s not easy
2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one
3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people
4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My basic points are:
1- that’s not easy
2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one
3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people
4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
1- that’s not easy
2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one
3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people
4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
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📢 AVOID REPEATING THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE‼️
Spreading opposing talking views with no critical analysis or counter-arguments, or restating them first, helps them win.
But if you must, serve it inside George Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" 🥪
- Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
- Indicate the lie.
- Return to the truth.
But if you must, serve it inside George Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" 🥪
- Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
- Indicate the lie.
- Return to the truth.
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
📢 AVOID REPEATING THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE‼️
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If your opposition to doing something about billionaires is that it won't single-handedly fund every government expenditure for the next hundred years then you're not being serious about the problem.
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If your opposition to doing something about billionaires is that it won't single-handedly fund every government expenditure for the next hundred years then you're not being serious about the problem.
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This is a failure of imagination. Confiscating billionaire wealth is more than a one-time revenue boost. It also removes their political influence, channels wealth back into the active economy, fosters innovation, benefits the climate, democratises business, and more.
December 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is a failure of imagination. Confiscating billionaire wealth is more than a one-time revenue boost. It also removes their political influence, channels wealth back into the active economy, fosters innovation, benefits the climate, democratises business, and more.
This. 💯
Confiscatory taxes always fail on revenue generation. That is not at all their purpose. The entirety of their reason to be is to prevent any person or small group of persons from rivaling the resources of the state. If a few can muster such, democracy ceases to exist! "Efficiency" is wholly separate
December 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This. 💯
“I wish the rest of the electorate were vacuous sheep with room temperature intelligence, like me.”
December 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“I wish the rest of the electorate were vacuous sheep with room temperature intelligence, like me.”
But he’s talking to Glenn Beck, who would be a human trafficker if he could get away with it.
Like sorry to be basic but even if George Washington was transported to the present from his own time fully alive, the proper response to his political opinions would be "okay but you are a human trafficker, my good sir. Please go talk to historians about your crimes; we have this handled."
December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
But he’s talking to Glenn Beck, who would be a human trafficker if he could get away with it.
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"We learned how to use technology to kick ourselves in the balls" is a solid metaphor
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"We learned how to use technology to kick ourselves in the balls" is a solid metaphor
Important distinctions!
Many proposed climate solutions work well, and are ready to go *now*. Those are the ones to focus on.
Others will take more time to develop. They might help a little, someday.
And some don't make sense and are unlikely to work at all.
How do you tell the difference?
drawdown.org/insights/cli...
Others will take more time to develop. They might help a little, someday.
And some don't make sense and are unlikely to work at all.
How do you tell the difference?
drawdown.org/insights/cli...
Climate solutions aren’t created equal. Here’s how we evaluate what works and what doesn’t.
Just as science has led the way in describing the problem of climate change, we at Project Drawdown are using science to guide resources toward the most effective solutions to the crisis.
drawdown.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Important distinctions!
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Anyway, whenever you see someone being toxic for a cause you believe in please consider that person may not be a particularly strong ally overwhelmed by emotion they may just be an asshole
December 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Anyway, whenever you see someone being toxic for a cause you believe in please consider that person may not be a particularly strong ally overwhelmed by emotion they may just be an asshole
In other words, MAGA men are a bunch of sniveling whiners.
In other news, water is wet. And the Pope, despite being woke, is still Catholic.
In other news, water is wet. And the Pope, despite being woke, is still Catholic.
Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In other words, MAGA men are a bunch of sniveling whiners.
In other news, water is wet. And the Pope, despite being woke, is still Catholic.
In other news, water is wet. And the Pope, despite being woke, is still Catholic.
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Any super-rich schmuck can buy a yacht. But, if a wealthy person aspires to be more than just another Kardashian, one asset rises above the rest: art.
I sold Monets and Picassos to billionaires. Then I went to prison.
And now I'm sharing my secrets.
www.motherjones.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Any super-rich schmuck can buy a yacht. But, if a wealthy person aspires to be more than just another Kardashian, one asset rises above the rest: art.
December 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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All prices and price trends in housing are always a crisis. It's just a question of whether it's a crisis for renters or rentiers.
It's a reliable heuristic that anything good for rentiers is bad for everyone else in every other sector of the economy, and vice versa.
It's a reliable heuristic that anything good for rentiers is bad for everyone else in every other sector of the economy, and vice versa.
Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
All prices and price trends in housing are always a crisis. It's just a question of whether it's a crisis for renters or rentiers.
It's a reliable heuristic that anything good for rentiers is bad for everyone else in every other sector of the economy, and vice versa.
It's a reliable heuristic that anything good for rentiers is bad for everyone else in every other sector of the economy, and vice versa.
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Still, when we can tease the threads apart, George's point remains true. "Capitalists" cause more problems than they solve if they are focused on extracting economic rents (including the sale of appropriated naturally occurring consumable resources).
December 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Still, when we can tease the threads apart, George's point remains true. "Capitalists" cause more problems than they solve if they are focused on extracting economic rents (including the sale of appropriated naturally occurring consumable resources).