BenB~•
@paraben.bsky.social
Reconciling humans + habitats
🎯 world w/ a where for all
Medium-spicy 🤹🥡
📍SisQ ⛰️ savanna 🌾
🎯 world w/ a where for all
Medium-spicy 🤹🥡
📍SisQ ⛰️ savanna 🌾
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BenB~•
@paraben.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Apropos of this and that, I’ll put forward here that I like to help people find their way to better suited places, land for a while, and make way for life 🌀
Don’t hesitate to 💬 if curious!!
Don’t hesitate to 💬 if curious!!
Oooo…Heartwood community/sanctuary just listed for sale, little under 70k per BR +loads of extras!
www.redfin.com/CA/Garbervil...
www.redfin.com/CA/Garbervil...
220 Harmony Ln, Garberville, CA 95542 - 55 beds/19 baths
(HAR) For Sale: 55 beds, 19 baths ∙ 20000 sq. ft. ∙ 220 Harmony Ln, Garberville, CA 95542 ∙ $3,500,000 ∙ MLS# 271007 ∙ Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary: A Hidden Gem in Northern California. Nestled in the...
www.redfin.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Oooo…Heartwood community/sanctuary just listed for sale, little under 70k per BR +loads of extras!
www.redfin.com/CA/Garbervil...
www.redfin.com/CA/Garbervil...
Man, that one normie-passing bird that gets completely spun on its own reflection and will not leave the magic mirror world alone for weeks on end…
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Man, that one normie-passing bird that gets completely spun on its own reflection and will not leave the magic mirror world alone for weeks on end…
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COP30, what should be the most important international-multilateral-multilevel meeting of the year, is happening right now in Belem and you would not know it looking over the headlines of all major US news outlets. What a shitshow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
COP30, what should be the most important international-multilateral-multilevel meeting of the year, is happening right now in Belem and you would not know it looking over the headlines of all major US news outlets. What a shitshow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
V excited to deduce late last night via some old geo paper snooping that I currently reside within a hundred vertical meters or so of the local K-T (now k-pg, Cretaceous-Paleogene but whatevs) boundary layer (nonconforming tho…). Gotta ramble and dig into this! Seems topical 🦖
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
V excited to deduce late last night via some old geo paper snooping that I currently reside within a hundred vertical meters or so of the local K-T (now k-pg, Cretaceous-Paleogene but whatevs) boundary layer (nonconforming tho…). Gotta ramble and dig into this! Seems topical 🦖
Fun cooking up surplus carbons for a long dirt nap with a ring kiln today!
Simple scalable open source tech for landscape resilience and restoration in fire country.
Simple scalable open source tech for landscape resilience and restoration in fire country.
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Fun cooking up surplus carbons for a long dirt nap with a ring kiln today!
Simple scalable open source tech for landscape resilience and restoration in fire country.
Simple scalable open source tech for landscape resilience and restoration in fire country.
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Ketan Joshi's Irrational Climate Reset
I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy
No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽
I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy
No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ketan Joshi's Irrational Climate Reset
I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy
No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽
I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy
No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽
Deeply dislike the extent this and informal variations of, presumes we = this current paradigm of society/civ and there are no passable alternatives.
Yes, this version of society is not going to endure for long! No that doesn’t mean “we” broadly, recognizably, won’t!
future = change = us*
Yes, this version of society is not going to endure for long! No that doesn’t mean “we” broadly, recognizably, won’t!
future = change = us*
Which are you on climate change?
(Heuristic by Andrew Weaver, though I added the letter labels)
(Heuristic by Andrew Weaver, though I added the letter labels)
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Deeply dislike the extent this and informal variations of, presumes we = this current paradigm of society/civ and there are no passable alternatives.
Yes, this version of society is not going to endure for long! No that doesn’t mean “we” broadly, recognizably, won’t!
future = change = us*
Yes, this version of society is not going to endure for long! No that doesn’t mean “we” broadly, recognizably, won’t!
future = change = us*
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It's been a while since I've read a critique that balances both sides of the story so well.
I am a millennial, and I love Brutalism. I don't defend the outcome, but I do admire the misplaced utopian desire that went into these buildings.
Mostly, I just wish we had architecture again.
I am a millennial, and I love Brutalism. I don't defend the outcome, but I do admire the misplaced utopian desire that went into these buildings.
Mostly, I just wish we had architecture again.
in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme
Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.
www.sothebys.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It's been a while since I've read a critique that balances both sides of the story so well.
I am a millennial, and I love Brutalism. I don't defend the outcome, but I do admire the misplaced utopian desire that went into these buildings.
Mostly, I just wish we had architecture again.
I am a millennial, and I love Brutalism. I don't defend the outcome, but I do admire the misplaced utopian desire that went into these buildings.
Mostly, I just wish we had architecture again.
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How do you make predictions in an atmospheric environment that is no longer predictable due to man-made climate change? 😭
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How do you make predictions in an atmospheric environment that is no longer predictable due to man-made climate change? 😭
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The first I ever heard about Neom was from this vital piece by Sarah Leah Whitson and Abdullah Alaoudh on the blood spilled to even break ground on this Stalinesque "gigaproject". Good riddance that it seems to finally be dead.
foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/27/m...
foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/27/m...
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The first I ever heard about Neom was from this vital piece by Sarah Leah Whitson and Abdullah Alaoudh on the blood spilled to even break ground on this Stalinesque "gigaproject". Good riddance that it seems to finally be dead.
foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/27/m...
foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/27/m...
Gleaned 10lb of (Chinese?) chestnuts from a neglected orchard down the road - what’s the TLDR on effective low effort mass planting??
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Gleaned 10lb of (Chinese?) chestnuts from a neglected orchard down the road - what’s the TLDR on effective low effort mass planting??
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"Simulation only works when reality doesn’t contradict it too obviously. You can manufacture consensus that resistance is failing when resistance is invisible. You can create the appearance of overwhelming support when people can’t see evidence otherwise." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-simula...
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"Simulation only works when reality doesn’t contradict it too obviously. You can manufacture consensus that resistance is failing when resistance is invisible. You can create the appearance of overwhelming support when people can’t see evidence otherwise." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-simula...
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Grapevine 1, Kern County, CA
🗺34.9030, -118.9043 🧭168° ⛰4767 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1991
🗺34.9030, -118.9043 🧭168° ⛰4767 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1991
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Grapevine 1, Kern County, CA
🗺34.9030, -118.9043 🧭168° ⛰4767 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1991
🗺34.9030, -118.9043 🧭168° ⛰4767 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1991
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Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.
Reasons why “skeeter crush” won’t be entering the parlance:
BlueSky is a club for 42-year-olds with a stomach ache and no serotonin. I thought we all knew this.
bluesky in november is like if all of a website had seasonal affective disorder
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Reasons why “skeeter crush” won’t be entering the parlance:
Got to wonder how badly most people’s trust *in themselves* is being eroded and compromised with the tide of disappointment and dysfunction we’re all swept by - and where/how that negative reinforcement will bottom and switch.
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Got to wonder how badly most people’s trust *in themselves* is being eroded and compromised with the tide of disappointment and dysfunction we’re all swept by - and where/how that negative reinforcement will bottom and switch.
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remembering something Mike Davis wrote in 2017 on Trumpism:
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
remembering something Mike Davis wrote in 2017 on Trumpism:
Gotta wonder what the new wave of American emigres will be taking with them beneficently ‘of the old country’ like - what could anyone elsewhere in the world actually embrace and savor of the essence of USA rn 💩♨️
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gotta wonder what the new wave of American emigres will be taking with them beneficently ‘of the old country’ like - what could anyone elsewhere in the world actually embrace and savor of the essence of USA rn 💩♨️
New epochs of lead evolutionary bottleneck hypothesis… 🤕
Lead exposure may have influenced brain and language development in early humans and Neanderthals
A new study published in Science Advances suggests that humans and their ancestors were exposed to lead nearly two million years ago, and...
More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/10/lead...
A new study published in Science Advances suggests that humans and their ancestors were exposed to lead nearly two million years ago, and...
More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/10/lead...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New epochs of lead evolutionary bottleneck hypothesis… 🤕
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Wow, whoever engineered the Sandals Resort (Whitehouse, Jamaica) ocean rooms... did a superb job, they are still standing and roofs intact after Hurricane Melissa (though, it looks like you've got to swim out to your room now) #hurricanemelissa #melissa
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Wow, whoever engineered the Sandals Resort (Whitehouse, Jamaica) ocean rooms... did a superb job, they are still standing and roofs intact after Hurricane Melissa (though, it looks like you've got to swim out to your room now) #hurricanemelissa #melissa
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Most mainstream news coverage about oil companies rapidly heating the planet, when there is any, is rated G for 5 yr olds.
Here is an excellent PG-13, or if you’re a lifestyle liberal, NC-17, breakdown of what’s here/what’s coming.
NSFW if u work at a big bank, oil company, Corp news media.
Here is an excellent PG-13, or if you’re a lifestyle liberal, NC-17, breakdown of what’s here/what’s coming.
NSFW if u work at a big bank, oil company, Corp news media.
Many of us just want to know how bad it's going to get over the next 10 or 20 years. We want the grim details, without any sugar coating. We're mature enough to handle it. We're not little kids who need bedtime stories.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/how-bad-will...
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/how-bad-will...
How Bad Will It Get?
An honest answer.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Most mainstream news coverage about oil companies rapidly heating the planet, when there is any, is rated G for 5 yr olds.
Here is an excellent PG-13, or if you’re a lifestyle liberal, NC-17, breakdown of what’s here/what’s coming.
NSFW if u work at a big bank, oil company, Corp news media.
Here is an excellent PG-13, or if you’re a lifestyle liberal, NC-17, breakdown of what’s here/what’s coming.
NSFW if u work at a big bank, oil company, Corp news media.
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Not only is Kerala a shining beacon of hope & sanity, it’s also home to the sickest houseboats in the world
November 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Not only is Kerala a shining beacon of hope & sanity, it’s also home to the sickest houseboats in the world
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The name of the bow is life, but its work is death.
Who will hide from the fire that does not set?
– Heraclitus
Who will hide from the fire that does not set?
– Heraclitus
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The name of the bow is life, but its work is death.
Who will hide from the fire that does not set?
– Heraclitus
Who will hide from the fire that does not set?
– Heraclitus