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Jason Humboldt
@jasonhumboldt.bsky.social
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Slowly traveling the globe since 2010 - outdoor explorer, history lover, runner, and someone who buys too many books.

Interests: tech, solo business, ecology, psychology, & learning how to live well on the steep part of exponential curves.

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These tiles are all hand painted and each one is slightly different (Buddha wearing a different necklace for example)

📍Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

#travel #malaysia #buddha #buddhism #photography #art
Man standing in front of wall of Buddha images
January 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Street Art I've Known And Loved (SAIKAL) 6/10

📍 Hong Kong

#hongkong #travel #art #photography #streetart #sculpture #brucelee #martialarts
December 18, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Classic essay on this topic, worth a read!

"Good online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves."

www.greaterwrong.com/posts/tscc3e...
Some screenshots from the essay: Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-gardens-die-by-pacifism Some screenshots from the essay: Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-gardens-die-by-pacifism
December 18, 2024 at 4:02 AM
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Was copy pasting my comment from substack, but I'll just post an image...

The article I linked to: dothemath.ucsd.edu/2015/04/prog...
A comment on substack article which reads: "Fantastic article! I fear the confusion and misunderstanding you allude to in this piece, at least among many leaders, is actually a psychological *inability* to face the reality of the situation. The idea that we can't really solve this problem and keep our current idea of a high standard of living, just breaks people's brains, and they refuse to believe it, refuse to hear it. It's so much easier to get on with one's day if you believe that there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Or that the disruption will be manageable. There's also the issue of personal survival. I mean if you're a climate scientist or lawmaker or government technocrat advocating the we rethink what the very idea of "progress" means, and that we need to willfully burst our own bubble... your career and livelihood may have a short shelf life. Tom Murphy wrote a very interesting blog post nearly 10 years ago which asserted that only a small minority of people have the psychological wiring to see our predicament for what it is. I think about it a lot. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2015/04/programmed-to-ignore/"
December 17, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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Finding some trees in an urban jungle is the best restorative feeling 🌳🧘‍♂️

#forestbathing #travel #nature #urbanjungle #kualalumpur #malaysia
December 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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I'm in an dense urban center right now (Kuala Lumpur) and went to the Easten outskirts of the city this weekend.

I could not believe the difference in air quality and temperature just 6km away from the center!

Fresh breeze, vegetation smells, birds chirping... It has such a big effect on us 🌳🌲🦜🙂
Kuala Lumpur cityscape from a distance, skyscrapers looking small with a green forest patch in the foreground.
December 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Street Art I've Known And Loved (SAIKAL) 5/10

📍 Can't remember location

#lost #travel #art #photography #streetart #graffiti #painting #mural
A colorful mural in Latin style, taken somewhere in South America. On the right there are stylized bust portraits of a man and a woman, surrounded by floral motifs. On the left there is a large hummingbird facing them.
December 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Street Art I've Known And Loved (SAIKAL) 4/10

A very pretty door

📍 Mancora

#mancora #peru #perú #travel #art #photography #streetart #graffiti #painting #mural
December 12, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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I guess they really gotta say it slow and clear for those in the back..
December 12, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Went there one last time, just to be sure. Seemed even more lame than usual after spending the last few days here.

I feel lighter now!

#goodbye #x #twitter #bluesky #socialmedia
X account deactivation screen, it says "your account is deactivated, sorry to see you go. #bye"
December 11, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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Wow 😳

I'd not heard of her before but this is enough to get my attention! .. RIP 🙏
December 10, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Street Art I've Known And Loved (SAIKAL) 3/10

Can you find the turtle?

📍 Bogotá

#bogotá #bogota #colombia #travel #art #photography #streetart #graffiti
A photo of a building's wall on the street covered in doodle-style drawings and words nested inside one another, and around one another with almost no whitespace. The drawings are of animals and spaceships and moons and insects and more. It looks like a notebook of a bored teenager with only a single piece of paper to doodle on for a whole year.
December 9, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Gotta get Tom on this site

"We are not obligated to cling to our current approach to living on this planet. But the change would have to be radical in order to avert collapse. Thinking it can happen may be its own form of delusion"

#energy #environment #climate

dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/deat...
December 8, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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Street Art I've Known And Loved (SAIKAL) 2/10

So much lovely subversive shit happening in this one

📍 Lima

#lima #peru #travel #art #photography #streetart #graffiti
December 8, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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And just behind the screen...
December 7, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Thank you, looks like a good read.. look what you made me do haha
December 7, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Street Art I've Known And Loved (SAIKAL) 1/10

Kuala Lumpur
December 7, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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Nice! Welcome to...

The Refuge Of The Damned

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December 7, 2024 at 10:32 AM