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Jonathan Brebner
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Partner @ South Park Commons / Public lands fan
Feels like this should be a bigger deal?
April 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm hiring a Storytelling Associate at @southparkcommons.bsky.social!

The SPC community is fully storytelling-pilled. It's the foundational skill of -1 to 0. But we have too many stories to tell. That's where you come in. ⬇️
April 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
To understand millennial men you must understand how formative just hanging around for hours playing Goldeneye and Halo was for shaping our idea of good quality time together
March 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Imagining the Helldivers 2 writers reading this and thinking "freedom seeds, goddamit that's good."
March 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My most closely held moral conviction is this: it is always wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others. That is the surest path to hell.
February 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The biggest writing miss in TV history was when Game of Thrones had Arya just run up to the Night King and stab him—

Instead of having her steal the face of the top lieutenant the show had prominently featured since the very beginning so she could get close enough to stab him
February 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you’ve never made pilgrimage to the superlative trees of California, you should. It’s a great excuse to visit some of the most beautiful places in the world and commune* with titans.

*hug a really big tree
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
The oldest of all is Methuselah. 4855 years old. Older than the pyramids and most of human civilization.

Its exact location is kept secret, but there’s a managed path that winds through its grove in the White Mountains. Methuselah is one of the trees that line the walk.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Finally, my favorite tree of all. The oldest on Earth. The Aged One. The Bristlecone Pine

These gnarled patriarchs look their age, their twisted bark a witness to eons, growing defiantly on the sides of mountains where few other trees can survive.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
The NPS doesn’t permit visits to Hyperion, which is very remote in Redwood National Park. And it’s hard to appreciate how tall it is through the canopy.

But you can see really impressively tall coastal redwoods just outside of SF in Muir Woods National Monument.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
But while the Giant Sequoia is the biggest, its cousin the Coastal Redwood is the tallest. And none are taller than Hyperion.

380 feet tall (that’s 116 meters for the rest of the world).
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
The biggest of all is General Sherman, in Sequoia National Park. 36.5 feet wide, 275 feet tall, 52500 cubic feet in volume.

You can visit and you’ll know right where it is because, uh, it’s hard to miss.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Have to start with the grand emperor of the forest. The president of treedom. The Giant Sequoia.

If you’ve never visited one of the sequoia groves in the Sierra Nevadas, you’re missing out. They’re enormous. Overwhelming in person.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
California has the best trees:

✅The biggest tree
✅The tallest tree
✅The oldest tree

All in one state. Buckle up. This is a tree thread. 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
1/ What kinds of consumer experiences are uniquely unlocked by AI? Expanding on the first question I contributed to the @southparkcommons.bsky.social Request for Curiosity. 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Here's what the @southparkcommons.bsky.social team is most interesting in seeing more of right now.

If you're asking similar questions, reach out!
November 20, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 3:52 AM
When I interviewed the former Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, he had this to say about Trump's new Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz
November 13, 2024 at 10:28 PM
The most important civilizational fact is that we are living through an exponential, and the most important question is whether we're at the beginning or the end of the curve
October 27, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Took some time to touch grass
October 22, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Either Trump is historically incompetent at hiring for the most important positions in government, or the unprecedented number of people he hired who now say he’s dangerous or unfit for office are telling the truth. Those are the only two options.
October 11, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Hello Bluesky, I think I'll start off here by mostly posting about fun public lands in the US.
September 24, 2024 at 1:31 PM