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 🌾
Pinned
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!!
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November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. The tract extends for thirty-seven miles. A lumber industry owner did no replanting and cut out on 1931 after eighteen years of operations. They employed approximately 3000 men. Near Kiln, Mississippi […]
[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. The tract extends for thirty-seven miles. A lumber industry owner did no replanting and cut out on 1931 after eighteen years of operations. They employed approximately 3000 men. Near Kiln, Mississippi […]
[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
I uhh, know a few places to get down like that 🕺
"What if, rather than experiencing an overview effect at a remove from the Earth, we were the Earth extending its sensing systems? The Earth watching itself through human culture as a sensing organ..."
(via @beiner.skystack.xyz)
(via @beiner.skystack.xyz)
The Lifeworlding Effect: A Radical Shift in Consciousness
A guest piece by Alexa Firmenich
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I uhh, know a few places to get down like that 🕺
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The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
One (more) thing I don’t hear enough about is ‘TOD’ transit oriented development from the standpoint of electric micro-mobility. Like, the only ref points so far are tacky golf cart path retirement communities. YUGe unarticulated possibility space; exponential latent demand.
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
One (more) thing I don’t hear enough about is ‘TOD’ transit oriented development from the standpoint of electric micro-mobility. Like, the only ref points so far are tacky golf cart path retirement communities. YUGe unarticulated possibility space; exponential latent demand.
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ok so this is actually a map of circumcision rates, right?
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
ok so this is actually a map of circumcision rates, right?
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“The lifetime emissions generated by every 3.5 Americans today will kill one person by the end of the century.”https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/measure-climate-progress-in-lives-improved-by-gernot-wagner-2025-11?
How to Measure Climate Progress
Gernot Wagner thinks tackling the problem is justified on social and economic grounds, not existential ones.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
“The lifetime emissions generated by every 3.5 Americans today will kill one person by the end of the century.”https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/measure-climate-progress-in-lives-improved-by-gernot-wagner-2025-11?
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TV Guide (November 22, 1980)
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
TV Guide (November 22, 1980)
How many people are subconsciously paralyzed and cognitively inert right now because the main feature of their (american) identity - pride - has been summarily revoked?
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
How many people are subconsciously paralyzed and cognitively inert right now because the main feature of their (american) identity - pride - has been summarily revoked?
Where will small-c capital go - personal savings, attention, and principled ‘retail’ investment; when markets get caught up on distributing the proximal future?
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Where will small-c capital go - personal savings, attention, and principled ‘retail’ investment; when markets get caught up on distributing the proximal future?
Feliz Fibonacci day, hands up if ur spiraling!
a cartoon of homer simpson wearing a cowboy hat with the words nacho nacho man above him
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson wearing a cowboy hat with the words nacho nacho man above him
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Feliz Fibonacci day, hands up if ur spiraling!
Gotta lean into more kitchen table skeets, ya feel?!
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Gotta lean into more kitchen table skeets, ya feel?!
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Why Solarpunk is already happening in #Africa - climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp... "But here’s the meta-point: This is the template for building infrastructure in the 21st century." amazingly hopeful stuff; do read if you want to be cheered up. (v slashdot) #renewables
Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
climatedrift.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Why Solarpunk is already happening in #Africa - climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp... "But here’s the meta-point: This is the template for building infrastructure in the 21st century." amazingly hopeful stuff; do read if you want to be cheered up. (v slashdot) #renewables
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Life shapes place, and place shapes life. 🏔️
@biomimicry.bsky.social’s AskNature’s new series explores how species across the Pacific Northwest bioregion, also known as Cascadia or Salmon Nation, build the ecosystems they call home.
#Bioregions #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #SalmonNation
@biomimicry.bsky.social’s AskNature’s new series explores how species across the Pacific Northwest bioregion, also known as Cascadia or Salmon Nation, build the ecosystems they call home.
#Bioregions #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #SalmonNation
How Life Creates a Land: Salmon, Waves, and Waterfalls — Collection — AskNature
High mountains, wild rivers, deep inlets, countless islands, and trees that reach to heaven—discover how they all come together to create a unique harmony of life in Cascadia.
asknature.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Life shapes place, and place shapes life. 🏔️
@biomimicry.bsky.social’s AskNature’s new series explores how species across the Pacific Northwest bioregion, also known as Cascadia or Salmon Nation, build the ecosystems they call home.
#Bioregions #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #SalmonNation
@biomimicry.bsky.social’s AskNature’s new series explores how species across the Pacific Northwest bioregion, also known as Cascadia or Salmon Nation, build the ecosystems they call home.
#Bioregions #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #SalmonNation
The extent that basic mechanics of flight get distinctively stylized at the species level to where birders can ID by that and size alone is wild - epigenetic kinesthetics??
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The extent that basic mechanics of flight get distinctively stylized at the species level to where birders can ID by that and size alone is wild - epigenetic kinesthetics??
Any followers know what my deal is? Non-rhetorically :)
Just curious who’s curious and wants insight or has gleaned it…I think what I’m up to is worth chewing on or propagating now, & could benefit from add’l feedbacks, +/-.
Few *act* interested/cognizant & I don’t hype - but could? 👂🫲
Just curious who’s curious and wants insight or has gleaned it…I think what I’m up to is worth chewing on or propagating now, & could benefit from add’l feedbacks, +/-.
Few *act* interested/cognizant & I don’t hype - but could? 👂🫲
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Any followers know what my deal is? Non-rhetorically :)
Just curious who’s curious and wants insight or has gleaned it…I think what I’m up to is worth chewing on or propagating now, & could benefit from add’l feedbacks, +/-.
Few *act* interested/cognizant & I don’t hype - but could? 👂🫲
Just curious who’s curious and wants insight or has gleaned it…I think what I’m up to is worth chewing on or propagating now, & could benefit from add’l feedbacks, +/-.
Few *act* interested/cognizant & I don’t hype - but could? 👂🫲
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The Society of the Spectacle #review library.hrmtc.com/20...
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Society of the Spectacle #review library.hrmtc.com/20...
Feels like one of those rare, era-defining interludes for deep cut philosophy buffs to throw down and bust some commendable moves and yet,,, ‘what is real’ just clears the deck?
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Feels like one of those rare, era-defining interludes for deep cut philosophy buffs to throw down and bust some commendable moves and yet,,, ‘what is real’ just clears the deck?
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“Do you think Bigfoot is real?”
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Do you think Bigfoot is real?”
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‘The method was organized around the concept of “potential natural vegetation” — the overstory, understory, shrubs, and herbaceous species that would occupy a given piece of land if not for human intervention.
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
Make Your Own Micro Forest - Offrange
The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.
ambrook.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
‘The method was organized around the concept of “potential natural vegetation” — the overstory, understory, shrubs, and herbaceous species that would occupy a given piece of land if not for human intervention.
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
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Abandoned tenant house and large-scale wheat field near Kincaid, Texas
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Abandoned tenant house and large-scale wheat field near Kincaid, Texas
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
There are two kinds of citizens; those who think the law is a WIP, and those who spell that with an H.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There are two kinds of citizens; those who think the law is a WIP, and those who spell that with an H.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM