Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes.
@buildsoil.bsky.social
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Emergent, PhD student & Executive Director buildsoil.net
Talks about Build Soil but this is a private account separate from the nonprofit. The Icon for the account is a hand drawn chestnut wrapped up in a ribbon with the words "Build Soil" on pink
Emergent, PhD student & Executive Director buildsoil.net
Talks about Build Soil but this is a private account separate from the nonprofit. The Icon for the account is a hand drawn chestnut wrapped up in a ribbon with the words "Build Soil" on pink
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How to find me:
buildsoil.net
bsky.app/profile/buil...
Join our discord it’s going to be fun:
discord.gg/TvPtygB9Xj
twitch.tv/buildsoil
youtube.com/@buildsoil
kolektiva.social/@BuildSoil (not doing much .here yet)
buildsoil.net
bsky.app/profile/buil...
Join our discord it’s going to be fun:
discord.gg/TvPtygB9Xj
twitch.tv/buildsoil
youtube.com/@buildsoil
kolektiva.social/@BuildSoil (not doing much .here yet)
This.
it it rude to respond to emails of “i can fly out and volunteer for a few days” with “please donate the costs of that trip to a rent fund”
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 PM
This.
AI-mindias
(after Shelley)
I met a witness from the floodless span
Who said “Two scorched server-towers remain
Beside a sun-baked trench. No stream, no plan
Just tangled cables curling in the plain.
1/
(after Shelley)
I met a witness from the floodless span
Who said “Two scorched server-towers remain
Beside a sun-baked trench. No stream, no plan
Just tangled cables curling in the plain.
1/
January 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
AI-mindias
(after Shelley)
I met a witness from the floodless span
Who said “Two scorched server-towers remain
Beside a sun-baked trench. No stream, no plan
Just tangled cables curling in the plain.
1/
(after Shelley)
I met a witness from the floodless span
Who said “Two scorched server-towers remain
Beside a sun-baked trench. No stream, no plan
Just tangled cables curling in the plain.
1/
i still think this is one of the best essays of the 20th century (i have a few)
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
Thomas Pynchon
archive.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 AM
i still think this is one of the best essays of the 20th century (i have a few)
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
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January 25, 2026 at 10:07 AM
January 25, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Another clip from the upcoming video for my interview with Ecological Playwright Ken Yoshikawa. This clip it is just me talking, but check out other clips for Ken's wonderful prescriptive!
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
Build Soil's Mutual Coordinates Clip: Story as Ecosystem Modeling Simulation
YouTube video by Build Soil
youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Another clip from the upcoming video for my interview with Ecological Playwright Ken Yoshikawa. This clip it is just me talking, but check out other clips for Ken's wonderful prescriptive!
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
Another clip from the upcoming video for my interview with Ecological Playwright Ken Yoshikawa. This clip it is just me talking, but check out other clips for Ken's wonderful prescriptive!
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
Build Soil's Mutual Coordinates Clip: Story as Ecosystem Modeling Simulation
YouTube video by Build Soil
youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Another clip from the upcoming video for my interview with Ecological Playwright Ken Yoshikawa. This clip it is just me talking, but check out other clips for Ken's wonderful prescriptive!
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
www.youtube.com/@buildsoil
youtube.com/shorts/pa8yU...
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And I actually think that those of us on the West Coast are going to have to develop a similar culture to fire that people in the third coast/Great Lakes have around snow.
January 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
And I actually think that those of us on the West Coast are going to have to develop a similar culture to fire that people in the third coast/Great Lakes have around snow.
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Sailors long rescued others who were overboard who whose ships sank. Private (not naval/military) vessels typically did this even for people considered competitors or enemies.
It's a function of understanding the background, environmental danger of living how they live and collectively resisting.
It's a function of understanding the background, environmental danger of living how they live and collectively resisting.
Im not from a cold place but I’ve noticed that people from very cold places have a cultural standard of helping in urgent situations (even in places where they don’t help in nonurgent situation.
The people who live in rural areas, miles away from their closest neighbors, can’t imagine neighbors coming out and standing up for one another
January 18, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Sailors long rescued others who were overboard who whose ships sank. Private (not naval/military) vessels typically did this even for people considered competitors or enemies.
It's a function of understanding the background, environmental danger of living how they live and collectively resisting.
It's a function of understanding the background, environmental danger of living how they live and collectively resisting.
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The older I get the less I assume that my way is the correct way, and the less I feel attached to an identity based on where I was born
January 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The older I get the less I assume that my way is the correct way, and the less I feel attached to an identity based on where I was born
Im not from a cold place but I’ve noticed that people from very cold places have a cultural standard of helping in urgent situations (even in places where they don’t help in nonurgent situation.
The people who live in rural areas, miles away from their closest neighbors, can’t imagine neighbors coming out and standing up for one another
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Im not from a cold place but I’ve noticed that people from very cold places have a cultural standard of helping in urgent situations (even in places where they don’t help in nonurgent situation.
Doing this right now so i thought i'd spread it
Notice your breath. Just a few breaths. Watch it, don't judge.
Notice your thoughts. Don't change them or control them, just watch them.
If you can do something to move, move.
If you can do soemthiing to strengthen your core, do it.
Drink some water.
Notice your breath. Just a few breaths. Watch it, don't judge.
Notice your thoughts. Don't change them or control them, just watch them.
If you can do something to move, move.
If you can do soemthiing to strengthen your core, do it.
Drink some water.
January 18, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Doing this right now so i thought i'd spread it
Notice your breath. Just a few breaths. Watch it, don't judge.
Notice your thoughts. Don't change them or control them, just watch them.
If you can do something to move, move.
If you can do soemthiing to strengthen your core, do it.
Drink some water.
Notice your breath. Just a few breaths. Watch it, don't judge.
Notice your thoughts. Don't change them or control them, just watch them.
If you can do something to move, move.
If you can do soemthiing to strengthen your core, do it.
Drink some water.
It’s still a good time to amass wood chips, cardboard, branches, mulch.
For hot water , food, garden prep. You’ll be glad in these spring
For hot water , food, garden prep. You’ll be glad in these spring
January 18, 2026 at 6:13 AM
It’s still a good time to amass wood chips, cardboard, branches, mulch.
For hot water , food, garden prep. You’ll be glad in these spring
For hot water , food, garden prep. You’ll be glad in these spring
it's so exhausting seeing person after person with a take on greenland without anuy sort of perspective on the debates over US not signing UNCLOS.
January 17, 2026 at 11:25 PM
it's so exhausting seeing person after person with a take on greenland without anuy sort of perspective on the debates over US not signing UNCLOS.
Every day we find a way to reach out and build the world that works for all.
January 17, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Every day we find a way to reach out and build the world that works for all.
Whərə ə’m frəm ən ərəgən əvəry thəng bəcəməs “schwə”
the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Whərə ə’m frəm ən ərəgən əvəry thəng bəcəməs “schwə”
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follow me, I'll show you all the weird lakes i know about
January 16, 2026 at 9:05 PM
follow me, I'll show you all the weird lakes i know about
I’ll tell you how bad it’s gotten: I’m seeing people taking their class notes directly into ChatGPT,, insisting magically that their own personal pet theory is truth without being able to cite why, teachers are giving lectures that are fake LLM podcast built by prompts.
Alexandria is burning
Alexandria is burning
January 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I’ll tell you how bad it’s gotten: I’m seeing people taking their class notes directly into ChatGPT,, insisting magically that their own personal pet theory is truth without being able to cite why, teachers are giving lectures that are fake LLM podcast built by prompts.
Alexandria is burning
Alexandria is burning