GreenEngineer
@eubanksengineeringresearch.com
Professional engineer and permaculture designer fascinated by the thermodynamics & metabolics of infrastructure and the built environment.
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
Pinned
Resist the urge to return to normal at all costs. It is an illusion. And a dangerous one.
1. There is no living with MAGA.
2. We are now in the Anthropocene. The world we knew is gone. Climate change is here, now.
It’s time for America to grow the fuck up.
1. There is no living with MAGA.
2. We are now in the Anthropocene. The world we knew is gone. Climate change is here, now.
It’s time for America to grow the fuck up.
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
@whstancil.bsky.social you need to read this
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
@whstancil.bsky.social you need to read this
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Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
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having an emotional reaction to big straw wolf sculpture
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
having an emotional reaction to big straw wolf sculpture
We have finally, at long last, reached the stage of “The emperor is naked… and his dick is really small… and it’s shaped weird… and he’s an orangutan"
Took too fucking long, but finally here we are.
Took too fucking long, but finally here we are.
Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.”
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We have finally, at long last, reached the stage of “The emperor is naked… and his dick is really small… and it’s shaped weird… and he’s an orangutan"
Took too fucking long, but finally here we are.
Took too fucking long, but finally here we are.
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While the US's political leadership is mired in climate denial and promoting fossil fuels, China sees the clean energy transition as a key part of its path towards global economic leadership. The contrast couldn't be clearer
China's vice minister for environment Li Gao strongly puts forward the economic growth argument for China's green and low-carbon transformation, also citing our @creacleanair.bsky.social research on the contribution of clean energy sectors to China's GDP.
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
While the US's political leadership is mired in climate denial and promoting fossil fuels, China sees the clean energy transition as a key part of its path towards global economic leadership. The contrast couldn't be clearer
Finally a good use for AI.
GUN: "This man must not reproduce."
The officer was "heading for duty" Wednesday night when his "weapon discharged and he accidentally shot himself in the testicles" in the station's parking lot, records show.
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Finally a good use for AI.
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GUN: "This man must not reproduce."
The officer was "heading for duty" Wednesday night when his "weapon discharged and he accidentally shot himself in the testicles" in the station's parking lot, records show.
Off-duty Chicago cop accidentally shoots himself in groin outside police station in Gresham
chicago.suntimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
GUN: "This man must not reproduce."
Fascism is, among other things, usually a form of compensation for personal insecurity or inadequacy.
Also, Hitler had a micorpenis.
apple.news/AtekCjKr1Su6...
Also, Hitler had a micorpenis.
apple.news/AtekCjKr1Su6...
"We analysed Hitler’s DNA – and what we discovered made us gasp"
Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, their research has thrown up some extraordinary insights into the Nazi dic...
apple.news
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Fascism is, among other things, usually a form of compensation for personal insecurity or inadequacy.
Also, Hitler had a micorpenis.
apple.news/AtekCjKr1Su6...
Also, Hitler had a micorpenis.
apple.news/AtekCjKr1Su6...
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I live in a time when "a cabal of pedophiles runs the country" and "the national media have been engaging in a multi a year long conspiracy to end democracy" are factual statements and I want a refund
About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I live in a time when "a cabal of pedophiles runs the country" and "the national media have been engaging in a multi a year long conspiracy to end democracy" are factual statements and I want a refund
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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#1: basic decency & ethics says that all sex pests should be ousted from congress, it'd be the right thing to do even if not politically expedient but also
#2: they almost all suck anyways? bring on the open primaries. best thing that could happen to the dems is throwing out a bunch of incumbents!
#2: they almost all suck anyways? bring on the open primaries. best thing that could happen to the dems is throwing out a bunch of incumbents!
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
#1: basic decency & ethics says that all sex pests should be ousted from congress, it'd be the right thing to do even if not politically expedient but also
#2: they almost all suck anyways? bring on the open primaries. best thing that could happen to the dems is throwing out a bunch of incumbents!
#2: they almost all suck anyways? bring on the open primaries. best thing that could happen to the dems is throwing out a bunch of incumbents!
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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Realignment, enshitification ratchet, or barbarism are basically the broad paths forward
If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Realignment, enshitification ratchet, or barbarism are basically the broad paths forward
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marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before
Lucy…football…etc
Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Lucy…football…etc
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you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
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bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
[marx voice] IT'S A COSTLY SIGNAL
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
This comment is correct but it is also true that Trump is not really different, just much more extreme.
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To understand Trump is to understand he doesn't believe in repeated games where cooperation is the equilibrium strategy because people can punish non-cooperation in the future. He thinks everything is a one off prisoner's dilemma and tries to screw the other party no matter the future consequences.
For Trump, there is no time horizon that matters beyond the immediate. He could care less about the Republican Party of 2027, let alone 2029 and beyond. This is the Republican deal with the devil. They put Trump in charge, but Trump doesn’t care about others beyond how it affects him. 2/4
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This comment is correct but it is also true that Trump is not really different, just much more extreme.
bsky.app/profile/euba...
bsky.app/profile/euba...
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I used to say this about Republicans before Trump too. In the short term the best strategy is to extract as much as possible even if it means destroying long term capacity. It’s been their governing strategy and we are all worse off for it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I used to say this about Republicans before Trump too. In the short term the best strategy is to extract as much as possible even if it means destroying long term capacity. It’s been their governing strategy and we are all worse off for it.
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I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
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Ah. So this I can help with. Lawyers wear two hats. We are counselors and advocates. Most often, we’re just depicted as advocates. As a result, in conversations like this, people see us explaining how things work, and think we’re saying it’s how things should work.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Ah. So this I can help with. Lawyers wear two hats. We are counselors and advocates. Most often, we’re just depicted as advocates. As a result, in conversations like this, people see us explaining how things work, and think we’re saying it’s how things should work.
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"why do credulous rubes who don't know how anything works like the guy who had a reality tv show where he was portrayed as a brilliant and great guy?" Don't overthink this!
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"why do credulous rubes who don't know how anything works like the guy who had a reality tv show where he was portrayed as a brilliant and great guy?" Don't overthink this!
Petro-masculinity.
Sounds about white.
Sounds about white.
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Petro-masculinity.
Sounds about white.
Sounds about white.
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The root problem is that we didn’t stop that multi-decade plot. We could have reacted to Cit U and John Roberts differently; NYT could have gone a different way; we could have defended journalism as private equity killed it; used Congress to hem in the banks. As we did in the past- all these things
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The root problem is that we didn’t stop that multi-decade plot. We could have reacted to Cit U and John Roberts differently; NYT could have gone a different way; we could have defended journalism as private equity killed it; used Congress to hem in the banks. As we did in the past- all these things
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They LITERALLY campaigned on making children go hungry as a political statement and they can't figure out why they lost.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
They LITERALLY campaigned on making children go hungry as a political statement and they can't figure out why they lost.