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 🌾
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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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Pantone, People, Time and other corporations that decide what the (X of the year) are increasingly relying on rage bait because the alternative is total fucking irrelevance and bankruptcy. Bet.
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Pantone, People, Time and other corporations that decide what the (X of the year) are increasingly relying on rage bait because the alternative is total fucking irrelevance and bankruptcy. Bet.
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sending a midsized city into a catastrophic drought so you can go balls deep in daisy duck
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
sending a midsized city into a catastrophic drought so you can go balls deep in daisy duck
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People don’t adopt flat-Earth theories and conspiracy myths out of nowhere.
A new review of the research shows experiences like sleep paralysis, sensory illusions and ritual practices can make extraordinary beliefs feel very true. buff.ly/khbNn7V
A new review of the research shows experiences like sleep paralysis, sensory illusions and ritual practices can make extraordinary beliefs feel very true. buff.ly/khbNn7V
Flat Earth, spirits and conspiracy theories – experience can shape even extraordinary beliefs
Conspiracy thinking, supernatural beliefs and pseudoscience can seem impervious to evidence. An anthropologist suggests the opposite: Extraordinary beliefs may be supported by an individual’s…
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
People don’t adopt flat-Earth theories and conspiracy myths out of nowhere.
A new review of the research shows experiences like sleep paralysis, sensory illusions and ritual practices can make extraordinary beliefs feel very true. buff.ly/khbNn7V
A new review of the research shows experiences like sleep paralysis, sensory illusions and ritual practices can make extraordinary beliefs feel very true. buff.ly/khbNn7V
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Pretty much all the professions really. I know of climate scientists who are saying a version of this. Environmental consultants too. All in the last week. May something (or some ones) wiser and more connected and rooted rise out of the chaos and crises.
The psychotherapeutic professions, I believe, need to use this collective, global crises to reconsider themselves and their mission
And there so much denial, resistance and fear and avoidance
And there so much denial, resistance and fear and avoidance
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Pretty much all the professions really. I know of climate scientists who are saying a version of this. Environmental consultants too. All in the last week. May something (or some ones) wiser and more connected and rooted rise out of the chaos and crises.
So crazy there is one star that never moves - what’s the deal with that.
[testing the waters on Nextdoor 😼]
[testing the waters on Nextdoor 😼]
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
So crazy there is one star that never moves - what’s the deal with that.
[testing the waters on Nextdoor 😼]
[testing the waters on Nextdoor 😼]
What’s the highbrow vocab for acorn gruel terroir? Need a few quips beyond earthy and acerbic.
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What’s the highbrow vocab for acorn gruel terroir? Need a few quips beyond earthy and acerbic.
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In 2016, state legislators fed up with local "solutions" set up a statewide framework for ADUs. Did it take time for planners/builders/financiers/homeowners to figure it out? Yes. But guess what? State law made figuring it out non-negotiable and now we have 100,000+ ADUs.
cayimby.org/reports/cali...
cayimby.org/reports/cali...
California ADU Reform: A Retrospective - California YIMBY
Dive into in-depth research reports commissioned by the California YIMBY Education Fund on housing policy, advocacy, and legislation.
cayimby.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In 2016, state legislators fed up with local "solutions" set up a statewide framework for ADUs. Did it take time for planners/builders/financiers/homeowners to figure it out? Yes. But guess what? State law made figuring it out non-negotiable and now we have 100,000+ ADUs.
cayimby.org/reports/cali...
cayimby.org/reports/cali...
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The “God” of Earthseed isn’t a person, it’s a poetic reckoning with purpose from the perspective of a pastors daughter, seeking strength and meaning in a hostile and decaying world. Her god is possibility, not space grandpa, and i loved it a great deal as a recovering/former Christian myself.
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The “God” of Earthseed isn’t a person, it’s a poetic reckoning with purpose from the perspective of a pastors daughter, seeking strength and meaning in a hostile and decaying world. Her god is possibility, not space grandpa, and i loved it a great deal as a recovering/former Christian myself.
This matter of abstract legibility of selfhood is coming up a lot lately.
(Everything is borg theory?)
(Everything is borg theory?)
What they DO is so much more important than who they ARE, because the former is legible and the latter is not.
December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This matter of abstract legibility of selfhood is coming up a lot lately.
(Everything is borg theory?)
(Everything is borg theory?)
Mighty fine light t’night 🌟
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Mighty fine light t’night 🌟
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Evicted ➜ built a troll wonderland 🧌 Thomas Dambo turned a forgotten farm into a creative co-living village made from discarded materials. Trash became a raw material to build unique giant trolls with a story to tell. Video via YT (youtu.be/v4aF_qtwh0Y) & *FC (faircompanies.com/videos/he-bu...)
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Evicted ➜ built a troll wonderland 🧌 Thomas Dambo turned a forgotten farm into a creative co-living village made from discarded materials. Trash became a raw material to build unique giant trolls with a story to tell. Video via YT (youtu.be/v4aF_qtwh0Y) & *FC (faircompanies.com/videos/he-bu...)
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They said the neural stack was offline, but The construct heard it breathing.
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
They said the neural stack was offline, but The construct heard it breathing.
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Yurok Tribal Council Member Phillip Williams shares insights into the profound, yet often overlooked long-term benefits that Klamath dam removal & ongoing river restoration efforts promise for the Yurok people. This work will also create positive change for all who love salmon & healthy rivers.
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yurok Tribal Council Member Phillip Williams shares insights into the profound, yet often overlooked long-term benefits that Klamath dam removal & ongoing river restoration efforts promise for the Yurok people. This work will also create positive change for all who love salmon & healthy rivers.
“This place, Old La Sal, has almost no sound of its own. The mountain is huge, but silent. So how do people sound when they talk about what it’s like to live here? I hoped to convey, through human voices, what you can see by standing here, what it feels like to be here.”
Listened to this new Scott Carrier piece on a dark walk up the mountain. Highly recommended. Really excited for this new @transom.bsky.social series
Old La Sal
Old La Sal - Transom
transom.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“This place, Old La Sal, has almost no sound of its own. The mountain is huge, but silent. So how do people sound when they talk about what it’s like to live here? I hoped to convey, through human voices, what you can see by standing here, what it feels like to be here.”
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There was good Internet that day
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There was good Internet that day
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December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Have you heard the good news SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Have you heard the good news SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP
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the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest
zeitgeist real thirsty for saviors now huh 🫵
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
zeitgeist real thirsty for saviors now huh 🫵
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“Who among us does not spend the greater part of his life in the shadow of an event that has not yet taken place?”
— Robert Musil (tr. Philip Payne)
— Robert Musil (tr. Philip Payne)
“Wer von uns verbringt nicht den größten Teil seines Lebens im Schatten eines Ereignisses, das noch nicht stattgehabt hat?”
— Robert Musil, Tagebücher
— Robert Musil, Tagebücher
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Who among us does not spend the greater part of his life in the shadow of an event that has not yet taken place?”
— Robert Musil (tr. Philip Payne)
— Robert Musil (tr. Philip Payne)
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In a way it is the thing I have to try to understand because it's the worst version of the things I love and think are good for us, social learning at scale, the group level cultural ratcheting of better solutions for humanity, that architecture warped by bigotry
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In a way it is the thing I have to try to understand because it's the worst version of the things I love and think are good for us, social learning at scale, the group level cultural ratcheting of better solutions for humanity, that architecture warped by bigotry
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Theoretically, order can survive any amount of heat.
Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case. | Quanta Magazine
Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Theoretically, order can survive any amount of heat.
Tactical bedazzlement aas 🪄
"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran."
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Tactical bedazzlement aas 🪄
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I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.