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BenB~•
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Reconciling humans + habitats 🎯 world w/ a where for all Medium-spicy 🤹🥡 📍SisQ ⛰️ savanna 🌾
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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!!
Starting a vicious rumor that daylight savings indefinitely postponed due to gov shutdown. Cleave the official timeline, it is irredeemably cursed.
Early fall post rain slanting light chasing cloud across slopes of golden oak lichen glossed stone and fuzzy green turf shoots is p cool. Fun collab!
Packing a wad of acorns in my pocket most places I go these days AND happy to see fellow tree folk nodding/winking etc
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Washington state and Oregon are going to leave the United States as #Cascadia and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we'll lay out what the plan is, but there's a plan and we will peacefully leave the Union in '28.
Steve Bannon: “Trump is gonna get a third term and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”
One stupendous fire breather; with a lively “underburn” Rx column over that E flank 🫦
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More specifically: in the face of so much destruction and disregard, it's vital to be reminded of our capacity to love and care for even the smallest things, that we can work toward restoration and repair, even (or especially) after catastrophic loss.
Peeking in at juveniles in the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) breeding program at Friday Harbor Labs was just overwhelmingly hopeful. These little guys can grow to 3ft across.

>90% of sunflower stars along N. America's west coast were killed by sea star wasting disease in 2013-14.
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"Look at the world and tell me the pleasures of sanity"
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
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This is a MUST read. Not only does it clearly explain the failings of the crypto market, there are parallels to the functions of the stock market, which if you are paying attention has very similar issues. Only difference it is regulated and there are circuit breakers. Liquidity still a risk/issue.
Newsletter: Anatomy of a crypto meltdown

October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a...
Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.
www.citationneeded.news
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Talk less. Smile more.
"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."
The Partisans Are Wrong: Holding No Sincere Beliefs Is the Way to Win
“Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — Fr...
buff.ly
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Change is qua air and we’re definitively in it. On the side of change.
Points of No Return

“We are in a state of planetary emergency,” they wrote, departing from the usual sterility of scientific writing. “The stability and resilience of our planet is in peril.”

grist.org/climate-tipp...

#Climate #Amazon #Greenland #Science #Environment
The 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever
As the world warms, these Earth systems are changing. Could further warming make them spiral out of control?
grist.org
such emergency; sans management 💬
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It's going to be thousands of human slaves in "robot" suits, isn't it
Musk hyping V3 of the Optimus robot, which should be "available" in Q1.

"It won't seem like a robot, it will seem like a person in a robot suit... which is sorta how we started this," Musk says, without a hint of irony. You'll have to poke it to tell it's not a human, he says (um...)
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the "Where You At?" bioregion quiz from CoEvolution Quarterly (Winter 1981)
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This is remarkable. Four giant dams on the Klamath River along the CA-Oregon border were taken down last year. This year, salmon migrated all the way to the river headwaters, a 300-mile journey from the Pacific to central Oregon, for the first time since 1909. A fantastic success.
Salmon reach headwaters for first time in a century after California dam removal
Klamath River salmon have crossed a major threshold after dams were removed along the California-Oregon border, with the fish reaching the river’s headwaters for the first time in more than a...
www.sfchronicle.com
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Above the tree line is as blank as the inside of a wrist. Rock stays. Names stay.

- Anne Carson
This joint is going to be ready to rhumba with a few more junkyard chic roof panels and a serving counter slab - all freewheeling nearly free site-spec design+build!!
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Almost all of my posts are some evidence or illustration of what @camwalker.bsky.social is describing in this thread. We are in the midst of a massive, rapid ecological breakdown that is all around us -- but most don't recognize it or care. But eventually, the chickens will come home to roost. 🌎
If you pay attention, ecological collapse is happening everywhere, in real time.

1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands.

orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
Twilight Trees - Orion Magazine
An elegy for ponderosa pines in a changing west
orionmagazine.org