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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12/12/25 - nocturn
December 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
12/12/25 - nocturn
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There is an ambient feeling that this technology is rancid and costing us and while it’s nice to have numbers, the only people who think you can wave that away by lecturing people about burgers (a point I agree with) are abundance think tank guys who will never change their habits.
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
There is an ambient feeling that this technology is rancid and costing us and while it’s nice to have numbers, the only people who think you can wave that away by lecturing people about burgers (a point I agree with) are abundance think tank guys who will never change their habits.
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I know it wouldn’t be a panacea. But emptying the goon caves and getting their former occupants outside, meeting people from all kinds of backgrounds, and doing useful work would make life measurably better for almost everyone.
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I know it wouldn’t be a panacea. But emptying the goon caves and getting their former occupants outside, meeting people from all kinds of backgrounds, and doing useful work would make life measurably better for almost everyone.
Works both ways, bet 🔄
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Works both ways, bet 🔄
If you haven’t, this ~10yo docu is a fun capsule of nicely distilled solarpunk mojo and communal imaginarium from a place of enduring swagger/spirit 🧞♂️
Proof Of Concept: 100 Geeks, 5 Weeks, 1 Future
The POC21 Documentary http://poc21.cc POC21 is an international innovation community, that started as an innovation camp. The camp brought together 100+ makers,…
vimeo.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If you haven’t, this ~10yo docu is a fun capsule of nicely distilled solarpunk mojo and communal imaginarium from a place of enduring swagger/spirit 🧞♂️
Gawsh I wish there were a lot more goings-on rn in the broad format of @marscollege.bsky.social with a hmmm less transhumanist more protopian-ecopoetic bent 🔮
Mars College
A 3-month experiment building an off-grid village to explore future technology and self-preservation.
www.mars.college
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Gawsh I wish there were a lot more goings-on rn in the broad format of @marscollege.bsky.social with a hmmm less transhumanist more protopian-ecopoetic bent 🔮
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What’s your community building right now that offers you a sense of joy, pride, possibility, purpose?
Most angloids probably either a) what community? or b) literally bupkis 🤬
Most angloids probably either a) what community? or b) literally bupkis 🤬
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What’s your community building right now that offers you a sense of joy, pride, possibility, purpose?
Most angloids probably either a) what community? or b) literally bupkis 🤬
Most angloids probably either a) what community? or b) literally bupkis 🤬
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"Everyone should have access to the sacred domain—otherwise, a collective insanity, or lack of sanity, develops. That lack of sanity comes from having lost touch with what is beyond oneself—or the Sea of Divine Existence, altogether. . . .
--Avatar Adi Da Samraj
www.priorunity.org
--Avatar Adi Da Samraj
www.priorunity.org
Prior Unity - The Book | The Basis for A New Human Civilization
This book by Adi Da offers invaluable wisdom on humankind going beyond the separative worldview to peaceful, cooperative co-existence.
www.priorunity.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Everyone should have access to the sacred domain—otherwise, a collective insanity, or lack of sanity, develops. That lack of sanity comes from having lost touch with what is beyond oneself—or the Sea of Divine Existence, altogether. . . .
--Avatar Adi Da Samraj
www.priorunity.org
--Avatar Adi Da Samraj
www.priorunity.org
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I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.
Unsettling phenom that’s still sloshing around as undercurrents in real estate/development industries is that relatively suddenly, no one can build with much more than 20-30 year time horizon on transformative disruption (climate, econ, etc). Generally, cheapo basic 🏡 need >50yr life to pencil out.
December 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Unsettling phenom that’s still sloshing around as undercurrents in real estate/development industries is that relatively suddenly, no one can build with much more than 20-30 year time horizon on transformative disruption (climate, econ, etc). Generally, cheapo basic 🏡 need >50yr life to pencil out.
Really says something that there’s not a country on earth would take a second look at the US as potential hostile takeover bait now. Complete shitshow - why bother lol 👎
December 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Really says something that there’s not a country on earth would take a second look at the US as potential hostile takeover bait now. Complete shitshow - why bother lol 👎
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Car culture is the built environment and the built environment is car culture. Would help a everything from mass transit to urban density to sustainability if adults did not see themselves primarily as drivers first, pedestrians never, and bus riders only when punished by the state.
lots of people in this thread are saying "i don't want to send people to jail but i do want to take their licenses away" which i agree with, but i also think a lot of people would genuinely rather go to jail for a couple years than never be able to legally drive again
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Car culture is the built environment and the built environment is car culture. Would help a everything from mass transit to urban density to sustainability if adults did not see themselves primarily as drivers first, pedestrians never, and bus riders only when punished by the state.
What a moody beauty though eh 🌥️
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What a moody beauty though eh 🌥️
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"Faith Based Oil Driller" is why every alien vessel that enters our atmosphere turns right the fuck around.
“An oil driller that uses biblical verses to guide exploration has become the first company to block class-action shareholder lawsuits under new management-friendly policies approved by US securities regulators.”
Do you miss Gary Gensler yet?
Do you miss Gary Gensler yet?
Faith-based oil driller is first US company to block investor class-action lawsuits
After passage of new SEC rule, Zion Oil and Gas requires shareholders to resolve disputes through arbitration
www.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"Faith Based Oil Driller" is why every alien vessel that enters our atmosphere turns right the fuck around.
In a bit of a confined-space kerosene fugue state from last resort heat source passing day three of the dread unrelenting ice fog, ama 😶🌫️
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
In a bit of a confined-space kerosene fugue state from last resort heat source passing day three of the dread unrelenting ice fog, ama 😶🌫️
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just saw a disturbing, detailed vision of one possible outcome for the human race. free on Tubi
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
just saw a disturbing, detailed vision of one possible outcome for the human race. free on Tubi
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this is america now
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
this is america now
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new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
The time of monsters and myth, or World as Affront…aka Plato’s IMAX dome 🪩
That's the thing I don't have a word for. Being convinced that the old is over, not coming back, and not actually very good anyway. Seeing the new off in the distance. And still not seeing the path from one to the other.
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The time of monsters and myth, or World as Affront…aka Plato’s IMAX dome 🪩
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A shallow lake is present within Badwater Basin in Death Valley, forming after a week of rainfall that saw the national park's wettest November on record.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America, sitting at 282 feet (86 meters) below sea level.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America, sitting at 282 feet (86 meters) below sea level.
December 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
A shallow lake is present within Badwater Basin in Death Valley, forming after a week of rainfall that saw the national park's wettest November on record.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America, sitting at 282 feet (86 meters) below sea level.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America, sitting at 282 feet (86 meters) below sea level.
Winter is apparently coming right on arbitrary seasonal schedule and I must get gone for a good while…feeling nostalgic for spontaneous road trips less overtly apocalyptic in nature.
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Winter is apparently coming right on arbitrary seasonal schedule and I must get gone for a good while…feeling nostalgic for spontaneous road trips less overtly apocalyptic in nature.
How close might we be to suddenly losing stable access to large parts of the open web, at the whim of a preponderance of tech titans and pissy tyrants?
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
How close might we be to suddenly losing stable access to large parts of the open web, at the whim of a preponderance of tech titans and pissy tyrants?
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Even areas getting wetter may experience water shortage as the intense, sudden rainfall that climate change drives leads to flash floods + runoff which don't replenish groundwater.
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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Even areas getting wetter may experience water shortage as the intense, sudden rainfall that climate change drives leads to flash floods + runoff which don't replenish groundwater.
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