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!
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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.
There are two kinds of people: the ones that run away from the Ethiopian restaurant, and the ones that run towards the Ethiopian restaurant.
like yeah on this basis I am forced to conclude I am in fact a harder fucking operator than a strapped 6’2 guy from Dallas who shits himself with raw terror when he sees a Ethiopian restaurant
as a small person who has spent a ton of time traveling alone without ever feeling the need to carry a gun, I also think about this a lot
January 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM
There are two kinds of people: the ones that run away from the Ethiopian restaurant, and the ones that run towards the Ethiopian restaurant.
This is a thing of beauty.
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 AM
This is a thing of beauty.
Make *them* eat the cockroach.
/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Make *them* eat the cockroach.
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now that's more like it
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
now that's more like it
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/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
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/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.
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/5 But it’s true that sometimes entities and agencies are irretrievable because their culture is so enmeshed in complacency or infighting or incompetence.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/5 But it’s true that sometimes entities and agencies are irretrievable because their culture is so enmeshed in complacency or infighting or incompetence.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
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As happens one of my early jobs in the 90s was a working the very company Adams worked in and was basically lambasting (our local telco).
My view was that Adams’ basic critique was way too narrow. Pretty much his issue was that guys like him weren’t important enough.
My view was that Adams’ basic critique was way too narrow. Pretty much his issue was that guys like him weren’t important enough.
January 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
As happens one of my early jobs in the 90s was a working the very company Adams worked in and was basically lambasting (our local telco).
My view was that Adams’ basic critique was way too narrow. Pretty much his issue was that guys like him weren’t important enough.
My view was that Adams’ basic critique was way too narrow. Pretty much his issue was that guys like him weren’t important enough.
Al Gore was President.
There's probably a dimension out there where not-terrible Scott Adams correctly read the direction business and technology was going.
There, Dilbert evolved into the full rich tech bro bad guy of the strip, and remained both funny and relevant.
We don't live in that dimension though.
There, Dilbert evolved into the full rich tech bro bad guy of the strip, and remained both funny and relevant.
We don't live in that dimension though.
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Al Gore was President.
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You are egoistically clinging to an empty distinction between liberals and socialists
There are liberals who getting into fights with cops. There are socialists sneering at this from the sidelines
Heaven and Earth have been overturned. Get the fuck over yourself (compassionately)
There are liberals who getting into fights with cops. There are socialists sneering at this from the sidelines
Heaven and Earth have been overturned. Get the fuck over yourself (compassionately)
January 13, 2026 at 10:53 PM
You are egoistically clinging to an empty distinction between liberals and socialists
There are liberals who getting into fights with cops. There are socialists sneering at this from the sidelines
Heaven and Earth have been overturned. Get the fuck over yourself (compassionately)
There are liberals who getting into fights with cops. There are socialists sneering at this from the sidelines
Heaven and Earth have been overturned. Get the fuck over yourself (compassionately)
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Yes, we do really need to comprehensively overhaul the immigration system as well, but the actual case for abolishing ICE has virtually nothing to do with that, it's simply that it is untenable for the Federal government to have an unaccountable internal security force with arbitrary authority.
A point that needs to be made over and over again rn. What we're watching has extremely little to do with immigration enforcement. Its a bunch of thugs basically in a state of rioting bc theyve lost their minds and dont think there will be consequences for their behavior
They don't even pretend it's about immigration or crime or whatever anymore. They'll arrest and they'll beat and they'll kill all because you don't cower in fear and respect like they want. People hate them and it makes them furious.
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Yes, we do really need to comprehensively overhaul the immigration system as well, but the actual case for abolishing ICE has virtually nothing to do with that, it's simply that it is untenable for the Federal government to have an unaccountable internal security force with arbitrary authority.
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“The strategic imperative,” he argued, “must be clear: nothing less than the total defeat of the organized political interests of oil, gas, and coal producers is necessary to make any other climate justice goals even a remote possibility.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social (via @learning2live.bsky.social)
There’s No Quitting the Climate Fight
This is the worst-ever year for climate politics—but the struggle is far from over.
www.thenation.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
“The strategic imperative,” he argued, “must be clear: nothing less than the total defeat of the organized political interests of oil, gas, and coal producers is necessary to make any other climate justice goals even a remote possibility.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social (via @learning2live.bsky.social)
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Conservatives and, unfortunately, far too many liberals love to say that opposition to inequality is all envy (or my favorite, "zero-sum thinking"). This is a lazy failure to engage with arguments against inequality from across the spectrum, from Plato and Jesus to Smith, Mill, and Marx.
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Conservatives and, unfortunately, far too many liberals love to say that opposition to inequality is all envy (or my favorite, "zero-sum thinking"). This is a lazy failure to engage with arguments against inequality from across the spectrum, from Plato and Jesus to Smith, Mill, and Marx.
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'Every accusation is a confession' is still the best model we have of their collective mind.
January 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
'Every accusation is a confession' is still the best model we have of their collective mind.
Apply to be a an ICE agent! Yes, you! Go on, do it now! The more, the merrier!
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Apply to be a an ICE agent! Yes, you! Go on, do it now! The more, the merrier!
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We have the law, we just need to start enforcing it again. Hell, Trump did in his first term, and Biden with Lina Khan and others went hard, which is the biggest reason he lost, the super rich hated him.
January 13, 2026 at 7:48 AM
We have the law, we just need to start enforcing it again. Hell, Trump did in his first term, and Biden with Lina Khan and others went hard, which is the biggest reason he lost, the super rich hated him.
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People who don't have activism experience often ask what the point of big protests is. There are LOTS of points, but this is a really big one:
When people start building their protest muscles at big, long-organized events, when they start networking—they're able to do all this ⬇️, within *48 hours*
When people start building their protest muscles at big, long-organized events, when they start networking—they're able to do all this ⬇️, within *48 hours*
At nearly 1,200 events across all 50 states and DC, Americans honored Renee Nicole Good and mourned all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. #ICEOutForGood
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
People who don't have activism experience often ask what the point of big protests is. There are LOTS of points, but this is a really big one:
When people start building their protest muscles at big, long-organized events, when they start networking—they're able to do all this ⬇️, within *48 hours*
When people start building their protest muscles at big, long-organized events, when they start networking—they're able to do all this ⬇️, within *48 hours*
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In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
January 13, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Jesus.
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It’s a pathology inherent to social media that is expressed most damagingly through the right but not at all exclusively. Plenty of “XYZ things is actually racist/homophobic, etc” when the actual reality is No, You Just Dislike It.
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
It’s a pathology inherent to social media that is expressed most damagingly through the right but not at all exclusively. Plenty of “XYZ things is actually racist/homophobic, etc” when the actual reality is No, You Just Dislike It.
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you may find liberals or leftists annoying but occasionally being exposed to @ethnic_cleansing_liker's worldview can serve as a bit of perspective on how bad people with strong opinions on the word "Latinx" really are in the grand scheme of things. an imperfect solution to be sure.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
you may find liberals or leftists annoying but occasionally being exposed to @ethnic_cleansing_liker's worldview can serve as a bit of perspective on how bad people with strong opinions on the word "Latinx" really are in the grand scheme of things. an imperfect solution to be sure.
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once again reflecting on how this essay, by nicholas decker, is protected by the first amendment
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-...
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-...
When Must We Kill Them?
Evil has come to America.
nicholasdecker.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
once again reflecting on how this essay, by nicholas decker, is protected by the first amendment
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-...
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-...
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“We can’t abolish ICE, that’s ridiculous.” Buddy, they just abolished the Department of Education. We can do whatever the fuck we want.
January 12, 2026 at 7:36 PM
“We can’t abolish ICE, that’s ridiculous.” Buddy, they just abolished the Department of Education. We can do whatever the fuck we want.
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the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.