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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‘The method was organized around the concept of “potential natural vegetation” — the overstory, understory, shrubs, and herbaceous species that would occupy a given piece of land if not for human intervention.
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
Make Your Own Micro Forest - Offrange
The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.
ambrook.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
‘The method was organized around the concept of “potential natural vegetation” — the overstory, understory, shrubs, and herbaceous species that would occupy a given piece of land if not for human intervention.
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
Facing the rapid rise of environmental degradation, he also emphasized urgency.’
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Abandoned tenant house and large-scale wheat field near Kincaid, Texas
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Abandoned tenant house and large-scale wheat field near Kincaid, Texas
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
#kincaid #texas #undefined #photography #dorothealange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770021/
There are two kinds of citizens; those who think the law is a WIP, and those who spell that with an H.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There are two kinds of citizens; those who think the law is a WIP, and those who spell that with an H.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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That development has been “quiet” if folks haven’t been paying attention to the scholarship and reporting on Silicon Valley’s legacies of extraction and pollution
www.oupress.com/978080619373...
www.e-flux.com/journal/74/5...
culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-n...
www.oupress.com/978080619373...
www.e-flux.com/journal/74/5...
culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-n...
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
That development has been “quiet” if folks haven’t been paying attention to the scholarship and reporting on Silicon Valley’s legacies of extraction and pollution
www.oupress.com/978080619373...
www.e-flux.com/journal/74/5...
culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-n...
www.oupress.com/978080619373...
www.e-flux.com/journal/74/5...
culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-n...
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In 2016, Standing Rock, North Dakota and the Native-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline became ground zero for struggle against fossil fuel infrastructure and ongoing settler-colonial destruction.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
AWAKE - A Dream From Standing Rock
In 2016, Standing Rock, North Dakota became one of the most watched places on earth. Josh Fox James Spione Myron Dewey Digital Smoke Signals are honored to present…
vimeo.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
In 2016, Standing Rock, North Dakota and the Native-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline became ground zero for struggle against fossil fuel infrastructure and ongoing settler-colonial destruction.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
The documentary below poetically captures some of the many stories of those involved.
Not beating the Great Satan allegations—
America is responsible for the largest volume of carbon dioxide currently sitting in the atmosphere, trapping heat and causing disasters and death
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not beating the Great Satan allegations—
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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in all seriousness, the dig inside this post is a great weather vane for the trajectory of urban politics because it reveals the underlying structures, forces, and conditions that are driving a mass political upheaval not seen in party politics since... desegregation?
After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
in all seriousness, the dig inside this post is a great weather vane for the trajectory of urban politics because it reveals the underlying structures, forces, and conditions that are driving a mass political upheaval not seen in party politics since... desegregation?
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The setting black sun of the Fourth Reich is a demented pedophile venerated as a god melting and rotting at the McDonald's Impact Summit. I can't believe this is real. This is a Slammer meme of the burgerreich
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The setting black sun of the Fourth Reich is a demented pedophile venerated as a god melting and rotting at the McDonald's Impact Summit. I can't believe this is real. This is a Slammer meme of the burgerreich
Cloudflare, I reckon ⛅️
What do we think this raven on the Cedar Canyon 2 camera is yelling about?
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Cloudflare, I reckon ⛅️
Everybody good with their current theory of change or should we pool notes and try to workshop it a bit?
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Everybody good with their current theory of change or should we pool notes and try to workshop it a bit?
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October 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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okay the whale is still alive!!!!
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
okay the whale is still alive!!!!
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Club-mosses are so cool. Descendants of the most ancient vascular plants, these tiny forest dwellers are the legacy of giant plants of the Devonian period. They reproduce through spores. I think these two are Prickly Tree Clubmoss and Interrupted Clubmoss 🌿
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Club-mosses are so cool. Descendants of the most ancient vascular plants, these tiny forest dwellers are the legacy of giant plants of the Devonian period. They reproduce through spores. I think these two are Prickly Tree Clubmoss and Interrupted Clubmoss 🌿
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The rise of AI-as-everything and the rise of violent-extremism-as-politics are two sides of the same coin, and not because of any actual intersection between the people making AI and the people doing extremist politics—they are just the same abdication of doing the work to have an actual society.
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The rise of AI-as-everything and the rise of violent-extremism-as-politics are two sides of the same coin, and not because of any actual intersection between the people making AI and the people doing extremist politics—they are just the same abdication of doing the work to have an actual society.
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Regarding this issue, i recommend this video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFcu...
Dr William Saturno, UNH
YouTube video by Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Regarding this issue, i recommend this video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFcu...
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"The artificial plateau made from earth, with connecting causeways, canals&corridors, was built in SE Mexico 3,050 years ago & used for ~300 years.
The site features crosses of increasing sizes with a cruciform pit containing precious ritual artifacts at its center."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/s...
The site features crosses of increasing sizes with a cruciform pit containing precious ritual artifacts at its center."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/s...
Oldest and biggest Maya temple was built to depict the cosmos | CNN
Archaeologists say a vast and ancient Maya monument reflected how the lost civilization viewed the universe.
edition.cnn.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"The artificial plateau made from earth, with connecting causeways, canals&corridors, was built in SE Mexico 3,050 years ago & used for ~300 years.
The site features crosses of increasing sizes with a cruciform pit containing precious ritual artifacts at its center."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/s...
The site features crosses of increasing sizes with a cruciform pit containing precious ritual artifacts at its center."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/s...
Cognitive dissonance is just going to be the MO for a lot of people for a good while. The real civil war is collective intelligence vs artificial, as antidote.
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cognitive dissonance is just going to be the MO for a lot of people for a good while. The real civil war is collective intelligence vs artificial, as antidote.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Hot Pacific Autumn 🌦️
#Sprall
#Sprall
Hmm, more rain for my area! Very interesting weather. Basically springtime rain conditions we'd normally get in March/April? #cawx #thousandoaks #conejovalley
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=34.202591&lon=-118.875744
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=34.202591&lon=-118.875744
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hot Pacific Autumn 🌦️
#Sprall
#Sprall
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So bright yet so beholden to collapsed ideas
It’s like watching a baby play with an unplugged video game controller
It’s like watching a baby play with an unplugged video game controller
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
So bright yet so beholden to collapsed ideas
It’s like watching a baby play with an unplugged video game controller
It’s like watching a baby play with an unplugged video game controller