Almost two years since this backwater got flushed for good and gmap still saying otherwise…catch up, computer! Territories be terra-reforming 😤

Earlier this year, OPB joined a group of young Indigenous kayakers paddling down the Klamath River, flowing freely after four dams were removed. The "Oregon Field Guide" team captured that multi-day journey in a newly released documentary.

I don't disagree but the nazi's original goal was expelling the jews, not exterminating them. the problem solved by the "final solution" was one of cost and logistics and having nowhere to send them. I bring this up for no reason.

Could add Real Estate—you’ll be rootless and disenfranchised!

For the unfamiliar, there’s a strong, growing movement toward “process based restoration” that gets a lot of what we need right now - optimistic, iterative, ad hoc coordination that’s “…adaptive over time to environmental feedback with the goal of encouraging a self-sustaining, dynamic ecosystem”

A crippling contradiction in the melange du jour is that deserved authority draws on and guides a refined reproduction of the past, which is demonstrably counterproductive to the realization of essential futures. We sorely lack the meta-authority for large scale change processes (NOT projects).

Yup. I catch myself thinking a lot of dehumanizing thoughts about fascists that are genuinely disturbing to me as a person who firmly believes that the defining and most evil aspect of fascism is its relish for dehumanization. Fascism creeps, and even our brains are not immune.

A docu titled “No Old Country for Men” that neatly skewers the lazy retrograde fantasy-delulu phenomenon among fellas burdened with traditional gendered expectations of authority/narrative control.

For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/ 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Large correction, AND a long overdue recapitulation or realignment on what, in fact, “our” gov is for and about. That minimal consensus was lost/scuttled a ways back.

REALITY IS STRUCTURED IN CONSCIOUSNESS

Did you spot the aurora on ALERTCalifornia's cameras lats night? It was visible across much of Northern California and was so bright it flipped many cameras into full color "day mode." Tag us in your aurora captures from the ALERTCalifornia network - we can't wait to see them!

The #aurora reached at least as far south as here in El Centro, California, a few miles north of the Mexican border! So cool!

Drone video of the Band of Holes: youtu.be/oRhNJQxx41Y

Contour plowing on mechanized farm of the Texas Panhandle #thetexaspanhandle #undefined #photography #dorothealange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770662/

Who up carbon negative hot tubbing some aurora, as a little (aye, substantial) treat 🌡️

20 years ago, Zach & Allison started digging into a California hillside to escape heat, cold, & fire. Today, it’s a maze of light-filled tunnels —a unique underground compound that functions like a neural ecovillage 🌀 Video via *FC (faircompanies.com/videos/20-ye...) & YT (youtu.be/U0bHhmpyKGg?...)

Oooo…Heartwood community/sanctuary just listed for sale, little under 70k per BR +loads of extras! www.redfin.com/CA/Garbervil...

Man, that one normie-passing bird that gets completely spun on its own reflection and will not leave the magic mirror world alone for weeks on end…

COP30, what should be the most important international-multilateral-multilevel meeting of the year, is happening right now in Belem and you would not know it looking over the headlines of all major US news outlets. What a shitshow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

V excited to deduce late last night via some old geo paper snooping that I currently reside within a hundred vertical meters or so of the local K-T (now k-pg, Cretaceous-Paleogene but whatevs) boundary layer (nonconforming tho…). Gotta ramble and dig into this! Seems topical 🦖

Fun cooking up surplus carbons for a long dirt nap with a ring kiln today! Simple scalable open source tech for landscape resilience and restoration in fire country.

Enki Bilal, 1982

Ketan Joshi's Irrational Climate Reset I am calling for a return to the wild, unacceptable and unthinkably weird idea that we can decide not to live under the thumb of an expensive, deadly and ancient fossil fuel economy No more hand-wringing about pragmatism. Be idealistic, and don't be sorry 🤜🏽

Deeply dislike the extent this and informal variations of, presumes we = this current paradigm of society/civ and there are no passable alternatives. Yes, this version of society is not going to endure for long! No that doesn’t mean “we” broadly, recognizably, won’t! future = change = us*

It's been a while since I've read a critique that balances both sides of the story so well. I am a millennial, and I love Brutalism. I don't defend the outcome, but I do admire the misplaced utopian desire that went into these buildings. Mostly, I just wish we had architecture again.

How do you make predictions in an atmospheric environment that is no longer predictable due to man-made climate change? 😭

The first I ever heard about Neom was from this vital piece by Sarah Leah Whitson and Abdullah Alaoudh on the blood spilled to even break ground on this Stalinesque "gigaproject". Good riddance that it seems to finally be dead. foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/27/m...

Gleaned 10lb of (Chinese?) chestnuts from a neglected orchard down the road - what’s the TLDR on effective low effort mass planting??

"Simulation only works when reality doesn’t contradict it too obviously. You can manufacture consensus that resistance is failing when resistance is invisible. You can create the appearance of overwhelming support when people can’t see evidence otherwise." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-simula...

Grapevine 1, Kern County, CA 🗺34.9030, -118.9043 🧭168° ⛰4767 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1991

Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.

Reasons why “skeeter crush” won’t be entering the parlance:

Got to wonder how badly most people’s trust *in themselves* is being eroded and compromised with the tide of disappointment and dysfunction we’re all swept by - and where/how that negative reinforcement will bottom and switch.

remembering something Mike Davis wrote in 2017 on Trumpism:

Gotta wonder what the new wave of American emigres will be taking with them beneficently ‘of the old country’ like - what could anyone elsewhere in the world actually embrace and savor of the essence of USA rn 💩♨️

New epochs of lead evolutionary bottleneck hypothesis… 🤕

Wow, whoever engineered the Sandals Resort (Whitehouse, Jamaica) ocean rooms... did a superb job, they are still standing and roofs intact after Hurricane Melissa (though, it looks like you've got to swim out to your room now) #hurricanemelissa #melissa

Most mainstream news coverage about oil companies rapidly heating the planet, when there is any, is rated G for 5 yr olds. Here is an excellent PG-13, or if you’re a lifestyle liberal, NC-17, breakdown of what’s here/what’s coming. NSFW if u work at a big bank, oil company, Corp news media.

Not only is Kerala a shining beacon of hope & sanity, it’s also home to the sickest houseboats in the world

The name of the bow is life, but its work is death. Who will hide from the fire that does not set? – Heraclitus

Tis the season and all, but dang the spread of “ancestral lineage” related jabber on visual socials lately gives me deja vu of dupey viral maha capitulation from a lot of the conscious/vibes crowd, given how readily it maps over to racialized BS wedge politics…

Remarkable development for CA enviro justice and broader SW water insecurity! …and virtual metro-scale stillsuit?? 🤔

“Since we began measuring trust 20 years ago, economic growth has fostered rising trust. This continues in Asia and the Middle East but not in developed markets, where national income inequality is now the more important factor.” reuternews.online/gen-z-no-lon...

The disaster industry is booming. Turns out ruining the biosphere is good for corporate business in Mille ways: front-end extractivist profits + back-end reconstruction payouts after impacts. Modern economics is a death cult.

Typa ship I’m on… ☁️☸️☁️

Hypernormalization is freaking out the chatbots

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