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Reconciling humans + habitats 🎯 world w/ a where for all Medium-spicy 🀹πŸ₯‘ πŸ“SisQ ⛰️ savanna 🌾

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Are they putting on substantially more growth than overall loss though, including fire and other mortality?

14.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such an achingly dystopian real world parable and censure of much ill-begotten power and prerogative. Excellent and essential read, if you dare…

β€œI thought we could revive Fukushima, but now I believe the area is likely to return to the mountains out of which it came.”

14.03.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Odoriferously so 🫠

14.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How would you characterize intimacy? Could it manifest in other forms of connection or self-actualizing, like craft, study, service, β€˜praxis’ etc?

14.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œhhWhat’in’th’hell is a Kharg Island?”

13.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, well. Time to make some calendar adjustments I suppose.

12.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t wait to see what the next, larger distraction in this load-bearing domino series gets to be.

12.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🌈 A radical feminist kinship for democratic futures A radical feminist politics of kinship asks us to interrogate the roots of how we live together: how we form families, share resources, and imagine belonging. At stake, saysΒ VΓ­ctor Hugo RamΓ­rez…

A growing feminist debate argues that rethinking kinship, family, and care systems is essential to addressing crises. A stronger democracy begins when we recognise our shared interdependence that extend beyond bloodlines and borders.

#Democracy #FutureOfHumanity

12.03.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry, tis the season for gloating about me zero input, zero (added) water, ~zero maintenance lawn. So lush and so freeee!!

12.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. Joyce Brothers’ β€œPersonal Fulfillment Program” was launched in 1968 and became the basis for so much American self-help and pop psych. I laughed and cried as I read this ”science-based” fluff that teaches you how to live by brand. We owe Joyce so much for the present.

12.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

About motivated to start digging over here πŸ˜…

12.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A PATTERN LANGUAGE, Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, 1977.

24.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

significantly determinative psycho-social dichotomy now is whether β€˜climate’ derangement pushes a person to isolate and insulate from the ambient environment, or to seek greater familiarity, partnership, and belonging within it.

12.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@michaelburchert.bsky.social notable proof of concept for organic β€˜foam’ insulation ☝️

12.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The strange and persistent psychological distance between us and climate disaster An analysis of dozens of previously published studies reveals people systematically underestimate their own vulnerability to climate threats.

"The vast majority of people, worldwide, expect that others are more likely to suffer from such consequences than themselves.”

Don't worry, climate change will happen to someone else :)

www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/03/the-...

10.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Superbβ€”and *very* unsettlingβ€”roundup from @weatherwest.bsky.social. The imminent SW heat wave (likely the most intense for March on record) will involve similar dynamics to the June 2021 scorcher in the PacNW. This landscape-parching heat may set the stage for serious fire/drought trouble by summer.

11.03.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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FE6.9 - On Fire: Out of the Green, Into the Black β€” Future Ecologies Podcast So you want to put good fire on the ground, but how?? We're taking you to Yurok territory, at the mouth of the Klamath River, to join the Cultural Fire Management Council for 3 days of burning β€” not j...

We're taking you to Yurok territory (at the mouth of the Klamath River) to join the Cultural Fire Management Council for 3 days of burning β€” not just for fuel management, but for all sorts of cultural and ecological values: food, wildlife, materials, and more.

11.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tonight queen?? πŸ‘€

11.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cascadia today: WA passes millionaires' tax + Seattle bans detention centers + BC urges Cascadia to ditch the switch Good morning! Will you help keep Cascadia Journal going? If you appreciate this scrappy newsletter about how how the Pacific Northwest is standing up to fascism and building a more autonomous, resilie...

Good morning #Cascadia! WA PASSED THE MILLIONAIRES TAX, Seattle bans new detention centers for one year, BC premier asks Cascadia to ditch the annual time switch, and Seattle businesses push recycled products. Here's today's news: www.cascadia-journal.com/cascadia-tod...

11.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Got it; I suspect as presented it’s a worthwhile thought experiment that’ll raise objection from several angles and hopefully some clarity as to why. Don’t expect it’ll hash out in dialogue, but maybe an opening for creative reframes…which I’d guess your book project is geared toward too?

11.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Surprisingly useful affirmationβ€”

β€œThis kind of goodness, of profound intrinsic worth, of future-facing possibility, of, if I may be so bold, sacred significance adheres in every human…this value and goodness of the human person has immediate political ramifications, and ecological ones”

11.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Makes u think…harder? Idk πŸ€”

11.03.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chestnut party pack, who’s planting?? 🌱

11.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped like an irregular diamond preserving about 20 lines of broken text

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped like an irregular diamond preserving about 20 lines of broken text

"Why is not one, at his god,
speaking justice;
being a supporter of truth;
(but) is settled just like a wicked person?"

In this ancient Babylonian dialogue, this is the friend's answer to why he feels gloomy. He answers with a question. Why, he asks, is not even a single person being good?

10.03.2026 10:49 πŸ‘ 413 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

The anti-bodhisattva anyways, that much is clear… πŸ™ƒ

11.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

west coast-coded back-to-the-land hippie culture is the end result of a phenomenally successful effort by hardcore libertarian ideologues to package incredibly reactionary beliefs as humane and left wing send skeet

10.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 333 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3

It’s a piece of work! Wondering what sort of ~critical feedback/commentary is indeed welcomed - or what sort of convo you’d like to spark with this? Lot of it lands as provocative mic drop, and doesn’t indicate where you’ve gone deep on these lines with others of common/vested interest.

11.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My man is now Othering a fish. Truly the GOAT of jingoists

10.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies β€˜more hostile’ to cross

A novel take on Nature Based Solutions! - Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief www.theguardian.com/environment/...

10.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cat #047

09.03.2026 06:23 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0