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Inside The Push To Rebuild Society Around Ecosystems | NOEMA As the climate crisis deepens, an old green dream is returning — with new tools and technologies.

“A growing ecological movement sees the solution [to the climate crisis] in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social & economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host & sustain us.”

— @dougbierend.bsky.social

#climatecrisis #bioregionalism #esg

04.12.2025 18:27 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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audience for last night’s band practice

19.02.2025 17:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sadly doesn’t hold up so well imho with all the dated references, but it’ll always have a special place in my heart

19.02.2025 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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18.02.2025 15:30 👍 10042 🔁 1290 💬 223 📌 78

hating cars 🤝 hating ICE

18.02.2025 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the most obviously evil and socially maladapted man to step before a camera in generations

18.02.2025 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

haha. mule.

18.02.2025 20:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

just tell us your idea and we’ll vote for it!

18.02.2025 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

besides the point but ‘the elephant in the lane’ is just an offensive construction

18.02.2025 20:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

for some reason it's the mass firing of national park rangers that has fucked me up the most. what did a fuckin park ranger ever do to you

18.02.2025 18:53 👍 1011 🔁 85 💬 59 📌 5

he sounds like foghorn leghorn with a hangover

18.02.2025 19:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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normal rockwell is a dangerous man who shouldn’t be trusted. i say this at great personal risk

18.02.2025 18:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the “much more” part will be accounted for in history books

18.02.2025 17:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

and for shirts that button all the way up

18.02.2025 17:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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18.02.2025 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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effin cold but also effin pretty

18.02.2025 15:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

maybe folks hate the billions and billions (and billions) spent on building the most annoying industry in history, instead of funding a richer, broader and more equitable education system. billionaires seemingly can’t recognize value in anything unless it’s expensive and innovative and has a fat ROI

18.02.2025 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sorry you’re experiencing this, i feel your pain. can’t offer leads nor suggest anything you haven’t already tried or considered, but having recently experienced a grueling period of unemployment, i’ll just say it helps to remember that in time you’ll be on the other side of it

18.02.2025 05:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i think a lot of today’s social ills can be traced to a certain set of privileged people becoming enamored with the idea of abstracting the world into design or engineering terms, and believing that doing so offers a unique insight into Actual Reality

17.02.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i’m speaking into the void here but does anyone happen to have a suggestion for accessing data on old drives from a 2008 and 2014 macbook? data recovery services are crazy expensive and i think the drives are functional, just need a way to interface with them so i can browse some folders

17.02.2025 18:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i was assured those in the blue uniforms would *not* help those in the red uniforms operate the global blood machine in a criminal matter

17.02.2025 18:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if i sell my house, at least now i can boost its value by virtue of not being under the airport’s flight paths

17.02.2025 17:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the converse ‘grasp the bull by the thorns’ is not as good

17.02.2025 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lots of valid criticisms of the graphics, but the voices are the most unnerving part to me…are they ai generated? is this what zuckerberg thinks ‘humans relating’ sounds like?

17.02.2025 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the voices are the most unnerving part to me…are they ai generated? is this what zuckerberg thinks ‘humans relating’ sounds like?

17.02.2025 14:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it’s the original sin of the book i’m working on, about the common sense of the futuristic. core to my narrative is how the IR inspired a futurity defined by increasing abstraction from Earth, and that to survive, we must abandon its empty aesthetic lures. (basically try to make a case for degrowth)

17.02.2025 14:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hope you enjoyed the show steve, now consider retiring

17.02.2025 14:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
 A screenshot of a Twitter/X exchange. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) tweets: "One of the first things Hitler did upon gaining power was apply aggressive censorship." The tweet has 1.1K replies, 1.7K retweets, 14K likes, and 346K views. Below, a user named "punished evan loves worf" (@eeesssjjj) replies with a single word: "cisgender."

Below the reply, a notification from X states: "Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct," with a "Learn more" link. The interface follows X's standard dark theme, with Elon Musk’s profile picture showing him speaking on stage with an American flag in the background.

A screenshot of a Twitter/X exchange. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) tweets: "One of the first things Hitler did upon gaining power was apply aggressive censorship." The tweet has 1.1K replies, 1.7K retweets, 14K likes, and 346K views. Below, a user named "punished evan loves worf" (@eeesssjjj) replies with a single word: "cisgender." Below the reply, a notification from X states: "Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct," with a "Learn more" link. The interface follows X's standard dark theme, with Elon Musk’s profile picture showing him speaking on stage with an American flag in the background.

17.02.2025 06:27 👍 10633 🔁 2175 💬 80 📌 50

the 2020s, aka the decade that proved all the alarmists right

17.02.2025 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

mark my words we’re going to learn elon musk has hundreds of kids

16.02.2025 22:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0