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He/Him Emergent, PhD student & Executive Director buildsoil.net Talks about Build Soil but this is a private account separate from the nonprofit. The Icon for the account is a hand drawn chestnut wrapped up in a ribbon with the words "Build Soil" on pink

Photo of a small burgundy pamphlet of a book with the words “URSULA K. LE GUIN THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF FICTION Introduced by DONNA HARAWAY”
Image of the cover of "Society of the Spectacle" by guy debord. the left part of the cover has a crowd of people wearing 3d classes in the 50s or 60s
my earlier post saying "and alternating with that is also left nd right being associated with positive and negative words"
white and blue on black line drawing of marvin the paranoid androd from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Zoom in on a painting of a woman with her hair tucked under her head from the Renaissance da Vinci
A painting of young Leonardo da Vinci holding a dog
Image from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks believed to be the beginning of the first cork screw
Two drawings from da Vinci showing mechanical mixing devices resembling Cuisinart
Famous painting of Ned Ludd saying the leader of the Luddites showing a bunch of people riding a building burning and a man with scraps of clothes and a hat and a keen beckoning
A section image of Chiapas canals placed horizontal along contour on Hills from Aztec technology. Trellis have been placed over some of them to provide shade and take advantage of the water.
Similar maps now showing the range of potential chemical energy which in this case happens out of the mountains because of the lower temperatures and mid range landscapes into having the highest rain chemical energy. A Temperature layer was also obtained from PRISM Climate Group. Temerpature is higher in the valley and lower in the hills and mountains. Evapotranspiration potential in mm using the Turc equation (Turc, 1954) ET = P V0.9 + P2/L2 L = 300 + 25T+0.0573 06히 20 30 A mean temperature degrees celcius 18.25 - 9.89 19.9 - 11.01 11.02- 11.48 11.49 - 12.28 mean temperature To find the chemical evapotranspiration energy of precipitation in J, the resulting layer was entered into: ET [J] = A*P*G*ET [m] A = area in m^2 P is water density (1000 kg m-3) G is Gibbs free energy (4940 J kg-1) (Odum 1996) Odum et al. 2000 determined the Transformity of chemical energy of preciptiation to be 6360 seJ-1 So the emergy map is created by chemical precip eMergy multiplying by that factor. sej/ha/year •5.66+015 - 1.07+016 Rain chemical eMergy followed 1.08e+016 - 1.16e+016 temperature with higher vallues in 1.17e+016 - 1.18e+016 1.19e+016 - 1.20e+016 1.21e+016 - 1.26e+016 the valley reaching 1.3E15 sej. rain chemical eMergy
This extends the image to a third map now converting things into how much solar energy is stored ranging from 1.6×10 to the 14th solar joules per hectare per year to 6.3 X 10 to 17th. As you can see elevation and rainfall contribute to create far greater storages as elevation is maintained and as elevation is loss represent huge losses in solar energy storage
This image shows two maps Furst a precipitation map of the Willamettewith Green values somewhere around 934 to 1400 mm of precipitation up to 4000 in the mountains. It describes prism climate group data and also describes the math listed in the tweet showing a map with elevation
Image from John Wick. Russian mobster on phone says “Oh”
Three side-by-side line charts (1900–2100, normalized 0–1) showing World3 “Limits to Growth” dynamics. Left: Environment. Resources (brown) start near 1.0 and decline gradually, then sharply after ~2000, reaching ~0.15 by 2100. Pollution (olive) rises from near 0 to a peak around ~2030 (~0.3), then declines toward near 0 by 2100. Middle: Economy. Food per capita (green) rises steadily from ~0.27 in 1900 to a peak ~0.55 around 2000–2020, then declines to ~0.2 by 2100. Services per capita (blue) grows rapidly to a peak ~0.6–0.65 around ~2020, then falls steeply below ~0.1 by 2100. Industrial output per capita (purple) rises to ~0.35 around ~2000, then collapses toward near 0 by 2100. Dashed lines indicate alternative trajectories with similar peak-and-decline patterns. Right: Population. Population (red) grows from ~0.1 to a peak ~0.45 around ~2030, then declines to ~0.28 by 2100. Birth rate (blue) declines steadily from ~0.85 to ~0.4 by ~2020, then partially rebounds. Death rate (black/gray) falls from ~0.68 to ~0.22 by ~2020, then rises again after ~2030.
image of a deflated bouncy castle
a square image of a blue sky filled with white clouds similar in pattern because of similar forces acting on them.
Large plant list of medicinal plants mentioned in 1568 account book of spec for the Medici
An Ashgate Book THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN CONTEXT The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany ROUTLEDGE Cristina Bellorini
Two wood cut illustrations that vaguely look like lavender with the word lavendola and rosemarino Figure 3.5 LAVENDOLA LXXXII ROSMARINO CXVIII Herbolario volgare, the first printed herbal in Italian (1522). The same wood-cut is used for rosemary and lavender. Milan: Edizioni Il Poliflo, 1979, vol. 2
Now the astronaut mean but EM Forrester is the closer astronaut in the astronaut with the gun is replaced by Ned Ludd
Famous astronaut meme but instead of the astronaut with the gun it’s EM Forrester the British author
Image from famous Alanis Morissette is an ironic with Donna Haraway instead of Alanis Morissette in the car with her red hat and the word say isn’t it Chthonic?
"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
Alt text: Two-panel Simpsons meme. In the top panel, the school bus driver from The Simpsons grips the steering wheel and says, “DON’T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.” In the bottom panel, a hand points to a posted sign. The sign reads: • “No single ontology organizes the Anthropocene.” • “Different landscapes operate through distinct assemblages of beings, practices, and infrastructures.” • “Ecological processes are patchy, contingent, and historically layered.” • “Multiple ontologies coexist without reduction to a unified explanatory system.” The joke follows the familiar “tap the sign” meme format, where the character insists people read the sign that already states the point.
def depends_upon( object_parts, color, surface_process, relation, other_object, other_color ): # resolve object obj = combine(object_parts) # bind attributes obj = bind(obj, color) obj = bind(obj, surface_process) # construct related object other = bind(other_object, other_color) # establish relation scene = relate(obj, relation, other) # compute amount of dependency amount = measure(scene) return amount
# Wallace Stevens' "The Snow Man" - regarded as function def mind_of winter( visual_texture = frost, boughs, pine_snow_crusted, temporal_hold = cold_long, juniper_ice, spruce_glitter, sensory_echo = January_sun, wind_sound, leat_sound, spatial_cycle = land_sound, wind_full, bare_place_blown ) : state = "winter-mind" # zero-bias, no warmth # Parallel regards-four stanzas regard (visual_texture) regard (temporal_hold) regard (sensory_echo) regard(spatial_cycle) # frost, boughs, pine snow crusted - clear, no blur # cold long, ice, glitter - stay, no drift # sun, wind, leaf - no misery, hear straight # land, wind full, bare blown - same-same-same, loop tight if state == "listener_in_snow": self = "nothing" return "nothing_not_there" + "nothing_that_is" # convergence return "balanced"
mount saint helens erupts with ash
two mountain goats on a cliff the text says in meme style "i gave that niche a species. Niches love species"
Post from social media “jadebuildsthings 7h Wow I don't understand this one at all. Al is just software, y'all. Can leftists use the Internet even though the right wing invented it? What about radio? Sheesh. ..•”
Two books on a wooden table. Left: “Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West” by Jamie Kreiner, featuring a medieval illustration of pigs. Right: “Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History” by Bin Yang, with a modern abstract cover design.
a diagram showing how the peace simbol comes from the semaphore simbols for N and D standing for Nuclear Disarmament.
Still from the movie Mr. mythical to Washington with Jimmy Smith’s head replaced by the head of the dog buddy from the movie air Bud all rendered in black-and-white a quote balloon merges the two quotes I wouldn’t give you two cents for all your fancy rules behind them they didn’t have a little bit of plain ordinary every day Kindness And a little looking out for the other fella too ain’t no rule that the dog can’t fill Buster in the Senate.”
Map of wildfire risk in the U.S. Very high risk zones cover much of the West, especially California, the Rockies, and parts of the Southwest. The East is mostly high risk, with fewer very low–risk areas than it might appear, meaning wildfire danger is widespread nationwide.
Infographic titled “BALTIC PIPE PROJECT” over a teal map of Northern Europe. At top left are the logos “GAZ-SYSTEM” and “ENERGINET.” A dark-blue pipeline line runs from the Norwegian shelf to the west coast of Denmark, crosses Denmark, then continues under the Baltic Sea to make landfall in Poland. Four red-ring circles mark compressor stations along the route. A small legend reads: “ca. 900 km of gas pipelines” and “4 compressor stations.” Country labels show Denmark and Poland. Four orange banners with white headings explain benefits: 1. “PARTNERSHIP — Gas pipeline linking Norway, Denmark, Poland and the wider CEE region.” 2. “ENERGY SECURITY — Security of supply for the whole region through diversification of supply sources and directions,” next to a shield icon. 3. “CLIMATE GOALS — Support in reaching the EU climate goals by being a steppingstone for the increased development of green technologies in CEE region,” beside an EU gear-ring icon. 4. “LOWER CO2 EMISSION — Cleaner air in Europe with the potential of reducing CO₂ emissions by 70,000 tonnes in Poland,” near a cloud labeled “CO₂.” Overall message: a Denmark-to-Poland gas pipeline bringing Norwegian gas to Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing partnership, energy security, climate goals, and reduced emissions.
Holding green book that simply says enterprise and liability in Sienese banking 1230 through 1350 by Edward D English