Anand
@calmerfuture.bsky.social
calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
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Anand
@calmerfuture.bsky.social
· Feb 11
Calmer Future
Let's create a better future
calmerfuture.org
I want to share my vision of a Calmer Future:
how we'll live our best lives, freed from economic and social pressures – even as populations rise and fall
how we'll give nature space to thrive, and have time to enjoy it
a sustainable future on Earth, supporting meaningful lives and livelihoods…
how we'll live our best lives, freed from economic and social pressures – even as populations rise and fall
how we'll give nature space to thrive, and have time to enjoy it
a sustainable future on Earth, supporting meaningful lives and livelihoods…
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It's not JUST World Cassowary Day, it's also my birthday :)
September 26, 2026 at 1:03 PM
It's not JUST World Cassowary Day, it's also my birthday :)
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Per my classification system, this is also a weevil
These little guys will grow to be some of the LONGEST of the crocodilians, with some males reaching 6 m (20 feet) in length.
Their length is enhanced by that long, toothy snoot that can contain 110 needle-sharp teeth, used to snag fish in their native India.
Their length is enhanced by that long, toothy snoot that can contain 110 needle-sharp teeth, used to snag fish in their native India.
September 26, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Per my classification system, this is also a weevil
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Johnson 2028
Running for president as a single-issue candidate: Requiring websites to make Boolean searches work again
September 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Johnson 2028
We are living in an extremely violent era, in an extraordinarily violent war-making culture.
[…]
We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a more peaceable culture.
I’m sure I am.
[…]
We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a more peaceable culture.
I’m sure I am.
Boulding believed that collectively imagining a better world, even an ideal world, was not a mere psychological escape, but an astute, instinctive critique of our current realities, a way to learn more about our unconscious and unmet needs, and as nascent strategy for peaceable cultures & nations
Guide Stars — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
Monocultures are dangerous for both humans and for the natural environment. Cultural diversity is as important as biodiversity for the survival of the planet. ~ Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Si...
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 26, 2026 at 5:58 AM
We are living in an extremely violent era, in an extraordinarily violent war-making culture.
[…]
We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a more peaceable culture.
I’m sure I am.
[…]
We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a more peaceable culture.
I’m sure I am.
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"It’s time to pray, dream, fantasize, envision, imagine utopically together. And when that is too much for our weary souls maybe we can allow ourselves to search our dreams for a gentler moment and let it guide our way."
Boulding believed that collectively imagining a better world, even an ideal world, was not a mere psychological escape, but an astute, instinctive critique of our current realities, a way to learn more about our unconscious and unmet needs, and as nascent strategy for peaceable cultures & nations
Guide Stars — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
Monocultures are dangerous for both humans and for the natural environment. Cultural diversity is as important as biodiversity for the survival of the planet. ~ Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Si...
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 26, 2026 at 2:43 AM
"It’s time to pray, dream, fantasize, envision, imagine utopically together. And when that is too much for our weary souls maybe we can allow ourselves to search our dreams for a gentler moment and let it guide our way."
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Fascinating Korean restaurant in Nagoya. Is that a specific style of architecture in Korea, or the original brainchild of this restaurant owner? Amazing either way.
September 24, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Fascinating Korean restaurant in Nagoya. Is that a specific style of architecture in Korea, or the original brainchild of this restaurant owner? Amazing either way.
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Here, here they come… all the pretty horses, cantering over the field to claim their herd member back, & welcome us home.
September 25, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Here, here they come… all the pretty horses, cantering over the field to claim their herd member back, & welcome us home.
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Paulina Borsook described the tech industry in a way it didn’t (and still doesn’t) want to see itself—an extremely hierarchical environment, led almost exclusively by white men who were ideologically right wing, despite their left leaning marketing (which has long since disappeared).
26 years ago, she published a wildly prophetic book about Silicon Valley. Then she disappeared. What happened to tech writer Paulina Borsook?
Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
www.wired.com
September 25, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Paulina Borsook described the tech industry in a way it didn’t (and still doesn’t) want to see itself—an extremely hierarchical environment, led almost exclusively by white men who were ideologically right wing, despite their left leaning marketing (which has long since disappeared).
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Every day we get closer to this:
September 25, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Every day we get closer to this:
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It's #FossilFriday, and indeed the final scheduled Friday that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is open to the public, potentially forever. So it's finally time to, once again, talk about Haddy — and bring it all full circle.
Strap in, it's a big one.
Strap in, it's a big one.
September 25, 2026 at 12:55 PM
It's #FossilFriday, and indeed the final scheduled Friday that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is open to the public, potentially forever. So it's finally time to, once again, talk about Haddy — and bring it all full circle.
Strap in, it's a big one.
Strap in, it's a big one.
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Tired: imperial boomerang
Wired: imperial predator drone
Wired: imperial predator drone
“An Army drone like those frequently flown in overseas warzones has been flying along Arizona’s southern border, doing loops around border towns…”
War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns
Arizona border drone: An Army Predator built for warzones is flying over border towns, alarming privacy advocates
azmirror.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Tired: imperial boomerang
Wired: imperial predator drone
Wired: imperial predator drone
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This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
oh my god I had missed this www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
September 25, 2026 at 12:02 PM
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
September 24, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
September 24, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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This has reminded me of the Incredible Spy Comedy Au Service De La France, which pulls no punches about how shittily Paris treated the rest of the Empire
September 25, 2026 at 11:32 AM
This has reminded me of the Incredible Spy Comedy Au Service De La France, which pulls no punches about how shittily Paris treated the rest of the Empire
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"Empty and peaceful the old house dreamed, with sunlight shifting from room to room and no sound to break the silence, save in one place, where the voices of children could be heard faintly above the rustling of a tree."
September 25, 2026 at 11:19 AM
"Empty and peaceful the old house dreamed, with sunlight shifting from room to room and no sound to break the silence, save in one place, where the voices of children could be heard faintly above the rustling of a tree."
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I knew the phrase 'queen of air and darkness', but didn't know Housman came up with it. Pretty metal poem.
September 25, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I knew the phrase 'queen of air and darkness', but didn't know Housman came up with it. Pretty metal poem.
this is bad
AI-fuelled tech sector now accounts for more than half of the S&P500 market capitalisation
• Hyperscalers are biggest bond issuers and major infrastructure projects are mostly data centres
• Even Treasuries are part of AI trade as extra power demand fuels inflation
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
• Hyperscalers are biggest bond issuers and major infrastructure projects are mostly data centres
• Even Treasuries are part of AI trade as extra power demand fuels inflation
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
September 25, 2026 at 11:20 AM
this is bad
she would be 162 years old now
I wonder what future generations would make of our pictures and videos, our old Facebook timelines, when we are long dead and gone, and they can see our whole life trajectories
will they drown in our memories, or be too busy making their own?
the latter, I hope
I wonder what future generations would make of our pictures and videos, our old Facebook timelines, when we are long dead and gone, and they can see our whole life trajectories
will they drown in our memories, or be too busy making their own?
the latter, I hope
Portrait of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892, by John Singer Sergeant, American artist (Scottish National Gallery).
September 25, 2026 at 11:15 AM
she would be 162 years old now
I wonder what future generations would make of our pictures and videos, our old Facebook timelines, when we are long dead and gone, and they can see our whole life trajectories
will they drown in our memories, or be too busy making their own?
the latter, I hope
I wonder what future generations would make of our pictures and videos, our old Facebook timelines, when we are long dead and gone, and they can see our whole life trajectories
will they drown in our memories, or be too busy making their own?
the latter, I hope
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Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
September 25, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Regardless of any mixed feelings and trepidation evoked by much of what we've seen of Greta Gerwig's The Magician Nephew, this promo image in particular is just exquisite
September 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Regardless of any mixed feelings and trepidation evoked by much of what we've seen of Greta Gerwig's The Magician Nephew, this promo image in particular is just exquisite
their time to eat
September 25, 2026 at 8:57 AM
their time to eat