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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve been studying the Hill towns that are pictured in the back of a lot of them and been learning some of the card games

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten Where black is the color, where none is the number

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And I know you all know that I’m not joking at all when I say that

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyway, I know that you all do this full-time like I do, but it felt really good to talk with these students about how memeing actually is a professional skill

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m doing my best to train the next generation of posters

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m doing my best to train the next generation of posters

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyway, I know that you all do this full-time like I do, but it felt really good to talk with these students about how memeing actually is a professional skill

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Went extremely well and I can’t post student work without explicit permission, but they were funny and clever, and the class opened up a really big discussion about processing grief and levity and also the fact that people have different vulnerabilities.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Feeling a lot of Climate appreciation right now, which is what happens as you process climate grief

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two terms ago I saw some of the best maps for my students, and I couldn’t post them because of FERPA

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But if you see a ton of people from Oregon suddenly posting climate memes in about two weeks…

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think FERPA rules won’t let us but if I’m wrong I’ll post.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of the memes I’ve made are like 10 years old, but I’m enjoying the idea. I’m also curious to see what means are like among the youth. They probably have their own sense of humor and I am very curious to see what “wins”

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

because ultimate the class is asking about how power relations cause uneven heterogenious vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards. and we have to be brave enough to process but also understand what happens when our processing also is part of the perpetuation of oppressions?

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i'm nervous about it- it could go really wrong. But i also think that it's a way to directly talk about ettiquite and the ways that we consider others and manage our axieties.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So by having them meme or joke we get to explore how to talk about our grief, panic, empathy, fear, anger etc with the aid of humor but also and assessment of why a joke might land poorly.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there is a line from Gregory Bateson that "Play is the message 'this is safe'" as long as that is truly there, then we can talk about almost everything. But what a lot of people with privallage don't understand is that what's safe for them isn't safe for others. It's not a joke if that isn't assured

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Originally he wanted the students to "write jokes" and i was like let's expand this to memeing. ad then we had a big talk about how to talk seriously about play and privallage and levity and why both humor AND sensitivity need to be understood as part of justice.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are teaching freshman about how to talk about serious issues and beginning after talking about intersectionality, justice, hazards, adaptation/transformation, to do this joke thing.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i love this teacher I'm TAing for. He's a climate justice guy who has really moved on from institutional change to community engagement. He's provided a place for me to plant Chestnut trees again! it's been about 2 years since i had a place to operate Build Soil from. i'm so excited.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So I am teaching a unit of a climate justice class and early in the class we are focused on context of power and safety while approaching difficult topics. Can everyone send me their favorite Climate memes and jokes that don’t punch don’t punch down?

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This came from conversations I’ve been having with the faculty for a year on what it is that makes us able to deal with difficult situations largely based on if we do or don’t have the message “this is safe” especially because what’s play for the one person is not necessarily the same for another

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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This mirrors my experience almost exactly. The so-called Left has a moral superiority problem that blocks genuine intersectional militancy. Solidarity as praxis requires uneasy alliances and the hard work of forging alignments not demanding it from the start.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We do have a ton of great Lebanese restaurants many run and owned by siblings in a multigenerational family.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There has to be a higher benchmark because this would make Portland a “Lebanese food” city.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

you are not who the algorithmic keeps reinforcing as it classifies and provides explanation.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What an incredible gift to be able to see such talented people in person in community. I’ve actually been seeking that where I am now and it’s been very hard to find

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Somehow I missed Juno when it came out and years later watched it and was like what’s Kimya doing in this??? And my partner was like it’s The Moldy Peaches and I was like how do you know about a band from co-op house parties?

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

living in oly in the early 2000s was so fun because there were so many incredible musicians in the friend circles and, from the inside, i had no idea that they were famous outside of olympia.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have to take a different medication‘s with difficult side effects and it starts to get hard to tell what’s the symptom and what’s the side effect. I hope everything you’re dealing with goes as smooth as possible

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sorry for assuming I thought I recognized it did not mean to assume. Hope you’re well I don’t like side effects

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Has anyone else noticed a significant decline in the communication and quality of graffiti in bar and restaurant bathrooms? I feel like it was the last unmonitored social media

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

yeah i was ready almost everything as a kid. we also talked about context and time and place so that i would start to understand that stories are stories and have writers and meanings change.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

fr. yeah i think he was trying his hardest to imagine something to counterbalance brave new world. It's out of date but it's not like "Walden Two" eugenics. I think it belongs in it's time and place but obviously was NOT how we'd want things.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And finally at the place where my Ph.D. program is in line with the values and outcomes of the Non Profit so I’m feeling very positive about where things are headed. Especially if I get enough sleep lol

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And I’m gonna take all of the lessons learned from before and actually make documentation and writing about it. Hoping that there can be some interest in podcasting but that requires a certain degree of balance in my life which I’m getting to

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

But I would’ve given up a long time ago if I hadn’t been seeing yours and a few other regular donations happening it’s made me always make sure to put some time towards keeping this alive and now I think we’re gonna get an actual Chestnut Grove

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We have a few people who have been using it over the years which has allowed for corporate matching without having to have a direct relationship with the corporation. Which makes it a lot easier for everybody I think

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s easy to ask for money and grants when a big project happens but it’s hard harder to talk about it when it’s the valley between

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There was about a year there where I was like wondering what I was even doing. We’re really just paying the most basic minimum bills to keep the doors open and I’m hoping that as this new Land project continues I can get out of that minimum and start making some public facing things again

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