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Benjamin Ellis

@thensomethingnew

Empathetic southerner with a passion for unique cars, creative photography, and taking down the plutocracy Asheville, NC

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This new Fujifilm XHalf camera is so fun, so pocketable, and reinvigorating my creativity beachside this weekend

21.06.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Projects | Then Something New

Wow sounds like a bullet list of my experiences (this is the shareable timeline www.thensomethingnew.com/projects)

Recently logged off social media for my art and joined an org that I feel safe at vs fighting everyone to make a thing.

16.06.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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No kings, Asheville, NC

15.06.2025 01:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That one is hooked up to the power infrastructure to that radio tower, with the befit of it being on a backup generator

17.05.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shared the love of sports car racing with some friends at Road Atlanta this past weekend to watch the Mitty.

Our camping spot was incredible.

28.04.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! That’s getting closer to my personal dream of connecting AVL and ATL!

Gonna try out connectivity at Road Atlanta this weekend!

23.04.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This weekend I took a fun little trip up to Mount Mitchell (the highest point East of the Mississippi) to loan out my signal filter for our regional @meshtastic.org node on the communication tower site.

We turned it back on and got 100+ nodes within minutes, some over 100mi away.

07.04.2025 23:12 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jay Cary (US Army Vet. forcibly removed from Chuck Edward’s town hall) speaking at the #handsoff protest in Asheville, NC

06.04.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jay Carey (Army Vet removed from Chuck Edward’s Town Hall) receiving a warm welcome from folks in Asheville #handsoff #3e #asheville #wnc

06.04.2025 17:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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More images from Asheville! Amazing event and even greater to see folks disperse into town and show a movement rising to tourists visiting from all over the Southeast

06.04.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I recently went on a Tiger Cruise to visit my sister in Japan on the USS America and one of my first thoughts being on the boat was how refreshingly diverse the crew is and how great a representation it is of us when that ship docks in foreign ports

01.04.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A few more from Japan πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅

These look even better printed out πŸ’…

25.03.2025 15:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Favorites off the camera roll from Japan

13.03.2025 10:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I really hope this symbolism continues to grow. Makes for powerful imagery everywhere I’ve seen it so far.

28.02.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was really surprised how much the battery life of the tdeck improved being able to use low power mode and not continually connect to Bluetooth, and the whole tools section leaves a lot of interesting stuff to be explored as we plan and build out regional networks. πŸ’ͺ🏻

27.02.2025 00:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meshtastic 2.6 Preview: MUI and Next-Hop Routing are here! | Meshtastic Meshtastic version 2.6 preview is here! This has been 1.5 years in the making and includes the first release of our brand new UI for standalone devices, MUI, as well as an all new routing algorithm for Direct Messages. Plus more!

The new T-Deck UI is dope!
Great work @meshtastic.org team!

meshtastic.org/blog/meshtas...

26.02.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That part in the second episode of the second season where they did that long tracking shot outside of the office building made me yell out loud in joy when I saw it

07.02.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We desperately, urgently need a media that isn’t afraid to name this as the evisceration of the federal government. That is what is going on. We cannot only be comfortable using such language when the situation is far away in time or space. It’s happening here. We need to be clear.

04.02.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 1586 πŸ” 391 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 19

And I was working at Virgin Hyperloop in 2018 when they proposed a pod size so small to be deployed in India it would effectively revitalize the caste system.

There’s awful topics like this discussed in tech every day, but with decades of no light and consequences it will just get worse.

02.02.2025 12:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Painting over the core values at an FBI building. The imagery of the past two weeks is unreal.

31.01.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have to say I loved this little thought, and totally resonate with what you’re thinking.

I’ve continually not embraced that ridiculous ’aughties’ term and have completely struggled every time I’ve needed a word for it in conversation. 🫠

31.01.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
What Happened to Decades?
What Happened to Decades? YouTube video by Adam Conover

@adamconover.net has a theory about why time passes so weirdly now - we lost decades (and sort of jammed generations in). www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo_E...
Good to follow with Mark Fisher's "Slow Cancellation of the Future" (incl themes of decades, fashion): www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgk...

31.01.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

It’s time to stop making excuses for Democrats. Or overlooking the gazillionaire insider traders, the ones who won’t retire, the encrusted committee chairs, the party committee that isn’t an actual organization, the donor bottle service legislators, and everyone who won’t fight and doesn’t know how.

29.01.2025 13:12 πŸ‘ 464 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 12
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RANT: Where the hell is the opposition? We need an extraordinary pro-democracy opposition. We don't have one

It turns out that a party led by people worth $500 million constantly pestering you for $5 is not the way to crush fascism.

open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

29.01.2025 15:51 πŸ‘ 245 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 7
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They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway. A Republican judge is trying to overturn his election loss by challenging more than 60,000 ballots. These are some of those voters’ stories.

NEW: Multiple data analyses show that the voters whose ballots were targeted by a North Carolina Supreme Court candidate are disproportionately Black, Democratic and young.

These are some of those voters’ stories.

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

27.01.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 2356 πŸ” 866 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 59
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Got my first @meshtastic.org node over the weekend from Muziworks. This over the air ad-hoc messaging network managed to quickly build a pretty impressive mesh that almost reaches from Winston-Salem to Atlanta.

Gonna keep diving in a little more into this emerging tech

27.01.2025 13:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0