Seriously, getting reservations at Casa Bonita feels like buying tickets to Burning Man. #CasaBonita #Colorado #BurningMan

Two Burner-led organizations, Solar Punks and the Footprint Project, are working in Los Angeles to deploy emergency power to those in need. Burning Man people unite! #BurningMan #LosAngelesFires2025

https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1i084io/burners_helping_provide_emergency_power_in_la_in/

#BurningMan #Adolph

Another one:

https://youtu.be/CV4i7dWeu0c?si=h5QCgfGErs8j1Zlv

A friend of mine just joined the Fediverse and will hopefully start posting but @hapto is a artist, burner, maker, and all-around good person here in Milwaukee and elsewhere.

She's also got a web site: https://haptotrope.com/

New instance: New Intro.
I'm a hobbyist #programmer into #digitalsecurity and #gameprogramming with #godot
I lean #anarchist but know the water I swim in.
Worked for #burningman #dpw department for a long time before taking a sabbatical in 2017. Currently working on a #WeirdAl based #artproject for burningman '25. More details to follow.

Bureau of Land Management is hiring a project manager for BURNING MAN

"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking a dedicated Project Manager to oversee operations related to the iconic Burning Man event in Winnemucca, Nevada."

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/820663900

I'd really love to see a #jan6 peaceful party protest. Basically like the cast of #burningman shows up in costumes and signs mocking the #MAGA wingnuts and just generally has a good time. Mock their bad behavior and show them they can't take our joy.

Watching Desolation Center (2018), a documentary about the #punk / #post-punk / guerilla music scene doing pre #BurningMan (without the tech bro fuckeries) festival stuff in the Californian Desert, inspired in part by a #ThrobbingGristle gig in LA.

#BurningMan slid down the wrong path when they started courting Silicon Valley billionaires, offering them first access to supply-limited tickets and looking the other way when they built private luxury enclaves despite such things being against their stated principles.

This year was the first time they didn’t sell out all their tickets in I believe ten years. All the hi-luxe people they sold their souls to got scared away by the mud last year.

And now they’re boo-hooing to us about their financial shortfall. Asking regular Burners to contribute financially to the event.

If they aren’t interested in making any real changes to decommodify themselves, I’m not interested in offering support. Go ask your tech CEO pals for help.

https://journal.burningman.org/2024/10/news/global-news/inflection-point/

OK, really, I guess a conventional #introduction post is in order.

I just moved from the soon-to-be defunct sanjuans.life to the groovy and happening beige.party!

Hi, I'm Eric! I'm one of "those" people that spent most of his life in #SiliconValley and escaped in later life to the #PacificNorthwest. I spent some halcyon times that then turned tumultuous in #Portland before landing, through all sorts of weird life changes, in #OrcasIsland, Washington.

Still an active, if somewhat grizzled, #techie, I got to do a bunch of stuff (mostly involving #ReleaseEngineering) in places like Sierra Online, The Santa Cruz Operation, Frame Technology, Xerox PARC, DreamWorks Animation, Yahoo!, and Puppet.

I've been an erratic participant at #BurningMan. Originally, hanging (but not officially) with Spock Mountain Research Labs and Lamplighters, taking long breaks then coming back and doing stuff with #BLD

I have been an avid traveler. I love scuba diving, amusement parks, especially #rollercoasters. Back in the day, I was co-contributor of The World of Coasters and had some fun contributions to NPR, CNN, American Heritage.

After Covid set in things changed. I don't get out much and managed to stay free of it. I plan on keeping it that way. If one is to be stuck at home, San Juan County is a damn fine place to do it.

Hey, #BurningMan defenders:
Try your local regional Burn instead! They've got:
- community
- art
- burning things
- the 10 Principles
- Radical Inclusion and volunteer spirit
- less environmental damage
- new and old Burner friends
- closer than Nevada for many
- less tech bros, more art weirdos

Seriously. Almost every US region and/or state has a Burn now. Many countries also have local Burns if you're not in the US. If you want the original Burner spirit back, go look for it there. I've gone to many and always have a fabulous time, feel closer connected to the Burner community.

While we are all busy laughing at rich kids getting stuck in the mud, here's the real question I want answered from #BurningMan
What happened that led someone to dying? What's going on with that investigation?

wouldn't mind the techbros being stuck in the desert for a while... #burningman #playa

I took entirely too much pleasure out of reading this story.

Alternative title suggestion: Irresponsibly Large Climate Destroying Capitalist Retreat Hit With Natural Consequences.

#climatechange
#burningman
#npr
#Schadenfreudegasm
#karmaisabitch

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197441202/burning-man-festival-rains-floods-stranded-nevada

I played this game last fall but, with further missteps from the Birbsite, I think its time to let the #followtrain roll into the station again.

#furry / #furries
Former #costumer
#3Dmodeling and #3Dprinting
#webdesign
Former #artisticnudes and #fetish model
#burningman )'(
#geek with #webdesign, I am a #coder

((Lets keep this going!! Making an #introductions post of your own may help you find more people connected to your interests and identity. ))