I recently watched Strange World, largely because the animation looked interesting. However, I was extremely pleasantly surprised by the optimistic and surprisingly radical #solarpunk and #degrowth themes.
Now with 100% live data! Actually connected the controller to the actual air exchange vent today and it's actually working! :D
Here's the latest update before now on my air-exchange based HVAC assistance system. The only thing it lacks is the truly live screencap I appended below:
My gf REALLY much loves the 'Steampunk' style, in games but also with costumes and festivals
Me on the other hand, I was always more 'techie' but since I've discovered Cyberpunk I know :blobcatgiggle:
Personally I see upgrading ourselfs as the next step in evolution, with bio but also mechanical, partly cyborg is kinda badass :catblush: but it has to be an upgrade and logical step ofc, not for 'looks'
The two novellas in Becky Chambers' "Monk and Robot" series are like the book version of LoFi Beats.
They are so chill, so hopeful, so relaxing.
The world is wonderful. Conflicts are minimal. Folks treat each other with respect and kindness and gentleness.
Great solarpunk aesthetics including ebikes, renewables, sustainable tech, environmental responsibility, LGBTQIA+, polyamory, etc.
I hate that this is an "escape" from our current world. These books are what I want our world and our interactions to be.
Anyhow, if you haven't had a chance to read them, yet, check out A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy from your local library (ebooks and audio books were available on the Libby app for me).
Tytuł:
🌸 Utopia teraz: dlaczego potrzebujemy marzyć ze śmiałością🌸
Autorka:
🌷 Laurie Penny
Tłumacz:
🌷 Ludwig Bodmer
Tekst pierwotnie ukazał się na stronie magazynu „The New Statesman” w 2015 roku.
Fragment:
Opowiadamy dzieciom wiele zwyczajowych i okrutnych kłamstw, ale chyba najbardziej znaczące jest to: życzenie wypowiedziane na głos się nie spełni. Masz urodziny? Właśnie zobaczył_ś spadającą gwiazdę? Nie możesz wyrazić swoich pragnień, bo jeśli to zrobisz, zgasną jak świeczki na torcie. Te mądrości zostały pewnie wymyślone przez rodziców, którzy chcieli uniknąć traumy związanej z niemożnością spełnienia dziecięcych pragnień. To kłamstwo niesiemy ze sobą w dorosłość, gdzie powtarzają je nam rządzący. Nie mów, jakiego świata sobie życzysz, bo w najlepszym wypadku spotka cię rozczarowanie, a w najgorszym aresztowanie.
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Dziś pilniej niż kiedykolwiek musimy tworzyć utopijne idee, właśnie dlatego, że koncepcja lepszego świata nigdy nie wydawała się bardziej odległa. Właśnie teraz władcy świata decydują, ile miast zatonie, zanim zrobimy coś, żeby zredukować emisję dwutlenku węgla. Spotykają się w Paryżu, który niedawno stał się scenerią kolejnego sezonu naszego najmniej ulubionego serialu Wojna na Bliskim Wschodzie. Świat wydaje się zmierzać w stronę kolejnego kryzysu ekonomicznego; roboty są gotowe do zautomatyzowania tych nielicznych prac, które nie znajdą się pod wodą. Jakbyśmy żyli w dystopijnej trylogii napisanej przez sadystycznego autora powieści Young Adult; mam ogromną nadzieję, że dzielni młodzi bohaterowie przybędą na ratunek szybko, nawet jeśli ma się to wiązać z niezręcznym trójkątem miłosnym.
so I spun up my air-exchange hvac system in “summer” more with the new vent controller board and it checked all the temperatures, recognised it was cooler outside than in, overrode the time-of-day basic programme and opened the vent over wireless to bring in cooler air!
or turned on the little lamp standing in for the vent, whatever, it’s proof of functionality!
Zapraszamy do projektu „Opowiadania światów”. Będziemy poszukiwać historii, działań i myśli, które mogą nieść nadzieję w obliczu lokalnych i globalnych kryzysów. Celem projektu jest próba wyobrażenia sobie i opowiedzenia o optymistyczniejszych, ale jednocześnie realnych wizjach przyszłości.
Deadline 4 maja 2023
#solarpunk owe warsztaty literackie (będziemy pisać słuchowisko) dla młodzieży, szczególnie z niepełnosprawnością wzroku!
Stories help us project ourselves into the future and its possibilities, to believe something can be real, and build toward it, before it yet exists. Tell us a story about a sustainable technology, a culture, a world. Help us lean into the future, instead of hiding from it.
Had troubles getting to sleep last night, because this weird new idea for a short story just wouldn't let me. The only way to free myself from this is to write it, I guess?
I wrote a review of an excellent edited collection of solarpunk essays for the journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. You should read it here, and then go read the book.
Hey solarpunks, are you enjoying listening to us? Do you want to hear more? Are you cash-strapped & time-strapped because we live in patriarchal capitalist hellscape but still want to be able to do something to support us / solarpunk more generally?
Leave us a nice review on iTunes/Podcast Addict/ your podcatcher of choice! Solarpunk is a plethora of voices & experiences & we'd love to continue to actively contribute to the community.
Started playing #TerraNill. Fun, BUT like most the 'eco' games I see, this has NO people doing ANYTHING but instead is based on the concept of imaginary future-tech being able to completely rehabilitate a planet the humans have destroyed...
This is not #SolarPunk this is #LongTermerism at its worst.
Sadly, it feels like games like this are intended to make those capable of doing better for the planet decide to just put their hope in Tomorrow so they can continue to consume #corporate today
I am learning to live in synchrony with the sun, taking my showers in the afternoon when the solar heater has warmed the water, charging my phone during the day instead of at night, going to bed sooner and rising earlier to save electricity.
I am learning to live in synchrony with the seasons, spending more time outside in the summer, and more time inside studying in the winter, planting my seeds when the time is right, making wild garlic pesto in the spring, picking berries in the summer, collecting chestnuts as laundry detergent in the autumn.
I am learning to live in synchrony with myself, giving myself time to rest, accepting that the downs are a part of life as much as the ups, trusting that a period of low motivation will be followed by periods of inspiration and high energy.
I am learning that viewing life as cyclical instead of linear makes me feel more at ease with the inevitable changes that take place all around me.
Survival game where you learn to be a part of an ecosystem and slowly abandon your unsustainable "tech tree" replacing it with sustainable, local solutions.
A lot of games are trying to replicate very expansionist core loops, be it Minecraft's, Factorio's and so on, which see the player as a force acting on the environment / ecosystem, not working together with it.
I like nerding with notes, languages, philosophy, reading non-fic, #solarpunk, #Dimension20, exploring non-d&d #rpg systems, waterfalls, poems, playlists, #cats. I have an admin job that inspires me to pay attention to intersections of #tech, #climate, #gender, & #rights in the #globalSouth.
When looking at the public discourse about #climatechange , I can see 3 major strands (with some overlap):
🙈Denial (climate change doesn’t exist)
🙉Supression (there’s nothing we can do about it)
😱Despair (everything is ruined)
We need a fourth option that encompasses:
🌡accepting it as reality
✊realizing we can still do something about it and
🌳purposefully working towards a liveable future (which will by no means be perfect or free of trauma!)
The narrative of “normal users shouldn’t have to learn basic technology” is valid. But to make that happen you need to make everything a Product. Smooth, and shiny, and without responsibility. Which is exactly what we’ve been doing for decades and look at where that has got us.
Perhaps I’m getting #SolarPunk in my old age, but we need to start building our own shit and maintaining what we’ve got. Product Thinking is anathema to that.
It's because it is. Being able to practice and develop a green space, either individually or as part of a group or family, learning how to care for the space and the environment, growing your own things, rather than relying solely on products shipped in from a far.
It's learning what's indigenous to your own area, what grows and what doesn't.
That's not all that Solarpunk is, but it's an important part I'd say.
Hello toot friends, I bring #antiLawn memes.
I'm hoping to radicalise you all against the boring monoculture lawn and turn you into biodiversity defenders.