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  • (Glances at AO3 stories left un-updated for 2 years. Glances away as if I didn't see that.)

  • Inherited African Violets

    So Grandma has gone into the old people home and my mom is doing a purge of the house. Mom threw out Grandma's scrapbook of gardening magazine clippings from the 1980s and if Grandma finds out, she's getting disowned.

    I have 2 more African violets and my sister who moved to New Mexico has half a dozen newly repotted cacti.

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    Enough, already: why humanity must get on board with the concept of ‘sufficiency’
  • If food waste is a concern, I wonder if US-style leftover culture will spread, except I don't know how that might impact disposable container consumption.

  • Lite post: Opinions on "The Wild Robot"
  • Personally I'm okay with slice of life stuff. It's about the experience rather than the plot, but I get it if that's not your jam.

  • Lite post: Opinions on "The Wild Robot"

    I've only seen a couple reviews on it, not the piece itself, but my general impression is 1) diabetes-inducing adorable, 2) probably as anticapitalist a message as we're gonna get from a capitalism factory.

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    "I LOVE haunting this old Victorian home" [Sarah's Scribbles]
  • I want a picture rail so it's easy to hang all them things.

  • class traitor weirdos
  • Given my extremely ambiguous feelings about some of my uncles, I dunno that it always means that much.

  • Solarpunk Writing Prompt: The Tailors - how can clothing look like in a sustainable world post fast fashion? What is the tailor's role within a community?
  • My problem is that I would end up more unfitted granny-hippie than punk. Just wear shit inspired by hanfu, caftans, and elastic waist pants. Me and my muumuu don't need no tailor.

  • Parenting Was Meant To Take a Village
  • I have mixed feelings about this because it often ends up meaning that people feel entitled to free female labor. What do I get out of this village, huh? Do I at least get a casserole?

    So many deadbeat dudes who finally got served divorce papers just turn around and snag another woman to dump all the domestic labor onto.

  • An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
  • That makes me think of shit like Karahan Tepe or Poverty Point. How would they organize to build cool shit without a centralized authority? Or maybe it was a centralized authority but it wasn't hierarchical?

  • How this remote Indigenous community has reduced every resident's power bill by 70 per cent
  • Man, assuming they have the money, indigenous tribes also in the US could do some amazing solarpunk shit. Renewable energy like this, rewilding and traditional sustainable land management, maybe even guaranteed housing in a communal setting. But they have a hard time getting the feds to give them the funding for the treaty-mandated healthcare shit as it is.

  • What are your favourite Low-Tech Content Creators?
  • Black Forager, whom I mostly follow on F-book.

  • Grow, dammit

    Still waiting for my newest African violet to shape up, but it was cruelly yanked from an auntie's loving humidity cabinet and then thrown to sink or swim on my countertop.

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    The Solarpunk Survey 2024
  • I got into solarpunk mostly because I'm too butch for cottagecore, but I might be too granny to satisfy the punk requirements. I wanna stay on my couch and knit, you guys, I'm so tired.

  • nature calendar
  • This is the kind of thing I think about to get the useful bits out of the "touch grass" meme.

    Unfortunately I'm not very good at it and time isn't real until the stores put out the commercialized holiday crap: It's only really summer when the 4th of July kitsch is put out on the shelves. It sucks and I want to be better about it.

  • The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: Debunked — The Laurie Loo
  • I'm ready to defend my girl KonMari.

    The TL;DR of this article is that KonMari method doesn't work for the author. Author feels defensive about her collection of sentimental items and wants more advice about organizing than KonMari offers.

    Maybe this book isn't helpful for some people. That's okay. Doesn't mean you need to do clickbait libel to my girl with "debunk."

  • why do I keep watching this guy clean out culverts with a rake?

    IDK if this is quite solarpunk, but it's some kind of eco-punk.

    This guy films himself cleaning up culverts and street drains, mostly in the New England region of the US, with a rake and hip waders. He bitches about beavers and idiots with excavators and has a lot of technical opinions on road engineering that I find interesting for no good gawddamn reason.

    Props to him if he makes a decent amount on these videos. Better than customer service work.

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    book release: Murder in the Tool Library
  • maybe too this will offset all my Kindle recommendations from the trash romance novels I borrowed via Kindle on my library's ebook app. I don't actually want to purchase trash romance novels, thank you, just trash slice-of-life isekai manga

  • book release: Murder in the Tool Library
  • As ironic as it is to purchase yon library-economy-promoting book, our comrades still need that cash money to function in real life. And this indie ebook is significant cheaper than the last mainstream ebook I bought.

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • lol, even better

  • Winter migration from windowsill to countertop
  • Crisis averted, my dude pulled the other cat bed out of the hall closet. But why was it in the hall closet?

  • Winter migration from windowsill to countertop

    My gesneriad gang made the commute to the kitchen bar top. I remembered where I stored the grow light but I can only find one of the heated cat beds. Send halp, there will be hissing and flexing

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    What solarpunkers think about money?
  • Yeah, the sticky thing is that money is a useful, often convenient social construct, but I am not educated enough to know if it's possible to effectively uncouple it from the baggage of capitalism.

    Like how marriage can be a useful legal construct, buuuuuuut most of that is about property rights, and originates from when women WERE the property to be regulated. :/

  • solarpunking the educational system

    Jumping from a previous post on education. Feel free to skip the first 7:30 minutes (which mostly defines solarpunk as a concept, I think we're good on that in this space), but this seems like this Human Restoration Project is a good thing with the wonk behind it to make it functional. (extra linky just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nh0EkuiBzs)

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