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Just testing out the wordpress mastodon app plugin. Let’s see how this goes using my blog in the client app.

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Cool find: wikimap

Oh this is cool. Someone has taken all the Wikipedia articles with geo coordinates and turned it into a map:https://wikimap.wiki

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I came across a bunch of people saying solarpunk is just an aesthetic and doesn't contribute anything meaningful and I wanted to share something to counter that. I came across solarpunk in February, a combination of the mess of current politics, covid, the climate and my own issues meant I was depressed, sometimes even suicidal. When I came across solarpunk it helped to wake something back up inside of me. I saw posts saying we already live in a solarpunk world and at first I didn't understand. But then I found my love of sewing and crafts again, my love of nature that had turned to fear of its future learned to live as both. I learned to see the little ways people are making the world better, more solarpunk, Today I walked to the library to pick up some books, one of them is The Serviceberry, it's on my bedside table now. I was wearing a jumper I mended and a tshirt I bought second hand. I walked past the community centre, they're raising money for solar panels and last month they held their first monthly repair cafe. I've learned to notice the ways the world is becoming a better place, everyday I keep the values of solarpunk in mind and I'm a better and happier person for it. I'm still depressed and scared about the world but what I've learned from solarpunk is not nothing, it's changed my life for better

Hey there Sprout🌱 I'm so glad you managed to stick it out and find something comforting in all the gloom. That along, making you feel comfort and hope for the future, makes this entire thing worth it.

When people try to argue we aren't doing anything I fear they may be more familiar with the way Solarpunk exists on other platforms (Facebook and Instagram are particularly Future focused for example) but here I don't find that to be the case at all, we are working on it! And yk what?

Solarpunk does already exist!

It does so as pockets all over the world.

Sure, you gotta look for it but then it pops up everywhere you turn- mending and repair workshops, seed and thing libraries, sharing bountiful tomatoes harvests with neighbors and community murals. Then one day, randomly, a city north of you breaks the world record for largest solarpanel mural?? (These are colored SOLARPANELS BABES!!!)

And then the tiny sparks of resistance show up and you realize you've been doing it all along! That's the beauty of this, to me at least.

And sure, it is only pockets of existence right now. But everyday we're fighting to expand those spaces, to bridge gaps, to introduce and reconnect with one another. We're working on Un-forgetting as Patty Krawec mentions in Becoming Kin (a book I'd 100% recommend if you enjoyed Serviceberry or Braiding sweetgrass)

And your apart of that!! You all are and I'm so proud of you all for choosing beauty and hope even when it's hard to do!

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“The first Gay Pride flag was made in 1978 by a man named Gilbert Baker. He gave a meaning to each color.”

Beginners (2010) - Directed by Mike Mills

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A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

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Tutorial

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Solarpunk, realism, dystopia: a rant

Hopefully this is helpful to someone out there 🌸

You can find the Prompts podcast here, I drew some of the covers :D Also check out this digital library full of Creative Commons Solarpunk art (neither of these are sponsored).

🦗Somewhat shameful plug🦗

I would highly appreciate if you threw me a couple bucks on Buy Me a Coffee or bought a commission, my money number is only getting smaller these days 😔🤙

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You are loved.

Reference here

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A group of trans women protesting outside Scottish parliament to condemn the UK Supreme Court’s bioessentialist ruling on sex, and the response of the Scottish government. All are wearing black pants, black tape across their mouths or a black KN95, and their right arms are painted red as "a mark of solidarity with anti-fascist feminists across Europe." | May 17th, 2025

“This ruling, and the subsequent EHRC guidance aims to segregate trans people from safe spaces that they have for used for decades without issue. We are demanding that the Scottish government stand up for its trans citizens by fighting this ruling and appealing to the European Court of Human Rights.”

One of the demonstrators, Sugar, described the protests as "a public act of grief, resistance and solidarity to highlight the hypocrisy of the ruling. If the Supreme Court can see these woman legally as men, then they’ll have zero issue with them going tops off.”

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Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

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