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Foxglove // 23 // he/it // my blog for solarpunk and related stuff

[healing-time-on-earth]

🌿pinned🌿

Fox! he/it pronouns. This is my solarpunk blog!

FTM & other queer labels etc etc

The blog name is a John Denver reference. (Link goes to a YouTube video.)

[f0restgreen]

The smell of the sun warming damp pine needles

[vagrats]

wall hanging for my brother! naturally dyed with cute, osage, madder, and knotweed. first forray into naturally dyeing things in my kitchen, using a combination of dye techniques and modifiers. machine pieced, hand appliqued and quilted; roughly 15” square. excited to do way more of this kind of thing :')

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Summer dahlia garden.

Hiroshima, Japan.

[rpfisfine]

a flightless cormorant swimming just below the surface of shallow sea water

[jetix]

A Kermode Bear goes hunting, 2021/10

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[girderednerve]

Trump to pump $700M into coal power in the states, as he again blasts renewable energy • West Virginia Watch

The federal government will spend $700 million on building or refurbishing coal power infrastructure in a boost to coal, Trump said.

“It is hard to overstate the magnitude of this,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. “If you look at our efforts across the whole government, so far 45 coal plants are open today that would not be open.”

dead miners today! dead miners tomorrow! dead miners forever!

[communistkenobi]

Traditional fascism embraced the ideal of fossil modernity because of the direct association with the values of strength, speed, and power carried by fossil fuelled objects such as industrial machines and motor vehicles. The historian of fascism Robert Paxton mentions Trump holding a campaign speech in an airplane hangar in 2016, after getting out from a plane that had just landed and taxied up there, which “is exactly what they did in 1932 for Hitler’s first election victory”. This example displays how the love of current far-right leaders for fossil modernity leads to a stunning resemblance with fascist symbolism (Chotiner, 2016). In Brazil, Bolsonaro delivered an analogue picture in May 2020 as he requisitioned a helicopter to fly six circles above the presidential square before landing in front of a crowd of his supporters who had rallied to demonstrate for a military coup. Fossil fuelled objects stood and continue to stand as the symbol of a virile, powerful and aggressive performance of modernity, and for the material fulfilment of authoritarian desires (Daggett, 2018; LeMenager, 2014).

Yet, while at the time of early fascist parties, the climatic toxicity of CO2 emissions was virtually unknown, far-right campaigns and governments today explicitly mock the global concern for climate change. Carbofascism, in this sense, could be different from historical fascism in so far as it merges its fascination for fossil modernity with a political discourse that promotes human domination over nature through the preservation and amplification of the fossil energy model as an endangered ideal of modern society. While fascism looked at fossil fuelled objects as the future of humanity, carbofascism would tend to consider them as the remnants of a golden age which need to be preserved in spite of their impact on the planet´s (and human) health. [emphasis mine]

Acker (2020) - What could carbofascism look like?: a historical perspective on reactionary politics in the COVID-19 pandemic

[datelinepentagons]

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

as above, so below

[pam3pr]

Spain, in the Aezkoa and Salazar valleys (Basque Country).

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[90377]

Fjaðrárgljúfur, South Iceland by Bryan Coe

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

gift of light

[immortalbeingz]

[worldsandemanations]

Lake Superior agates

[solar-sunnyside-up]

Cyber decks are so cool and I'm so happy we've moved in this direction honestly.

[solar-sunnyside-up]

Here's some of my faves

Keep up the amazing work everyone!

[solar-sunnyside-up]

The thing about this is this is a major step towards Solarpunk being integrated into our society in a functional way.

Like the same people learning coding to do their own home DIY photo booths is just as a big step as building gift Economies amoungst friends. It's just as big as solar buildings and artwork being more popular. It's art, it's recycling, it's skill learning, its real ownership compared to subscriptions, it's decentiralizing oligarchs ability to monitor and steal your money.

It's everything solarpunk has been shouting about and it's the Cutest thing I've ever seen!