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@owlstory
look at this shit. look. at. this. shit. it has fifteen thousand notes. what does it mean? why does a picture of the pin k panther with a to do lis that makes NO SENSE have fiFTEEN FUCKING NOTES. WHY. my mom could make better posts that this shit. what even. fuck tumblr.
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what doesn’t kill you makes your nervous system more sensitive for the rest of your life
Saw a solarpunk creator spreading the news of scientists in China (if I remember correctly) experimenting with making plants bioluminescent to light cities instead of using as much artificial street lighting.
The conclusion was "this must be solarpunk" and I cannot emphasize how incorrect that is.
Whether or not this particular experimentation leads to less harmful man-made lighting, it isn't solarpunk.
Solarpunk is technology and infrastructure engineered to work in harmony with nature and community.
Changing nature to better fit human wants is NOT solarpunk.
Bullshit.
Changing nature to better fit human wants and needs is fundamentally human.
Every vegetable you've ever eaten is the product of humans changing nature to better fit human wants.
I don't know that bioluminescent plants are a function solution to anything and I'm sure there are a number if very valid reasons that utmost caution should be taken with their potential implementation, but there is nothing 'not in harmony with nature' about messing with plant genetics.
Thank paleoindigeous genetic engineers from mezo/South America for the existence or corn, for example:
Zea Mays is a wholly human invention.
This.
I also want to note: I think the research OP is talking about is actually from Europe, because I am aware of both a French and a Swedish research project on this topic. And admittedly, when that Swedish one released (that was in 2018, I think) I was also not fully sold, because it felt fairly gimmicky. But in the test areas where they implemented it a bunch of things happened over the test period. Distress in wild animals went down, air quality got better, and a bunch of other stuff. And now there is a project in France testing something similar since... 2023, I think?
And, yes. The general goal of those projects is basically to say: "Here is a thing where humans are negatively influencing nature. We cannot change that we are in those areas, but we can lessen the negative influence we have. Let's try this way."
Solarpunk is not about like... going back to the neolithic. It is about developing technology in a way that we can better live with nature. And this is doing that.
I do not even get OP's issue here. Like, having poles filled with water and bioluminiscent algae or fungi is not negatively impact the algae, bacteria, or fungi. Because algae, bacteria, and fungi, for the lack of a nervous system, quite literally do not care whether they grew in the ocean or in a bioluminiscent pole. But we know that this light is less disturbing to wild animals. We have shown that. Because light pollution is right now as much of an issue in some areas as other forms of pollution. So finding ways to reduce light pollution is very important.
And it should be noted: this idea about bioluminiscence as a form to light cities has been around in Solarpunk as a genre since 2014 and then of course has been a core idea that went into Lunarpunk. So while I do not know if those scientists were inspired by it or just came to the idea independently, it definitely connects to solarpunk.
@transmechanicus , your tags:
#this isn't solarpunk this is biopunk this is engaging in genetic and biological engineering as a foundational technology of society#solarpunk is about replacing extractables with renewables and encouraging re-wilding of urban areas#biopunk is 'we are going to use biological systems to replace mechanical functions' a la Leviathan#streetlights replaced by engineered luminescent trees is not something you get in a solarpunk society bc gene work requires plastic#as does virtually all medical and biological work. which is overwhelmingly derived from oil products.#personally i'm very in favor of the glowing trees#same as the engineered algae blocks in eastern europe and south america to scrub air in cities.#i will say genetic engineering of plants is a pain. their genomes are relatively resistant to modification compared to bacteria or animals#there are techniques obviously but their efficiency is much lower and the required technology is more complex#bacteria you can heat shock into absorbing a modifying plasmid. humans you can give a plasmid with assisting transposases.#plants you need the fucking Gene Gun bc their DNA is basically never un-condensed enough to be accessible to modification
Genuinely asking: What definition of 'solarpunk' are you operating from?
Because 'solarpunk is about...encouraging re-wilding of urban areas' and 'solarpunk is when absolutely no plastic ever' are not takes I've heard before.
While that person is...certainly having an opinion, they did actually bring up an idea where I'm like "this totally wouldn't work, but it would be so cool if it did":
What if the lightpost algae could be crossbred (for lack of a better term) with the air-cleaning algae?
Cities, no matter how solarpunk we are, are always going to have some level of schmutz in the air. People cook with grease, grease aerosolizes, it sticks to dirt. People and animals shed skin and hair cells. Plants shed pollen and even if we get over ourselves and start planting female trees again there's always going to be pollen that doesn't find a flower. Here in Phoenix we get dust storms because we're literally between four mountains and the wind has nowhere to send anything. And all of that is assuming a world where we manage to go fully gasoline-free!
Imagine streetlights powered by cleaning the crap out of the air.
Gameboy peripheral PediSedate was designed for dentists and dosed kids with nitrous oxide as they played games.
Time to enter the ＧＡＭＥＲ ＺＯＮＥ
Camera, printer, sewing machine, now a fucking anaesthetic adminstrator…was there anything the Game Boy didn’t have an accessory for?
Do you know about the fish finding sonar?
gameboy sprinted so smart phones could lag and be ugly
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I've been wondering why my work manager feels so freaking familiar.
Yes, she reminds me of my first 6th grade science teacher (by a lot... and yes I had 3 of them).
But no, it's not her.
My manager reminds me of Dr. Mensah from The Murderbot Diaries. Not the tv show version (who is different), but the book version. The awesome competent manager/scientist.
That explains a lot.
EVERYONE get in the tags rn and tell me your favorite cheese
Like you do need to recognise sometimes that a person is not picking up your social cues and adjust your communication style accordingly. If someone isn't understanding you then you need to change up how you're communicating and not just say the same thing over & over.
you look like the kinda girl who'd open up ms paint back in the day select the spray paint tool and click and hold to watch it slowly turn into a perfect circle
the sewing machine is a delicate breed of horse
update: i’ve made it through the user manual and have sewn myself a cravat. the sewing machine is a delicate breed of horse with anger in its motion and spite in its heart.
I see a lot of content about building more solarpunk cities and that's beautiful, but a lot of it requires starting a new. And as nice as it would be to just start fresh sometimes, it's not practical, and it's not something a lot of people would agree with.
I want more content (and maybe I'll have to start doing more in depth research and making the content myself) on how we can take existing infrastructure and convert it to be more solarpunk. How we can take one of the lanes in a multilane road and make it into something specifically for public transportation, be it busses or, perhaps, trains. How we can take a neighborhood and make it more communal, make it more energy efficient as a whole, make it more supportive of the community within it, without building a new neighborhood instead.
How to take existing buildings and make them better for people and the environment. How to open a food co-op in a building that used to be a fast-food restaurant but has been vacant for years. How to start a community garden greenhouse project in a different building that has been vacant for as long as you can remember. How to make public parks more then just fields with a playground a few trees here and there.
I don't want to build a new city, I want to bring my city into a better future.
"sex should be less stigmatized and talked about more" and "you should always make sure people who dont want to consume sexual media that you present dont have to see it" are two statements that can and should coexist. by the way.
Here's the thing: people need to be comfortable with looking away. With clicking out of a window. With putting down a book.
There are incredibly few situations I can think of (huge public art installations, unskippable ads) that actually force someone to consume a piece of media.
Appropriate tagging is good practice and common courtesy. But it is still the responsibility of a viewer to choose not to consume something.
please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts
this is a common phenomenon. the better you get, the more you recognize flaws. the good thing is you can strive to get better. but the bad thing is that you see nothing but flaws. you are actually getting better, but your editing/critical brain is getting tuned up and can see more things to improve. someone post the graph, I can't find it
nvm I found it myself:
"art" can mean any creative endeavor and it definitely applies to writing.
A lot of criticism of delivery apps focuses on the fact that they offer convenience and variety, which I find much less compelling than criticizing the fact that the apps often send their contractors on fetch quests from Hell.
There are real labor problems here. Base pay is often insulting. Customer tips carry too much of the burden. Workers need better protections, more transparent algorithms, protection from arbitrary deactivation, and actual recourse when the app or a customer screws them over. Car-dependent delivery is also an environmental and infrastructural problem, though in a denser city I’d still be doing this work; I’d just be doing it by bike.
But when people talk about delivery work, I rarely see them talk to actual delivery workers. I see a lot of abstract arguments about convenience, consumer decadence, “hustle culture,” and internalized neoliberalism. Meanwhile, when I’m out working and waiting in restaurants for orders, the other Dashers I meet are usually people who only speak Spanish, people who read as neurodivergent, visibly physically disabled people, or some combination of the above.
I have not met this mythical Disco Elysium poor ultraliberal hustlegrinder-wannabe people seem to be arguing with. Maybe that archetype exists somewhere. If it exists among any kind of gig worker, it would probably be rideshare drivers. But most of what I see looks less like “rise and grind” and more like “this is one of the few forms of work available to people who need flexibility, low barriers to entry, limited managerial surveillance, or a way to work around language barriers, disability, burnout, chronic illnesses and injuries with symptoms that come and go unpredictably, caregiving, résumé gaps, or discrimination.”
That does not make the current system good. It means the current system is filling a real gap that a lot of supposedly better systems do not even acknowledge.
As a disabled person who is burnout-prone and demand-sensitive, contracting as a delivery driver has given me an unprecedented level of financial flexibility. I can work when I have capacity. I can stop when I’m deteriorating. I can build my day around my actual body instead of being trapped under a manager who thinks “reliable” means “able to perform the same way every day no matter what.” That matters. It does not cancel out the exploitation, but it is also not fake just because it is politically inconvenient.
And delivery itself is not some inherently decadent evil. Sometimes people live alone. Sometimes they are sick. Sometimes they are disabled, exhausted, overwhelmed, grieving, overloaded, or recovering from something else - perhaps the stress and fatigue induced by their own job. Sometimes they need medicine, groceries, or a meal that will actually unplug their sinuses instead of whatever generic community-care slop someone thinks they should be grateful for. Humans are allowed to need specificity. “Food” is not the same as “the food I can actually eat right now.”
A serious labor critique would ask how to make delivery work safer, better-paid, less tip-dependent, less car-dependent, less algorithmically punitive, and less precarious. It would ask what kinds of flexible, accessible work should exist for people who cannot thrive in conventional employment. It would ask how cities could support bike delivery, worker cooperatives, public infrastructure, and real protections without simply replacing one bad system with a moral sermon about how nobody should ever want takeout.
But a lot of the discourse does not do that. It treats convenience itself as suspicious. It treats wanting flexible work as false consciousness. It treats the needs of disabled people, immigrants, and other people who can't fit into traditional employment structures as details to be swept aside in favor of a cleaner political image.
I guess the opinions of delivery workers only count when they are politically convenient.
Keeping up with complicated lawsuits that impact our lives can be really difficult! It makes sense that there’s misunderstandings or outdated info going around. Let's clear up some info about Texas v. Kennedy. Then, you can take action with our action alert! https://autisticadvocacy.org/2026/02/take-action-to-protect-disability-rights/
Update: As of May 12, South Dakota has also dropped out of the Texas v. Kennedy lawsuit. If you live in one of the 7 remaining states on the lawsuit (Alaska, Montana, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida), use our action alert to push your Governor and Attorney General to do the same!
Update: As of 6/10, Kansas has dropped out! There are only six states left in this lawsuit. If you live in Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, or Texas, use our Action Alert to push your Governor and Attorney General to do the same!
since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons
