Peppermint Solarpunk

She/her Solarpunk sideblog of peppermintprism, because half of what I was posting was solarpunk and the other half was chaos <3

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[by-any-other-name]

I love thrifting I love ebay I love second-third-fourth hand clothes I love garage sales I love diy-ing and crafting I love giving clothes new life I love outfit repeating I love visible mending I love wearing/repairing the same item til its threads I love patches I love customization I love local libraries I love physical media I love burning cds for my friends I love shopping small!!

[whereserpentswalk]

You cannot opt out of capitalism to destroy it. At best you can save yourself from capitalism that way. If someone's plan to fight capitalism is to create a new community somewhere in the woods, they don't want to fight capitalism, they want to start a high control group nine times out of ten, the other one time out of ten they just want a few middle-class people to escape it.

Our mutual aid networks, our community organizations, our unions, must exist within the towns and cities of our nation, and must be things every worker has access to. That is what threatens capitalism. It's what scares them. They aren't scared by a commune in the woods, because that commune can never serve as an alternative to their system for most people, it will never be bigger than the capitalist world, at least without being forced to join it, if anything they'd be happy that socialists built their own gulag. What they're scared of is a network that any worker can draw support from, unions that their workers use to collectively bargain, within the towns and cities that their workers live, that's what an actual threat to their power looks like.

A commune that's separate from capitalist society isn't resistance it's surrender.

[cheglok-art]

I really like just scrolling though all my Inaturalist observations (I have a little below 700 rn, mostly of birds and some insects) and seeing all the cool animals I got to see over the last couple of years, remembering how I saw them, with whom, remembering the places, the trips... It's so nice and I'm so grateful for it.

[one-cool-butterfly-a-day]

Butterfly of the day #196

Butterfly of the day Isochaetes beutenmuelleri

Come back tomorrow for another cute butterfly! (Source: Isochaetes beutenmuelleri de Catonsville, MD, USA le 8 Aoû 2017 à 16:09 par Matthew Beziat. This is a picture of a Spun Glass Slug Moth caterpillar at Patapsco Valley State Park in Baltimor... · iNaturalist)

[voraciouskingdom]

Stay grounded.

[arcticarthropod]

why ohms are so important

[heyyoufriendthere]

This new fish species is called Snuffleupagus. You can probably guess why | CBC Radio

S. snuffleupagus, a newly described species of fish, is named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus, to which it bear

SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL

[brightnessrandom]

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleupagus !

[alacritousliving]

Snuffy was always my fave Sesame Street character. I love this story! And so fun to get citizen scientists involved through iNaturalist too!

[fishicam]

April 17, 2026

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[dreamsrunfaster]

[space-mouse]

inat on desktop has sooo much functionality i'm in wonderland rn. i can batch edit observations? i can add a data field for what an animal was doing? or for how many animals i saw together??

[sudpad]

going around taking photos of birds and flowers to upload to iNaturalist like I'm the Snow White of Dora the Explorer

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[hope-for-the-planet]

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

March 2026 was the first month that renewables generated more power than natural gas in the US. In fact, fossil fuels generated less energy this past March than they had in any March for the previous 25 years.

As clean energy continues to grow (over 90% of energy capacity added to the US grid this year will be renewables) we will see more and more months like this.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses

[headspace-hotel]

@woozymitts YES! this is my favorite!!!

[shailion]

I wish inaturalist had a male female comparison in the example photos at least on the more dimorphic species

[peppermintsolarpunk]

We actually have the power to improve this as iNat users! I’ve added photos to the carousel of organism example photos before. You can either add your own pics, or someone else’s’! Please just make sure the photos you’re adding are a Research-Grade example of that organism.

Easiest way to find photos that show the male & female of a given species that have them is to go to the species page, click “View More” in the photoset, then use the filters at the top to show posts with a defined sex (again, I really wish that there was a “both” option). You can also work backwards from random species by going to a project like Male and Female or Dimorphism (the former gets a lot more use than the latter, but both are helpful!).

Once you find an appropriate photo, go to the species page on the browser version of iNat, click ⚙️Curation —> Edit Photos and paste in the ID of the observation into the search field. You can also add from Flickr or Wikipedia commons from here.

Hope this helps! Have fun with your anarchic powers of Wiki!

P.S. please also add more caterpillar/larva photos to the insects for my sanity.

[validblogname]

one fight at a time

[hazelriver74]

Another source

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

:))))))))

[homunculus-argument]

Rules of DIY:

if it's a skill, there's rules you can learn

if it's an art, rules are not your concern

make it fucked up or you won't make it

if it's already broken, you can't break it

anything can be fixed with gorilla glue

except for pleather, and also you

[bundibird]

7. You can experiment with DIYing everything EXCEPT FOR!! Electrical work, and pulling out that load bearing wall.