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rabioheab-deactivated20200416

earlier this year 2 boys got expelled from my school for going on a teachers email and sending another teacher an email that says “you’re a disgusting little man” and i laugh about it all the time because imagine opening an email from your coworker and thinking it’s important and then it says that

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solarpunkwitchcraft

Hey solarpunk community! In light of several posts that have been going around, I was thinking it would be worthwhile to talk about the real, physical things we can do to make this world a more solarpunk place. Because speculation and aesthetics and thinkpieces are awesome, but a movement isn’t a movement without real action behind it. So what are things we can all do to make the present closer to our solarpunk future?

tywysogesyrheulwen

Guerilla gardening - turn public spaces into permaculture food havens peace by peace. Learn about grafting and graft fruit tree branches to other trees. This is both the solar and the punk.

Composting for your garden, container gardening if you only have access to a small patio garden, growing your own mushrooms and herbs indoors, beansprouts and things like that can be easy to grow in jars. This provides for you, improves your air quality if you do it right, and disempowers the capitalist system when it comes to food production, bit by bit. Turn your lawn into a vege patch that’s pesticide free, and invite all the creatures.

People underestimate the power of boycotting. Boycott any plastic you can. Boycott fast fashion. Boycott the motor industry - by all means learn to drive because you should never allow yourself to be deskilled in any way. Boycott planned obsolescence. People say “it’s not down to the individual, it’s down to the corporation”. I believe it can be both and boycotting is one of the places they meet. Voting, protesting, signing petitions are other ways individuals put pressure on big monsters.

Join groups. Cooperating with others in repair movements, allotment groups, town greening committees, and such is really important but if you’re an introvert then we need to really talk about all the ways you can coordinate with others without any social pressures - like information sharing through forums. You can share books, organise a clothes swap.

Help the elderly, impoverished, homeless, disabled. Many people literally can’t do anything to live more sustainably because they can’t afford to or haven’t got access to a lot of the things others do - such as information or entry to groups. If you add these people together they make the majority of society. Imagine making a difference to the majority of society!

Saving hedgehogs. They’re an endangered species and you can make space in your home but also most of the above actions help. If you think you can’t help in any direct way, think again! Find a local hogspital and donate things they need. Talk to them about local action.

Become a hunt saboteur. It’s dangerous but exciting.

Work towards living in a small house. Own less, do more, share more, travel more (if your home becomes mobile).

Use a zero waste shop, and if there isn’t one in your community the encourage people to want one and start yourself an eco business!

Spend more time in nature. You’ll notice things. You’ll start litterpicking.

Do a beach clean. I made a rule that I can’t take things from the beach unless it’s human made. I don’t do the pebbles and shells thing. I’ll fill two bags with plastic waste, and disguarded fishing gear, before I’m allowed to take home any pottery or beach glass and I kinda think everyone should do the same.

chillgamesh-the-swing

Can you be more specific about what you mean by a hunt saboteur? While in some places hunting is definitely destructive, indigenous communities all over the world have developed sustainable hunting practices over thousands of years and depend on them for a substantial part of their food supply. Also, it’s an important management tool to prevent certain species (usually herbivores in communities where their natural predator has been driven out by human activity) from overpopulating and damaging plant life beyond their ability to regenerate.

There are ways to hunt that aren’t some rich dickweed who treats animals like toys they can destroy for fun.

south-africa-official

i never really got it when people made posts about light pollution and seeing all the stars for the first time and crying. i always assumed that everyone has gone on a road trip to a bortle 1.0 place and seen stars like that, and it's fantastic, but not like life changing. and then i went to europe last month and was in a mountaintop village of like 300 people and could see about 5 stars in the sky. like fewer than i can see from my home in a big metropolitan city.

my apologies to the non-africans, i did not realise how fucked your sky is

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kropotkindersurprise

Critical support to these scammers weaponizing homophobia to drain right-wingers' bank accounts 🫡

mysterypuppys

U literally cannot save your mother like it cant be done

ainokiseki

Do all lovers feel they're inventing something? I know the gestures. I imagined it all, waiting for you.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma.

banhmigoddess

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

keepingitneutral

House Built on a Rock on the river Drina, Bajina Basta, Serbia

pagewoman

Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

themakeupbrush

Guo Pei Spring 2026

sprig-story

Working with Nature: Chinampa

Did you know that the Aztec people made use of aquaponics?

A chinampa is a floating garden built on a freshwater lake, made by making a raft of woven reeds, with stakes to keep it in place. Soil was placed down until it was above the waters surface.

"The earliest fields that have been securely dated are from the Middle Postclassic period, 1150 – 1350 CE." Wikipedia

This system eliminates the need for watering, and was successful in growing maize, fruit, tomatoes, amaranth, beans, chile, and flowers.

"When the Spanish arrived in 1519, they drained many of the lakes, shrinking Xochimilco’s agricultural capacity, and forbade the cultivation of indigenous products like chia, a seed favored for its nutritional properties." Smithsonian Magazine

As cannels dry up, pollution increases, and urban communities spread, these systems are becoming less common, but the tradition does continue.

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Chinapas News Update:

“The axolotl is an amphibian with incredible regenerative abilities. It lives in only one place outside captivity: the waters of Lake Xochimilco, in Mexico City. Now, a team of scientists is working to secure its future by looking to its past. Working with local farmers, they’re reconstructing a system of chinampas, or island gardens, pioneered by the Aztecs — to restore the axolotl’s habitat.”