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no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget, im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here

solarpunk-aesthetic

Hello! ☀️ Here are a few practical suggestions for stuff you can do:

Make a bottle tower garden (a small one could do well on a windowsill)

Make eco-friendly household cleaners

Germinate strawberry seeds and care for the plants

Grow plants from cuttings (you can grow almost anything this way)

Make a sun jar

Grow low maintenance houseplants

Make a string garden

Make a wall planter

Germinate an avocado seed

Make a shoe pocket garden

Build a mini solar generator

Re-grow kitchen scraps

Find the right solar battery charger

Recycle old solar cells

Hope you find something useful in there! I post stuff up from time to time under my diy tag. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any requests!

jellyfishdirigible

grow oyster mushrooms on waste coffee grounds (also works with shiitake)

a list of some food plants that can grow indoors with reduced light

windowsill herbs

egg carton seed germination

germinate chayote and keep it as a houseplant (the root, stem, leaves, fruit, and seed are all edible)

choosing a portable solar panel

tips for energy efficient apartment life (but jsyk LED is better than CFL, and a tank bank or expanding water bottle is better than a brick or bottle of gravel)

DIY draft stoppers

DIY solar oven and recipes

evaporative refrigeration

use conkers/horse chestnuts to replace soap and detergents

use baking soda as dry shampoo

cleaning with vinegar do’s & don’ts and common myths

DIY dryer balls

apartment-friendly bokashi composting and DIY bokashi bran

DIY moss terrarium for your soul (ain’t many souls slower or more patient than moss)

and a list of some easy care indoor plants for your nerves

and for your bathroom and your air quality

recycle t-shirts into yarn for your crafts

#reference

charlesoberonn

“I wish ancient people preserved their writing and artifacts better” I write in electronic signals on a piece of hardware that can’t retain its efficacy for more than a few decades.

theoutcastrogue

Copying. Our only hope right now is uninterrupted continuity and copying everything, from old technology and storage media to new. If there’s an extinction event at any point, i.e. if the old tech/storage is destroyed before we have time to transfer the contents, we’re well and truly screwed.

But I want to point out that this has always been the norm. Artifacts that are like time capsules (papyri, the Rosetta stone, cuneiform tablets) are the exception. Most of the time, people record stuff on perishable materials, and what survives is what gets copied, over and over again.

Consider: there were dozens of playwrights in classical Athens, who wrote hundreds of plays in just a century. We only have a proper corpus of four (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes), the rest are scattered fragments, and from later theatre we got almost nothing. That’s because in the Hellenistic era, the scholars of the Great Library of Alexandria saw fit to only copy and preserve the works of these four, and not because they thought the plays themselves were exceptional, but because they valued the language – proper Attic Greek, without grammatical “mistakes”, the language that folks were supposed to emulate at the time to sound all posh and educated.

Then these plays were copied and preserved in Rome and Constantinople and a bunch of Roman cities with libraries, both because the language was still considered proper, and because the poetry could be used to teach rhetoric, another major skill required from posh and educated people.

Then the Arabs started borrowing manuscripts from the Byzantines and furiously copying them, because they were super interested in ancient philosophy, and plays give valuable context to the society that produced it, not to mention they can be used to teach the language it was written in.

Then in the 15th century scholars flee in droves from Constantinople to Italy carrying a bunch of manuscripts with them, and printers in Venice and Florence copy them again, because ancient Greek and Latin is in vogue, and because people now dig The Theatre.

And they get copied again and again, over and over, much more easily and in much greater volumes now that there are printing presses, and they go to schools and universities and private libraries, and they become part of the curriculum in many places, and the goal, depending on the case, might be a broad “classical education”, or teaching ancient Greek as a foreign language, or showing how posh you are (”the introduction of this book was written in Latin by a German philologist, and the text is in the original Greek! no notes, we read dead languages like men!”), or, finally and at long last, enjoying the bloody plays.

The exalted stage of copying is translating. So in the end they don’t just get copied, they also get translated in modern languages, and sure you’ll always need a few people to tackle the original and revisit it from time to time, but what you really need to make it matter is to make it accessible, and you’re only gonna do that if it’s in a language people can speak. And to this day people keep staging the Oresteia, Prometheus Bound, Oediupus Rex, Antigone, Medea, Peace, and so on, and making audiences laugh, and cry, and think, and fucking transform as they were always meant to.

And all this is happening because two thousand years ago a bunch of stuffy scholars in a library thought “well these plays are written in crisp Attic dialect – let’s copy them!”, and then people kept copying them.

So keep copying. Support and contribute to the Internet Archive, and any other archival project out there. Convert to new formats anything that’s in danger of becoming obsolete. And always backup your stuff.

girlactionfigure

Link

anauthorandherservicedog

I believe he also now has a library card.

english-history-trip

Would die for MERLin

jame7t

im so excited for post+ we haven’t had a poorly thought out and embarrassingly implemented feature in so long it’ll be like a birthday

decaffeinatedvoidwombat

*sits down*

dont you think its weird. dont you think its weird that the space race last time was two of the biggest powers in the world. and now its a handful of rich men. dont you think its weird they can afford that. dont you think its bad that rich men can afford the same things as the government.

dont you think its weird that while the world is suffering and poverty is everywhere, where there's wars and climate change and human pain and homelessness. the same month I've watched people die on the news from unbearable heat and unprecedented flooding. that a rich handful of men are going to space, causing more carbon emissions. dont you think its weird that instead of putting their vast amount of money to use for good they're using it to find a way off the planet theyre destroying.

dont you think its really fucking weird.

valtsv

“film majors” mad at me for calling how to train your dragon the pinnacle of cinema how does it feel to know i’m better at your degree than you

the-queer-demon

Ah yes, the pinnacle of cinema. What was the moral of that story again? *checks notes* Ah yes, if you severely injure and kidnap an endangered species, Stockholm Syndrome will turn it into a pet you can use to vaporise people

valtsv

gingersnapwolves

#listen i know this is a shitpost but im gonna be real for a second#did you even WATCH the movie sdfghjklfghwnkdks??????#like. the whole point is that hiccup screws up#by injuring toothless bc he’s blinded by fear and hatred as a result#of the beliefs of the society he lives in. and when he realizes this#he does everything he can to fix the mistake he made earn the trust of the dragons#he once wanted to kill. unlearn his harmful mistaken beliefs about them. and finally teach#the rest of his community to realize they’ve been mistaken and are#hurting the dragons unfairly#its true that toothless is reliant on hiccup to fly and cant survive in the wild#as a result but its made very clear that this is something#hiccup regrets and understands the seriousness of his actions. despite being a kid’s movie.#and something that i love about it is that although toothless forgives hiccup and#hiccup forgives his father for their poor treatment in the past#there’s no narrative of being expected to forgive your abusers or people who#hurt you. both hiccup and his dad say ‘i did this’ when they realize they screwed up and#both of them take action to do better visibly in the film. hiccup helps toothless fly again#and stoick creates a safe haven for the dragons in the village that once#hunted and killed them. and toothless and hiccup both CHOOSE#to love the people who once hurt them because of this. but they never actually say they#forgive them. the film does an amazing job of making it clear that#1. someone who hurt you should understand what they did wrong and#make that clear to you and they have to show that through both#their words AND their actions and 2. you are not required to forgive them for#hurting you in the past even if your relationship improves#and i think that’s a really good and important thing to have in an all ages fun popular film#like that is THEE point of the movie that is THEE message how did you miss it that hard (tags via)

broresteia

i miss them

pointdotiozao

chu~

lumiink

that season 3 trailer got me very excited

rhymesswith

You know the way that LWJ can say one word and be the funniest motherf*cker in the room.

ceru-draws

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kekkstn

My mom said Wen Ning and Lan Zhan are Wei Wuxian's attack dogs and it hasn't left my mind since……

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tsurumi-kun

My favorite thing in the world is when lwj gives very earnest answers to wwx’s teasing and gets him all flustered

evuwus

Wwx -"hug me" Lwj -"i am hugging you"

Wwx- "hug me tight" Lwj -"i am hugging you tight"

Posting here after such a long time >.< and I added a close up bc tumblr fucked up the resolution

1liv

I always thought that Jiang Cheng would always stand on my side, and Lan Wangji would be our opposite. It never came to me that things today would turn out to be such a reversal of that.