Pan;Gaia Rising

Intents, instructionals & speculation for our Solarpunk Future. There is change in the water. A Verdant Dawn Rises.

[yepthatsacowalright]

Am enthralled by this visualization NASA shared of Artemis II's path through space. The most mathematically accurate little dance. <3

[bundibird]

I HIGHLY recommend giving compliments to random strangers.

Not, like, fake compliments or randomly giving scrounged up compliments to everyone you pass in the street, but -- say you see someone with an article of clothing you really really like. Cool accessories or a great haircut or something. Tell them.

I told an old woman yesterday that I liked her blouse. It was this super pretty white-at-the-top-floral-at-the-bottom shirt which was really lovely. So i backtracked where I'd walked past her and I said "excuse me - i love your shirt." And this harried, stressed-looking 80-something year old brightened up immediately, and beamed, and then when she and I headed off in separate directions, she had a pep in her step.

This other time I told a woman that I liked her boots. She gave me a company name thats since become my favourite brand of shoes. I told someone else that her scarf was cute and she was like "do you like it? Here, you can have it," and she dropped her scarf in my hands and then got on her train and left. I once saw a woman who had clearly put effort into her outfit that day but was now looking harried and frazzled as she wrangled four children across the road, and I told her that her outfit was gorgeous and she lit up like a christmas tree. I told a gay man that I loved his whole look once and he turned into a smiling, blushing mess as his super delighted and proud boyfriend was like "yea, he DOES look gorgeous doesnt he?"

If you see someone with something compliment-worthy going on, don't hold back. What's the point? Ive never once had a bad response to giving a compliment to a stranger. Everyone to a tee has been absolutely thrilled to receive a surprise compliment about their outfit or their make up or their shoes or their vibe or etc. Give out compliments to random strangers. Its free, and it'll make their whole day.

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

My fav thing to do. I was bored in line at the pharmacy the other day and the woman in front of me had a nice backpack, so I told her “Hey, I like your backpack.” And she told me the story of how she’d acquired it, and where she likes to take it (everywhere), and how it goes with everything, etc etc and then being at the pharmacy sucked less for both of us. Such an easy win.

And complementing older people almost always results in a kind of rejuvenating effect. So many older people go through their lives feeling invisible or dismissed and just being positively noticed by someone seems to make a really big difference.

And sometimes when a stranger is looking low I will actively look for the thing I can genuinely complement. It’s really not hard to find something that is nice about someone or the way they’ve kitted themselves out, and it can change a person’s day.

Sometimes complementing people results in longer interactions. A guy once (non-creepily) chased me down the street after I complemented his cool green jacket to see if I’d go out for coffee with him. I think he probably had never been complemented in public or by a stranger. Many men, even charming ones, never are. He had this charmingly bewildered and rosy-cheeked reaction at first, when for me this was really just kind of a passing thought as I walked back to my car from a shift. I guess once he’d thought about it at all he was like “worth taking a chance” or maybe the friend he was with told him to go for it. I was about a block away when he caught up to me. I could tell he wasn’t being a weirdo, and he was really nice and respectful when I said “I’m seeing someone, but thanks for asking, and I really did mean it when I said you looked good in that jacket.” I think he probably wore it more often after that interaction. I hope it made him feel lucky.

I don’t know. There are a lot of ways to change a person’s day. Sometimes you can change something for them in the long term.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

"I don't see any god up here. But from here the Earth is beautiful, without borders or divisions."

The first words of a human in space.

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961.

Thanks to Clara Statello

[theabigailthorn]

wholesome non-toxic Yuri

[temistheranger]

The “Deviant” African Genders That Colonialism Condemned - JSTOR Daily

European travellers and anthropologists found that their gendered worldview didn’t easily map onto the societies they encountered.

Wow, this is really cool @jstor!

[epilepticsaints]

[electricpentacle]

Bear in mind that this is a technique that anyone can use on anyone about anything.

For example, you probably want to be suspicious when megacorporations start rebranding themselves as "diverse" and "sustainable".

[starcrossed-sky]

"Vegan leather" replacing "pleather" as the most frequent term for the material, as the greater populace began thinking that anything vegan is good and anything plastic is bad, is another good example if you want something specific.

[revcleo]

As a note: vegan leather is now a term which is forbidden in the EU as a commercial descriptor under recent greenwashing laws

[winedark-maverick]

i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

"I don't have a choice, I'm just following orders"

Have you considered smoking one (1) joint?

[kitkatpancakestack]

sidewalk art I walked by today. there is love out there.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[solsticelosthermind]

I know this is a deeply American thing to say but I am begging everyone to stay the fuck away from military recruiters. Especially high school kids. You are going to be seeing an unholy amount of them in schools or around schools or literally anywhere kids are known to congregate. THIS INCLUDES ALL FORMS OF ROTC. Stay the fuck away from military recruiters. As someone who’s familiar with entirely too many branches through entirely too many friends and family, including my partner, recruiters are authorized to say literally any fucking thing they think will make you sign on that line. They cannot and will not deliver on those promises. They need bodies for the war they’re pretending is only now starting up again. That’s all you are. A body. Stay the FUCK away from the military.

[mads-schubert]

weeks 11-20 on my weekly poster challenge this year, crazy I've actually managed almost half a year of getting these done. 1-10 here.

[sorrel-0]

made this "concept kinda illustration" for my future comics

I've loved sci-fi and postapocalyptic genres since childhood, so I still take inspiration from there. It explains why i like to draw aliens so often haha.

in case anyone's wondering, what's that dark figure: it's a girl on s scooter, a flying scooter

[oflambandmoss]

being weird and full of love can save you

and it might save those around you, too

[joy-haver]

This winter, I started a bunch of native seeds in plastic bottles and containers that otherwise would have been thrown away. I drilled holes in the bottom, cut the tops off, put about a mix of 15 species or so of native seeds i collected, was gifted, or traded for (most were gifts). Then you put the top back on and leave over winter, without a cap on it.

The hard plastic rotisserie chicken containers were the most successful, and dont require cutting. Milk jugs worked really well. (Not as relevant here, but tomatoes love vinegar bottles). 2 Litre Coke bottles work fine but not all of them sprouted.

I did some with just hickory and milkweed. I’m not sure yet, but I think that the milkweed will serve as a good nurse plant for the hickory. Why do I think that? Simply put, I think it would be nice, so why not try it and see if it works. Baby hickories like a lil shade, might as well put them under something that’ll give it for a bit till they grow past it.

Experimentation is really fun and an important part of this work. Use what you have. Use what would otherwise be thrown away.

[seedingsolarpunk]

Use what you have. Use what would otherwise be thrown away

[a-little-revolution]

✨️ Happy Pride Month from your local Little queerio!! (they/she) ✨️

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨