About 80% Solar, 10% Punk, 10% New to all this

I'm just starting to get the courage and learn things and figured I'd share it with all of you! Likely mostly reblogs, with a side of maybe Vents and Thoughts as well. I follow back from @anipwrites, but you might be most interested in @anipgarden for gardening things. 

[solarpunkani]

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I'm Ani! I'm in my mid-20s and I'm vibing, still learning what it Means to be Solarpunk and still trying to do a couple of cool things.

If I reblog something that feels off, let me know! I get things wrong and misunderstand things sometimes, as does anyone!

In theory this blog runs on queue but in reality I can and frequently do reblog things out of queue! This blog consists primarily of aesthetic photos and art, informational posts (especially about gardening), and US and International news. Occasionally you'll find me making my own posts, which I'll tag as #ani rambles!

I follow back from @anipwrites! You may also know me from another sideblog I run, @anipgarden! Posts from that blog may feature here as well sometimes.

One of the main things I like to talk about is native gardening, especially milkweed! I'm in Florida, so most of my gardening talk will be from that perspective, but I'm always down to learn! I want to (get better at) guerilla gardening lol.

If you like something I do in particular, or just wanna generally toss some coin my way (I'm an artist/animator in 2024 you can imagine what I'm dealing with), I do have a Ko-Fi! Obviously, no pressure to, of course!

But for the most part, I'm here to collect Thoughts and Cool information all in one place, and share it with anyone who chooses to follow! Let's learn how to create a better world together! Thanks for dropping by!

[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.

[galaxianmothman]

Pssst!

Live in the US?

Need to call your representative or senator, but nervous about making the phone call?

Do it at 2 am!

I'm not kidding. It will go to voice mail and you don't have to talk to a human person, and your call still counts!

Signed, someone with major phone anxiety who has pushed through it to do this several times now.

You've got this!

[kaijuno]

Everybody I meet that’s not from Flint is always like “is it really that bad?”

It’s so much more than bad water. Its your children having seizures from lead poisoning. It’s the fear of contracting Legionnaires. It’s not being able to pay the hospital bills for your sick elderly and children. It’s not being able to bathe. It’s not being able to cook. It’s paying some of the highest water bills in the United States despite Flint being largely in poverty. It’s the fear of losing your house because you can’t afford to keep the water on. It’s the fear of losing your children because you lost the house.

“Is it really that bad?” No, its so much worse.

[kaijuno]

It’s been 11 years. We still haven’t seen settlement payments.

[kaijuno]

ELEVEN YEARS

Flint's still-unfinished lead pipe replacement serves as cautionary tale

The effort was supposed to be finished years ago, but slow work, poor record-keeping and residents' mistrust in their local government cause

[segamascott]

america please just collapse already

[nongunktional]

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

[castlevaniadlc]

19-Year-Old Transgender University of Washington Student Fatally Stabbed

The suspect remains at large.

i'm not really seeing anyone on here talking about it unfortunately, but a 19 year old trans woman was recently (may 10th 2026) stabbed to death in seattle. she has not been publicly identified by name yet.

please read the article: anyone with information should call 206-233-5000 & you can tip anonymously.

she was just doing her laundry.

[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions

✿ Print shop: INPRNT

[anarchopuppy]

Over 300 ‘How to Guides’ to Help You Share More in Your Community

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[prinnay]

Moving On.

[aplpaca]

PSA for anyone in Florida who likes animals and can reasonably access nearby beaches: Florida Audubon and the Florida Shorebird Alliance are looking for volunteers to sign up for timeslots as shorebird stewards! As a shorebird steward, you can take shifts monitoring the nesting areas of shorebirds like terns and plovers to make sure that random beachgoers don't disturb the nests (these areas are generally roped off) or accidentally harm the chicks.

So you would get to hang out on a beach for a couple hours and see some of these guys and also help keep them safe! (And also get something volunteering and wildlife-related to put on a resume if you need/want that)

(Least Terns, photo by Dann DeBlois)

Shifts are whatever you can sign up for, so you don't need to have the same time available every week (or even take a slot every week) and Audubon provides training, so there's no prior experience needed!

You can sign up here for more info if you're interested!

Pls reblog if you can, since they're really in need of volunteers atm

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Voting ended onMay 8

[sipping-ambrosia-wine]

@solarpunkani

[atelier-tamamoland]

"you cannot have a category of person that stops being a person or everyone that someone wants to get rid of is going to end up being put in that category" and other really fucking obvious and basic observations that everyone ignores in favor of putting people they want to get rid of into a category they think makes them stop being a person

[victusinveritas]

"In Pieces but Still Holding It Together." By Bouke de Vries (2020).

See more of his stuff here.

[mewintheflesh2]

Babe are you okay? you reblogged “In Pieces by Still Holding It Together” By Bouke de Vries for the five hundredth time today.

[sistertaxon]

actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

[chungledown-bimothy]

reblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.

[nojglisrenaissance]

I had a fifteen minute long crying session yesternight over the fact that all I was 10 years ago, at the ripe old age of 14, is lost and lonely, and now, at 24, I am neither and that filled me with so much gratitude

[cecil-speaks]

reblog to tell a teenager that these aren’t actually the best years of your life and that things can and will get better when you have independance and maybe are away from your situation right now.

Its me reblog to tell me that

[sevastiel]

Same thing with young adults. It can still get better. Your thirties aren’t when you’re getting old, that’s 70s-80s and we all know old people can be cool as hell anyway.

It might take time. More than has already passed, but it will get better.

It gets better. It does, right? Yeah. Yeah it gets better.

[the-haiku-bot]

It might take time. More

than has already passed, but

it will get better.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[doodlesorganizationland]

From Planned Parenthood

[blessedscavengers]

a fun fact the boundary waters contains 1100 lakes. unfun fact the type of copper-nickel sulfide mine that the US federal government just voted to allow in the boundary waters watershed has a 100% chance of leaking and poisoning the entire watershed

made in 2026

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ ID from Alt: a black linocut on white paper of a muskellunge and the words 'water is life' above the fish and the words 'no mines, no pipelines, no data centers' below the fish in bubbly blocky letters / End ID ]