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206 Posts, 101 Following, 1.6K Followers · Solarpunk Presents is a podcast that explores the people and projects working on bringing us a be
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-Ariel
Solarpunk Presents is a podcast that explores the people and projects working on bringing us a better world today. Solarpunk is more than
Heyo followers, we’re on YouTube!
You can listen to us in video form, if you prefer to get your podcasts that way. We are also vlogging and making shorts about our daily lives, paying attention to the details that we think solarpunks of different stripes might find interesting. Tune in for new episodes every three weeks, as well as bonus episodes and some shorts about the daily ins and outs of middle-aged ladies trying to be solarpunk in Canada and Germany.
Podcasts about people creating the future we'd like to live in
Hello followers, just dropping a note into your feed because apparently you can sell individual posts on Patreon now?!?!
We are clearly behind the curve, because this feature has been out for a while but we haven’t really done anything about it. That said, you can navigate to our shop and purchase things like bonus episode excerpts that didn’t get included in the final episode version, other bonus audio, and dispatches, which are available to our supporters at higher tiers.
BUT if you’re perusing the shop and see a topic that interests you, you don’t have to get an ongoing subscription - you can just buy the one thing and be done with it! Extremely neat.
Anyway, just thought to let you know, in case you see anything that catches your eye. I’ll be posting this as a reminder periodically so you can check back and see if there’s anything new and interesting that’s been made available for sale in the last while (we don’t actually offer all of the dispatches… some are a bit more private and so they stay behind the membership wall, and some of them end up being freely available content).
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Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!
I lie on the floor bleeding, I am seconds away from dying. I stand up perfectly straight and calmly walk over to my computer-- Inputing my password with calm collectedness, I log on to tumblr.com, I start wrtting a text post: "omggggg it's like this bullet is obsessed with me the way it is all up in my bussiness shfhgj #mybullet", I close my tabs, I power down my computer and walk back, I do the source engine ragdoll and I am dead within impact
they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.
when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”
I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.
We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”
No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.
I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*
Bizarre.
I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.
You know what?
My ancestors would have wanted pasteurization, vaccines, antibiotics, disinfectants, birth control, psychiatric medications, pain management, anesthesia. My ancestors would have wanted to be able to keep their loved ones around longer, and not lose them too early/too soon to childbirths, injuries, bacterial infections, mental illnesses, and diseases that are curable and/or preventable in our modern day life.
Modern medicine saves lives.
In fact, we know they did want these things, because they invented them. They gave them to us out of generations of struggling to understand and make use of nature itself. "Ancestral knowledge" includes the unglamorous things like germ theory, the functioning of the immune system, and how to manufacture lifesaving vaccines. It's not just magical or mystical or remote, it's present in our lives at every moment. It's the reward of human connection: the sum total of human discovery and the boundless ingenuity of human invention, surrounding us at all times with absolute miracles made banal by their familiarity.
If we reject modern medicine, then we reject all the labors and trials our ancestors went through for us; we reject our very nature.
Please, for your ancestors' sake: vaccinate your kids, and take your goddamn medicine.
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“When I talk to my peers about work, a majority of them tell me they work to avoid consequences. Unpaid bills. Loss of healthcare. Homelessness. Endless other variations on that theme.
They aren’t working in pursuit of something. They are working avoidance of something. For many, especially those without the safety nets of robust support systems of family wealth, that’s the nature of our society.
In the minds of many Americans, we traded ‘the pursuit of happiness’ for ‘fend off desperation’ long ago. Settling for such grim motivations feels like an absolute failure of imagination for creatures who are natural crafters of meaning, for creatures who need whimsy and ritual to thrive.”
— Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You
every forest is enchanted btw. stop being stupid and look with your eyes
In the end, you were a part of the sky on loạn to a body. A part of the sea that awoke to thought. A part of the Earth who borrowed a name. The essential piece of you that lingers is the love and knowledge that you set in motion while you moved through the waking world.
The Cryptonaturalist, ― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You
okay so I'm curious now:
which one would be more dangerous when encountered in the wild: a sun bear, a polar bear, a grizzly, a spectacled bear, or a black bear?
THE POLAR BEAR, FULL STOP.
all of the other bears on that list may very well attack you with fatal results if they decide you're a threat or an interloper, but the polar bear is the one that WANTS to eat you, and if you're not careful, WILL eat you.
prey is scarce in the arctic and polar bears are big animals, so they've evolved to be long-distance stalking predators that will NEVER turn down a warm meaty meal, weird opposable thumbs or no!
if you see a polar bear in the arctic, even if you're with a group, take extra care the next few days to make sure that it's REALLY gone and not just following you at a distance to learn your habits and ambush you when you least expect it!
more than one arctic researcher didn't change up their routine often enough and opened the station door for their smoke break only to find a polar bear waiting for them patiently on the other side, at which point they were dragged off onto the ice and never seen again.
I would say it's a grizzly fate, but that pun would be simply unbearable.
I once attended a talk by a wildlife cinematographer who has done significant work in the arctic and a major part of the safety briefing is "This is your rifle. If you step outdoors, EVEN TO GO TO THE OUTHOUSE, you take your rifle." And when he asked why he was told that it was because otherwise he was Polar Bear bait.
This is funny because one of the bears with the most attacks on humans (perhaps even the most dangerous bear, depending on who you ask*) isn't even on the list mentioned by the original ask.
It's the sloth bear.
Sloth bears are not the biggest bears. They primarily eat ants and termites. They do not see us as food. Hardly a contender for most dangerous bear, right?
First of all, sloth bears evolved alongside tigers and leopards and the saber-toothed cat Megantereon. And they still are routinely hunted by tigers. As a result, they've adapted to fight back as aggressively as possible, and in fact are aggressive towards all large mammals (Servheen et al., 1999). In addition, their long, curved claws, adapted for tearing into anthills and termite mounds, prevent them from climbing trees to escape, and their snuffly rooting behavior means they often don't notice tigers until they're too close to make a run for it (Sharp et al., 2024).
When faced with a threat like a tiger, sloth bears rear up and charge, slashing away with their claws. In a study on 43 filmed encounters, 86% of the time this scared the tiger off. 9% of the time the tiger won and killed the bear anyway (Sharp et al., 2024). Humans are notably squishier than tigers.
The sloth bear defense in action. From Sharp et al. (2024).
And second, sloth bears live in a historically densely populated area with rural communities dependent on the forest and farming. So the heightened chance of running into an (unarmed) human, coupled with their hair-trigger aggressiveness, makes them far more likely to go on the offensive and maul intruders. Most attacks involve the bear charging rapidly into the human before they even knew what happened.
I was following two of my companions and saw a black form lying at the foot of a clump bushes, about 10 m from me. I called out to my companions. Before I knew it, the impact of the charging bear knocked me off my feet. It happened so fast, I didn’t see the bear coming… just dust, flying leaves, and the screams and roars of the bear. (Ratnayeke et al., 2014, p. 476)
In one region in Chhattisgarh, 137 attacks (of which 11 deaths) were recorded over a 2-year period (1998-200) alone (Ratnayeke et al., 2014). In Sri Lanka only rogue elephants are more feared than sloth bears (Servheen et al., 1999). But of course, those numbers pale in comparison to the sloth bears killed in retaliation or harvested for their gallbladders.
Yes, polar bears are top predators and yes they do see us as prey, and you should absolutely be as careful around them as any other unpredictable large animal. But their remote habitat means they rarely have the chance to do so, and the few people they do encounter are - as you can tell from the above posts - well-armed and expecting trouble. A 20-year study in Canada, for instance, recorded 6 human deaths and 14 injuries; conversely, 251 polar bears were shot and killed in self-defense (Floyd, 1999). And while they can kill and eat people, they have been described as "largely indifferent to humans and often demonstrate behavior that is more curious than aggressive" (Floyd, 1999, p. 79). A much larger study of verifiable recorded attacks, covering the polar bear's entire range (Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, US) and spanning 1870 to 2014, found 20 deaths and 63 injuries caused by polar bears during that time. Despite their reputation, polar bears were found to have a 24% fatality rate (20 of 84 deaths), compared to a 42% fatality rate for black bears. And 88% of polar bear attacks were predatory compared to 87% of black bear attacks (grizzly bear attacks tended to be defensive, females with cubs and so on) (Wilder et al., 2017). In conclusion, "to date polar bears have been no more likely to actively hunt and kill people than black bears" (Wilder et al., p. 9).
This thing is as predatory as a polar bear. Despite being less capable of inflicting damage than grizzly and polar bears, and far easier to scare off, black bears usually attack with intent to devour. Chalk that one up for this humble ursine.
*Wikipedia says the sloth bear is the bear that has attacked the most people... but the source they cite states plainly that that distinction goes to the brown bear.
References
Bargali, H. S., Akhtar, N., & Chauhan, N. P. S. (2005). Characteristics of sloth bear attacks and human casualties in North Bilaspur Forest Division, Chhattisgarh, India. Ursus, 16(2), 263-267.
Floyd, T. (1999) Bear-inflicted human injury and fatality. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 10(2), 75-87.
Ratnayeke, S., Van Manen, F. T., Pieris, R., & Pragash, V. S. (2014). Challenges of large carnivore conservation: sloth bear attacks in Sri Lanka. Human Ecology, 42(3), 467-479.
Servheen, C., Herrero, S., & Peyton, B. eds. (1999) Bears: Status survey and conservation action plan. IUCN/SSC Bear Specialist Group.
Sharp, T. R., Garshelis, D. L., & Larson, W. (2024) A most aggressive bear: Safari videos document sloth bear defense against tiger predation. Ecology and Evolution, 14(7), 1-22.
Wilder, J. M., Vongraven, D., Atwood, T., Hansen, B., Jessen, A., Kochnev, A., York, G., Vallender, R., Hedman, D., & Gibbons, M. (2017). Polar bear attacks on humans: Implications of a changing climate. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 41(3), 537−547.
So maybe just try to stay away from bears in general
206 Posts, 101 Following, 1.6K Followers · Solarpunk Presents is a podcast that explores the people and projects working on bringing us a be
Hey friends, come follow us on Mastodon @[email protected]! We post a lot of content there, and Ariel is a lot more active with replies over there (usually….).
I get where people are coming from by responding to 'we didn't have all this autism when I was young' by citing examples of older people they know who probably have undiagnosed autism. But lest we forget that in previous generations a lot of autistic people were institutionalised.
Support independent solarpunk media!
Heyo followers and friends and solarpunks, here’s your reminder for the day that we have a Patreon and we need support! This podcast is a passion project run by two people who have (multiple) other jobs, aging and sick family members, and the endless tasks of adulting to attend to, and that means we’re pretty busy and paying for this out of our own pockets. We're ad-free and we'd like to keep it that way.
So if you like what we do, or you want some of that sweet sweet bonus content and early access to episodes, or just want to support solarpunk work in the present, please support us financially through Patreon (starting as low as $3 a month) or make a one-time donation through PayPal.
If you’re hard up for cash, but still would like to support us and solarpunk in general but just can’t financially right now, it would still go a long way if you could take a moment to write us a review on your podcatcher of choice, or subscribe to our YouTube channel and leave us a comment on your favourite video. If you really liked a certain episode, please share it with someone you know who you think would like it - word of mouth is really important for podcasts!
As I’ve said before, it's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.
-Ariel
