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A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup.
"By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything).
The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?" Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol.
Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil.
The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow."
In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?" Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc.
"We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel.

"What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia."
In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back.

"Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person." Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!"
"The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!"
"How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.

Knacken wir die Millionen? 😁 👍
Unfuckingfassbar was hier passiert.

Soll mir noch einmal einer der Social Media Bitches auf erklären, im Fediverse erreichst du doch keine Leute! 😉

Unter dem Video ist der Spendenlink zur Aktion für @kuketzblog

Danke
@FLOMB, dass du mein Frumpel bist (Freund und Kumpel) und zu zaubern kannst.

Ich mache schon Screenshots, aus Angst das der Server crasht. 😁


https://punktube.net/w/nrm686bY6wsryJ98rTf3aS

And exactly as I thought instead of education and simplifying workflows purposes these companies' "AI's" will be used to generate a "better" ads experience for you. Absolutely disgusting.

While they are still available use the Ad Blockers or FreeTube App if you want to see more sane and adequate ytb like it used to be long time ago.

dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-a…

#AI
#adblockers
#tblockads
#freetube
#TradeRuinsEverything

Alle sind anders, alle sind gleich. Nein, zu Homophobie und Transphobie. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 und Solidarität!

Sharepic, das die Farben der LGBTQIA+ Community aufgreift.

Solidarität der Spaltung
Break the Binary

Logo die Linke

ive been forced to forward this to you, the unsuspecting victim, by circumstances beyond my control

with deepest apologies

cursed Sun logo:
Sus microsystems with four among us in the place of the four leaves of the normal sun microsystems logo that are arranged in a diamond

Manchmal frustriert mich die Ignoranz meiner Mitmenschen in Bezug auf und "Aber warum fliegst du denn nicht auch einfach mal ein paar Tage nach Malle?" so sehr , dass ich mir fast wünsche, die Erde möge noch schneller verbrennen als ohnehin schon, nur um ihnen möglichst bald "I told u so" ins Gesicht schreien zu können.

Und ja, ich weiß, dass das nicht der Weg ist, der zum Ziel führt und versuche mich nur kommentarlos und geduldig als Vorbild. Aber es ist oft genug echt frustrierend. 🤬

The European Citizens' Initiative on banning conversion therapy has reached the goal of one million signatures! 🎉 I'm genuinely surprised how much it picked up pace this final week

That doesn't mean you shouldn't still sign it! It'll only be brought to the Commission if it has a million *valid* signatures, and some fraction is always found to be invalid. So let's give it some margin above one million!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

These: Die Arroganz einiger „Nerds“, die denken „weil ich programmieren kann, checke ich den Code der Welt“ ist Teil des Problems. Und diese permanente Abwertung einiger von Nicht-Naturwissenschaften a la „Ja die waren halt alle schlecht in Mathe LOL“ ist einfach nur Kindergarten.

It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.

The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know

Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Signatures collected online

787,747 / 1,000,000

End of the collection period

17-May-2025

We are so close to succeeding in getting enough signatures on this petition to request to ban conversion practices in the EU, and we only have one day left.

Please sign it, even if you don't think petitions like these work. Because even if they don't work, signing it takes barely any time, and giving a signal to the EU that this should be banned in the entire union will at least remind the politicians that this is something their voters care about.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Friends from the EU. It doesn't matter which EU country you're from, it is very important that you sign the petition for ban on conversion therapy across the EU.
The threshold has been reached for number of countries but very far from the target on raw numbers of votes. It does not matter which EU country you're from. every vote counts.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@fishinthecalculator

I'd be interested in that!

@bonfire

When scholarly discussions happen in private Slack channels or get buried in Twitter threads, most researchers miss out. Sciety has secured funding from @nlnet to build something better. We're working with @bonfire, to develop a space for preprint discussion that is open, interoperable and will allow any preprint evaluation community to replicate and run themselves
Read more: https://blog.sciety.org/sciety-secures-funding-from-nlnet-foundation-to-help-build-discourse-around-preprints/

The new upcoming federation feature in forgejo will allow to follow user-activities accross the fediverse 🙂

released v1.0 🎉 – still considered a public beta, but hey! A step closer to have digital cash that is worth your money. 🤑

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-01.html

„Der deutsche Softwarekonzern SAP beendet einem Medienbericht zufolge seine Programme für Geschlechtervielfalt im Unternehmen.
...
Das Unternehmen gibt in dem internen Schreiben dem Bericht zufolge als Grund die starke Präsenz von SAP in den USA an.“

Reaktionäre Waschlappen.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/sap-beendet-programme-fuer-geschlechtervielfalt-reaktion-auf-us-politik-100.html

🎉🔬 More news this weekend.
@sciety (eLife's preprint evaluation platform) has secured funding from @nlnet to build a Bonfire flavour for federating preprint reviews and discussions.

This means federated, community-governed spaces for open discourse around scientific preprints outside traditional publishing gatekeepers.

Read the full announcement: https://blog.sciety.org/sciety-secures-funding-from-nlnet-foundation-to-help-build-discourse-around-preprints/

@open_science

As we approach the release of Bonfire 1.0, this isn’t your typical launch announcement. Instead, it’s a moment to reflect on how we’ve built Bonfire, a roadmap of values, methods, and intentions – and an invitation to define what comes next.

In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship...

📣 Read our latest blog post:

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world/

Announcing Spritely Oaken: a project to build a secure language execution environment for Guile Scheme! Funded by NLNet and NGI Zero! https://spritely.institute/news/announcing-spritely-oaken.html

Blogpost by Oaken's lead author, @dpk !

Spritely Oaken mascot, drawn by David Revoy: a wooden creature with antlers

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