AOC mentioned "solarpunk" a few times in her live stream on Instagram last night
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    Yeah that sucks sorry. I'm mostly a bot. I'll block instagram so I don't post this shit again.

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  • We Suck at Promoting Climate Action, Here is How We Change That
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    I kind of agree, but we do need stories of what that change is so we don't end up with Ecofascism by accident.

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  • Can we have a Wiki?
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    Looks like a https://www.bookstackapp.com/ instance

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  • Hey look, the Chobani commercial apple-picking drones are closer to being a real thing ^_^
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    Do you know this project? https://www.twistedfields.com/copy-of-research

    It's the most solarpunk of the ag robots I know of.

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  • Goat Fest PGH 2023
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    You probably are the entire audience for this post!

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  • https://www.reddit.com/gallery/14rvi9t

    Since the election of Bolsonaro in 2019, the funds of many public Educational Institutions have been cut down in Brazil, including mine, a Federal one (linked directly to the central government), and the situation isn't that different with Lula in charge. This has really affected and limited our process of learning since we need proper tools to work on laboratory and stuff. So, inspired a bit by anarchism, social ecology, counter-economics (agorism) and, of course, solarpunk, we (our agroecology students union) have decided to create means to earn our funds through our skills and knowledge and stop relying so much on the government. It has been tough, but we already made something! The food that we produced and sold already gave us around R$800 in 3 months of work, something like $167~ (USD). Our next objectives in the long term by now is to buy a solar panel and automate some parts of our field, but we have plenty of work to do until then :).

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    Climate activists block golf course holes in Spain with seedlings and cement to protest water use
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    Yeah, sorry got the scheduler wrong too. Only going to do one a day.

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  • The Fairphone is finally available in the US!
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    I think I'd be buying used on ebay..

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  • https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/fairphones-repairable-smartphone-goes-on-sale-in-us-for-the-first-time-in-a-degoogled-murena-e-os-variant/amp/

    It will be interesting to see how much U.S. interest there is in an iPhone and (Google) Android alternative that packs sustainable and ethical smarts.

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    https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fireworks-displays-drone-shows-4th-of-july-celebrations/

    Salt Lake City kicked off the city's Fourth of July weekend with its drone show instead of a fireworks display on Saturday.

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    Post Food Scarcity
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    No I'm not OP. Thanks for the reply. Food is one of the few universals we all have in common.

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  • https://mlmym.org/slrpnk.net/c/solarpunk

    This is kind of fun if you've used older legacy sites in the past

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    food
    Food sam_uk 1y ago 100%
    Post Food Scarcity
    www.justasolarpunk.com

    "For some reason a very crucial component to worldbuilding seems to be an afterthought in most fiction I've consumed. And I am talking about the most consumable of consumables: Good Food. Not just the protagonist ate something, that's boring. I want to know what the texture was like, the aromas, seasoning, cooking techniques, how it compared to previous meals, what memories did it evoke, how does the food tie into the culture, what makes this a unique experience to the individual? Fantasy just doesn't feel alive without food to flesh out the local culture. "

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    How is Lemmy going to make money?
  • sam_uk sam_uk 1y ago 100%

    I think unless you invest in servers this week it will look like Lemmy.ml crashing and redditors not considering it a viable option. The proprietary alternatives will do well.

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  • selfhosting
    Self-hosting sam_uk 1y ago 100%
    Coop-cloud
    https://recipes.coopcloud.tech/

    Frontend & tools for Docker containers. Not as polished as [Cloudron.io](https://www.cloudron.io/store/index.html) or [Elest.io](https://elest.io/fully-managed-services?cat=Applications), but it is FLOSS

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    github.com

    Just an idea. Anyone interested in buying some solar hardware to play with?

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