this is a new account spamming multiple communities with ragebait & antisemitism, they'll probably delete their account soon if they don't get attention fast enough 🙄

it really depends, there are people who use solar power who aren't solarpunk at all, and people who don't use solar power at all who are very solarpunk!

i'd recommend a quick read of the solarpunk manifesto to give you an overview of what it's like: https://slrpnk.net/post/350429

there's the artistic side of solarpunk, because being able to imagine a better world in the first place is vital. then there's the more practical side of solarpunk, where people are focused on making that better world happen here & now, on a global & local scale.

as you can imagine, the practical side of solarpunk would be pretty far-reaching, so it's hard to know what resources to share, but there are a load of cool resources already in various communities on the solarpunk instance, so you might want to check out any that take your fancy. there're resources on everything from foraging your own plants to prison abolition and landback!

for context, this is a quote from kat blaque 💚

https://youtu.be/3buXUIz2Amk&t=2m25s

now's the time to get really active in your immediate local community, figuring out a barter system & pooling resources so everyone will be okay during a collapse.

if you live near fairly conservative people, try starting it off with making a local directory of small businesses & trades, so people can support them. that's a great starting point for getting to know who has what skills in your local area.

then after a while, you can try expanding that to making a local directory of resources and/or tools, and frame it as a way of sticking it to bigger businesses. "why should everyone buy their own separate lawnmower when people can borrow mine & the few others already in people's garages? we win, walmart loses!"

and in turn, the us & israel both learned it from britain & other european countries. european colonisers have been teaching each other how to maximise their cruelty, murder & land theft since at least the greek empire & the concept of western "civilisation" 😮‍💨

i'm always trying to take notes & inspiration from solarpunk stories about what can be done here & now, so for me, if a story's setting is post-apocalyptic or society only improved after some extinction event getting rid of most humans, i tend to skip it.

most of us have been consuming (or at least couldn't avoid hearing about) apocalypse-themed media for our whole lives. i think it's really important for us as a society to work on imagining a non-apocalyptic world, because we need to imagine something before we can make it reality. 🙌

for myself, if i can recover passwords etc, i delete the account to lower the possibility of that data being used to train ai, and to lower the numbers of registered accounts they have.

i think stakeholders are more likely to see accounts being deleted as worse than an inactive account, because people can always come back to an inactive account.

so many websites are eager to keep users by making it difficult to delete accounts, or by adding a 14 day wait before they'll delete an account, etc., so that alone makes me think they want even inactive accounts for usage statistics or to steal data from.

he would have been 97 or so if he were alive today, it really brings home how recent it was.

the civil rights movement happened within my parents' lifetimes, but it's so often spoken about as though it were ages ago & completely out of living memory (to both minimise it & pretend that society's totally different now 💔)

optimism & hope are skills to practice, and they do get easier over time!

on a bad day, i'm optimistic out of sheer spite because i know being pessimistic only helps my enemies & not me, but it's also a lot easier to practice optimism when regularly meeting with groups of like-minded people.

if you don't have any groups nearby you (or online) like zine makers / queer sheds / leftist book clubs / privacy activists / maker spaces / community supported agriculture / whatever it is that floats your boat, you might be surprised by how many people are willing to sign up if you get the ball rolling! 💪

the first year of hormones often doesn't involve really dramatic changes (although everyone is different & dosages etc matter too ofc), so she could probably go on hormones while in her hometown & be stealthy for perhaps longer than she's expecting

when people see you every day, they don't really notice those gradual changes. for example: my family never seemed to notice me being on testosterone & after i got top surgery, their only reaction was to ask how i "lost weight". 🤭

if you're living somewhere like the u.s., i can see why transitioning would be extra worrying these days. she has already socially transitioned, though, so she's already fighting back against the fascists' plan to intimidate people into detransitioning or never transitioning at all. fair play to her, i wish her the best & happiest life, whatever she decides to do! 🙌🫶

Shan ban.

His name's made up of the words "old" (sean) and "woman" (bean) in Irish.

(Seán with the fada is what elongates the vowel, so it becomes a person's name & gets pronounced more like "Shawn" for English speakers.)

quetzalcoatlus northropi!

or sky giraffes, either/or.