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1y

Decided to grow a street lamp.

Here it is at 3 weeks, 2 months, and fully grown at 6 months.

#solarpunk #joke #gardening

A picture of a path light stuck into the dirt next to a sidewalk. It's cute and little.

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Picture of a light bollard in the grass next to a sidewalk. It's about hip to chest level.

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Picture of a street lamp. Probably 15 feet tall? Next to a sidewalk.

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109d

hello all!

a lil #introduction post as i’m brand new to mastodon but incredibly intrigued by what i’ve seen while exploring so far :)

i’m danny (they/them), a #nonbinary artist and #insect enthusiast who draws a lot of #nature, especially bugs and mushrooms!! i also take a lot of #photography of nature, and bother people for the identification (i’m a life long learner and knowledge is tasty)!

i’m also working on a #graphicnovel (very early stages) that has a lot to do with the #environment, connecting with community and nature and what it means to belong to a place (also being #queer naturally) :3

some of my other interests include, #gardening, #solarpunk, #sustainability, #crochet, #reading, and #diy!!

i’m looking forward to meeting people!

a digital artwork of a fiddler beetle, a black, dark red and bright green beetle, clinging to a brown branch against a pale green background. the beetle has large round eyes, and exclamation marks drawn above its head, as well as hand drawn stars.

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165d

first post on mastodon, here’s some of my work!

I’m a sci-fi / fantasy illustrator and hoping to connect with other artists on here as well✌🏼✨

#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart

A galactic cargo ship hovering over an old city overlooking an aqua bay. It’s an old island with rich history and roots connected to other colonies amongst the stars.

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108d

Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

#Balkonsolar - Anlagen werden von Fossilist:innen bekämpft, weil sie so gut funktionieren: Sie schützen die #Mitwelt, halten das #Geld dezentral (solare #Wohlstandsenergie, #Energiedemokratie), reduzieren die Finanzierung von #Ressourcenfluch - Regimen (= erneuerbare #Friedensenergien) & verändern mit all dem täglich bei Tausenden den #Energieglauben. Echte #Solarpunk - Beschleuniger! Folgt gerne z.B. @balkonsolar 🌞🇩🇪🇪🇺🙌

https://www.n-tv.de/shopping-und-service/Ist-ein-Balkonkraftwerk-wirklich-gut-fuer-die-Umwelt-article25965625.html

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55d

Wat als het goed gaat?

Huub de Groot en Priscilla Haring-Kuipers werpen licht op kunstmatige fotosynthese en solarpunk: technologie die zonlicht, water en CO₂ gebruikt om duurzame brandstoffen te maken, en sciencefictionverhalen die al een beeld geven van hoe de wereld er met die nieuwe technologie uit zou kunnen komen te zien.

🌞 16 oktober Lipsiusgebouw Leiden

Toegang gratis. Iedereen welkom

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/studium-generale/programma/de-tijd-vooruit-ii#donderdag-16-oktober-de-toekomst-is-solarpunk
#solarpunk

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102d

Some seeds drying on plates before storing and/or seed saving. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Allotment #SeedSaving #Solarpunk

Seven plates of heirloom seeds on a kitchen top will be moved to the windowsill to dry. The top row of three plates have a black bean called noir bush , some woad seeds, next to Jacob’s cattle gold bush bean which are gold and white in colour. The middle two plates are Latvian peas which are a lighter brown and Carlin peas a darker brown colour. The plate on the front left contains mostly a brown bean called bonne bouche with a dozen black and white ying yang beans, only two Madeira maroon beans and a dozen chickpeas. The last plate contains purple and white Jacob’s cattle bush beans.

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95d

The grand finale is here!

The final two Chapters (43 and 44) of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #novel #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction
#climatefiction

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154d

stop and smell the harvesting spires

#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart

A lone wanderer on horseback traverses through a field of towering harvesting spires. These cylindrical spires are crucial for harvesting the suns energy to fuel growth long term.

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94d

https://tinjar.ghost.io/anf/download-a-new-faith/

Ebook versions (EPUB and PDF) are available to download to your favorite ebook reader.

Both versions are DRM-free and should be usable with most ebook readers. DRM-free means that these are yours to keep and also share with friends/family just like a physical book.

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction

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93d

"When frogs dream, lichens smile. Ecological connections were explored anew. Artists recorded conversations of small creatures. People sat fascinated in flower meadows. Children laughed in the forest with knobbly mosses and chatty ants."

Disover my virtual exhibit of #BiodiversityShrines - about finds in a fictional future: https://www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/
It was a real exhibit, now saved online.

#biodiversity #sciArt #archaeology #solarpunk #sporespondence #lichen #ecology #reconnectWithNature #art

A hanging collage in green, white and orange tones with natural finds. The most important parts of this abstract collage are wooden sticks (one with a bright orange lichen), a real lichen with embroidery stitches in silk yarn, a small porcellaine frog and a historic illustration of water plants.

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The zoom on the abstract collage shows the two wooden sticks and the embroidered real grey lichen on a background of textile scraps and intuitive embroidery. One stick is lemon tree without bark, the stick with bark is cobered with a bright orange lichen. This colour is repeated in the stitches on the real grey lichen.

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78d

The home raised bed is sown with autumn/winter crops. (See AltText for the list of veg).

This bed will give us a diverse harvest of fresh leafy greens throughout late autumn, winter and into spring.

We’re lucky to have temperate winters in the UK but few growers make use of our climate. We harvest something virtually all year round.

Elsewhere we’ll grow autumn sown broad beans, field beans, onions, garlic, potatoes, autumn carrots, horseradish. Lots.
#GrowYourOwn #NoDig #HomeGrown #SolarPunk

A raised bed along the side of a house. It’s a rectangular box that’s netted with three doorways at regular intervals down the side. The door panels are also all netted. The net keeps out the pigeons and butterflies.

Each doorway opens onto a kneeling space where the entire bed in front and to the sides can be reached and worked without compacting the soil. The design is influenced by keyhole beds in permaculture.

It also means the beds can be worked without ever blocking the access pathway alongside the bed.

Some veg plants are growing in the beds: kale, cabbage, Chinese celery, bulls blood beetroot leaves, lettuces, kohl rabi, tree spinach, mooli, komatsuna, garlic chives, spring onions, radish. The beds have been sown with the following autumn/winter veg: Yorokobi pak choi, oriental pak choi, kailaan Chinese kale, winter spinach, green wave mustard, broccoli raab , land cress, giant red mustard, Wong bok Chinese cabbage, ischikrona bunching onions, golden frills mustard, cavolo nero kale, root parsley, Sicilian giant radish, green in snow mustard, chopsuey greens, Osaka purple mustard, mizuna, salsola okahijiki, scarlet globe, mibuna, purslane, winter radish, bekana Chinese cabbage. With garlic and Japanese wintering onions still to plant.

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1y

Grow enough for you.
Grow enough for your neighbors.
Share freely.

Artwork from: https://www.disorganizedjoy.com/

#solarPunk #mutualAid

Comic with four panes. Title of Comic: The Tree of Liberty. Pane #1: Picture of a bellpepper with the words "This is a Green Pepper. It cost 75 cents at the grocery store." Pane #2: Picture of crops under a sun with the words, "Inside the pepper are enough seeds ot make hundreds even thousands more peppers." Pane #3: Picture of FBI warning, videos, and a music player with the words "In a world where nothing comes free and it's profitable to control what people copy and create." Pane #4: Picture of a backyard garden with a bucket of produce marked Free with the words, "Gardening is a revolutionary act."

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69d

There’s no such thing as having too much compost. There’s more to bring over from another plot. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Mulch #Allotment #SolarPunk

Front of an allotment plot with two compost heaps. One is freshly built and green. The other is older, smaller and a darker brown. Behind the compost piles a rhubarb plant is starting to wilt. Huauzontle Aztec broccoli leaves have gone pink and a tree spinach is setting seed. A rudimentary fence has been set up on the other side of the plot to protect autumn sown crops from the muntjac.

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Two compost bays with maturing compost in both. One pile is finer quality than the other. Two planters of carrots are in front of one of the bays. Bamboo canes stand upright in the pallets that divide the two bays. An old garden fence divides the second compost bay from various compost daleks. There are six in total, not all in view. Two contain wood chip, one has maturing compost for next years potting mix, two have fresh veg scraps, one contains sawdust. Behind the compost bays is a dead hedge of sorts and a hedge lined boundary of a nature reserve.

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63d

That's why I write #SpeculativeFiction things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂
Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the #Multiverse? At least that's what I've been told... 😅

@bookstodon @books
@worldbuilding @humor @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever
#Book #Books #Bookstodon
#BoostingIsSharing

Why researching before writing is so, so important.

Screenshot from book MADERING MILLER: His skin was the color of just-pressed olive.

Picture of just pressed olive that is an alien looking lime green.

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46d

Yay! A non-fiction anthology to which I contributed an essay detailing the world building process for my #solarpunk stories in the Yat Madit (Big Tree) world, has won The Ignyte Awards.

There are some good books here if you are looking for something to read!

https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

https://jaylit.com/african-writers-among-2025-ignyte-award-winners/

#bookstodon #sff #writing #writingcommunity

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47d

Solarpunk at Dutch Design Week 👁️
Solarpunk Unbound
Visions, art, science and practical manifestations. Including exhibition, expert meeting, workshop, unconference
What? Exhibition, expert meeting, workshop, and unconference
Why? Solarpunk is speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism.
Who? Marius Monen, Priscilla Haring, Jeroen van der Most
When? October 18–26
Location? Stadslab Eindhoven, Gasfabriek 6
Organizer? MAD emergent art center
https://ddw.nl/programme/solarpunk-unbound
#DDW #solarpunk

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43d

Vanmiddag een solarpunk workshop gedaan bij MADlab tijdens Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven
Hele leuke sessie met
- zorgeloos leven in je eigen boerderij bubbel
- de (de)evolutie van menselijke communicatie
- organische stadsomgeving
- lestrein onderweg
en meer 👇🏼
#solarpunk #DDW

Collage of plants, building, people, solar people
Drawing on top of a farm house with a big tree

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"Lajok: The Night Dancer" by filmmaker @dilmandila is a spooky revenge fantasy based on Ugandan (Luo) folklore. Dance is used to possess and control but once the spell is broken, the same power can be used for payback.

Watch: https://makertube.net/w/pvjR9o3oNJMBLHHUm9kpqW

If you enjoy this film, consider supporting @dilmandila's newest project "Windy: A SolarPunk Short Film"

Donate: https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film

#film #IndependentFilm #AfricanArt #PeerTube #solarpunk

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35d

New account, new #introduction post!

I’m Rhys, a writer, solarpunk, and witch/druid living in the Midlands, UK. My pronouns are they/them, although I’m currently exploring my gender, so that may change.

I've just set up a new blog: https://www.panga.blog/about

I will accept most follow requests!

#Writing #Solarpunk #Anarchism #Witchcraft #Druidry #Midlands #Vegan #Bisexual #Polyamorous #NonBinary #Autism #ADHD #WorkingClass

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32d

I'm making a new film, a dark comedy set in a #solarpunk world where direct democracy thrives, no politicians, no central governments, where communities are self-sufficient and help each other to survive the climate crisis. But I need your support to imagine this future.

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film

303/2000

This film is the final step toward making a feature set in this world.

#mutualaid #creativetoots #kickstarter #crowdfund #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film

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23d

I want to propose Commons Based Peer Production as an economic model capable of representing #opensource work, #carework, #volunteering and similar efforts, where traditional #capitalism can not.

Would this allow us to describe a path towards a #solarpunk #postscarcity future?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production

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28d

If you’re in the UK and you are interested in growing and/or conserving heirloom varieties and supporting the Heritage Seed Library now would be a good time to join. See link below.

Their seed catalogue is out to members in two weeks.

“HSL members will receive exclusive access to over 150 rare varieties, including 14 brand new additions on Tuesday 18 November 2025.”

#SeedSaving #HeirloomVegetables #UKSeeds #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #SolarPunk #Allotment #HomeGrown

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/what-we-do/hsl

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14d

Now this. This is #solarpunk.

A true community-owned gardening project. So many stadiums and sports institutes are just left to rot once they're no longer profitable, instead of being reused for the greater good. Remember, repurposing is always easier than recycling.

Image source: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1oatw62/taipeis_old_stadium_turned_into_a_community_garden/

A picture of Taipei's derelict Zhongshan Stadium taken from inside, showing a community garden emerging on the viewing decks filled with greenery

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RE: https://mograph.social/@dilmandila/115473749375019108

I had a conversation with DJ Debbie about this project, in which I discuss some background inspiration as well as my other writing, and she has shared a link on mixcloud, so you can have a listen https://www.mixcloud.com/outerglobe/the-outerglobe-27th-november-2025-dilman-dila/ #solarpunk

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6d

Do you hate #broligarchs?
#Billionaires? #AiSlop but still think there is merit in #AI?

Here is my proposal for a stand alone.
OFFGRID COMMUNITY AI SYSTEM.

That's right.Your very own co-op AI

The calculations are very much back of the envelope, first cut, but quite feasible.
A 32billion parameters, frontier level performance compatable open source #llm model. The power requirements is that of 3AC units including cooling. Serves 15-20 concurrent users. 40 households of 4 people each (taking into account actual AI model distributed use metrics and contention ratios)

40 households, subscribing at $30/month over 2 years + power (solar). Train with your own datasets.
Entire set up takes half a rack.

LETS GO!!!

#OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

Sketch of a community, stand alone, co-op #AI #llm system

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